Games I Like That Everybody Else Dislikes

Leon's campaign > Jake's campaign > Chris's campaign > Ada's campaign

Special people with special relationships - by far the best entry out of RE's "dumb era", totally encapsulating the series' long-standing theme of beauty versus beast: pitting male models, flawlessly gorgeous women, and massive hulking tank behemoth bros against the most disgusting, warped destructions of flesh imaginable. All that goes double the distance when it's one of the best looking video games I've ever played, every cent of its ludicrous budget is right there on the screen at any given moment. Imagine spooky haunted house horror mixed with early 2010s Call of Duty ripoff mixed with hilariously over-the-top action setpieces that would make Michael Bay quiver in his boots - then you get this beautiful specimen. I get why we all scoffed at this on release but it oddly seems like the antithesis of most of its criticisms in the current day. Great shit, needs to be seen to be believed. I guess everyone just forgot about quicktiming away from a colossal robot statue and doing Hollywood judo kicks to waves of enemies in glorified combat arenas in Resident Evil 4 because this really isn't much dumber than that.

Reviewed on Mar 24, 2023


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