ok i beat the game on normal and madhouse difficulty now, so i will try to make a review for this RESIDENT EVIL 7 games...

- GRAPHIC

amazing graphic, i love the atmosphere of this game.. the detail of the wood house, the detail on bakers family characters, is amazing.. all the gore feel so real, and this is maybe the most beautiful RE games for now. i love the HDR effect, so if you are staying on a full light room and after that you enter a dark room, it is really dark.

and yes, you must play the game with the reccomended brightness to really feel the game (but if you are not brave enough, just maxed out the brightness), and this is a matter of taste, the color range, the BT.709 i think better than SRGB (but many people more like the SRGB, it's just a matter of personal taste), cuz i think the BT colour offer more contrast and a pure dark color in a dim lighted area, it's more atmospheric, the SRGB on the other hand is more to a desaturation and minimal contrast but it's also have a heightened gamma so the game more bright. for the Antialiasing method i prefer TAA only, so the image is appear softer and almost eliminate the staircase effect, i personally reccomend you guys dont use FXAA+TAA because it makes the graphic too soft and it looks blurry.

And if you don't have at least a 6gb VGA card dont set the texture to max, and also the shadow count is better turned off to maximize the performance (i'm using 980Ti, and the dynamic shadows and shadow count is turned off).


- PERFORMANCE

i'm playing this game at all max and render scale at 1.5 on 1920x1080 using the 980Ti OCed, the game run smoothly without hiccups, but if you are running to the new area, the game is often STUTTER and even FREEZE, maybe it because the game try to render a new area without a loading screen, but i find this very annoying, it should be getting fixed by the developer ASAP.
and i have to say that i really dissapointed to see that the 4K res is capped at 30fps.

aaaand, there is an issue, if you alt+tabbing this game, when you switched to this game again, the frame rate will be droped to maybe a single digit maybe at around 9-18fps, so at this time i reccomend you not using a borderless windows setting.

-GAMEPLAY

at first, when i see the demo on youtube i feel a bit dissapointed because capcom change the perspective to a first person, why?? even after i play the demo on steam, i still a bit dissapointed because the RE i know is not a FP games. but eventually i decided to buy it, and after play it a couple of hours, i feel satisfied, THIS is The TRUE Survival Horor i feel i'm back to my childhood (i play the RE 1,2,3 around age of 10-12 years old and enjoying it), the RE4 is very phenomenal, but i'm little dissapointed on RE5 because it becomes more to an action game than a survival horror and the inventory management is gone, and the RE6 is good (but not too good) because it is becoming more more action oriented and ammo everywhere and no invent management.

so when i play the demo i checked the inventory, and feel happy to see the little inventory tab at the screen, the item box and classic safe room. WOW. the walking speed on ethan is slow (but you can upgrade it by wearing light shoes after you destroy a certain items) the run speed is not too fast too.

the reload speed is trivial, it's not a problem at all, and the main things in RE games is the inventory management, so you can spend a couple of minute to try to manage the limited item to your limited inventory to make more space for you if you found another items, the stack is not too big, the ammo is scarce so you have to carefully manage it all and use it with efficiency and it makes the game more challenging.

the gunplay is good, but nothing new, you can shot the enemy limbs example you can shot the fat mold feet when he's charging so he's fall, you can shot the head to make a big damage. the new feature is the guard system, the guard is your friend, and on madhouse difficulty guarding is vital to your survivability.


Speaking of Madhouse difficulty, the Madhouse difficulty is a True RESIDENT EVIL, when you play in that difficulty all the item location is changed (different from easy or normal), the ammo is very limited, the enemies have a bigger health and damage, and the checkpoint is limited to your save file, and even the save file is also limited by a cassette tape so you must think and cleverly survive and make a decision, it really add more tension and fear of dying, and also if you dying a lot it can be an annoying thing too, cuz you have to start all the way through again from your last save and maybe lose and hours of progress, but hey i beat the madhouse, so can you. :) :)


- SOUND and MUSIC

oh my god...!!! the ambiance sound in this game is top notch, i play it with my kraken chroma, and the ambiance sound of surrounding is often surprise me, sometime i though my own footstep is enemies walking behind me, the voice actor is good, but the best part of voice actor is a guys who voiced jack baker, the voice is too creepy and menacing, but it also have a kind sound that gone bad, kinda explain you that jack is not a really psycho, just a normal man who turned psycho by the main antagonist of this game,.

the music is good but nothing too iconic, just a safe room music maybe cuz everytime i enter that room, i feel safe when i heard that music lol.

The gun sound is not that good, i feel like i'm using a toy weapon everytime i shot my machine gun or shotgun, but i think all the other RE games have this similar gun sound, so yeah..

the sound in this game makes a lot difference, it makes the game more creepy with the ambiance sound and often tense music, and when i try to play it without my headset the game is more relaxing but i can't hear an enemies presence if i don't wear the headphone and all the jumpscare is not surprising enough when you can't listen the sound. lol

so i reccomend you lower the sound if you are afraid to be surprised or frightened. but if you want to fully experience the games, you must use the headphones.

- STORY

the story is not that good, it's about Ethan Winters, an ordinary guy searching for his missing wife (he get's an email from his missing wife that tells come to the Location of this game and pick her up), but after he's arrived, the place is seemed so sketchy and mysterious and scary.

it is indeed have a plot twist and new kind of virus, so it kinda explain why the bakers went psycho and all invincible, but it lacks of a RE character, the only one character that's been arguing about is the "Redfield" character at the end of the game, is it that redfield, or is capcom tries to mess with us.. and the introduction to an all new logo of Umbrella corps.


- IS IT WORTH THE PRICE???
i don't think so, you can beat the game at 4 hours, or maybe 2-3 hours when you speedrun with infinite ammo on easy (i will try it later), so the point is the main story is short, but if you playing blindly for the first time (no peeking at youtube) you will get an average to 8-10 hours to beat this game.

- SEASON PASS?

the DLC for PC will released on 21 Feb 2017,
but i've seen the content on PS4, and this is basically from my perspective, i think that the vol 1&2 DLC isn't worth your money, i mean it's too expensive for a content that so short, there's maybe a lot replayability with nightmare or jack's 55 birthday or even 21, but after a while it getting repetitive.

the Bedroom is maybe the only good DLC, but after you figure out the puzle you can beat it at no time. Daughters is personally my biggest dissapointment, it's too short and lack of depth.

but i do reccomend to buy this games, maybe on sale, or right now, it's your choice.


OVERALL:

9/10, a True Survival horror


thanks for reading my review (i hit the text limit so i cant write more)..

if you curious? you can buy it here:

http://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/418370/