Spends an undue amount of time on mawkish Winters family trauma drama, the only bit that worked for me on that front was the reference in Rose's diary to sweating mucousal mold in elementary school. That's a tough hand to draw, Rose. 😰

But I enjoyed this more than I thought I would as an excuse to run through the most evocative sets from the original game in a new context. Think most will have a better time with this if they go in thinking of it as a remixed "2nd run" mode as opposed to the true next chapter in the story as it seemed sort of pitched to be.

The line-of-sight-responsive "don't let mommy catch you" segment was an inspired horror idea and one I'd love to see explored more at length in a numbered Resident Evil entry, as much as I breathed a sigh of relief when it was over.

Also... the decision to hide Ethan's face reached it's most ludicrous results yet in the emotional climax of this, and that was a wonderful thing to see. 🤣