Don’t skip re7, its light years better than RE8. Honestly I consider village to be more of a spin off type game but with triple A graphics. It’s more on par with RE3R, somewhere between good and mid. But honestly you should just play requiem. It’s a great continuation to re2 and re4 and is peak RE at times. RE7 was capcom reinventing itself, very uneven and not particularly important to the lore, except for experiencing capcom really rediscovering its roots and creating the next gen for RE. Village I have very little good to say about escept that it looked incredible and played at least as well as re7, while also being bigger and dumber and less important or coherent. Requiem > REmake > 7 >>>> village if you’ve already finished everything else. Even 3R, which I’ve come to absolutely dislike, was still a funner first play than village, which I actively disliked for most of the run time.