Resident Evil Village

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  1. J-Bomb
    May 11, 2021
    2
    Really didn't like this one. Drags on a bit, and the storyline is really silly and doesn't fit well within the Resident Evil series. But even as a standalone game, I won't be giving it another play-through. The graphics are great, but the environments are repetitive and boring, all with virtually the same dreary colours, making what could have been a great village map into an eye-sore. TheReally didn't like this one. Drags on a bit, and the storyline is really silly and doesn't fit well within the Resident Evil series. But even as a standalone game, I won't be giving it another play-through. The graphics are great, but the environments are repetitive and boring, all with virtually the same dreary colours, making what could have been a great village map into an eye-sore. The dialogue is sub-par too, and the character of Chris Redfield has been brought down by this instalment. I hope they don't pursue this storyline any further or take this as the ideal route for future Resident Evil games.… Expand
  2. loveforfire
    May 17, 2021
    4
    Just another cookie cutter RE game from Crapcom. RE is a meme fueled by internet shills and is too expensive.
  3. KingWeaponS
    Jun 6, 2021
    4
    This game is good, but could be better.
    I am a Resident Evil fan since the Code Veronica X, the only thing i can see is capcom making a lot of mistakes.
    There's a bug at NVIDIA Gpu's where the cutscenes are laggy and sounds are broken. 1 month with this bug and they don't get their asses to fix it. Before you ask, yes, I attend the minium requirements for this game. Basically the only    This game is good, but could be better.
    I am a Resident Evil fan since the Code Veronica X, the only thing i can see is capcom making a lot of mistakes.
    There's a bug at NVIDIA Gpu's where the cutscenes are laggy and sounds are broken. 1 month with this bug and they don't get their asses to fix it. Before you ask, yes, I attend the minium requirements for this game. Basically the only people that can run this game is lucky people who don't have this bug or AMD users.
    PS: When enemies are close, fps drops instantly, making the game unplayable.
    It's just funny how this game is so short, with only 8 hours of gameplay, for $60 Dollars.
    This is basically a Resident Evil 3.5 Remake, a shame.
    This game is made only for those rich youtubers that make the game sound ''scary'' (this game is not a little bit scary) and those who didn't play it thinks the game is just incredible.
    This is AAA games these days, just ashamed that gaming industry got to that low level.    … Expand
  4. arislaf
    Jan 9, 2022
    0
    I understand that the new average gamer is dumb as a brick and afraid his own shadow, but to destroy a franchise with a man who glues his hand back, fighting magneto, and shootingwolves in dayligh, is not fun or scary. I hope resident evil dies with 8
  5. kingofkoopas
    Sep 21, 2021
    1
    For the most part 'Resident Evil Village' never rises above mediocrity. Banal is the word I would use to describe the whole game. Hardly any thought went into this. Most of the game's money was thrown into graphics and it shows. The game looks stunning, Resident Evil has never looked better. That's the best thing I can say about this game. Yes there are some great moments sprinkledFor the most part 'Resident Evil Village' never rises above mediocrity. Banal is the word I would use to describe the whole game. Hardly any thought went into this. Most of the game's money was thrown into graphics and it shows. The game looks stunning, Resident Evil has never looked better. That's the best thing I can say about this game. Yes there are some great moments sprinkled sparsely throughout Ethan's journey. Add all of those moments up and you might make an hour's worth of genuine fun.

    The thing that makes this game sink into the abyss is the developers contempt for their audience and their greed for money. The game is mind-numbingly dull. There are only a few moments where the game requires you to think on your feet. The first one being the tedious intro where you have to survive the onslaught of lycans in hopes of triggering the cut-scene that puts and end to it. The last boss is well done, it does provide a good challenge. The boss fight with the giant lycan that swings the hammer is also a bit fun. An honorable mention is the toad boss, for me it was a little difficult mostly because he is a bullet sponge. That's about where the fun starts and ends, with those boss fights. There is a boss fight in the game(if you can call it that) that requires you to walk around a small house and QTE the boss using only one button! They didn't even bother making it a QTE where you have to do a series of inputs, nope, just press one button and done.

    And that so called "boss" is the best part of that section of the game. You reach a house and upon going in you lose your weapons. It's time to play walking simulator for an hour plus. Really CAPCOM? Am I supposed to be scared or engaged knowing that until you give me back my weapons nothing in the game is going to kill me? How can that possibly create immersion? Oh right, because gamers think immersion equals gorgeous graphics. People are so gullible nowadays, look at the positive reviews. Pay attention when they talk about the haunted house part. These people can no longer think properly or think for themselves. After bumbling around for an hour examining things with absolutely no enemies, let alone being able to die you are chased by a giant baby caterpillar! At a snail's pace the caterpillar follows you around for a few lapses. It's not scary, it's not difficult, it's just boring.

    The game is one massive scripted event with hardly any freedom. Once in a while the game lets you off its chains and gives you some time to explore at your leisure. Not that there is a whole lot to explore but there is some. And when you can, it feels nice those are the few times where the game creates immersion. It's as Shigeru Miyamoto once said. "When I create games I make the player sit in the director's chair. It's his game and he decides how he wants to do things." Resident Evil Village suffers from the Western "bro" mentality that has been plaguing gaming for over a decade. Where immersive games are pseudo interactive movies that mostly play themselves. Village is just that, an interactive movie with the most mundane gameplay offered by AAA gaming. A mash up of everything that is popular to appeal to every brain dead consumer. Even R.L Stine's Goosebumps series offers more horror and entertainment than this attempt at Resident Evil.    … Expand
  6. thomas_9797
    May 26, 2021
    0
    if streamers play it is because it is good? N0, if someone thinks this game is scary is because he/she has never played a horror game before. it is a shame that a AAA company releases a game so bad and so short for 60 dollars... but I am more ashamed of the gaming community that thinks this is a good game, how low has fallen the gaming industry.
  7. MeinWein
    May 11, 2021
    0
    Not scary. Not realistic. Just overrated. Unrealistic weapon mechanics. It doesn't feel like a new game, it feels like a dlc for re7.
  8. theofficerdrama
    May 11, 2021
    0
    After playing it for 2 hours, I immediately realized that this is an ordinary average shooter with screamers. The graphics seem to have become worse, some models have very few polygons(for example, the head of a deer from the beginning). An idiotic map that's easy to get lost in. This game is not even worthy of being compared to Resident Evil 2 Remake
  9. Evzhenka
    May 14, 2021
    1
    It's anything but not Resident Evil.
    For me, this is a disappointment that started with Resident Evil 7
  10. igor_velikiy
    May 16, 2021
    4
    И легким движением руки Capcom убивает жанр survival horror, опять. Если бы не замок Димитреску, который еще с натяжкой survival horror, то оценка была бы 0. Все эти свистелки перделки в виде спецэффектов, стрельбы тоннами патронов и одноклеточного хоррора оставьте другим сериям, без вас этого шлака хватает. Верните вновь тот самый резидент, черт возьми, как сделали в 7 и ремейке 2, толькоИ легким движением руки Capcom убивает жанр survival horror, опять. Если бы не замок Димитреску, который еще с натяжкой survival horror, то оценка была бы 0. Все эти свистелки перделки в виде спецэффектов, стрельбы тоннами патронов и одноклеточного хоррора оставьте другим сериям, без вас этого шлака хватает. Верните вновь тот самый резидент, черт возьми, как сделали в 7 и ремейке 2, только вы так умеете.… Expand
  11. carnivorCactae
    Nov 14, 2022
    1
    Game is slow, boring and short.
    Perfectly made for streamers and people who enjoy screamer-"horror".
    Controls are weird and floaty and obviously made for controller-play. The first few hours will make you hate the shooting very much, since the gunplay is totally off and weird. It gets a little better when you get the shotgun, but not much. Maps are boring and unintuitive, sprinkled    Game is slow, boring and short.
    Perfectly made for streamers and people who enjoy screamer-"horror".

    Controls are weird and floaty and obviously made for controller-play. The first few hours will make you hate the shooting very much, since the gunplay is totally off and weird.
    It gets a little better when you get the shotgun, but not much.

    Maps are boring and unintuitive, sprinkled with some short "shock-moments" and a character that won't shut up to tell the player how to feel.

    Everything feels cramped in, everything pulls you through a linear path with really small deviations till you come to the next set-piece / cinematic. (one point for the option to skip all of the boring cutscenes!).

    Add Denuvo to the mix that still costs you many fps (Capcom "fixed" it a littlebit, but game still doesn't run smoothly) .    … Expand
  12. somedude14
    Jul 14, 2021
    0
    DRM tanks performance, a middle finger to consumers so flipping two birds back at Capcom wherever I can. DO NOT BUY AT FULL PRICE!
  13. AllNewSuperfake
    Jul 28, 2021
    4
    Resident Evil ist a weird series for me. I've played every main entry, but I've never finished one of them. Most of the time I only played them for a few hours, and than they rotted away on my harddrive just to be deinstalled. It is weird because I never thought of them as bad. Or boring. I found each one scary. I was always satisfied with the presentation. I loved the enemy design. TheResident Evil ist a weird series for me. I've played every main entry, but I've never finished one of them. Most of the time I only played them for a few hours, and than they rotted away on my harddrive just to be deinstalled. It is weird because I never thought of them as bad. Or boring. I found each one scary. I was always satisfied with the presentation. I loved the enemy design. The scenarios were interesting. The underlying mystery was enduring.

    And yet, to my shame, it's RE 6 that I played the longest, for a simple reason: It was the best port, even though everything else about it was decent at best. And here is another game with all the aforementioned qualities, missing one thing: A decent port. An optimized experience. A mouse that works flawlessly and keyboard controls that make you feel in control. "Village" is a chore to play, with hickups, stuttering, lagging audio, slowdowns and a framerate that goes from 60 to slide show in an instant for no discernible reason.

    Resident Evil 8 also commits the general sin of bad direction, taking control away from you whenever something interesting happens and suddenly giving it back to you, with questionable results for the flow and atmosphere. I watch myself doing incredible badass stuff in cutscenes and go back to lying helplessly on my back seconds later. I have to watch long minutes of story to find myself teleported to some other place that has nothing to do with what I just experienced.

    And of course there is the main weakness of this series, the premise. The premise has always been so f*ing ridiculous that it begs for explanations that come way too slow and most of the time are huge letdowns. Here I feel once again like missed half the movie when I entered the theatre, and having played the other games and knowing the characters actually makes it *more* confusing. Yet for long hours there isn't even a hint what's going on, and I neither know where I am nor how I got there, what I'm looking for and why. Maybe the game will explain later why the player character seems so completely clueless and emotionally disconnected, but he certainly doesn't help.

    More than in other entries I grew bored of the actual gameplay loop where 2 hours in felt like I've fought the same enemies and searched the same furniture for much longer, and the combat is a tiresome affair with lot of automatisms and quick time events that, once again, take away control and immersion and feel like work.

    While the design and atmosphere are great, and the story as confusing as intruiging, the bad port, design flaws and the weird refusal of the game to let me play it because it wants it's oh so cinematic moments made me stop playing this even faster than the other entries. A fan of the series might be delighted, but should play it on the consoles it was made for, and with a controler.    … Expand
  14. Dangerdulli
    Jul 31, 2022
    2
    At this Point I can't decide on whats worse, the Movies or the games. Crapcom just doesn't know what they're doing anmore. the Franchises downfall began with 4 but now we got to the bottom. this is just a **** of trashy tropes
  15. sweed1876
    May 12, 2021
    0
    just change the name to monster killer or something and the game is good,
    resident evil franschise lost its meaning.
  16. Nernst
    Mar 6, 2023
    4
    What a boring mess. Have gamers been in cryo-sleep the past 10 years? Why does this game get so much praise?
    A riddle much more difficult to answer than every riddle combined, that was presented in Resident Evil Village. Though, that was far from the worst aspect in this game. Puzzles never had a great difficulty in the Resident Evil franchise. They were, and are here, too, mere    What a boring mess. Have gamers been in cryo-sleep the past 10 years? Why does this game get so much praise?
    A riddle much more difficult to answer than every riddle combined, that was presented in Resident Evil Village. Though, that was far from the worst aspect in this game. Puzzles never had a great difficulty in the Resident Evil franchise. They were, and are here, too, mere minigames.

    This game is absolute mediocrity.
    Performance issues 1 1/2 years after release.
    UI/UX that is straight from a nightmare, including settings for resolution that would apply it the moment you change it. So going from the default resolution to my screen resolution took more time than some of the boss fights. Whoever gave this his OK should quit his job.
    Some areas were an utter catastrophy.
    The enemies had no weight to them. It felt like Ethan was shooting at cardboard.
    The enemies lacked variation and multiple hitboxes. Resident Evil 4 and 5 did this marvelously.
    Enemy variety? There were like 5 types of enemies, not including minibosses (Sisters) or Bosses. There was barely a noticable difference to all of them. Ugh. What a wasted opportunity. They even started with the fantasy realm, vampires and werewolfs.
    The gunplay was ridiculous. Look what the original Dead Space did, over 10 years (?) ago. And look at this.
    Also, this game lacks any survival feeling. Especially that last part where one runs with close to infinite ammo through the village just shooting like a maniac... yeah. Zero horror.
    This isn't a horror game, nor a survival game. It is a pathetic conveyer belt shooter. The best part of this game is the castle, and that by a massive gap to the "next best" area. I wonder. I immediately start thinking if this might be on purpose. I mean, the detail and interactions that one encountered during the castle part were certainly well done, not so much for the rest. The castle was also the only playable part pre-release (and the very first few minutes), as well being the only area that was present in trailers in more detail. Must have been a massive money-saver to only focus one the castle for presentation purposes while ignoring the quality for the rest. Good management here, Capcom.

    Compare this game to true survival horror games, like Evil Within or the already mentioned Dead Space. It's leagues apart.

    Keep in mind, this is Capcom, which developed a new installment for one of the biggest IPs.
    It is an insult to gamers, yet they don't seem to care.
    Oh and of course, the biggest gripe: This game is/was full price, and yet it is only ~7 hours long, WITH exploration.

    What a joke.
    I'm glad I paid only 15 bucks for this.    … Expand
  17. Kreisegger1
    May 9, 2021
    0
    i didn't like the story, very borring, short and everything was like meeh, alright
    it wasn't as scary at resident evil 7, i expected more
    the gameplay was fun ngl, but that is all
    such a wasted potential

    sorry but this is not a game that should cost 60 bucks, no way, 40 max
  18. Bottrott
    May 9, 2021
    0
    I think the game is very good all though the middle part of the game seems a little bit lazy made but all in all it's a well made sequel to the seventh part, especially the endgame part is breath taking. I really recommend it to every one who played the prequel Resident Evil 7.
  19. TheRockPL
    May 9, 2021
    0
    Najgorszy resident z całej serii to już nie re tylko papka dla małolatow smarkaczy z gilem pod nisem.
  20. MrMuppe
    May 29, 2021
    0
    This is a good game held back by performance issues on pc.
    tap out of the game and the fps will drop an insane amount when tabbing back, first game that does that for me. Not even Cyberpunk 2077 did that to me.
    Play for more then 2 hours and the fps will drop. Oh and it drops randomly for unknown reasons. And the thing is that when the fps has dropped the only thing that works most of    This is a good game held back by performance issues on pc.
    tap out of the game and the fps will drop an insane amount when tabbing back, first game that does that for me. Not even Cyberpunk 2077 did that to me.
    Play for more then 2 hours and the fps will drop.
    Oh and it drops randomly for unknown reasons. And the thing is that when the fps has dropped the only thing that works most of the time is to restart the game, and where I am now that does not work almost as if I have opened up to much of the game and now it is laggedylag time.
    And before anyone comes ranting about "game needs ssd MAN, that is the new thing" let me say that i run the game on an m2.ssd which is much faster then your regular old ssd so no that is not the issue. The game needs a patch.
    And speaking on needing a patch. I see that the consoles have been patched some times, yet more then 3 weeks since launch this problem has still not been fixed on pc. Personally I will wait until this is fixed before continuing to play, 0/10 until then.    … Expand
  21. JonnySlaughter
    Dec 29, 2021
    0
    I appreciate that Steam allowed the option to download and play the demo first. That saved me the headache of having to have it refunded. I was never a resident evil fan, and based on the fact that shooting zombies point blank in the face repeatedly doesn't kill them in this game means i will likely not become one anytime soon. After playing for 10 minutes and seeing an achievement forI appreciate that Steam allowed the option to download and play the demo first. That saved me the headache of having to have it refunded. I was never a resident evil fan, and based on the fact that shooting zombies point blank in the face repeatedly doesn't kill them in this game means i will likely not become one anytime soon. After playing for 10 minutes and seeing an achievement for 10 minutes of playtime, and then again at 20 minutes and 25 minutes, it became pretty clear to me that this is not the type of game i should invest money in.… Expand
  22. paymandaylami
    Oct 27, 2021
    0
    its not better than evile4 !!! audio desync and lag in cutscenes very bad boss fights, bad story line
    i hope this be the last game in this franchise
  23. ket
    Jan 1, 2022
    4
    Speaking specifically the game is more supernatural in nature with a dash of Resident Evil 4 on the side, which was nice for a change at the time, but still not Resident Evil. Its not that RE: Village is a bad game why I'm giving it a low rating, quite the contrary as the game itself is pretty good, the reason I'm giving it a low rating is because the game should not be called ResidentSpeaking specifically the game is more supernatural in nature with a dash of Resident Evil 4 on the side, which was nice for a change at the time, but still not Resident Evil. Its not that RE: Village is a bad game why I'm giving it a low rating, quite the contrary as the game itself is pretty good, the reason I'm giving it a low rating is because the game should not be called Resident Evil but be a seperate franchise of its very own with its own name, you can't help but hate Ethan (who you play as) as well, let's hope this is the last we see of this blank uninteresting slate of a character. The closest thing to really describe Village is some sort of Devil May Cry mashup meets The Evil Within.

    This isn't Resident Evil, not as everyone knows it, stop bastardising and sullying this style of game and what everyone knows Resident Evil to be Capcom.    … Expand
  24. roten
    Apr 30, 2022
    0
    this product is not available in your region
    "games out of politics" right?
  25. mininova
    Jul 7, 2022
    4
    Second most overrated title in the series. Lame story, lack of horror and Chris's segment are main culprits, alongside saving checkpoints making typewriters completely obsolete.
  26. RDonnell
    Jan 18, 2022
    0
    Terrible by Capcom. The FOV is forced as causes motion sickness. And so does the forced TAA. It looks blurry and grainy i refuse to buy and refunded this game.
  27. amsterdream
    Feb 8, 2022
    0
    No polish language. No polish language. No polish language. No polish language.
  28. Khalindra_Nela
    Sep 9, 2022
    0
    im not buying this game as long as it has denuvo anti tamper , its your own fault if u put spy software on your own pc ^^
  29. danuffo
    Dec 10, 2021
    1
    Me decepciona que Capcom no incluyó un doblaje mexicano o neutro para Hispanoamérica siendo que un montón de países, un mercado más grande que el de Brasil y España que si recibieron traducciones localizadas, una burla total.

    Al menos de mi parte no tolero esas cosas, quizás la mayoría sí por ignorancia, no lo voy a jugar y utilizaré mi tiempo en otra cosa.
  30. abdurhmanzain
    Feb 28, 2023
    2
    The part is far from called Resident Evil, almost devoid of horror, and the game has become more action-packed and boss battles are less bad than I expect, so I see this part as less quality in all respects compared to Resident Evil 7
  31. StarkAgentos
    Apr 15, 2022
    4
    Поиграл час. Никак не могу пройти миссию, где надо убежать от монстров. Патронов мало, все враги очень живучие, дамажат сильно. Каждую секунду убивают, возрождаюсь в самом начале. Сложность понизить никак нельзя. Что за хардкор.Поиграл час. Никак не могу пройти миссию, где надо убежать от монстров. Патронов мало, все враги очень живучие, дамажат сильно. Каждую секунду убивают, возрождаюсь в самом начале. Сложность понизить никак нельзя. Что за хардкор.
  32. TypInSomething
    Mar 21, 2023
    2
    This dumbass game is scripted to its core. If you do something different, the cutscene won't trigger. Difficulty levels are **** as well. Higher difficulty just means you gotta survive longer to trigger a cutscene and enemies become tanky. It's not like in greater difficulty AI gets a bit smarter. Nope. They become tanks. That's all.
    The story is Ok.
    This whole game revolves around trial    This dumbass game is scripted to its core. If you do something different, the cutscene won't trigger. Difficulty levels are **** as well. Higher difficulty just means you gotta survive longer to trigger a cutscene and enemies become tanky. It's not like in greater difficulty AI gets a bit smarter. Nope. They become tanks. That's all.
    The story is Ok.
    This whole game revolves around trial and error **** (at least on harder difficulties) Oh, you are in a boss fight… better die and find out what is the weak point and exploit it on the next try. Oh, you are in chase… better die 100 times and find out which scripted path to take.    … Expand

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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 24
  3. Negative: 1 out of 24
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Feb 15, 2022
    80
    Resident Evil Village is a successful game, that takes the best of both worlds – scary and action. An atmospheric trip to the dubious village and the adjacent manor will leave you with a lot of scars, as well as on the hands of Ethan Winters. Maybe there might have been a little less action.
  2. Multiplayer.it
    Aug 9, 2021
    92
    Resident Evil Village brings its vision to PC as well, and it does so in an extraordinarily effective way.
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  3. Riot Pixels
    Jul 12, 2021
    68
    Village is a concoction of spectacular amusements framed by an insane storyline, and this grotesque circus is varied enough for you to stay for one playthrough.
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