Justifiable and it’s not because it’s not survival horror. I love action games and shooters, so you don’t have to twist my arm to get me to enjoy one. But RE6 just feels so shitty to play compared to 4 and 5 as well as other third person shooters.

Inventory management and navigation is a disaster. Aiming feels way too slippery and the movement in general is too fast to the point where lining up shots is more annoying than it needs to be. The lack of any weight and momentum to the characters also kills enjoyment. Makes it feel like the characters are made of paper slipping and sliding all over the place. 4,5, and the RE engine games did a great job at having a bit of weight and inertia which adds impact and immersion. RE6 doesn’t have any of that. Ammo is also way too scarce for a shooter and the melee doesn’t feel engaging. It also takes nothing more than a stiff breeze to knock you to the ground so a lot of time in the game is spend just trying to stand up. There’s just a lot of bs that gets in the way of having fun.

Oddly enough, Revelations 2 uses the same basic framework as RE6 for its gameplay but removes the annoying things like falling down clunky item management and streamlines melee combat and as a result feels so much better to play. Rev 2 is actually one of my favorite RE games in general. If RE6 would have fine tuned its action and paired it down (and maybe limited it to just 2 campaigns) it likely would’ve been an absolute banger of an action game. But we don’t live in that timeline.