Resident Evil 7 is SO GOOD! I shat my pants playing the first 2 RE games way back when and this game captured everything that made the old games great and brings them into 2017. Everything about this game works for me. The story is not a lazy sequel, prequel or reboot. It's it's own contained story within the RE universe. The characters motivations are all relatable to the point where you feel empathy for the goddamn bosses you fight. It has all the dumb RE puzzles, but the game goes out of its way not to fuck with you when you're trying to solve shit and it will not make you run around trying to solve shit while you're fighting. You will fail just enough to experience many glorious fail states, but mostly it's balanced well enough so that you escape by the skin of your teeth. The PC port is flawless. Only caveat is that the season pass is too good to skip, which bumps this up to an $80 game with about 10h worth of gameplay. I recommend getting it when it goes on sale.
I should also tag on that if you're not nostalgic about the first two games, a lot of the things I like about it will probably just be annoying.
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