A sweet and cosy game that has enjoyable NPC interactions (no matter if they berate you or speak highly of you) in a simplistic, yet adorable world with a simple, yet effective artstyle.
The whole thing is so cute, the music, the sounds, the simple day-to-day activities collecting things for the museum, making your own patterns for the shop, visiting the city and to pay off your debt are so relaxing and makes the real world seem so nice to do, which is ironically what most people would want to avoid in real life (myself included).
I didn't get super far into it before I stopped, as I'd "changed" a bit since starting, so using an old "account" felt wrong and sharing a town with the old one also felt wrong, and nor did I want to start over because of the bond I'd made from the first time, so I never picked it back up unfortunately. One day I will again.

A brilliant "return to formula" from a new, unexplored angle and updated graphics leading to a fantastic and genuinely scary experience, something that I hadn't felt since I started the franchise 2 years ago.
The characters, setting, simple to follow story, atmosphere and tiny little details are all captured perfectly making it one of my favourite in the series.
This isn't to say it doesn't have flaws, and the flaws with me are what everyone else says: not enough enemy variety, the ship is the weak part and the ending felt quite anti-climactic, but these only slightly hamper the experience in my books; its still a brilliant and unique entry in the series despite playing similarly to its metroidvania-esque oldest brother.
Absolutely worth a try by anyone, even non-RE fans because its extremely disconnected from the normal 6 protags and a fresh start/soft reboot, meaning anyone could hop into it and enjoy without needing the extra context.

A masterpiece that manages to create a full and fun open world to explore that kept my engagement from start to finish. It has just about everything I'd hoped it could: combat that was fresh and fun to master, traversal being the best of any open world, objective markers weren't intrusive, XP upgrades are very intuitive and rewarding to complete and the story was engaging and fun, having a lot of its elements in real time phone calls, which was a genius decision. Everything felt so fluid and right with this game, but it is so close to perfection.

Such an upgrade to the story in the original game, even to REmake, giving me a reason to care for the characters and continue to play. I've played both Leon and Claire A scenarios, and it was a tonne of fun to go through. The music in the game is also much better than before, being much more memorable and powerful to coincide with the story, the characters are really well done for the time and improve the story tenfold. If this game got the '02 remake treatment, it would honestly be perfect, and might even be better than RE4.

The greatest game of all time. The best soundtrack, visuals (fight me), aesthetic, tone, characters, settings, story, gameplay, dungeons, it really has it all, culminating into this masterpiece of a game! Even the motion controls were fun, if gimmicky. The ability to change into a wolf were unfortunately underpowered and underutilised, but still varied the gameplay well and built on the story in certain parts to be entertaining. Definitely going to revisit this again for the 12th time at some point.

Reasonably fun at the best of times, but unnecessarily frustrating at the worst. Its old low-poly charm is there and really carries my rating, but it's really hard to see why it's so beloved beyond that, there are so many parts where the controls, difficult enemies and quirky geometry detract from the experience with it dragging out towards the end with no goal.
I stopped before I got to Xen because of the horror stories from it, and since I didn't like it before then I'm keeping well away. Maybe my opinion will change down the line, but for now: a 2.5

An underwhelming sequel that falters in the same areas the original did, like: having difficult platforming sections, no health spawns when desperately needed, tricky environmental 'puzzles', unintuitive level design and it all combined to an unfun experience and makes me really question why people call it "one of the best games of all time".
It's such a shame too, because I want to like these games but being infuriating by jank like the AI body blocking me out of cover really isn't my cup of tea. The story isn't really there either, not being as strong as the first but it at least has some pretty nice, memorable characters.