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+ Cozy graphics
+ Daily tasks, daily diary
+ Some mini-games
+ Steam inventory items
+ Steam integration, gifts go to other players

- Steam integration, others see your not-so-decent public postings (without your name)
- Not much to do, these backgrounds are static pictures

My favourite game of 2016 and beyond ...

Jill Valentine and Carlos Oliveira are fighting against Nemesis. Usual infected people are slow but when Nemesis is here You need to run...
Interesting to see familiar places from RE2 again.

Game difficulty: Standard
Switched to assisted difficulty during first boss fight (2:25:00 ingame time).

Almost like GTA V except I like it more. Phantom Liberty is the mandatory add-on, don't skip this.
And no bugs, running smoothly.

My playthrough:
1. Main story until open city
2. Did all possible side jobs, gigs and NCPD tasks
3. Continued main story and finished "Playing for Time" until "Tapeworm"
4. Completed other side jobs now available
5. Started "Dog Eat Dog" - start and finish Phantom Liberty
6. Continue main story final chapters aka Act3, starting with "Nocturne Op55N1"

Some tips:
+ You can do Cyberpsycho tasks, gigs and other side jobs to learn the city and level up before continuing the main story.
+ I prefer driving with bike for faster access between traffic jams.
+ Avoid walkers, I don't wish to deal with cops if I accidentally hit hard some walkers.
+ Sometimes the sniper rifle and distance are Your best friends.
+ Listening the radio is important part of the game, it's easy to add custom radio stations with mods. I added Legendary FM and Raadio Elmar.

Quick review after 14 hours:
+ Beautiful world and characters
+ Interesting story
+ Fast combat
+ Solo RPG with Co-op and Online modes
+ Many things to collect and discover
+ Make Old friends - talk with AI
+ Jump and glide through air
+ Pet cats
+ Upgrade weapons and skills
+ You upgrade item slots not specific items

+ Sci-fi Soviet Union environment, setting
+ Set audio language to Russian for an authentic experience
+ Music, for the first time I set the music volume higher than the effects/dialogue volume
+ "Nu, pogodi!" animations
+ Upgrading weapons
+ Conversations with the red and horny fridge

- Time locks with clicking. At least menu has option "puzzle auto-solve", so I had to activate it. Fortunately the description is misleading - this does not solve other puzzles
- Design of robots
- Too many drawers to search and collect
- Boss fights. The first boss stopped me

+ Story, atmosphere, environment, enemies
+ Smooth gameplay
+ Very good overview of further actions: rooms change color on the map when all items are found there, checkpoints that require an item from elsewhere are marked on the map
+ Items are marked when it is safe to throw them away
+ Resources management, you need all these bullets and healthy plants
+ Sometimes you just have to run because Mr. X is here
+ Different playthroughs for Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield (Chris Redfield's sister from RE1)

- Greenhouse puzzles are quite complicated

Basically all the game is like solving puzzles with characters's skills. Save and load often. Quirky humor added here and there.

+ Different chars with different skills
+ My favourite playable characters are Teresa aka Blind Sniper and Suleidy aka Bush Doctor

- I'm not a fan of this animation style
- Story is so-so
- Some small bugs, needed to reload previous save in these cases
- Too long, have used all the skills and tactics multiple times around 20h playtime already

+ Adventure story with original design and environment.

- Possible actions, such as how to move something, are sometimes clunky or hard to understand.
- Sometimes, when you move the mouse to the edge of the screen, the camera moves forward, revealing new options to choose from.
- The mouse sometimes disappears, requiring multiple Alt+Tab or controller button presses to regain focus.

Kick some ass! I selected Let's Rock difficulty. Original Duke Nukem vibe somewhat exists.
The subtitles and not all menu texts does not take into account you can play this on a 4K screen. The graphics is manageable.
It's mostly shooting and walking. Ego Boost activities add something more to do in the game. Some interesting extra tasks such as steering a model car or driving and jumping between the hills.
Later levels add several climbing and jumping tasks - progressing is not easy.
Generator Room boss took me down, three levels left to go.