Resident Evil 0 is not as horrible as its reputation. The kind of game you play when you exhausted every other main line RE game. A hard, often infuriating climb up a mountain. The View on the top is pretty satisfying, but you are going to question many times why you're even doing this. It looks beautiful, sometimes even better than RE Remake imo and the soundtrack is fantastic. I really like the dynamic between Rebecca and Billy as they make their way through the abandoned Umbrella recruitment center. The fact that you have two main characters working side by side isn't a problem at all. For me, there are two other giant Problems towering over Zero, that more or less combine themselves into a big pile of shit I need to rant about.
First: The complete removal of the item box. You now have to drop items on the floor. Which leads to either your items being all centralized into one room that you have to backtrack to across the entire map, or you accidentally scatter important items around the map and go scavenger hunting once you need them. The entire system only leads to frustration, as you won't know when you have to fight bosses or enter a point of no return, at least on your first go. And there we are at my second big complaint: The game's scripted sequences. Resident Evil 0 loves to throw you into situations that completely fuck you over, with barely any warning. One might say some unpredictability is part of REs identity, but at least the other games somewhat signpost when there's a particular difficult section coming up. RE 0 says fuck you to that and it's the mainline RE game I had to reload saves the most, as well as create multiple save files because I couldn't reliably plan ahead. I always play Resident Evil with one single hard save where I roll with the punches, but here I quickly threw that rule out the window because I felt the difficulty spicks were just bullshit.
In conclusion, I did have a decent time with it and think it's worth experiencing if you're a hardcore RE fan, but I also really felt the tedium of this one. I'm sure my second play through will be much smoother when I do it someday, maybe. On the plus side, I still think this is better than 6 and Code Veronica, and the remaster has maybe the coolest unlock ever, which I don't want to spoil. A really awesome surprise.
First: The complete removal of the item box. You now have to drop items on the floor. Which leads to either your items being all centralized into one room that you have to backtrack to across the entire map, or you accidentally scatter important items around the map and go scavenger hunting once you need them. The entire system only leads to frustration, as you won't know when you have to fight bosses or enter a point of no return, at least on your first go. And there we are at my second big complaint: The game's scripted sequences. Resident Evil 0 loves to throw you into situations that completely fuck you over, with barely any warning. One might say some unpredictability is part of REs identity, but at least the other games somewhat signpost when there's a particular difficult section coming up. RE 0 says fuck you to that and it's the mainline RE game I had to reload saves the most, as well as create multiple save files because I couldn't reliably plan ahead. I always play Resident Evil with one single hard save where I roll with the punches, but here I quickly threw that rule out the window because I felt the difficulty spicks were just bullshit.
In conclusion, I did have a decent time with it and think it's worth experiencing if you're a hardcore RE fan, but I also really felt the tedium of this one. I'm sure my second play through will be much smoother when I do it someday, maybe. On the plus side, I still think this is better than 6 and Code Veronica, and the remaster has maybe the coolest unlock ever, which I don't want to spoil. A really awesome surprise.