Like any long-running series, Resident Evil has had impressive highs and a few embarrassing lows.
. Every game has its defenders—except maybe Operation Raccoon City—and I mostly enjoyed Resident Evil 5, but it was obvious that it paled in comparison to 4. And this decline in quality led, inevitably, to the indulgent mess that was 6. Years of bewilderingly complex mythology and an increased focus on action over survival horror left the series bloated and confused, and a new approach was desperately needed.
For me, the mythology has always been the least interesting thing about Resident Evil. I was invested in it once, long ago, but over the years it became so swollen and complex that I tuned out. Which is something Resident Evil 7 swiftly corrects by making it simple again. You aren't a super-agent trying to save the world from the threat of bio-terrorism: you’re a man looking for his wife in a swamp.
It’s the puzzle-solving, atmospheric exploration, item management, and occasional burst of action that I love about Resident Evil—and those are all things the new game does incredibly well. The pace is almost always slow and steady, with plenty of quiet, tense exploration between enemy encounters. Spacing out the action like this not only heightens the tension, but gives you time to familiarise yourself with the environment too.
My heart still belongs to the pre-rendered backgrounds and fixed cameras of the early Resident Evil games, but the shift to first-person in 7 works a lot better than I thought it would. Ethan's intentionally slow movement means you can't strafe around like you're in Quake, and there’s a satisfying weight and creepy intimacy to the combat.
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