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Got the Resident Evil Revelations games since they were on sale for less than $20 altogether.

They're pretty good; definitely worth a play. 1 is kinda unbalanced, though. There's a good few hectic moments where you're being swarmed while you have to take down a strong enemy or get somewhere on a time limit. And only Jill get to use weapon mods while there's multiple points where you play as other characters who are stuck with predetermined unmodded equipment. There's some dodge move where you have to press a button and push the thumbstick at the right time while an enemy is about to strike, and there's no real clear way to do it consistently.

2 is more balanced. First off, you can manually do the dodge move whenever! You follow only two sets of characters; one with more puzzle solving and one with more combat, and both of the combat characters can use gun mods. You can swap back and forth between combat and non-combat characters who can reveal hidden items, and the AI partner is invulnerable to regular damage. An AI combat character will also provide cover fire without eating into the ammo supply you've been gathering, but they won't do as much damage.

2 also has surprisingly good atmosphere, likely because it didn't start out on the 3DS like 1 did. There's a dark, foggy forest that Barry and his partner go through in chapter 1 that's particularly nice to look at. It seems like it's the point where the RE series started the move into less bombastic action horror.

For some reason, my version of 2 didn't think I had chapters 2 and 3 installed, so I had to delete it and redownload it, while making sure that all chapters past the first downloaded one at a time, in order, which seemed to do the trick. So, be aware of that if you get it.