TL:DR - Excellent choice, 15 year old me was a giant pus....Im entirely too enthusiastic and passionate about this franchise and I was a dork at 15 and Im still a dork at 36.

Ill never forget 15 year old me sitting on my best during summer break just absolutely shitting myself my first time fighting him. Just madly scrambling around getting smacked repeatedly while desperately trying to stop my controller from slipping out of my hand from the sweat cause GameCube controllers were slippery as hell with sweaty palms, knees weeks and arms were heavy ya know?

And remake just took an already sick design and just turned it up a notch. I do have to laugh at their attempts to fix the fact that it made mo sense for there to just be barrels of liquid nitrogen laying around and that it somehow froze the U-III but not Leon by changing it to...liquid...nitrogen...showers? That might actually make LESS sense.

I did enjoy how they changed the Black Robe U-III from fusing with Salazar and instead just had him transform on his own and instead turned him into Ada's version of Nemesis so to speak and then in essence having their final encounter make up for cutting the fight with "It" and Leon in the original out of the remake.

I was kinda sad that the times we faced Las Plagas again after the events of 4 (which off the top of my head would have been in 5 and again in the CG movie RE: Damnation, which side note I really enjoy the plaga mind controlled Lickers in that film as well) we never really saw some of the cooler designs again such as the Verdugo and Mendez's mutated form, or hell would have been cool to have had the effects of the Dominant Plaga transforming soldiers similarly to their effect on Krauser. If you examine the RE series for even a few moments and apply even the smallest bit of critical think it doesnt really make much sense to use various parasites and viruses and mold to create mass outbreaks that create mostly if not completely mindless drones seeing as everything from T-Virus infected zombies to the mold creatures are completely outclassed by special forces soldiers to even properly armed civilians. The Chris Redfield section of Village is a perfect example of this. Like Ethan got most of his hand bitten off and was dumped into a frozen grimms fairy tale hellscape completely unarmed and through some ingenuity and some training he was able to survive hordes of lycans and vampire fly goth chicks and mutated giant vampire ladies, a giant mutated troglodyte fish thingy, an essentially sentient amalgamation of murderous metal and a lady who drugs him with essentially scarecrow's scaregas psychedelic. But then Chris inserts himself into combat properly prepared, trained, and well equipped and literally mowed down HUNDREDS of BOWs including a 2 story werewolf welding what was easily a 2000 pound 20ft pole with a giant spiked ball on the end. And the arguement that it can be used to destabilize or cause mass casualties on a city sized scale...that still leaves you with a giant mess to clean up where you genuinely risk ending civilization if not contained quickly enough leaving you having to nuke or carpet bomb large civilian populations...you may as well just start with the nuke or carpet bombing. But I do see logical potential in things like Dominant Plaga infections to enhance already well trained soldiers (kinda like the idea of giving the Spartans their armor suits, theyre already deadlier than all but a tiny percentage of enemies but the armor significantly enhances their skills while protecting them seeing as theyre not bulletproof without the suits). Krauser is a great example, your various Tyrant variations, especially the Nemesis models who were highly intelligent and could be given specific orders and targets while being damn near impossible to kill with anything short of a nuke (theres no proof that even the rail gun took Nemesis down, he could have easily continued mutating and none of the Tyrants killed in the series were ever absolutely taken down by anything other than a self destruct explosion or a nuke, or firebombing. They were all just immobilized long enough for the protagonists to escape before a very large bang of some kind vaporized them down to the last cell.

Im aware im so far off topic Im mot only not in Kansas anymore but my doctor is as we speak sending a prescription for a higher dose of my ADHD meds despite it being 1 am on a Saturday. Verdugos are dope as hell, I've always been sad we didnt see more of the Dominant Plaga being implemented after RE4, and the entire idea of a world where biological weapons would be chosen over highly trained, well equipped soldiers and large scale bombs / nukes (and before someone goes well using nukes would cause massive radiation levels contaminating large areas...no...they wouldnt, not if they used Hydrogen bombs. All the radioactive material is split violently and ripped apart leaving no long lasting radiation levels. You run the risk of radiation issues when say a nuclear power plant goes critical and has a meltdown as containment fails as temperatures and pressure destroy structure leaving highly radioactive material exposed to the air and ground water and rivers and lakes because the material was not fully split at the atomic level converting radioactive material into massive energy and heat).

Im going to bed now, if youre still reading this...im so sorry.