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Overrated #2 - Resident Evil Remake

Here we go. The first big controversial opinion. This game sucks.

I think, from a game design perspective, this is definitely one of the worst games I've ever played. You either play with updated controls that get entirely screwed up from the camera angles, or you play with tank controls that aren't really fun to use. The game asks that you search a mansion for all these key items, some of which are basically tiny little bits in random hallways. And then it seems to punish you for searching the mansion by having the enemies occasionally jump scare you. Your inventory is also really small so most non-veteran players will find themselves having to frequently make trips to safe rooms to put items in storage.

These are probably just old survival horror gameplay tropes. You're supposed to be scared walking through the mansion! You're supposed to find ways to manage your inventory!

Yeah, but I don't really think that makes for a fun game. The horror feels kinda cheap, the story is kinda silly, and I'd rather not have to choose between taking things to storage or leaving a bunch of stuff behind.

I much preferred the action style of Resident Evil 4, and while I haven't played 5 or 6 yet, I'm getting the feeling I'll probably enjoy those games more than I enjoyed this one.

Underrated #2 - Killzone: Mercenary

I've already talked about it a bit, but let's discuss this game a little more.

One thing I never liked about the main trilogy of Killzone games was that the stories tried to be these epic tales of gritty futuristic war, and I don't think any of them really pulled it off. Killzone 2 came closest, while Killzone 1 was overall just not a very fun game and Killzone 3 started off fine and eventually the story fell flat really hard.

Mercenary takes a different approach to how it wanted to tell its story. It still has a bit of that gritty futuristic war, but in the end your character is just a mercenary. He fights where the money is. You get paid for everything - every kill and every headshot is rewarded with money. And you do end up fighting for all of the sides in the war that Killzone puts in front of you.

It's a little easier to digest and a little less heavy (I mean that both in terms of its story and its gameplay). Which is great. This game feels fun where the others didn't. It still has fantastic visuals like Killzone 2 and 3 do, because this game looks like it could be a PS3 game on when it runs on a damn handheld console. The gameplay is smooth, the multiplayer is smooth, the story is serviceable and less detracting than the other games' stories are, and it is probably overall the best Killzone game. Only Shadow Fall on PS4 rivals it.

Of course, this game is underappreciated because it's a VITA title and it's a shooter. Not only do all VITA titles get very little recognition (because it's the fucking VITA), but this genre isn't what a lot of VITA owners really bought the console for.
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