""Yahtzee, Resident Evil 4 and 7 were your two highlights of the series! Surely, a game that combines them must be everything you'd want, right?" WRONG! Dirty boy! No mummy milkies for you! First of all, it's hard to appreciate the creativity on display when so many of its moments and mechanics are copied beat-for-beat from its two main influences, but more importantly, 4 and 7 were good for different reasons: 4 was amusingly camp and action-focused and grand in scope but 7 was survival-focused and benefited from a narrowing of scope that made it effectively unnerving. 8 as a result is a severely mixed bag. How mixed? Put it like this: there is a moment in Vi-li-li-li-lage that was the most genuinely terrifying horror experience I've had in a video game for a very long time. There is another moment some time later where you're in a dreary repetitive industrial environment fighting cyborgs, and it's about as scary and exciting as trying to squeeze past a Borg cosplayer on a narrow staircase. And when I say "moment", I mean about an hour. This is part of the decline the game suffers after Mommy Milkies has spooged herself out of the game and after the really effective horror part: it's the bit in the dollhouse - alright, I presume it's okay for a review to identify the bit it's praising, I dunno, you people cry spoilers if I so much as tell you Ethan Winters' inside leg measurement."