Not much to say with this other than I really enjoyed it and it was much of the same Resident Evil gameplay that I loved in 2. It's a lot longer than the other remakes but it doesn't suffer from it, you move through the areas quickly and there's so much detail and love put into all of them. I particularly liked the castle.

The only real things I can put the game down for are the story and the more action-focused gameplay. The story is a bit cheesy, but I didn't really care because the gameplay was fun. The greater focus on action is a little less interesting to me than 2 which had the unique gameplay loop of avoiding enemies to conserve ammo; I practically killed every enemy in this one and had plenty of ammo in most situations. This is not the fault of the remake I don't think, but it's just up to personal preference of preferring the survival horror aspects of the earlier games.

There are a lot of cool tense moments though and there's enough survival horror in here to still keep a consistent
atmosphere.

There's a few performance issues on PS5 with stuttering whilst traversing the map, likely from the texture streaming system, so I had to switch off ray tracing which was a little disappointing but this was most prevalent in early areas.

Reviewed on Sep 29, 2023


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