The first half of Resident Evil 7 is awesome and actually frightening. Like in the first game, they managed to structure an entire game around a single location and it works. The shooting feels satisfying, the difficulty is challenging but not unfair and the game comes up with new stuff all the time. Unfortunately as soon as you start to embrace the combat and everything falls into place the game takes a hard turn into another direction. It's a mistake that's very common in video games. Resi 7's second half (or third) is not that bad but it just isn't satisfying, following the excellent first half. It doesn't feel like a culmination of the skills you learned. Even the final boss fight, out of all of them, is by far the weakest.
Overall Resi7 is a fine game that could've been great.