So, the remake of 2 got my 'prestigious' game of the year award (comparisons to that game incoming) for last year so the (worryingly) fast release of the sequel was always gonna be one for me to look forward to. Good news (again), it's good. I like the more sprawling setting with more different environments from the predecessor as well as the slightly speeded up gameplay. Jill and Carlos are both good characters (I would certainly choo choo choose Jill over Leon) that kept me invested in the story.
Most importantly of all in the positives column was that Nemesis only turned up for set pieces, something the game gets a lot of criticism for but I could not disagree more. Mr. X annoyed the hell out of me in Resi 2, not because he scared me (as I said before, 'scary' video games don't scare me anymore despite how much they did when I was a child), but because he was a nause, appearing when you're trying to get around the police station to fetch things, but then up he'd pop, you'd have to go back to a safe room and wait around in there until he went away, then go back to whatever task was being accomplished before, what a time sink. Still, it wasn't as egregious as Amnesia, the most overrated horror game of all time. What was I on about? Right, I was worried before the game that Nemesis would be the same as Mr. X, but for the entire game, hence more annoying but fortunately he was not, only appearing for set pieces and boss fights.
The one very predictable major negative here is that it's extremely similar to the last one. As mentioned, it was only a year since Resi 2 was released, which was probably not enough time to do any more than create the new world and sprites but the game engine is basically the exact same. Obviously this isn't the worst thing possible as I really liked it before, it just seems lazy. It seems likely they sped it up to release it alongside the long in development Resident Evil resistance multiplayer mode (yes I played it and, meh), but they really should have delayed that or put it out as a budget game whilst they finished actually making this properly. Oh well, guess they want to get to the 'money maker' (the inevitable Resi 4 re-re-remake).
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Seems like Resident Evil 8 is next, and I really enjoyed 7, which was, bizarrely (given I've been playing videogames for about 30 years now) my introduction to the series (as I said, the original trilogy at time of release scared me too much). Anyway, looking forwards to it.
Streets of Rage 4 is out now! and I like it a lot. that's next.
P.s. I would take my own screen shots but that seems like a ridiculously small thing to buy a capture card for.
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