It's just fine I guess? I think playing this after the RE4make and not after RE2make kind of soured the more action-heavy combat focus of this game. I wasn't the biggest fan of RE2's more bullet-spongey enemies but it made sense for that game because enemies were obstacles to avoid and the level design/ammo economy accounted for it. RE3's a lot harder to get a read on its expectations for until you reach a point where you have way too much ammo and healing items even on Normal difficulty, and it really didn't help either that I couldn't figure out what exactly made the dodge mechanic work consistently until far too late into my playthrough. The game only really vaguely tells you that dodging is based on timing when that's not the full picture. You don't get invincibility frames and you also have to account for your hitbox the entire way through; dodging into enemies isn't allowed and you will just get grabbed instead. It doesn't help either that the brief sections where you play as Carlos changes the rules suddenly and instead of a dodge, you get a shove with its own unique timing that the game doesn't give very much of a safe space to actually figure out properly.

More than enough's been said about the content that was blatantly unfinished and cut out making this so incredibly unfaithful to the original entry that... it might as well just make the two games completely distinct? I honestly don't really have much of a horse in this race because I personally would argue similar for RE2 and how butchered the 2nd Run really is compared to the A/B Scenarios of the original game, but I've already said my spiel on that game and regardless, RE3's remake absolutely would've benefited from a team who had more time to actually nail down all of the missing set pieces and locations. As a whole it just kind of leads to a game that I don't have very much to say on other than that it's just fine. Buy it on a sale because I still think most will have a good time here, just absolutely do not pay full price for this.

Reviewed on Oct 19, 2023


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