I had zero interest in Resident Evil until about three-ish years ago when my friend sent me a clip of Ethan's "What the fuck...well that's special," line, which immediately had me reassess my opinion on RE as a whole. Cut to me watching a "shit Ethan Winters says" compilation. I didn't get around to actually getting into RE properly for another year or so until I played RE2Make, and only after DBD got me a little more used to the horror genre.
Cut to some time last year (I think? Maybe a year and a half ago?) and I figure it's finally time to get to know the guy who I've called my favorite character since getting into Resident Evil so I stop looking like a poser or whatever. I got past the introductory section in the main house and was so scared I just...put it down and sort of forgot about it. And opted to play other games before it. UNTIL NOW!!!
The worst part is that I missed Ethan's "What the fuck...well that's special," line because I was too busy asking if the game was gaslighting me because I jumped down onto the floor to look for the lantern and was wildly panning around and happened to be re-climbing the ladder at the time the voice line was triggered. :(
The tl;dr of my review is that I quite like the story, I can officially say Ethan is my favorite character in the franchise without looking like idk what I'm talking about, I like Mia and Ethan's relationship and the implied drama that circumvents it both before and after the game (even before RE8 came out). Jack is easily the most memorable part of the game though and it's a shame they went through him so fast. Also it's weird they only stuck to 3 enemy types for the whole thing. The pacing sort of fell off in the latter half of the game too, although I didn't hate the ship level the way other reviews seem to say they do. 4 stars for Ethan
Cut to some time last year (I think? Maybe a year and a half ago?) and I figure it's finally time to get to know the guy who I've called my favorite character since getting into Resident Evil so I stop looking like a poser or whatever. I got past the introductory section in the main house and was so scared I just...put it down and sort of forgot about it. And opted to play other games before it. UNTIL NOW!!!
The worst part is that I missed Ethan's "What the fuck...well that's special," line because I was too busy asking if the game was gaslighting me because I jumped down onto the floor to look for the lantern and was wildly panning around and happened to be re-climbing the ladder at the time the voice line was triggered. :(
The tl;dr of my review is that I quite like the story, I can officially say Ethan is my favorite character in the franchise without looking like idk what I'm talking about, I like Mia and Ethan's relationship and the implied drama that circumvents it both before and after the game (even before RE8 came out). Jack is easily the most memorable part of the game though and it's a shame they went through him so fast. Also it's weird they only stuck to 3 enemy types for the whole thing. The pacing sort of fell off in the latter half of the game too, although I didn't hate the ship level the way other reviews seem to say they do. 4 stars for Ethan