My review:
I finished Leon's scenario in 7 hrs and 18 mins. It could have been faster if I didn't save 55 times. I didn't have fun playing this. The graphics/game models are great. The controls are easy. I liked how the maps are more informative compare before. However the game has too many jump scares. I screamed like more than twenty times. This never really happened to me before in the previous RE games even when I was a kid. The lighting of this game IMO was really poor. I'm sure Capcom intentionally didn't include bulbs in all of the rooms to make this quite scary, but I was playing in easy mode and zombies still popped out of nowhere and it just left me completely off guard. The difference in hard mode is the enemies take more bullets to kill, but they aren't fewer in easy. A lot of the rooms are just dark and it was not just easy to see. In the really dark areas, sometimes two zombies cornered me and it was almost like I had no option but just accept their bite. I also couldn't appreciate the graphical upgrades of this compare to the original because of this issue. The colors don't pop in the dark, a lot of the details in the design can easily be ignored even if you point your flashlight. The game also has a haze look/washout filter. I don't know why, its the same in re3r. Im not a fan of it. In the original game, I instantly remembered what the rooms look like. Here, the rooms are dark. I'm always in a hurry because zombies just pop out of nowhere and Mr. X was such a stalker. I didn't really have that much time to just observe the rooms especially in the police station.
The enemies are easy to pass by but I always needed to be mindful of my surroundings and it really took out the fun of the game. The hardest section of the game was the police station especially when Mr. X was in a hunt mode. Weirdly, he didn't follow Leon in the sewers and the laboratory which was nice. The easiest section is the laboratory and it was quite short. I've missed a couple of rooms especially the ones that contain the weapon upgrades.
I played a little bit of the second run. As much as I want to play as Claire (which I haven't done in a long time) and interact with Sherry. I'm just not in the mood to roam around the dark halls of the police station again, and this time avoid Mr. X for a much longer time.
After Leon's chapter, even though I was stressed, I wish it was longer. The original game was short but I felt like they could have make it longer especially with the cutscenes. There's no special cutscene when you first encounter the licker and Mr. X and when Marvin turned into a zombie. Leon and Claire only interacted once in the police station and it was outside. The third/last time they saw each other was in the end. Its like you really need to play both of them just to see them in the game. I also miss the small encounter of Leon with Sherry from the orginal game.
I have to be really bored to continue Claire's part. I just don't want to stress myself with this game right now, even though its probably going to take just a few days/hours to finish her part. I think it will take a while maybe two years for me to pick up Re3/re7. And I'm gonna wait longer for re8 especially its a fp game. If I have to give Re2 remake a score, its just a 7. I can't get over how dark the rooms are. Totally ruined the game forme.
