I haven’t played the original RE4 just because I never really wanted to, so I was the perfect target demographic for this one. What I got was a well paced, excellent 3rd person shooter that I could not put down. The gunplay is excellent, the puzzles are good but not annoying, and the inventory management was in and of itself very enjoyable. But it wasn’t the best survival horror remake I’ve played this year. My biggest problem with this game is the general player expression feeling pretty limited. Compared to a game like the Dead Space remake, in which the original’s biggest inspiration was the original RE4, the tools that game gives you to take care of enemies are way more varied, and just more fun to play with than RE4R’s pretty standard selection of weapons. While RE4’s gameplay is something I never really got tired of, 90% of my gameplay was lining up headshots. I played using gyro aim, and I guarantee this was one of the reasons it never got boring. For what it’s worth, playing through this was probably the most fun I’ve had with gyro ever. I heard the implementation is bad on PS5 but you should give it a shot anyway.

Anyways, great game, worth your money, you gotta play it. But play Dead Space too.