Ugh, what a slog.
Normally when I finish a game, I just write down a sentence or two to kick me off when I do write the complete review. This is the second time now that I have left that initial impression as I feel it pretty succinctly encapsulates how I really feel about the game. This game is just kinda garbage. In theory, it should be a game I love. A series I'm just getting into and am generally having a joyous time catching up on has a giant Avengers-Esque adventure bringing together heroes and plot-lines in a way to excite and amaze. Chris and Leon meet! Sherry is back as an adult and she's a badass who can't die! There' four whole campaigns!! YOU GET TO PLAY AS ADA
Awesome right? Nah it sucks. I played the campaigns in order from the main menu, and each of them at least has a very different feel to them, so kudos to the team for managing that. Kudos taken away however as none of them are particularly good at what they're trying to do.
Leon's campaign is the most "Resident Evil-~y" of the bunch, calling on Resident Evil 2 and the fall of Raccoon and several creepy locales (a church/mausoleum, a graveyard, and spooky sewers) and having Leon make some snide one-liners like in 4. However, Leon's partner is with him the whole time cutting any real tension (don't even have to care about ammo for her) and there's some element of mystery to her about what she wants but it amounts to basically 0 in terms of the plot other than her sister dying, which basically never comes back up again. But don't worry! Her sister turns into a mega-hot zombie monster that the camera loves to stare at, so there's that weirdness added in too. Also, Leon reunites with Sherry on screen for the first time in 20 years..... and they have 2 seconds, and Sherry says "I was too young and don't really remember anything" BULLSHITTTTTT. Best moment - zombies on a plane! Literally ripped straight from Air Force One and I'm here for it. Worst - Aforementioned Sherry reunion.
Campaign 2 - Chris! It's like RE5 but even worse!! Okay not exactly, I actually super liked Piers and the ending is fuckin' solid. We get some decent character development for Chris, but it is otherwise garbage. The story bops around in time rapidly, and it is pretty tough to keep track of what exactly happens when... but we'll get to that later! Best moment - Ending scenes with Piers. Worst - battle in the street with a Giant monster that is really boring and easy.
Campaign 3 - Sherry/Jake! Jake is Wesker's kid. Stupid stupid stupid... he himself is kinda okay, but mostly only when he's interacting with Sherry who is still pretty cool. Seeing more of her is fun, but Jake is often a douche-nozzle and this game tries to be RE3 but instead of being good it is bad. So that's a strategy. It is also spending a LOT of time shipping Sherry and Jake, then does nothing with it and ends. Best moment - Jake fist-fighting shitty nemesis. Worst moment - most of the other things Jake says or does.
Campaign 4 - Ada! We get to play as Ada for real! Yeah, we did that already with Resi4 DLC buuuuut whatever, we get more from her post-Wesker biting the dust. This HAS to be interesting and revealing right?! Nahhhh we get jack shit. Not even any good moments between her and Leon. Just her 'relationship' with the big bad of the game Simmons, of which we learn almost nothing and seems like an insane and one-sided thing she has to put an end to. She also has a clone who is the final boss, which seems like it could've been cool but I promise you it's not. Well, it looks okay anyway. Best moment - real puzzles again! Worst moment - stealth sections, wtf? And they suck!
This is a tough game to wrap up in one paragraph. It's trying to move action combat forward in the series, doubles down on the co-op mechanics and ramps up the movie set pieces. All the things I really hated about 5 and was meh about even in 4 when they did it right. The combat has plenty of layers to it, but it never actually CARES or makes you interact with those layers. Enemies drop bullets and health so you don't need to be all that careful, maybe a force higher difficulty would save it? Ultimately though it just doesn't feel good to play. I've played a lot of shooters in my time, and this is one of my least favorite. For the story, obviously its dumb but it always is. Characters though, the only people who grow or do anything really of note are the new partners, who only in 1 case really make an impact on things and were enjoyable to be around.
Its really four shorter games packed into one, and that is in one way very cool that they tried to" Avengers" this shit, but honestly, they just ended up "Justice League"-ing it. And I mean that in the most offensive way possible.
Normally when I finish a game, I just write down a sentence or two to kick me off when I do write the complete review. This is the second time now that I have left that initial impression as I feel it pretty succinctly encapsulates how I really feel about the game. This game is just kinda garbage. In theory, it should be a game I love. A series I'm just getting into and am generally having a joyous time catching up on has a giant Avengers-Esque adventure bringing together heroes and plot-lines in a way to excite and amaze. Chris and Leon meet! Sherry is back as an adult and she's a badass who can't die! There' four whole campaigns!! YOU GET TO PLAY AS ADA
Awesome right? Nah it sucks. I played the campaigns in order from the main menu, and each of them at least has a very different feel to them, so kudos to the team for managing that. Kudos taken away however as none of them are particularly good at what they're trying to do.
Leon's campaign is the most "Resident Evil-~y" of the bunch, calling on Resident Evil 2 and the fall of Raccoon and several creepy locales (a church/mausoleum, a graveyard, and spooky sewers) and having Leon make some snide one-liners like in 4. However, Leon's partner is with him the whole time cutting any real tension (don't even have to care about ammo for her) and there's some element of mystery to her about what she wants but it amounts to basically 0 in terms of the plot other than her sister dying, which basically never comes back up again. But don't worry! Her sister turns into a mega-hot zombie monster that the camera loves to stare at, so there's that weirdness added in too. Also, Leon reunites with Sherry on screen for the first time in 20 years..... and they have 2 seconds, and Sherry says "I was too young and don't really remember anything" BULLSHITTTTTT. Best moment - zombies on a plane! Literally ripped straight from Air Force One and I'm here for it. Worst - Aforementioned Sherry reunion.
Campaign 2 - Chris! It's like RE5 but even worse!! Okay not exactly, I actually super liked Piers and the ending is fuckin' solid. We get some decent character development for Chris, but it is otherwise garbage. The story bops around in time rapidly, and it is pretty tough to keep track of what exactly happens when... but we'll get to that later! Best moment - Ending scenes with Piers. Worst - battle in the street with a Giant monster that is really boring and easy.
Campaign 3 - Sherry/Jake! Jake is Wesker's kid. Stupid stupid stupid... he himself is kinda okay, but mostly only when he's interacting with Sherry who is still pretty cool. Seeing more of her is fun, but Jake is often a douche-nozzle and this game tries to be RE3 but instead of being good it is bad. So that's a strategy. It is also spending a LOT of time shipping Sherry and Jake, then does nothing with it and ends. Best moment - Jake fist-fighting shitty nemesis. Worst moment - most of the other things Jake says or does.
Campaign 4 - Ada! We get to play as Ada for real! Yeah, we did that already with Resi4 DLC buuuuut whatever, we get more from her post-Wesker biting the dust. This HAS to be interesting and revealing right?! Nahhhh we get jack shit. Not even any good moments between her and Leon. Just her 'relationship' with the big bad of the game Simmons, of which we learn almost nothing and seems like an insane and one-sided thing she has to put an end to. She also has a clone who is the final boss, which seems like it could've been cool but I promise you it's not. Well, it looks okay anyway. Best moment - real puzzles again! Worst moment - stealth sections, wtf? And they suck!
This is a tough game to wrap up in one paragraph. It's trying to move action combat forward in the series, doubles down on the co-op mechanics and ramps up the movie set pieces. All the things I really hated about 5 and was meh about even in 4 when they did it right. The combat has plenty of layers to it, but it never actually CARES or makes you interact with those layers. Enemies drop bullets and health so you don't need to be all that careful, maybe a force higher difficulty would save it? Ultimately though it just doesn't feel good to play. I've played a lot of shooters in my time, and this is one of my least favorite. For the story, obviously its dumb but it always is. Characters though, the only people who grow or do anything really of note are the new partners, who only in 1 case really make an impact on things and were enjoyable to be around.
Its really four shorter games packed into one, and that is in one way very cool that they tried to" Avengers" this shit, but honestly, they just ended up "Justice League"-ing it. And I mean that in the most offensive way possible.