I’ve recently played Resident Evil 6 for the 1st time after playing Resident Evil 4 (an absolute masterpiece) & Resident 5 (a pretty good game). I was already aware of the hate this game got over the years. But after experiencing it, it’s only bad in an artificial way. Like yeah, it’s nothing like the classic games and it’s too much in the action category.
Otherwise, as someone who loves action games, it’s a pretty fun game. Especially in Mercenaries Mode, where it’s fun to mow down body-horror themed enemies. As a Resident Evil game, it’s pretty bad. But…as an action third person shooter with splatter punks, it’s quite well executed
The games have some fantastic murder twists. After V2’s ass-pulls around its ending, and after 3’s first case, I felt like I was done. It was so weird that I could enjoy the individual murder mysteries, but once they got wrapped up in the overall crazy story they were trying to tell, I lost interest.
yeah, I felt very similarly. the games are a lot better at character drama than broader worldbuilding, so anytime the cases became more about the outside world it wasn’t quite as good.