A $40 tech demo, Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D is cool in its own right. Especially when you were there in the 3DS' early days. It's very impressive how smoothly this game plays close to Resident Evil 4 and 5! And the novelty of reusing assets from those games isn't really too much of a blight, since you've never seen them "demade" in this way before.
Unfortunately, that only takes the experience so far. Enemy variety is extremely underwhelming, which is a huge misstep when the entire game is centered around slaying enemies and not much else. There's a lot of potential material (all from Resident Evil 4 and 5), but any RE veteran at the time will constantly think something is missing.
The playable characters themselves have plenty of variety, but it gets old when you're fighting the same exact ghouls and beasts over and over again. And over a decade later, the novelty of this game is kind of lost, especially since pretty much all Resident Evil games are playable on multiple handheld systems these days.
Unfortunately, that only takes the experience so far. Enemy variety is extremely underwhelming, which is a huge misstep when the entire game is centered around slaying enemies and not much else. There's a lot of potential material (all from Resident Evil 4 and 5), but any RE veteran at the time will constantly think something is missing.
The playable characters themselves have plenty of variety, but it gets old when you're fighting the same exact ghouls and beasts over and over again. And over a decade later, the novelty of this game is kind of lost, especially since pretty much all Resident Evil games are playable on multiple handheld systems these days.