This game could've been a fan favourite, but got a couple of big flaws that instead makes it one of the most controversial in the series. I want to start with the good stuff though, because they deserve a bit of recognition: as its contemporary REmake, the ambiences are gorgeous, especially the train section in my opinion, the maps are fun to navigate and it makes you want to explore. The mechanic of the double protagonist is a cool idea, even though it appears to be a bit unbalanced I think, you want to use Billy to fight most of the time and Rebecca for healing and strategic reasons, also the game is definitely more combat-based than REmake, it's harder to avoid enemies and the amount of ammo it throws at you is definitely a hint, this is not necessarily a bad thing, just be prepared for a more action experience. I liked the focus on story progression with all the cutscenes they put in, they are well done and you just like to see them in a game like this. Speaking of story it's nothing exceptional, but it is fun, the lore gets extended, there are also ties to Resident Evil 1 of course, 0 being the prequel, even if a bit forced to be honest. Other already known characters make appearances and so on... Ok now I will be brief with the negatives, because they are simple but huge problems: the enemy placement and enemies in general are unfair, too many narrow hallways that I often needed to reset the zombies by exiting the room to regain an advantage, some of them can also stunlock you, I hate them monkeys... the bosses are not good, boring, clunky, on one of them I actually got softlocked and had to restart the game, so I did 1.5 runs of the game. The inventory system, well I just don't know why they decided not to put chests in this one, maybe because they were trying to put together a more hardcore experience than the REmake, but in the end it's not harder, it just takes longer to gather your items all around the place when you have to move to another area, sad. So yeah it's not that bad, but please DO NOT play this game on hard mode, it is already challenging in normal mode, all the flaws get amplified in hard mode in my opinion, I let my pride get the better of me, don't do my mistake (at least for the first run).

I'm currently doing a RE marathon, I've played a few RE games but tbh, this is easy the one I've grinded my teeth at the most and huffed whenever I find another puzzle because I just think "how much more do I have to do?" I think the game wouldn't be as bad if the inventory system was like the other games, and it shows because they never did the inventory system in this game in other games. As a result there is a ridiculous amount of back tracking. I'm giving it a 6- as the only REAL saving grace is learning more of the RE lore, gameplay is meh, characters meh, graphic meh, puzzles lower end of meh, only buy this game if you plan on doing an RE lore deep dive. Otherwise, don't. It's a pretty frustrating and shell shocking experience MOTT.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]