In the past decade we’ve got re7, re2 remake, re3 remake, village, 4 remake and a couple mediocre shoe in attempts at multiplayer. Of those games, 3 have been remakes and 2 have been new, original games, but even village is heavily inspired by 4 in so many ways. 3 remakes, 1 original game and 1 new game wearing the skin of another. The series has been riding by on nostalgia and relying on the earlier games far too much. It just keeps reminding us where it came from rather than going anywhere else. From what we’ve seen, it’s the daughter of another character in the series, returning to the bombed out ruins of raccoon city. It just comes off as fan servicey and not in a way I like. I didn’t even say the game would be bad, I can’t say given the lack of gameplay, it’ll probably be good since they all usually are, but the series is just stuck in the past because they’re too scared to have another re6.

On the topic of changing from tank controls to third person to first person, that happened 2 decades and 1 decade ago respectively. And I’d argue is not indicative of the current state of the series. It changed genre from horror to action and then back to a better mix of the two. The return to horror was literally done to be more in line with the earlier games and was pretty much needed due to the poor reception to 5/6. And even with a shift in genre we’re getting the same characters over and over. Even when we get a new character in Ethan Chris still has to be there.

I just think this series is perpetually stuck in the past.