Resident Evil Revelations fails to deliver a satisfying experience, feeling more like a chore than a compelling survival horror game. The gameplay lacks excitement, with dull and unintuitive enemy design that makes encounters feel uninspired. The constant need to scan environments for items quickly becomes tedious rather than engaging, and the puzzles offer little challenge or enjoyment. Perhaps the most frustrating aspect is the horrendous user interface, which is clunky and poorly designed. Overall, too many elements feel off, making this entry a disappointing misstep for the franchise.

Selected Difficulty Casual. Screen movement was too fast, set Mouse - Acceleration Off, Sensitivity 2.

Scan everything, shoot every box and collect items and solve puzzles. Puzzles and environemt logic was thumbs up, didn't need to follow any guide (almost). Found 15 hidden handprints myself and then stopped searching - hadn't idea there was next achievement too.
Most achievements are related to Raid Mode not Campaign story.

+ Story is interesting
+ You play with multiple characters
+ A fight with the helicopter
+ Swimming is here too
+ Raid mode

- Move-mouse-left-right tasks were problematic for me sometimes

If the game could stop switching to characters I don't care about, I would enjoy playing it more.

I'd only recommend this game to hardcore RE fans.

This game has a lot to it for a DS game from 2013 but I think people over-hype it a bit much.

It's during the time where RE was trying to put too much action into their games which takes away from it a lot, but it definitely has a charm to it.

The Raid Mode is what ruins the game mostly for me. It was great for the first 5 hours, but having to run the same 20 levels for 100 + hours if you're not playing with friends is enough for me to say I'm happy that I'll never be installing this game again.

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☐ Bugs destroy the game
☐ Lots of bugs
☑ Few Bugs
☐ You can use them for speedrun
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☐ Full price
☑ Wait for Sale
☐ Don't buy
☐ Refund it if you can

absolute ♥♥♥♥, runs well but damn this game is terrible, bad gameplay and terrible story and im not even gonna finish it.

Sigh. I love you Jill. No one even gets me

A middling entry in the RE franchise. I give it a Thumbs Up, but a small one.

It exists in that weird period between RE5 and RE6 where Capcom was unsure on where to take the series. This game largely plays similarly to RE5, but more of an emphasis on classic RE: find keys to open doors and get from A to B.

It unfortunately suffers from the bizarre choice to make the game episodic. Yeah... this has not aged well at all. If anything, this game would have greatly benefited from being just Jill on the ship. No Parker and no other scenarios. Just JIll exploring around on this large ship, because the design of the ship itself is quite Resident Evil-y.

In fact, there's a mission in the game's side mode, Raid Mode, that really should have been what the main campaign was: Ghost Ship has you trek through majority of the ship and fight increasingly difficult enemies as you progress.

Instead, the main campaign will interrupt your current gameplay flow by throwing in different episodes with characters in different areas that you honestly don't give a crap about. It's kind of annoying. You'll be playing as Jill going through the ship and just having a good time exploring, but Oh No - we need to know the lore on Terragrigia and what happened to Parker and Jessica on the day it fell. We also apparently deeply needed to know the lore on what Chris and Jessica were up to during all this while exploring a bland snowy tundra. These side segments play just as well as I am describing them - it's easy to tell that they were developed after the ship was as they just feel so tacked on.

When you do play as Jill, the game is mostly fun... as long as you aren't fighting a lot of enemies. This game's big bad BOW is the Oozes. Basically, imagine if you took the Regenerators from RE4 and made them more goofy. There's a wide variety of what these Oozes will come in: some just shamble at ya, some will shoot stuff at you, some have really long claws and will try to rip you up, some explode, some have a shield and sword and act like zombie knights.
It's interesting to see what they did with the idea of the Oozes, but fighting them ranges from easy-peasy to extremely frustrating.
Constantly, you'll be shot at by something off screen, and you'll be like "Where the hell did that come from??? Oh. That dude way over there."
And the knight ones can be quite a threat when you destroy one of its parts.
Destroy its torso and you got a walking electric tentacle spamming slaps at you.
Destroy its legs and now you got this crawling lunging sword coming at you.

Cool ideas, but boy does it get frustrating to deal with especially in Raid Mode where the enemies get different modifiers. Some get super speed. Some get a big buff to their physical attack power. Some get super tanky and take forever to kill. Etc.

Raid Mode itself was a good idea, but Jesus is it grindy as hell. I don't think it's actually possible to complete Raid Mode without using co-op at some point. Maybe you can, but damn, you will be grinding a metric ass ton. Interestingly enough, completing the Ghost Ship level with a Trinity Bonus (no damage taken, all enemies killed, and be at the appropriate level) gives you some of the best weapon parts in the game - the problem is - you definitely need some of that gear to complete Ghost Ship. It's a weird circle of dependencies. I do not envy the person who completed Ghost Ship without any of that gear as that must have been one hell of a slog to play through.

I actually prefer the 3DS version of this game's Raid Mode as it was way more straight-forward. I don't know why they felt the need to make it so MMO-y in this version.

So, Revelations as a whole is decent, but it has its quirky rough spots. I very tacitly recommend it if you are just looking for something to scratch an RE itch or if you want to play a grindy loot based third-person-shooter in Raid Mode. It has its fun moments - especially when you get to explore the ship, but the lows are deep. If you can put up with, give it a play.

Good game. PC port was well done.

jill and chris