STEAM REVIEW: Posted 1 June, 2021.
Resident Evil Village is probably one of the best advances in the series since RE4, the first person perspective from 7 is still incredibly fresh and the new quality of life improvements make this almost as smooth as butter.
The graphics are incredible and having them so high did slightly affect my frames in certain areas but surprisingly areas that slowed the fps actually didn't impact them as much as i progressed through the game which left me oddly feeling like I had somehow improved. (Saving and quitting did fix this issue however when it did get unplayable)
The ramp up towards a climatic finale was extremely different from a similar ramp in RE7, where as 7's skill ramp was extremely rewarding Village kinda has a bump which feels a little bit different as it goes back and forth from 2 characters that have slightly different yet noticeable game feel.
I felt the pace of the narrative was extremely fast, but i never felt like I didn't get to spend enough time in each area. I clocked in just under 8 hours and I felt like I experienced everything the game had to offer me.
Aside from the frame rate dips and an issue with picking up items that are on the floor being a little bit difficult at times I have no real complaints about the game, other than there being no native PS4 controller icons, installing a mod was extremely easy but i expected that Capcom would accommodate this by their 4th RE engine game on Steam.
Narrative was extremely crazy and fun but there was one plot point that made me wish it was handled differently but not much i can do about that.
I did see someone in the discussion boards calling for people to review bomb the game because of frame rate dips being "unplayable", I don't have the best PC but i manage to run all modern RE games on everywhere between High to medium settings, anything medium was stuff that didn't overly matter.
Seriously just buy the game and give it a go its the most fun I've had in a long time.
Resident Evil Village is probably one of the best advances in the series since RE4, the first person perspective from 7 is still incredibly fresh and the new quality of life improvements make this almost as smooth as butter.
The graphics are incredible and having them so high did slightly affect my frames in certain areas but surprisingly areas that slowed the fps actually didn't impact them as much as i progressed through the game which left me oddly feeling like I had somehow improved. (Saving and quitting did fix this issue however when it did get unplayable)
The ramp up towards a climatic finale was extremely different from a similar ramp in RE7, where as 7's skill ramp was extremely rewarding Village kinda has a bump which feels a little bit different as it goes back and forth from 2 characters that have slightly different yet noticeable game feel.
I felt the pace of the narrative was extremely fast, but i never felt like I didn't get to spend enough time in each area. I clocked in just under 8 hours and I felt like I experienced everything the game had to offer me.
Aside from the frame rate dips and an issue with picking up items that are on the floor being a little bit difficult at times I have no real complaints about the game, other than there being no native PS4 controller icons, installing a mod was extremely easy but i expected that Capcom would accommodate this by their 4th RE engine game on Steam.
Narrative was extremely crazy and fun but there was one plot point that made me wish it was handled differently but not much i can do about that.
I did see someone in the discussion boards calling for people to review bomb the game because of frame rate dips being "unplayable", I don't have the best PC but i manage to run all modern RE games on everywhere between High to medium settings, anything medium was stuff that didn't overly matter.
Seriously just buy the game and give it a go its the most fun I've had in a long time.