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dkirschner's Resident Evil Village (PC)

[November 7, 2024 05:14:19 PM]

These Resident Evil games have top notch production values. I played the RE2 remake over the summer and freaking loved it. Resident Evil Village (8) isn't as good, nor is it as good as Biohazard (7) before it, but it was still a good time.

I liked:

- The main antagonists, who were very creative in their design and powers. I had seen the 8-foot tall woman with Freddy Krueger claws in trailers. Most of the others are cool too.

- The merchant, who was morbidly obese and mysterious. I can't stop hearing him say in my head, "To hunger is to be human" and then making like a sloppy chewing sound.

- The methodical way you are encouraged to explore the map. Rooms that still have items in them are red on the map, while those completed are green (or blue). You know what you've completed, and you know where you can still look for stuff. The map was excellent all around.

- The little side areas and extra puzzles. I found special artifacts, weapon modifications, mini bosses, and more by exploring side paths. These paths were always interesting.

- At the end, you get to go on a one-man rampage (with two different men). I always love it when games do this at the end. It's like a reward for making it that far. "Here's a ton of ammo and a new super weapon. Go crazy!"

I didn't like:

- The bosses were easy. You could cheese nearly all of them, mostly by walking backwards in a circle around a pillar or some other object in the center of the room, or doing some version of square strafing, and shooting at them as they followed you. Even bosses that were otherwise cool ("propeller head") or should have been difficult were easily dispatched like this.

- Mini bosses glitched like three times. One, the first time you fight one of the big werewolf enemies, it was on the other side of a wall. I don't think it was supposed to come up the stairs to that spot because its head was sticking through the wall, allowing me to casually shoot it while it growled at me. Then it moved to the doorway but couldn't fit through it, so I shot it some more there until it died. Another time, there is a side boss called "the cannibal." You fight him in a room that looks something like a meat-packing warehouse. If you go out the door, he "resets" usually by "jumping" up to a platform. If you open the door, you can fire some rounds at him up there before he jumps down. Then you can go back out the door, he jumps back up, then you open the door fire at him, he jumps down, etc. Actually this was a common way to cheese enemies, when they would stop following you if you turned around and went back the way you came. They "reset" but their health doesn't. So you can just attack them, walk away, come back and attack them more, walk away, and so on. It made lots of fights really easy.

- The whole game felt a little on rails. Puzzles were not difficult, and it always felt like I was being kindly led to the next place. This made it so that it never felt like I was really exploring or that I was really in danger.

- The main character was so one-note. Half his dialogue was "Mia!" or "Rose!" or "You bitch!" or something like that, always yelling at the bad guys about his wife and daughter.

Pros and cons. It felt almost overly polished. Like, a RE game should feel more gritty? But overall, I did enjoy it, even though it wasn't very scary compared to the last two RE games I played.