RE2 remake is a pretty good modern, survival horror game. Zombies taking more headshots to put down goes against what most people who are into zombie horror are used to and creates a bit more terror in early encounters and is a pretty good way to substitute the decisions present in the original where the player decides to conserve ammo and try to run past the threat/use a bit of ammo to stagger the enemy and safely pass/double down and use resources to wipe the enemy from future encounters.
RE isn't exactly known for tricky puzzles like the ones present in other survival horror games like Silent Hill, but was still left a bit disappointed in what puzzles were present in this remake, with the peak of it being the chess puzzle for the sewers which only gave me a little itch for those old-school puzzles.

One major downside about the remake is how they handle the different scenario routes. In the OG, both routes for each character are wildly different storywise with an element of one playthrough affecting a small part of the next scenario which kept each playthrough a bit fresh. The remake has opted out of that to make a more linear story that doesn't really change at all whether you pick to play as Claire or Leon in either scenario, with even a few inconsistencies like character deaths.

Leaving out the unique endings for each scenario really felt like a missed opportunity. I'm not sure if this is just Capcom trying to make the recent remakes follow a more strict canon story, but because of that it prevents me from really saying that this was a great remake.

the story quality is consistent with Episode Prompto, playing out pretty nicely seeing Ignis' perspective of the battle at Altissia and actually seeing Ravus' character.

Gameplay is a bit similar to Noctis, even giving him a hookshot that acts a bit like Noct's warping ability which can even be used in combat against the soldiers holding flags and the mechs which instantly kills them. Combat for Ignis is definitely the most "thought out" of the other two Boy Band DLC episodes. Giving him three different elements tied to his daggers that can be switched immediately and each has a different moveset definitely makes the combat more interesting, even changing his Clarity move depending on what element you have out. Overclock is a nice buff tech and High Jump being a really good AOE attack. Ice daggers are pretty broken in this DLC though due to the many soldiers present with not many elemental weaknesses. Bosses were also pretty ok.

The alternate ending present in the DLC was pretty cool to see. A hint in what was planned for the rest of the DLC lineup that unfortunately got cancelled.

I also finished the other challenge present in the DLC called "Friendly Match" where you fight against Noctis as Ignis and was pretty hard when I first tempted it. But now I find it pretty easy to defeat Noctis. Fight itself is a really fun challenge figuring out how to abuse High Jump against Armiger and just figuring out the fight in general.

The story is definitely a step up from Episode Gladiolus.

Gameplay for Prompto is arguably less fun than the other three of the main boy band group, but still fun nonetheless. Once they introduce crackshots, the combat is much better especially against enemies that would take forever to kill with just bullets. The only problem is knocking an enemy down to be able to crackshot them can be random or sometimes grenades won't knock them down until a few more are used.

The challenges were also pretty cool. Fighting against Aranea was pretty fun finding how to defeat her. The snowmobile trials were ok, with the first one being pretty difficult to get the top ranking.