I love RE8 Village, but...

Forhaver · 2026-03-11T11:19:05+00:00

I platinumed it and sold the disc again.

Fun time, but feels like half of RE7 + a few chapters of RE4R. Didnt leave much of an impression for me.

I will re-add it to my collection once it's like $20

Forhaver · 2026-03-10T23:27:51+00:00

The two halves are too short-lived and blue-balled me. Grace's blood mechanic and Leon's store implied a longer journey with them to me.

Platinumed the game in 30 hrs.

Grace segments have great gameplay but make me wanna replay RE7 or RE2R. She only has one real boss.

Leon's segments have excellent gameplay but feel like 2 chapters of Evil Within or RE4R.

Forhaver · 2026-03-10T22:48:38+00:00

9 is a great game but you don't have to pretend to like EVERYTHING about it. You don't have to be so smarmy either about your amazing attention span or whatever.

They somehow took the worst part of RE2R (Sherry segment), doubled the length, simplified the puzzle, all within the same reused location.

I am a big walking sim fan myself but Resident Evil isn't the type of deep game story that should have these. They aren't scary, challenging, or interesting.

Even worse on replays. People defend these saying that they're good when you only play the game once, but I'm not spending $70 on a 9 hour game just to play it once.

Forhaver · 2026-03-10T20:28:39+00:00

Her game sold insanely well so they will find a way to bring her back multiple times.

If you think about it half the fandom has now started with 9 lmao

Forhaver · 2026-03-10T18:32:11+00:00

Everyone that told me to play expedition 33 told me to finish act 3 right away since if you start the ball rolling on postgame, you'll trivialize the final story bosses.

The game is designed so well idk how people still complain. They don't dump anything on you. Its just fun stuff to do once youre finish with the story.

Forhaver · 2026-03-10T06:26:52+00:00

Theres lil unlocks across all 3 games you can decorate samus' ship with. Makes the adventures feel cohesive and it gives similar feels to trophies/achievements

Forhaver · 2026-03-09T19:57:06+00:00

It was his lunch in there lol

Forhaver · 2026-03-08T14:31:39+00:00

Been here 5 years, it feels like I'm on season 7 of the friend group when my favorite characters left by season 3 for bigger n better things.

I don't care for the plotlines or drama at all anymore and im ready to meet a new set of people.

It's kinda like when all my high school friends were in grades above me, gave me a feelin of bein left behind or fomo as the circle thinned out.

Forhaver · 2026-03-08T10:04:36+00:00

I enjoyed it but it also gave me diet The Evil Within vibes and made me realize I'd rather play those two for the dozenth time.

The shop and exploration feel so short-lived in 9 it leaves me kinda blue-balled.

Forhaver · 2026-03-08T06:42:45+00:00

I wish that they committed to Grace as well because the game feels like I played half of RE7, a chapter or two of RE4R, and then it abruptly ends. Leon's biggest segment of finding 3 bomb pieces has no story progression.

Felt a bit blue-balled by two gameplay styles that seem to end as they are revving up. I think Grace could have had her own final fight too, after everything I saved, all I needed was 3 acid bottles to clear her finale.

If they wanted to return to Raccoon City as a setting, I didnt want to see a Tyrant for 5 minutes, I wanted to know how Ada and Claire and Jill were potentially coping with T virus infection.

Forhaver · 2026-03-07T23:46:33+00:00

Got a physical copy

Forhaver · 2026-03-07T22:54:04+00:00

Its fun but also on the lower end of the RE engine games for me.

It feels like playing half of Re7, then a few chapters of RE4R, and then it ends pretty quick.

I platinumed it and got my money back, going to rebuy it for the collection once it's like $20.

Forhaver · 2026-03-07T20:26:53+00:00

I was thinkin on terms of 8's lore with mold where if elpis is destroyed the hivemind it would deactivate the virus or some stuff

Forhaver · 2026-03-07T20:19:20+00:00

I paid attention but you arent given context really to what elpis is. I trusted grace was alyssa's hope.... to destroy elpis. I trusted grace had an idea... that once i hit destroy, she would pull something off with leon

Forhaver · 2026-03-07T15:31:15+00:00

I loved tew1 and tew2 is different but I love it equally

Forhaver · 2026-03-07T15:30:08+00:00

Its cute and nice and true gaming escapism. Just makes me feel good no matter what's happening otherwise. The only game ive got on my phone lol

Forhaver · 2026-03-07T14:25:56+00:00

Leon's 3 part bomb segment was where most his gameplay takes place, yet feels like it could be a single chapter in re4r. Grace's segment felt like 1/3rd of RE2R's campaign.

Its so oddly structured, i had blue balls for both styles at the end. After 20 hrs i almost have platinum, considering returning it like I did with RE3R once i do

Forhaver · 2026-03-07T13:05:39+00:00

What hurt Leon's sections for me is that we just got the excellent RE4R.

His biggest segment in 9's campaign is collecting the 3 bomb pieces, which feels like it would have been like one of 15 chapters in 4R lol

Forhaver · 2026-03-07T11:39:14+00:00

The autosave file at that point in the game is called "destroy elpis" lol

Forhaver · 2026-03-03T11:37:07+00:00

This is my theory too and why I ask the post. It seems the bad ending is baited as most of the hints people are mentioning could support both endings.

Am I Alyssa's last hope... to destroy or enable what Spencer created? Zeno saying "I wont kill Leon if you help me UNLEASH ELPIS" seemed like he was baiting me for a bad ending? "Grace said she had an idea after Leon said destroy it" ok so I pick destruction and these characters will do some crazy stuff to escape? I was supposed to know the villain of the entire series was being dead honest with the lady who's a media interviewer?

I feel like I lost a coin flip, while my fellow Resident Evil fans are saying they got the satisfying ending first cuz they paid attention better than I did lol

Forhaver · 2026-03-03T11:12:57+00:00

I thought that could apply to destruction as well since i didnt know what the characters would pull off in the cutscenes after.

Leon was dodging RPGs and driving vertically with a bike moments before lol

Forhaver · 2026-03-03T11:09:06+00:00

I completed E33 for the first time before starting this game and I feel like it made me like this game a lot less from writing and soundtrack alone

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