I like this game in a really weird way - looking at it objectively, what people wanted it to be, and what it is? Like, it's a zero. Failed completely and set the franchise back years. it's so fucking extra, as Capcom's most maximalist approach to their impression that they could turn Resident Evil into a AAA big budget action franchise by throwing as many Michael Bay-isms into big pharma zombie games as they could. As a horror game? It's dogshit. Completely valid if that's what you value RE for because this BARELY meets that with Leon's campaign, and even that doesn't last long.

But I like 5 and this game for the fact that they're doing their own thing and taking more of an action-focused approach; using it as a vehicle to create fun co-op gameplay. Playing this game with a friend or watching two friends play this game together is undeniably fun. Either in terms of actually decent action mechanics and set-pieces or just in shitposting about how ridiculous the story is. RE6 is the equivalent to a schlocky horror action flick, and it aligns alot with the movie series developed from the games which I love for their complete ridiculousness - so of course I'm gonna love Jake Wesker and his total Main Character Energy as he does stupid parkour flips off hanging poles in the environment, and Chris Redfield becoming the human embodiment to a massive boulder that occasionally screams in edgy military speak.

It looks good for the most part, it has some decent visual design and environments, I think a decent amount of the music bangs, and at the end of the day, it's just cool to see these characters across RE history interact in these ways. Sherry getting a big part here is cool. That scene with Leon and Chris, ow the edge, sure, but like, damn it was dope to see those guys fight at the time and it's still dope now. (I wish they were able to sneak Jill or Claire into one of the campaigns even if it was just a cameo. If this was supposed to feel like a big come together celebration of RE it feels hollow without them)

It's main issue is just its length, some missions go on for FUCKING AGES, some meh enemy and encounter design that reek of 2000s cover shootin', and the fact its got a lot of bad boss fights. Otherwise, it's still really fun as a co-op game to get baked with a buddy and laugh your ass off at. RE5 is the actual better game, and the recommendation of mine is always gonna be that first, but this? It sucks as an RE game, but it's fun just in of itself. It's not even close to the worst thing to ever happen to RE as a franchise

I think it's really hard to review Minecraft given its experience is so reliant on the means by which you're playing it and with what group, but just speaking from my own experience, I've always found it one of the most continually rewarding 'project' type of games - even in vanilla with the right group of people.

I met a new group of friends early last year, among them two ardent Minecraft fans who asked me with my (alleged) knowledge of computers if I could set up a server for them. The three of us - with some occasional special guests - have now enjoyed four different servers together with different modpacks as the focus and continually returning to the server with them and working on a daily project with them in a voice call is always fun, and a great way to spend time. We take breaks here and there as we feel the need to enjoy other games we like but we continually return to it as a way to bond and have a thing we can all enjoy together. And Minecraft is a pretty powerful little modular platform in how people use it to create these crazy experiences beyond the means of the vanilla game - and it's always got staying power for me in that even it's vanilla gameloop is just very pleasing to the creases of my brain. I'll probably be playing Minecraft for as long as I have a computer in some capacity and I can never hold any shame in regards to enjoying diggy diggying a hole the way I do when it's the way I've bonded with some really good friends.