Inspired by this thread, I'm finally giving the game a chance (bought it on sale for Switch a bazillion years ago and never booted it since a few days ago). Playing on Switch 2.
Best intro ever? It's up there. It's like one of those OCP ads from Robocop. Simply amazing.
I suck royally at this game. I hate the enemy swarms in Claire's campaign with a passion. They suck, especially because Moira is useless. Barry's campaign is much better. It's chiller, and Natalia is actually useful as an enemy radar. She also makes a ton more sense than "detective vision" in too many other games, while still making no sense at all. If that makes sense. I'm not sure.
Every time I complete a chapter, I watch a speedrun up to the point I've reached. The game's mechanics can be abused to no end to skip almost all encounters. I feel incredibly stupid when I see someone breeze in fifteen minutes through a session that took me an hour and a half. Oh well. I'm still having fun, even if each chapter drags on way too long. The original Revelations was a handheld game and its pacing was much better suited to this kind of game, imo. Revelations 2 is just relentless. So much stuff happens without a minute's rest.
My main gripe with the game is the movement. It sucks. And also all those doors that you have to open with a drill or a crowbar, which conveniently take a ton of time to open while you get swarmed by an army of monsters. Seriously, this game is too stiff to counter all of that effectively. At least the side characters are almost immortal and you don't have to baby them. But it's stupid that the game has to magically drop ammo in the middle of those swarms because it knows that you can't possibly find enough to fight everything that comes at you.
Moira may have the most vulgar dialogue ever in a game. Seriously. It's ridiculous. But I'll admit, if I ever had to bring down an impossibly annoying bastard by unloading a whole gun's chamber on his face, I'd probably scream "Go jump on a dildo!" too.
I like this approach to Resident Evil. I also enjoyed the first Revelations, even if I beat it a lifetime ago and can't remember how it all wrapped up.
