Jared Keltz

I lost interest in the first ten minutes. It’s stylistically a tribute to the original animated series, but it still forces modern social politics into a fantasy world of vigilante justice and imposing villains with timeless stories all their own. This is a disappointing attempt at reinventing the wheel.

This is more a proclamation of American culture than it is an underdog story. There’s very little character development, it’s more of a continuation of Creed II from the standpoint of the staple cast. We get a touch of backstory on Damian, no noticeable growth or development, however. They omit entirely his first sparring match after returning to the ring. He simply serves to expose elements of Creed’s past to his wife and family and then suddenly step into the ring. All that this movie does is show an African-American man step out of a sentence he earned through ambiguous reasons and then walk into a fight. There’s zero thought or compassion behind the characters written into this film. No wonder Stallone refused to make a cameo.

Horrible. This was not in any way a tribute. Lackluster, subpar, and disappointing. This wasn’t a horror film. It was a family film with supernatural elements that didn’t tie together at all. I hope the director got at least a C in their film class, because that’s what they’re getting in this review.

Unlike a lot of these prior reviews, this is not copied and pasted to boost the score. This was a birthday present that I was gifted when the game first launched and I played it, and beat it, at least a dozen times collecting CP to unlock additional bonuses for the next play-through. I put this down at some point and didn’t touch it for a long time, but I just started playing it again and remembered why I fell in love with it. There’s more expansive, traditional horror here than your standard zombie apocalypse, Resident Evil storyline. It touches on all of the myths and stories that I loved as a kid while still tying everything together in the Resident Evil universe. It isn’t extremely challenging to work through the combat and puzzles which is great for an aging millennial who grew up with this franchise from day one and who doesn't have the strongest attention span anymore, but if I were new to these games, it would still test me. I love that the level-based format and other arcade-like themes were left behind with this title as well. It feels organic and more like playing a genuine story. Nothing feels rushed or clunky, the visuals and cutscenes are outstanding, and this title is going to hold strong over the years as a timeless name just as much as Resident Evil did when it first entered the arena of console gaming. This is one of my favorite games to come back to, time and time again.