I genuinely respect what the original Resident Evil did for the industry and the horror genre but as a video game I didn't enjoy it much. This was way too much backtracking and vague guessing having to force me to keep relying on a guide to even know where tf to go out of the how many doors there and what specific things need to go where for my liking, and besides a few exceptions the puzzle sucked. The fixed camera angles were really annoying making me run in circles at times and making combat a slog. A lot of things are generally a tedious mess and I feel only die-hard fans would get a kick out of this one these days.

The game is gorgeous for it's time and I will admit it does have that satisfying dungeon feel at times when you figure something out, but overall I'm glad this game is over and I never want to slog through it again.

Reviewed on Dec 07, 2023


5 Comments


5 months ago

Good review. I didn't hate the puzzles, but they were definitely not as good as their fans would have you believe. It was also hard to enjoy b/c of the lethal consequences. Only one I liked was the statute. one.
My problem was the puzzles were grouped in with the backtracking and having you to remember some random item in some other room I was supposed to remember about so it's structure just got annoying

3 months ago

Hey sorry man, didn't see you had responded. Unfortunately you gotta tag people with the @username otherwise they don't get notifications.

Yeah I agree, that could be annoying, though tbh I didn't experience that issue since I ended up relying on a guide xD
@RedBackLoggd Haha sorry I didn't know Backloggd worked like that, yeah I did want to give the puzzles a chance on their own merit since I like having the satisfaction of solving them myself but yeah for the tougher ones I just used guides because I was fed up with how tedious it was to solve them.

3 months ago

All good brother. I'm like that too, but the thing is a lot of the puzzles had lethal consequences for failure, which was not something I wanted to risk given the save point system.