☆⋆˚࿔ seven minutes is all i can spare.

ok so: i played theirs first and honestly my first thought was that this game is actually pure bullshit thrown together because what the fuck (i did enjoy it though i think, with many concerns)

all that being said i do like jake as a character, i think they definitely should have done more with him in later games but whatever- i actually do love his stuff with sherry too, they are together in re9 in my mind (i love how the second leon started getting loud with her he automatically jumped in front of her, i love them sm) and sherry is sooo pretty and i love her lines and her character this game, i’m glad they brought her back for this one (and re9 in the future)

definitely feel like jake was even underutilized in this game too so far, his connection with wesker hasn’t really been done much justice i feel (saying as a wesker enthusiast) and i do wish they’d had some more parallels or something just to further push it tbh. like with zeno in re9 every little thing he did and said just so strongly as “oh my god he’s just like him” and i feel like jake should have had that (i’m aware the idea was that jake ISN’T his father but it still would have been cool to have some small things or dialogue that sounded roughly similar, play into it a bit more)

as for the gameplay i absolutely hated the sequence in the mansion (?) when you had to gather the tokens, the corridors all looked the same and it didn’t have much character and mystery unlike spencer mansion or the care center in re9, not a huge fan of that (i felt the locations in re5 had more character as well). kinda felt like a roblox game lol. and i truly hate the enemies in this game too lmao, the ones that emerge from the cocoons run far too fast and my aim is not nearly that good 🫩

i also am not a fan of how everyone in this game has guns, i much prefer when they have their various melee weapons or just nothing like in other games, it’s exhausting to be constantly shot at and after a while of getting shot and taking hardly any damage for it it just gets ridiculous and low stakes

can’t say i liked the snowy sequence either actually. i’m not sure that i genuinely have enjoyed any part of their campaign other than that one part with the bsaa introduction and the last couple of sequences with Ustanak (i do like piers and jake’s arguing + how Ustanak was kind of like a stalker enemy) but even that wasn’t too great- i enjoyed the cutscenes more than the majority of the actual game i would say lol. all of it feels kind of choppy and not well thought out unlike other games which just felt more genuine and planned, i do understand why people hate this one so much, jake and sherry deserved a duo in a much better game i feel

as for it kinda feeling half baked what solidified this was there was a room in the beginning of the game that was full of mannequins and was genuinely scary for 2 seconds and then just like that it was over and there weren’t any scares 😭 like i’m still trying to figure out what the point of that possibly could have been

my favorite part overall was probably the cutscene at the end of the game where they held hands after killing Ustanak, that one just felt the most real out of the entire thing (also wesker and birkin’s kids having a bond just like they did is so cute but also so evil, they really should have done more with that) and gameplay wise i liked the part with the elevator where you had to climb up and pull the levers