Griffith
With the streak of a tear, Like morning dew
bandofthehawk (Salem) said:All I remember is beating leons campaign and another. Either way the game felt a complete mess and milking the last fragments of an engine that needed redirection. I know 3 others personally who felt the same. Had this campy arcade feel.
That's all fair, but I don't think it's so different from 5 or Revelations other than it's the 4th time and 4x it at that. I thought they must have really fucked up the formula for the scorn it gets, but it's more they didn't fuck with it enough. What's funny is it feels so dated, but the controls are actually quite refined compared to 4 and 5 (except the horrible endless quick time events). I think they should go in more of an Uncharted/Tomb Raider 2013 direction with the engine that could bring the series back to its more withdrawn 3rd person roots without sacrificing any innovation in action or intensity (they're behind the curve on that now anyway). I think the game also would have benefitted from sole focus on Leon's campaign, since it got the most TLC anyway. That one still had some impressive stuff in it that makes you excited it's just the "first quarter" of the game [the final boss(es) are insane], but its really front loaded and down hill from there; the rest of the campaigns don't live up to that quality, quantity or potential for more. Though Jake was surprisingly not as unlikable as I thought he'd be.