Resident Evil Village

I don't typically care for "scary" games and put off playing this for a while, but I'm glad I finally got to it.

Resident Evil Village is a deviation from the typical RE franchise of zombie games.   It's set as a prequel of sorts where the main nemesis is a sorceress who is building monsters ala Dr. Moreau, lycans, vampires, ... blobby kronenberg mutations.   I suppose the lore would be Umbrella Corporation is the company who understood the formula for the zombie virus?

Your daughter is taken and your wife's ghost leads/taunts you on your journey to defeat these creature lords that Madam Miranda has created.  It's pretty formula and on rails for the most part, complete with an odd merchant who shows up in every odd haunted location to sell his wares and buy the treasures you have collected.

It was a great game atmospherically when it was going for that, there is a point where it shifts pretty hard into generic FPS shooter, which is where I lost my interest.

I ended up watching someone play the end and had no desire to finish it myself, very much "empty clip in baddie while strafing and avoiding the fire".  But I am looking forward to the next now ...