Imediately it becomes apparent that the game is episodic. Every episode is made into smaller parts. Everything is scored and timed. Like speed runs was a thing.
This is mostly a game where you play as Jill Valentine. Original Resident Evil Jill. She sure has changed. Or maybe the resolution just makes her body parts pop more. Eyes up here buddy...
But don't take me wrong, she is not a damsel in distress. She opens her own doors.
We also get to see Chris Redfield again, also from the first game, although not from the start and not much before later in game. There are several other side characters like Parker, Jessica and Raymond. You shift between some of them through the game, which is nice when changing pace.

The game has you investigate some new strange virus (T-Abyss) infested sea creatures, that appear after a terrorist attack on a US/EU mutual island in the mediterranian sea, Terragrigia, by a guy named Veltro.
This investigation leads you to a ship called The Queen Zamaria. You then start to search through this ghost ship to try and piece together what is going on. You spend most of the game on this ship but do also see other places.

I played the game with controller, and never tried the Mouse/Keyboard combo, so I can only judge the games mechanics based on the controller. This was mostly fine, although a bit clunky. Worst part was the dodge mechanic that I never mastered during this game. It had to be timed within a certain attack window on top of pressing direction button and A-button. I might have dodged 7-10 times during the game, mostly not on purpose as the A-button also was used for a special melee attack on downed opponents.

The game is very action heavy, and puzzles are not existing at all. I really love the first 2 games, and I really can't see any of those games in this game besides from the chracters used, the lingo and the Hunters. Rarely did I feel any tension or sacry moments. Only the first 2 episodes gave me a little tingle once in a while, but it quickly wore off when facing 150 enemies before the first 3 episodes out of 12 were over (I got the achievement to prove it).

There is an inventory management system, but nothing like the first games as it was only used to stash weapons. You could hold 3 weapons at any given time, and the rest went to the inventory. When you found new weapons you could only swap it with one of your existing weapons, but still that weapon went to the inventory.
To not make you too powerful the game limited the amount of ammo you can carry, and let you expand on that during the game. 6 types of weapons/ammo, handguns, large handguns/Magnum, assault rifles, rifles, shotgund and rocket launchers. Although rocket launcher ammo was not something you picked up, but you could have 1 launcher left over from a boss battle. I believe I had something like 12-13 different weapons using those types of ammo at the end. Most of them are real world weapons like G36 or PSG1 etc.
It was also possible to collect secrets that could better your weapons with mods.

There were a few different enemy types, but most were boring. Goo-puddle, Goo-man, adv-Hunter, Camo-Hunter, wolves, big wolves, huge-arrow-blaster, cleave-man, Messy-Goo-Man etc. Most of them are very slow moving. But that is needed when you get attacked by 3-6 enemies at a time and they all are bullet sponges. On normal difficulty you can take 4-5 attacks before dying and you can carry 5 heal-ups at a time.
Most boss battles were horrible. I had 2 somewhat good encounters. The first one, but he was just a ginormous bullet sponge that could kill me in one swoop while a continuous horde of other minions kept coming until the big died. And the other was the last one (I died 3 times). Last boss was just ridiculous, but I suspect that my lacking ability to dodge properbly made that one more difficult than it needed to be.

The story there is bland at best, with only a few scenes that peaked my interest.