Resident Evil Remake... I've got a bit of history with this series, and this game. I tried to play probably twenty years ago at Jeff's place when he was in college. Got eaten by the first zombie MULTIPLE times and just said fuck it and went back to MGS. Here I am on the Resident Evil train however, and now I have to say how I feel about this one.
First things first - I'm pretty sure I enjoyed RE2 more. I was certainly more compelled by it? The mansion is a pretty cool environment but it also had lots of little annoying bits to it as well - namely the doors on the map not being labeled and at least two sections where you just have to straight up backtrack and not in a cool way (namely the serum section) which is pretty annoying. I also played the Switch version meaning the load times were noticeable, but not terrible.
The game looks and sounds excellent, and the enemies were MOSTLY pretty great. I'm not sure I "get" what Hunters are or what their point is, Crimson Heads were already great additions to the game and the Hunters only show up like 3 times? Anyway the enemy design was great.
The story is pretty barebones and honestly terrible what there is of it. It starts off interesting enough but basically every major plot point following it is told via document and, barring the Barry 'twist', is essentially never ever brought up in a cutscene. Like, I knew Wesker was a bad guy 2 hours before the end, why didn't Jill react that way to him? She saw the pictures of the Umbrella team too! The increased focus on puzzles compared to 2 was sometimes neat but almost always more of a drag. Find X item and put it in Y slot. It felt more organic in 2 and there were maaaany times when I got to a puzzle, did half of it then realized the thing I found 3 hours previously, that I put in a box because obviously I did, was what I needed to finish the puzzle. And did they do something interesting with this fact, like ambush me along the way or putting a story beat knowing I'd have to head back? Of course not don't be silly.
First things first - I'm pretty sure I enjoyed RE2 more. I was certainly more compelled by it? The mansion is a pretty cool environment but it also had lots of little annoying bits to it as well - namely the doors on the map not being labeled and at least two sections where you just have to straight up backtrack and not in a cool way (namely the serum section) which is pretty annoying. I also played the Switch version meaning the load times were noticeable, but not terrible.
The game looks and sounds excellent, and the enemies were MOSTLY pretty great. I'm not sure I "get" what Hunters are or what their point is, Crimson Heads were already great additions to the game and the Hunters only show up like 3 times? Anyway the enemy design was great.
The story is pretty barebones and honestly terrible what there is of it. It starts off interesting enough but basically every major plot point following it is told via document and, barring the Barry 'twist', is essentially never ever brought up in a cutscene. Like, I knew Wesker was a bad guy 2 hours before the end, why didn't Jill react that way to him? She saw the pictures of the Umbrella team too! The increased focus on puzzles compared to 2 was sometimes neat but almost always more of a drag. Find X item and put it in Y slot. It felt more organic in 2 and there were maaaany times when I got to a puzzle, did half of it then realized the thing I found 3 hours previously, that I put in a box because obviously I did, was what I needed to finish the puzzle. And did they do something interesting with this fact, like ambush me along the way or putting a story beat knowing I'd have to head back? Of course not don't be silly.