Resident Evil Village shows that the formula for RE7 can beat the sophmore slump and even surpass it's predacessor.
While RE7 offers a tighter, clausterphobic story, Village delivers a sort of carnival of horror. It's a deluge of ideas ranging from fetuses that vore you to mechanical monstrosities. It's so difficult to predict where this game is taking you and that keeps it's story fresh at a length that caused earlier games to become stale.
Every environment is a joy to explore because you're always rewarded with secret areas brimming with loot and lore. Highly reactive and violent enemies keep every shootout exciting and rarely is there a frustrating encounter.
Ethan Winters may be a cardboard protagonist, but he loves his daughter goddamnit and woe be to any monster that gets in his way. It's this throughline that makes Village one of the strongest narratives in the franchise and I was genuinley touched by its emotional climax.
Where the franchise will go from here I genuinely cannot say, but I think they ended on a high note.
While RE7 offers a tighter, clausterphobic story, Village delivers a sort of carnival of horror. It's a deluge of ideas ranging from fetuses that vore you to mechanical monstrosities. It's so difficult to predict where this game is taking you and that keeps it's story fresh at a length that caused earlier games to become stale.
Every environment is a joy to explore because you're always rewarded with secret areas brimming with loot and lore. Highly reactive and violent enemies keep every shootout exciting and rarely is there a frustrating encounter.
Ethan Winters may be a cardboard protagonist, but he loves his daughter goddamnit and woe be to any monster that gets in his way. It's this throughline that makes Village one of the strongest narratives in the franchise and I was genuinley touched by its emotional climax.
Where the franchise will go from here I genuinely cannot say, but I think they ended on a high note.