I made several posts about RE7 during my playthrough int he regular PS4 thread, which I've pasted below.
I loved the old school RE games (1,2,3,CV,0,4) and hated to see the series drift into action land. Was good to see it get back to being a survival horror game. Was iffy on the first person aspect at first but it works well for the game (I played it regular, non-VR). Kind of lame that all the minigames are gated behind DLC (for now) when old RE games always came with a mini-game by default, although there is apparently a free DLC coming that should rectify that problem. Regardless, I despise the very concept of DLC, yet I digress.
I'm eventually going to attempt at Madhouse run here in the near future.
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Got RE7, about 6-7 hours into it, which is probably about half way roughly. It's excellent so far.
Feels like a mix of an old school RE game meets the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie, with bits of the Last of Us and Alien Isolation sprinkled in.
I'm playing the normal version, not VR. Despite the first person view still feels like more of an adventure/survival horror game. The atmosphere and setting are highly detailed and do a great job. Typical jump scares you would expect in a horror game, 3 of which have gotten me pretty good. They do a good job of keeping the tension, lots of creeks and weird noises in the house, 95% of the time are absolutely nothing, but are something just enough to keep you unnerved when you hear them.
Game is also decently difficult, for this day and age anyway. I've died a lot, but it has a pretty liberal checkpoint system so you never lose much progress. You also get unlimited saves. You are required to manage your inventory and ration your ammo and healing items as in the older games. However once you beat normal mode you can unlock hard mode and hard mode has no checkpoints and limited saves (saves are consumable items, ala old school RE games) and I'm looking forward to that for sure.
The game also rewards being observant and thorough. Many of consumables and collectibles are easy to find but some are tucked away in nooks and crannies and given that you need them it feels worth it to sorta poke around a room.
The common criticisms from reviewers were the boss fights and lack of variety in monsters and enemies in the game. So far that seems like a valid bone to pick, the boss fights thus far are slanted towards quick time events/puzzles more so than actual combat. And thus far the only real enemies I've dealt with are the crazy humans and the sludge monsters (this game's version of zombies), not counting some insects.
But those are very minor things in the grand scheme of things so far to me. If you like survival horror type games, you'll def like this game.
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Never got around to doing a more complete review of RE7, but basically it's a very good game but it unfortunately loses steam as it goes. The best parts of the game are frontloaded.
Grading the game by "acts"
Intro: A
Act 1: A+
Act 2: A+
Act 3: B+
Act 4: B-
Act 5: B
Finale: C-
You can see the trend, the game never gets bad or anything, but the trend is steadily downwards so it leaves you longing for the beginning sections were are excellent.
As to what those "acts" I referenced above are