Originally Posted by Gravedigger
Beat RE 3 on Normal, a few thoughts:
- It's short, but good, it rests between DLC and a full game so I can see why each side has complaints. I beat it in 5 hours 14 minutes with 7 deaths, took 3 or 4 of those deaths on purpose to restart a section with more ammo after I saw what the game was throwing at me.
- Jill is great, Carlos is done well, they flirt but are more just trying to escape the city. Not really any forced love angle, just two people who lean on each other to survive. It gets annoying eventually that they throw out the F bomb, especially Jill and especially towards the end, so the dialogue could've been delivered with more thought.
- Nemesis is really well done at first, when he evolves into his second form, he becomes a reoccurring boss battle that happens four times overall. He should've been more menacing in certain sections of Jills campaign after the hospital, but it's a nitpick more than anything. The boss battles are different in how you have to defeat him, they were well done.
- The weapons feel great, alot of power in them and you get them at good times during the campaign. The only weapon I wish I would've gotten to use more was the magnum. You get it relatively late in the game, but I had a feeling I would need to save the ammo, and I did, you'll end up saving your ammo for the third fight against Nemesis.
Overall I would recommend it, although $60 is a bit overpriced for not as much material as RE 2 Remake was last year. I get to the point where I unlock everything in an RE game and then put it away for awhile until I come back to dominate again, and this one will be similar. They should've put the missing sections in the game from the original, like the clock tower, like the park, and like the Gravedigger worm fight. There aren't really any puzzles at all which is a shame, nothing even like the statues in RE 2 Remake. Only two or three safes in the game, so I wish they would've added more sections in the game to give it a little more variety and different combinations of enemies. I'm not mad about it, just wanted more after I was finished with the game and wished they would've delayed the game for another 4 to 6 months to implement it.
I would recommend playing on Hard the first time, not necessarily for the challenge, but a Store unlocks at the end of your first playthrough, and you get points to spend towards items in that store. The harder the difficulty, the more points you get. At the end of my first playthrough I got 8660 points but if I want to buy two hip pouches for right off the bat, I need 9600 points, so I have to play the game again just to get items that aren't even top of the line. I don't mind, I want to narrow down my time, but I wish I would've known before my first playthrough.
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