Resident Evil 4: Separate Ways Review
If you haven’t gotten around to playing this year’s remake of Resident Evil 4 (hereafter called REmake 4 to avoid confusion) you’ve been missing out. Fortunately, Capcom has put out some DLC to remind you of the game’s existence, and just before award season too! How thoughtful of them. The DLC covers the Resident Evil 4 bonus campaign Separate Ways, an Ada-focused narrative that tries to bridge some of the gaps in the RE4 story and theoretically sets events in motion for Resident Evil 5. Fun fact for everyone that didn’t play the original: this is actually the second Ada “side story” in Resident Evil 4, with the first being “Assignment Ada” that was included originally on the GameCube release. Everyone basically ignored it after Separate Ways was included on the PS2 and all subsequent releases of RE4 but still, it does exist! Separate Ways has the exact same gameplay…
A Devil’s Advocate Review of Elden Ring
It was recently brought to my attention by both myself and others that all of my complaints about Elden Ring are irrelevant nitpicks. Whether it’s because it’s a problem that doesn’t actually matter in the grand scheme of things or it’s something that most players won’t ever experience, I have already workshopped a lot of my problems with Elden Ring among other players and they’ve almost all been dismissive about my concerns. So, as always when I run into a brick wall while writing a review, I’m going to take a different approach with this one and play devil’s advocate where I’ll point out most (reasonable) problems with the game and the counter arguments against why they aren’t a problem. This way I can complain as much as I want while also admitting that most of my problems have no merit! Everyone wins. Problem: Repetitive bosses/dungeons and the disappointing rewards…