Okay so I've watched a few lets play videos, not like entire go-throughs, just the highlights because there seems to be a consensus that the game is really slow and plodding when the main villains aren't around. Props to Capcom, this is a real rogue's gallery of Metal Gear by way of the Brothers Grimm.
But why WHY for all that is spooky and cool, did the promotions and trailers concentrate on the tall vampire lady when she's the least interesting of all the characters? She's tall, looks pretty good in white and...and that's it. Her daughters are weird sentient flies that like use photoluminescence to look like people and their wings to sound like people, which...yeah okay sure, SCIENCE. And they have personalities and backstories and like which fly is in charge of keeping their character's lore straight?
But the others are like Quasimodo, but he's one of those shark monsters from BloodBorne, with all the love and feelings of the lake monster from RE4. And then there's Father Gascoigne hard rock younger brother with Xmen powers whose like "Hey, lets have a monster truck rally and tank battle!'
But the cream of the crop, rising all the way to the top, is the magical orphan nun who communicates through a snarky murder puppet. And its like why the fuck wasn't the Bride of Chucky's hot sister the main focus of the marketing? She's a riot! And her boss fight, while weak on the fight part, is a spectacle for sure and she's easily the highlight of the game, and its like way to burry the lead on this Capcom.
Or maybe that was the point? Send the weak one out to get all the gamers horny and then they play the game and boom out of nowhere tank battles and bitchy little puppets!
Also as an aside this game should have been 3rd person with Leon as the character. This is the closest RE has come to the RE4 magic mixture of horror, camp, action and snark. Completely wasted on Ethan "Hand Trauma" Winters and whatever Chris is boringly plodding on about.