not sure if i should get this on Switch 2 or Steam Deck. i think the Switch 2 runs it better technically but ive got all the other RE games on Steam plus the idea of playing it on some kind of better hardware in the future
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I canāt say Iām super excited for a new RE but thatāll likely change when I run through my podcasts this week. Theyāre gonna hype me up.
This is really good. I love the older, more grizzled Leon and how bloody the combat gets. You clear a room and thereās blood all over the place. Itās great.
Also they basically took all the best bits from the previous games and put them in this one. Item hunting survival horror? Check. Big super enemy that chases you through the level? Check. Chunky gory action? Check. Just checks all the boxes and looks great. I donāt know if itās doing anything new yet but if you liked any of the previous games thereās something for you in this one.
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Yeah, Iām liking this too. The way they split the game into first person survival horror with Grace and third person arcade action with Leon is a cool way to give you both major flavors of modern RE in one game.
So far it feels like itās leaning further to the horror side tonally compared to 8ās full on campiness, but there are still comedic elements at play. Always love it when Leon does a bad action hero quip.
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Iām playing it all third person for that classic RE experience. Also playing it on Standard (classic) difficulty and Iām really having to scrape for resources. The Care Center is a true RE puzzle box location, like the mansion in RE1, and I had a stretch right near the beginning as Grace where I just plum did not have any ammo or way to defend myself and had to just sneak past everything to explore the level and find the stuff I needed. Very tense!
Now I made my way into the other wing and opened up the ability to craft ink ribbons (Standard Classic requires ink ribbons for Grace to save) among other things so Iām well into the groove of it now. I also earned enough challenge points to unlock a new special weapon for Leon so that should make things more interesting when I play as him again. Really pleased with this.
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had to abandon classic after losing huge chunks of time to crashes, love to game on the computer
enjoying this though even as a āre1 is the best in the seriesā type the leon sections are just way more fun
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yeah I really like that they pulled this off (also path tracing is incredibly gorgeous and like a generation ahead of all other non-AW2 modern games visually even though itās only playable on 5070 Ti / 5080 / 4090 / 5090 and currently needs a driver revert on 4090), as someone who thought that RE7 and 2R both saved the franchise and 8/4R werenāt quite as good, this has excellent 7/2R energy throughout. itās a really successful ābest ofā RE, calls back to 1 as much or more than 7 did.
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pretty great game. i wish there were more, two extra modes (one per character) would go hard
as for how they handle thatā¦ a survival mode for leon would go hard
as for graceā¦ its tough to come up with a good bonus mode
i wonder where theyll go from hereā¦ i hope its like a focused open environment you can travel between by bike or on foot. several puzzle environments (a mansion, a prison, the mines) that interlock and some optional areas to unlock things like expanded clips etc. put a traveling shopkeeper you have to go find and a giant bird enemy that threatens the skies. have human characters that can be friend or foe on the field. the elden ring of resident evil!
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Iām gonna gobble up a RE no matter what (hell I gobbled up Dead Aimā¦) but the structure is so openly reminiscent of RE2 that I wonder for how much longer we can be treated to yearly Evils in Residents. Yes itās a sort of greatest hits of everything RE has done since 7 but I thought thatās what Village was? Still liking this more tho
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So yāall are saying there is still a lot of hand trauma?
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There is hand stuff.
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it sounds like youre checking for your āfriendā that has a hand trauma fetish hahaha
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Playing as Grace, trying to get the corrosive acid to melt a lock, I ran into a true classic survival horror situation. Iād forgotten to unlock a very important opens-from-one-side-only door that I should have taken care of earlier, so my only way through involved one buster sword doctor zombie, two mutated zombies, and a giant bloated pursuer guy. And I had very few bullets left. I found myself reverting to psx survival horror brainwaves, planning out my route and trying different strategies until I found a way through. It was nervewracking but ended up being a very fun challenge.
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Iām at the same spot as you, and have been going on a bit of an exploration spree opening up locked drawers and getting into rooms I was previously locked out of before I go looking for the corrosive. When I quit for the evening I had just opened the door to the garage. I took one step in then remembered the boss fight in the garage in VII and decided they put that save room so close by for a reason so I ducked back out and saved. Iāll be disappointed if thereās no crazy encounter in there now.
I love the hemolytic injector. I killed the chef with it which I wasnāt sure it would work but was pleased when it did. I always make sure I have at least one on me now. If thereās a zombie I canāt get past or I donāt want to spend the ammo I just sneak up on them and use that. Boom everything is covered in gore now. This whole place is going to be covered in blood soon.
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They way that thing makes them explode in an overwhelming shower of gore is so funny and satisfying.
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The crazy exploitation horror movie gore in this one is giving it a distinct character from the most recent games. Itās way over the top. And I think having Leonās segments there to contrast against Graceās really drive home how intentional it is this time, instead of accidental, that they have chosen to portray the RE heroes as insane super human demolishers who can squish peopleās heads like grapes and keep moving without skipping a beat. Maybe this is just Leonās particular talent, lol.
I am so far very very satisfied with this one after kind of basically disliking 8 and RE4make. I am so glad we are away from Ethan.
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co-sign all of that except that I would say that village and re4make were merely good and Ethan is the funniest James Sunderland parody imaginable and I still hope he shows up as a cameo here
honestly I would be thrilled if they start putting him in everything as a joke the way that RgG studio has been doing with Ichiban lately even though everyone hates that. Capcom/Sega modern house style is consistently hysterical imo, itās like unimaginably better than 10-15 years ago
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he is funny. i loved the abuse they threw at him. i just cannot stand being begged to care about videogame kids and wives like that. i ran away from Metro Last Light for similar reasons, around the same time too!
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