Ben Lindbergh

Because very often, sometimes Leon and Grace are meeting up and directly interacting and assisting each other.

Often, though, you play through a certain place and a certain sequence as one character, and then you pick up in sort of an adjacent area or time with the other character, and then those threads intertwine in some way in the end.

And so you sometimes play through the same areas, but in a completely different style.

And both are great, because if you were just running and gunning and knocking doors down as Leon for the whole game,

then that might get a bit old at a certain point.

But if you were just creeping around and terrified and trying to find the right key card for the entire game, well, that might get a bit punishing and tedious and tiresome too.

And so every time you switch from Grace to Leon, it's like, oh, what a relief.

Look how huge my inventory is.

I can carry all these items.

I don't need to store anything in a chest.

I've got a shotty.

I can just blast these guys.

And then you do that for a while and okay, it starts to get maybe a bit monotonous and you start to hunger for some puzzle solving and some exploration.

And then suddenly you're Grace again.

And there were a few sequences where maybe one or the other lingered a little long for me or overstayed their welcome.

There's one sequence with Grace.

There's a big chunk of the game where you're in this...

zombie infested facility, kind of a classic Resident Evil environment, I guess, and lots of locked doors and different levels of key cards and zombies roaming around.

And you do stick with Grace for quite a while in that period.

And I was kind of yearning.