Overall a very fun 12.5 hours. Started off strong, the early exploration of the village was very atmospheric and tense and the first two large areas (the castle and the doll house) were by far my biggest highlights. But as the story picked up momentum I had a harder time following along, not having played any RE games since 5 ("who is this little girl? hang on, Ethan is made of fungus??"). And at the same time, the gameplay began to drag as it became more and more combat-driven. Those couple of bulletsponge bossfights in extremely constricted arenas were a real slog to get through, and after the comparatively goofy boss fight with Heisenberg, the player takes over as Chris and game turns into a mediocre shooter the rest of the way.
Love the spooky richly detailed environments to explore, love the creepy large monster type things chasing after me and eerie escape room-type puzzles. Could do without all the forgettable combat and boss fights.