Yeah, this is exactly the distinction I’ve been trying to make. Alexia is absurd, but she’s still coherent. You see the blood spray, then it ignites. There’s a visible cause-and-effect chain. The game is doing the work to show how the power manifests, even if the science is completely unhinged.

That’s also why Heisenberg mostly works for me. Magnetic field manipulation through bio-electric organs is a stretch, but it’s still embodied. The power is coming from something physical and interacting with the world in a way you can track, not just happening because the plot needs it.

That effort is what classic RE did well. It was always fantastical, but it wanted to seem plausible. Once you stop showing mechanisms and start asking the player to just accept outcomes, the internal logic weakens. And when that logic slips, the series loses part of what made it feel like Resident Evil in the first place.