andylt posted... 3/10
Welp, guess I'm the outlier here, I didn't realise this was so well-regarded but I personally didn't care for it at all! The occult stuff was a big miss for me, and the attempts at a personal story with Heather didn't resonate half as much as James' did in 2. The game is trying to balance two very differing tones and I don't think it succeeds at either- much of the setting feels like it's retreading 2's grounds for no good reason, and then the actual plot and dialogue is just absurd.
Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood for this or it wasn't what I was looking for, but I found very little to enjoy here. There's a couple of very memorable gross moments, I'll give it that.
I actually agree with everything you said, but I thought it was decent overall.