This is just gonna be a review of the DLCs since I already reviewed the main game on the original RE5 page. I played through the DLCs co-op with my cousin after we finished the main game.
Lost in Nightmares:
It's really cool seeing the spencer mansion in the new camera style and with the updated graphics. I still haven't finished any version of RE1, but it was cool recognizing a lot of the areas from the remake. Puzzles felt pretty basic even for RE5, but it did have a QTE piano playing section which was really funny. The section in the flooded basement/cellar area was kind of annoying, the big guys kept going after the person cranking, but we were also playing this at 2 am while we were both really tired so we were also probably not playing as well as we could have. The Wesker fight was fun and gave us some trouble too, partly from us being dumb and messing around and partly from the timing of the QTE's being a lot stricter in comparison to the rest of the game.
Overall it was fun and felt like a good homage and fan service to the original RE.
Desperate Escape:
Same over the top-goofy fun but dumb action gameplay from the main game. It's a nice little addition to helps complete a different part of the story and Jill and Josh's moves are somehow even more goofy and over the top than Chris and Sheva's. It fit right in with the main game. Ending section got a little annoying cause we were tired and kept dying in the last stretch, but that additional time reveal was funny and the RE helicopter curse is very real.
Both DLCs are nice little additions to the HD remaster and you should play through them if you had fun with the main game.
Lost in Nightmares:
It's really cool seeing the spencer mansion in the new camera style and with the updated graphics. I still haven't finished any version of RE1, but it was cool recognizing a lot of the areas from the remake. Puzzles felt pretty basic even for RE5, but it did have a QTE piano playing section which was really funny. The section in the flooded basement/cellar area was kind of annoying, the big guys kept going after the person cranking, but we were also playing this at 2 am while we were both really tired so we were also probably not playing as well as we could have. The Wesker fight was fun and gave us some trouble too, partly from us being dumb and messing around and partly from the timing of the QTE's being a lot stricter in comparison to the rest of the game.
Overall it was fun and felt like a good homage and fan service to the original RE.
Desperate Escape:
Same over the top-goofy fun but dumb action gameplay from the main game. It's a nice little addition to helps complete a different part of the story and Jill and Josh's moves are somehow even more goofy and over the top than Chris and Sheva's. It fit right in with the main game. Ending section got a little annoying cause we were tired and kept dying in the last stretch, but that additional time reveal was funny and the RE helicopter curse is very real.
Both DLCs are nice little additions to the HD remaster and you should play through them if you had fun with the main game.