Resident Evil: Village unwisely pulls a page out of the Saw handbook and attempts to reconcile the completely bug-nuts inconsistencies of Ethan Winters' adventures, all the while establishing a new status quo for the heroes of the previous games in this expansive franchise so we're not left scratching our heads when Chris "Boulder Fist" Redfield crosses paths with... with Gravedigger and Magneto's bastard Untermensch? Or Gen Z's latest vampiric mommy fetish? Regardless of how unexciting the "revelations" and "retcons" of Village are, it rarely stumbles when it comes to the horror half of its survival-horror roots - a tall order for a game whose direct inspiration is Leon S. Kennedy's Spanish Suplex Simulator. You think you know fear and then Village throws a giant cannibal fetus at you in the middle of Resident Evil's equivalent of an escape room. The designers at Capcom have really outdone themselves! The writers, not so much.