Resident Evil Village (2021)

Okay halfway through village. The intro is really bad in terms of easing a player into the mechanics and showing the level of difficulty. It took me an hour to get past that one part and nothing has been noteworthy in terms of difficulty. Really baffling. Vampire lady lair is fun but way too simple. It plays like baby's first resident evil map. I was basically sleepwalking through it but even lazy resi is good stuff so it was a good dream. Doll baby house is possibly the worst thing to have happened to the franchise. Everything that sets resi apart from its dull contemporaries is lost here. It's Everything I feared 7 would sell out and become. I don't know how this made it into this series. The only thing that rivals it in slow boring stupidity is the intro to Leon's campaign in resi 6 were you're forced to walk and talk with npcs the whole time. At least in that game there was dull banter to distract you. (6 is a great game btw)

Stuff I like. Any time the Duke shows up. He is great fun and the most engaging character so far. Also loved a little trick where a puzzle had me looking out a window and I expected a jump scare but then noticed numbers for a puzzle. I started counting them and then BAM!!! It waited just long enough to actspook me when the Wolfman showed up.

Other than that. I have fun while playing it but whenever I step away I'm feeling pretty disappointed. I haven't been this meh on a resi game since revelations 2. It's probably sitting near my bottom 3 atm

Resident Evil Village keeps giving us clicks so I'll keep writing about it.

This time, I list all the 'easter eggs', references and links to the whole RE series.

The article is in spanish and you can find it here.

If this train keeps going, maybe I'll be able to write the analysis of the themes of paternity and maternity on the game.

Absolutely loved it. In my top 3 Resi games, alongside 2 and 4. Its just the right blend of action, scares, thrills, and silliness. All wrapped up in a supremely polished and gorgeous package.

I could pick flaws if I wanted, but the game was just want I wanted/needed after playing too many bloated openworld games. Not overlong, or too short. Well paced. And with an extra mercenaries mode! Perfect.

Beat the third zone.

I'm enjoying my time with REVillage, but I feel like things should be fleshed out more. Out of the Resident Evil games that I have played, I've played RE4, RE2 Remake, part of RE7, and now this and I'd say that Village is mechanically weaker than those games aside from maybe 7. Maybe it's the large size of the case where I didn't feel as overwhelmed as I was in 4 and 2R. And how much less space things take up in Village compared to RE4. Maybe it's the stacking where meat, ammo, and mines can be stacked upon each other, leaving less decision making. Stacking was fine in RE4 because ammo was the only thing that was stacked. Maybe it's that herbs, chemfluids, ammo, and keys are in different inventory systems, leaving more space in your case. I could forgive RE4 with how key items, treasure items, and your case were in separate inventory systems because of how it focused more on being an action game whereas Village tries to be both but doesn't really know which hand it wants to chew on when it comes to mechanical aspects of the game. So far, I have never run out of space. Maybe it's the lack of a limb damage system to stun enemies like in RE4 and 2R, leaving only staggers that are based on luck while also being visually less impressive than RE2R.

Village is a really fun game with its varied fun house horror segments (the second zone being excellently done horror for as different gameplay wise as it is compared to the series) and solid gunplay, but I kinda feel underwhelmed with the mechanics of this game which is why RE4 is one of my top 5 favorite games and I was expecting RE4 2 in a spiritual manner, which does in spades, but not enough to really wow me so far.

I beat Resident Evil Village and loved it. I really am a sucker for the series and Ethan Winters deserved his time in the spotlight. Still not sure how I rank it against 7... they feel like two distinct flavors of Resident Evil's approach to first-person horror.

My next goal is to plat the game on PS5. It's not an unreasonable task but will take multiple playthroughs and require significant focus. There's a chance I give up if get bored and want to play something new.