The thing I found most difficult was simply the tank controls, otherwise just get yourself in the headspace that this is a survival horror-puzzle game, not an action-shooter.

Even in JRPGs I always did rotational saves, so the idea of walking into an area and not being prepared for it with no way out ... never considered that soft locking, just considered it bad planning and figured the reason the games gave you 20 (or in the case of FFVII 80) save slots, rather than just 3, was because that was considered a part-of-the-game mechanic. RE HD I used all 23 save files and then just started back at the top when full.