This review contains spoilers
while i love this game a lot, i can't help but find the story so damn frustrating to watch.
imagine giving us one of the best characters in the whole franchise: a hot dilf-coded villain with a dark past and problematic personality but still having redeeming qualities, and then just... completely wasting all his potential. heisenberg truly could have much more importance in the story, and i don't see any reason for adding the detail of his hatred for miranda if that wouldn't make any difference in the end because ethan doesn't even consider his offer for a partnership and we're forced to kill him anyway. the amount of concept art of discarded content of his is just disheartening... at least my fellow ficwriters do him justice.
all of the lords (except moreau, no one cares for him) could have more depth and development. but i suppose it's not really surprising, as resident evil always has been shitty when it comes to writing villains and never really offered them any chance of redemption, which i personally think sucks. i agree that not every villain should be given redemption, but karl was one that should (donna too, but i won't focus on her). the man just wanted to be free. he was a genius - a single man that built an whole army for his revenge, for his raw hatred of the woman who stripped him of his dignity, hurt his pride and took his autonomy away by force, and at the end he just lost everything he worked so hard for and died pathetically, and alone. i know the focus of the games are the gameplay and not the story, but it's still annoying to see an interesting character being wasted like that.
gameplay wise, i think the game is cool. it's much less survival horror than 7 - item managing is barely needed unless playing on hardcore, but just by watching the trailers anyone could have realized that this game would be less horror than the previous, so it's not a surprise or anything, and i have no complaints about that. it's obvious that they wanted to focus a little bit more on the story this time, i just wish they did a better job on that sense. still, even if not life-changing, re8 is a great, solid game with replay value, and i find it worth playing.
imagine giving us one of the best characters in the whole franchise: a hot dilf-coded villain with a dark past and problematic personality but still having redeeming qualities, and then just... completely wasting all his potential. heisenberg truly could have much more importance in the story, and i don't see any reason for adding the detail of his hatred for miranda if that wouldn't make any difference in the end because ethan doesn't even consider his offer for a partnership and we're forced to kill him anyway. the amount of concept art of discarded content of his is just disheartening... at least my fellow ficwriters do him justice.
all of the lords (except moreau, no one cares for him) could have more depth and development. but i suppose it's not really surprising, as resident evil always has been shitty when it comes to writing villains and never really offered them any chance of redemption, which i personally think sucks. i agree that not every villain should be given redemption, but karl was one that should (donna too, but i won't focus on her). the man just wanted to be free. he was a genius - a single man that built an whole army for his revenge, for his raw hatred of the woman who stripped him of his dignity, hurt his pride and took his autonomy away by force, and at the end he just lost everything he worked so hard for and died pathetically, and alone. i know the focus of the games are the gameplay and not the story, but it's still annoying to see an interesting character being wasted like that.
gameplay wise, i think the game is cool. it's much less survival horror than 7 - item managing is barely needed unless playing on hardcore, but just by watching the trailers anyone could have realized that this game would be less horror than the previous, so it's not a surprise or anything, and i have no complaints about that. it's obvious that they wanted to focus a little bit more on the story this time, i just wish they did a better job on that sense. still, even if not life-changing, re8 is a great, solid game with replay value, and i find it worth playing.