35 - The Roommate Who Eats Your Food

To say that Resident Evil Village is a love letter to Resident Evil 4 would be underselling it. They’ve somehow taken an already heightened action-horror series and elevated it even more. It’s great that it’s stayed spooky after all these entries but it is still very much a Resident Evil game. Take that how you will.

Equally spooky is Returnal’s lack of a save system, which is a shame because there’s a really great game underneath that very glaring oversight. This problem was solved years ago; why is it still a thing in 2021?

From there we also talk about the need for games to respect the player’s time and how we’d like to see that addressed across different genres (looking at you, MMOs).

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