Resident Evil 6 (2012)

3 times I've tried playing this and 3 times I've dropped it. Never again.

I finished Leon and Chris's story, but Jake's is just so bad. Resident Evil games do not need James Bond set pieces. The devs clearly do not have much experience with them because it felt like playing a mediocre PS2 game. I also didn't feel like I was missing much of the story at this point, which was confirmed by reading the plot online.

At least I know they get better. I didn't love 7, but I did finish it and it was much more in line with what an RE game should be.

Like flies that are drawn to shit, I couldn't stay away from RE6. After beating all four campaigns, has my opinion changed? No, not at all. It's still mostly trash in my eyes. I'll give two extra nods to it though.

1. Ada's campaign was a bit different to the rest. Not especially good but it at least did something different with the lacklustre stealth gameplay in the first chapter and puzzles in the second. Doesn't help that Ada Wong is an insufferable Mickey Mouse type know-it-all who makes obvious observations constantly during the gameplay.
2. Jake Muller and his campaign were escpecially bad so the other campaigns look a bit better in comparison. Holy shit did they manage to make Jake cringeworthy. He was like a cheesy coolguy with 0% charsima and likeability and dialog that was more assholish than entertaining. Also, to balance the big masculine energy and sexist remarks from the dollar bin action hero Jake, the devs did the natural thing and made the female character in the campaign, Sherry, totally helpless.

I'll still give the Mercenaries mode a quick spin, and then I can give myself the blessing to never play this trash again.

Just finished RE6. and I make Ada's words, my own.

"Finally", Ada sighed, as I killed the last enemy the game sent to me before we reached the of chapter 2.

That "Finally" of hers clicked something for me: that was also my thought through out the whole game. 90% of my playtime, the only thought I had was "Finally...". "Finally, I'm done", "Finally, this zombie is dead. Oh wait, 2nd phase...", "Finally, I can heal", "Finally, I defeated the boss". Finally, Finally, Finally.

Its a game that doesn't understand moderation as it throws waves of mobs at you that instead of simply dying, continue to unravel 1, 2, 3 phases and they aren't mini bosses either, just your regular zombies/mobs so you'll often fight 4-5 of them. It doesn't make the game fun, challenging. it makes it dragged out, like its padding content for some reason. I truly feel most sections of this game were twice the length they should've been. Everything feels too long. Ada's route was a breath of fresh air with how quick and rather straightforward it was. I just wish the others followed the same principles...

And you know, the more I think about the routes, the more I question why is Leon/Simmons here. Their character arc goes from nowhere to nothing, in one big pointless loop. We already had a perfectly good villain in Evil Ada, even Ustanak as a secondary.

Anyway, I probably thought about this game more than Capcom ever did so my final thoughts are: As a survival game, its garbage. As a shooter, its mediocre at best. And as a survival-horror, its a good shooter.

At least this wasn't nearly as bad as RE0...

Been a while since I felt this much about a RE game. Shame its only negatives. There IS a fun game here, Capcom's mistake was making it a RE game instead of its own thing.

Onto RE7, a game to this day I hear nothing but praises about it.

Finished Chris route

SPOILER WARNING FOR IT

Anyway, to Jake and Ada route

Just finished Leon route and it already didn't hold up lmao

I completely forgot about the intro lmao It's so action packed and I still don't understand why they thought it was a good idea to start the game like that. What was the goal here, exactly? Because I sure didn't understand

IMO they should've simply started us with Leon, the first half would at least keep the survival-horror pretense while slowly upping the action through the route. If the intro was supposed to be a tutorial then its one of the most unnecessary one I've seen yet. Nothing we learn there, couldn't be learnt by playing Leon's.

SPOILER WARNING FOR REVELATIONS 1 AND LEON ROUTE

Also they really just recycled Revelations 1 story lmao Just replacing FBC with NSA and the story continues to be pretty weak, they didn't even try to make it interesting this time. Revelations, at very least, had the better set up. We fight Simmons way, WAY too many times and the rooftop fight simply shouldn't exist IMO, its way too long and too boring. Did I already said we fight Simmons too many times? Because we do.

For the little I still remember from Chris and Jake's route, I get the feeling it will be more of the same.

Yeah, RE6 already started on a rough patch lol Anyway, time to finish Chris, Jake and Ada! Les goo....