for a game about challenging black and white world views it still is so black and white. neil ur allegories are shallow and also just plain incorrect. this needed rewrites upon rewrites and is also just a slog for the sake of it. u had a chance to reinvent the wheel if you didn't stick with the glorified aaa rollercoaster ride, something is hidden beneath the rough of it all but not much of this is concentrated except that final final scene i cant bring myself to like this anymore i just cant!!!!!!!!! i cant!!!!!! its gotta vibe to it though so that saves it a little bit

maybe the most meh and fine game ever created. this is most probably nostalgia wrapping me up into some fuckass unbreakable trance of dissatisfaction, and the original re4 isn’t the best game out there but yes it is oh it so fucking is. such dry campiness and mechanics just barely clicking together into something magnetic. sure i can be giddy when a fave of mine is remade but this is just snuffed from the stuff that enkindled the original traded for a saturated sludgefest. i just sense a disconnect from everything and i don’t know if i can say that i actually enjoyed this game, what is this game’s tone??? loved the metroidvania style of re2make but they shot themselves in the foot with this one because what made the og so great was its reinvention that has since then been trivialized, so there is nothing new about this. if re7 was a half return to the formula i feel like with this it’s starting to veer off again.

6.5/10

enjoying this until it completely veers off in its last third. southern gothic horror is just that girl, top notch art direction that encapsulates the dry humidness of a rotten tooth infested with maggots. veiled in a grounded return to the formula, it sure isn’t free of its absurdness, which just adds to this being one of the funniest games maybe ever??? (marguerite i love u forever and ever shitcocksucker) the gameplay and ai is certainly clunkier and more annoying than village, but i feel like i forgive this one more due to the overall aesthetic and cohesiveness (until the end), the concept of dividing this through a bizarre family is really fun with the sections being unique yet adhesive. again i just wished that re didn’t care for story and just threw ideas out on the table without needing to explain them, once they do all intrigue and uncertainty just dissipates. gotta admit the pt-esque section fell flat on my second playthrough and the molded are still ass enemies, but this is just so sticky i will forever love it!!!