A brief but enjoyable expansion. The Rose campaign was a nice was to build upon the story of the last two games. I felt the re-use of environments from the main game was well done as they played with your expectations, especially the doll house section. That part leans further into psychological horror and got a few genuine scares out of me. The final fight adds some mechanics that are unexpected for RE, with Rose feeling like a super hero but the campaign built up to this so I enjoyed it.

The new mercenaries stages are an improvement from the base game in which I felt the mode was extremely lacking compared to earlier games. I do find it frustrating that you have to unlock the characters, but the requirements to do so were fine.

Third person mode I’m torn on. I prefer RE to be from this perspective, but 7 and 8 were designed with first person in mind and I think they did a great job with this. Capcom implemented third person well but it is jarring when the camera shifts to accommodate a cutscene moment that requires the first person mode.