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The original was posted on /r/gamingleaksandrumours by /u/porkybrah on 2024-10-01 01:37:26+00:00.

There was a post about a day ago on here about someone who had the game early and people never got to hear what they thought of it.So here’s two people that have the game early.

Credit to u/ Financial-Abalone715 and u/SAUCEmagic

u/Saucemagic up first

-James feels really nice to control. People were complaining about the jank not being present but it does well. You kinda have to worry about commiting to your swings when using the board. This probably isn’t the case on lower difficulties but I’ve been punished for trying to absolutely slam jam these things.

This game is fucking terrifying post Brookhaven. Swear to god I heard pyramid heads knife dragging in the darkness somewhere but I feel like it was just me over listening because I didn’t see shit.

Only bug I’ve found was a nurse stuck inside a wall that ate my lunch in like two hits trying to free her. Didn’t occur again.

puzzles are pretty clean. I have them set a little lower because I hate being stuck in the same place too long and SH has abstract puzzles that I seem to be unable to fully think outside the box for. Still rewarding. Inventive and fresh.

-Boss fights are phenomenal. This dude is NOT Leon Kennedy and it shows. But I will point several similarities to RE4 remake.

My honest take… I need to finish it. But I’m gonna play this like 15 times. Angela is growing on me. Eddie is a disaster but in a good way. Disturbing. I like OG Laura way better. This one is much less genuine. They took out her being upset when James calls her a brat and I despise that. If you’re on a lower difficulty you’re gonna be stocked to the brim with ammo. I consider myself good at shooting but I still get in situations where it’s like “okay fuck I need to find some bullets”.

8/10 this far.

u/Financial-Abalone715 thoughts from a newcomer

I received SH2R early so I’ve been playing it and I love it. Never played the original game nor have I played any SH game whatsoever, so I can’t exactly say how it compares.The graphics look incredible, the atmosphere and horror is so good, the locations are fantastic and really fun to explore, combat feels great, and the acting is really good too. The mocap is pretty insane to me honestly, they’ve captured so many micro expressions from James’s actor (Luke Roberts) and some shots in the game had me fooled that it was real footage. Although I haven’t played the original, I am somewhat familiar with it and I’ve picked up on quite a few Easter eggs which made me quite happy. I’m playing on normal combat and riddle difficulty and I feel like for both it’s been a perfect balance, not too difficult and not too easy. I have only a couple complaints about the game, there’s quite a lot of visual glitches, specifically around enemies or windows, the game sometimes doesn’t let you activate a certain prompt unless you walk away until it disappears and then walk back to it, and at times I’ve gotten stuck on dead bodies but was able to get out by stomping on them until I can move. As for where I am in the game, I just got to the third floor of the hospital, I can’t wait to play more. For those of you wondering about the settings, there’s tons of UI and gameplay things that you can fine tune to your liking, you could probably spend like an hour alone doing it if you’re really particular. In my opinion this game so far really has no big problems and is pretty perfect to be honest, and I can tell the devs have put a lot of care into the game and paid serious attention to detail.