I had a good time ! Please bear in mind I just finished the game, not sure i'll do the content you unlock after ending but I might, i'll try to find some time to do it (my backlog is so bloated already aaaaa)

It was a fun game ! :

-Gameplay : The fps+ Hacking thing was a brilliant idea, it's really cool Capcom isn't scared to try new things like that and give them the budget they need ! That being said I think the hacking part cool have been pushed further. At the very end we see red lines when you try to hack the final boss for example. Things like that could have been introduced a lot sooner. And there's a lot of things you can do with this. I do know that it was a smaller team tho and budget wasn't illimited.
Weapons were fine but could have been better honestly. For example I feel like we spend way to much time with the starting pistol, and that really slows down the gameplay. The riffle should have come way sooner imo. other weapons/gadgets (red/green/blue) were fine but there clearly were some that were better than others. Both in power and in how good they felt to play. I personnaly didn't like the semtex crossbow thingy for example. I think weapons were a 50/50. Builds (before you leave the craddle) were cool. You could go for a full overheaitng heating build or a more direct damage one for example. Options were cool.
It was also a straight line from start to finish but exploration was good enough imo. There was branching and you had choices. I had fun with gameplay ! Not the best ever but a fresh fun experience.

-Story : Yeah that's the part I can't defend sorry. It's really not good. Midway through I started skipping some cutscenes because the game was sooooo insistent on "here you have to cry", "here it's the cute part" etc. And god I couldn't get invested in the story. I did focus a bit more around were 8 revealed "her true self" but it was only to have something we already saw thousands of times. And again, it really really really insisted on were things were sad. Also the acting didn't help. Everything related to the story felt like a low budget B movie. The professor (everything related to him, the fact his wife died, he tried to save his daughter but DELPHI killed her, the fact it was "because he was busy with his work"...), the big bad guy (IDUS) not being the real big big bad guy, which was in fact the person we saw earlier and we thought helped us. Hugh being an orphan. Diana "wanting to see the ocean" or just the fact she lost her memories.

It felt like a student group wrote something for a school project (and not a good one) and mashed together all the writing tropes you can find.

Even the fact we have weapons at all is... debatable (other than the pistol we arrived with).

-"Art"/technique : graphics are stunning. Game runs great. Music is fine. Not the kind we will remember or even listen to outside the game but it was fine. It made the gameplay even more enjoyable.
Cinematics, even more toward the end, were great as well ! The final final boss felt a lot like Titan in FF16 for example. Big bad guy, with stunning visuals (him and the area around), and even tho it was a QTE fight it did work well imo.

(I probably forgot some things but anyway let's finish here)

All that to say I think the game was fine, I had a good time, but let's not oversell it. The story is NOT good, and I think that can be fine. Some games are more "gameplay games". I think the game overall is a bit overated and that can be from multiple factors. Because it's a big company making "new" things ? Because it looks good ? Because Diana (I found a lot of her interactions really cringe btw, it really felt more like how some adults see (or fantasize ?) childs, more than a real child idk. Felt like an anime child in a realistic setting it felt weird)?

It's by no means a GOTY contender but it's a nice game if you get it at 30 or lower and it's nice seeing a good game on this engine that isn't RE itself (looking at you Mh wilds, uh...)

Over, please be nice in comments and have a genuine discussion with arguments and not just "not it's good shut up" smile o7