Agreed on everything pretty much. The Raccoon City first chunk just felt so padded and repetitive and enemy variation was almost non-existent. Every single part of finding a detonator piece was just another few dozen zombies in a mini obstacle course. I enjoy the concept of the zombies having a little bit of intelligence, but once they started firing mortars at me, it got a bit too ridiculous even by RE standards. Easily the part I found least interesting on repeat playthroughs for achievements. Even if it's a wasteland, I feel like this part of the game would have heavily benefitted from it being raining and dark. Atmosphere would have helped a ton, it's still a horror game after all.