It's all right, probably about as good as you can get as a remake.
I ended up preferring the original, it's more attractive to me. The remake has this really dark and hazy look to it with most of the game having a very elevated black level that makes the game appear desaturated. The new soundtrack is also just a bunch of white noise, the original soundtrack gave the game a certain character that this remake misses for me. I also didn't really gel with how the script and characters have changed, a lot of them come across as crass or annoying, leon and claire basically don't interact in the remake which is really odd to me. The sherry stealth part in claire's story stood out as a particularly low point for me, it's a very typical modern AAA game type deal where interactivity is essentially ignored in favour of the player having to sit out a setpiece.
Highlight for me in the remake was in the sewers, that's the area that got redone most extensively and didn't give me the feeling I'm playing an inferior looking version of a game I like. All enemy redesigns were great as well, particularly the lickers and the plants.

Reviewed on May 31, 2023


Comments