This game is a candidate for a remake if I ever seen one. The long and short of it is that it’s a decent action game (for its time) but it’s a bad resident evil game. Where resident evil 4 perfectly blended action and horror in a way that was fun. 5 went pretty much all in on action. Nothing is scary outside of a couple of mini bosses and that’s mostly due the clunky gameplay than actual terror.

I’ve played this game once before with my brother. We did the co-op campaign and this is still a really good candidate for co-op if you can get past the clunky gameplay. It’s peer to peer so co-op still works after all these years. There is also split screen on PC so kudos to capcom for giving such a rare feature that more co-op games need..

For this second play through, I relied on my a.i partner. I wasn’t about to be frustrated with so many deaths so I’ll be honest and say that I played this with a trainer allowing me to never die and have infinite ammo. I was mostly playing this to refresh my memory of the story so I was fun with how much this would break the immersion. However Sheva isn’t that bad once you give her the right weapon so give her something slow firing and powerful like the bolt action and the pump action. She’s a crack shot so just tell her to fight aggressively and she’ll make quick work of so many enemies.

The story and the gameplay is why I think this game needs a remake. The story does advance the overall resident evil plot but it’s pretty nonsensical otherwise and way over the top campy (cue Chris punching a boulder). The boss fights are buggy and one will require you to play at 30 fps to beat it because it turns invincible otherwise.. Since I was cheating anyway, I didn’t really care too much about the bosses but a couple would have caused me to quit because the game was obviously designed for co-op play. The stop and shoot thing is dumb and shouldn’t have been done in this version because the ps3/360 era had plenty of run-and-gun games that worked fine. It should have stayed in the ps2 era. It’s just clunky and not scary. It only works for prior games because I could easily understood that to be the limitation of the time

Inventory management is bad. Whoever thought to have such small inventory shared between both Chris and Sheva should have been fired on the spot. I was cheating and it still felt like a chore to just dump the ammo I got to make space for actual useful items.

The puzzles need some major rework. They’re all laughably easy and pretty much insult your intelligence. I could have forgave it if it was quick to solve but no, you need to traverse the level a lot of the time to solve them and tbh that’s bad design for something so simple

Despite all my complaint, It’s still worth playing through with a friend because it’s fun and dumb. It’s surprisingly good for a co-op game. Otherwise I’d recommend cheating for solo play if you don’t care about being judged for not playing “properly”. It’s not a long game so give it a shot if you see it on sale. I hope capcom see fit to remake this game and revamp large section of this game to have a better story and gameplay. Don’t even need to worry about preserving the “spirit” of the game because as I said before: it’s a bad resident evil game with some potential for it to be really good.

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