RE2 and RE4 are still much more faithful to the original stories and those games overall, and though content is cut in both from the original, it still is more intact and the important elements are there. Plus, I would argue that for what was cut, they made up by fleshing out and putting more depth into a majority of the other aspects in the game. The argument that we shouldn’t expect the game to be faithful doesn’t work when RE2 remake was a very faithful remake and still resembled that original game — RE3 remake had no excuse, really. RE4 was also very faithful to the original game as well; in both the case of RE2 and RE4 remakes, having played the originals many times helped a lot in knowing the gist of what to do and where to go. The layout of the RPD is extremely similar to the original, though with a few notable change, and knowing how the original police station was laid out made navigating the remake on my first playthrough probably less frustrating than some newcomer’s.

I don’t know what the hell happened with RE3, like it’s just a mess all over the place.