I never played the original Resident Evil 2 from 1998, but this remake 100% stands on its own as a juggernaut of survival horror. The atmosphere early-game is tense & mortifying, and only grows in scale the longer you play. The puzzles are a joy to solve, and aren’t so difficult that you have to stop to look up a solution. Gunplay feels great, and overall the level designs were really top-notch in my book. The story is intriguing as well, even if some (most) of the lines of dialogue are cheesy. I only have two gripes with the game; the fight on the crane and the game of cat and mouse you have to play with Tyrant during most of the police station. I swear, I did the right thing on the crane 6 times before it finally worked, but maybe I just missed something. I understand the point of Tyrant is to keep the situation tense and make players more alert to their surroundings, but most of the time it was just a massive inconvenience that had me running all over the place and hiding in safe rooms until he moved to another area.