Finished Episode One in Resident Evil: Revelations 2.
I'm enjoying it. I have no illusions about the linearity or the horror, I know this is after all a modern RE. But like the original Rev, at least you're running around, finding keys, exploring and backtracking. And the atmosphere is nice so far. I'm surprised at how long it took the game to make you fight stuff.
I'm playing on the hardest setting available. Zombies are fast and kinda tough. The starting handgun is especially unreliable, I found... enemies barely stagger when you shoot them with it, and unlike the Ooze in Rev 1, I didn't find an obvious weak spot that I can abuse (I know about headshot stuns, but they move and sway a lot, it's hard to aim).
There seems to be a decent amount of strategy in the partner system, and I like how you can switch between the two characters at any time. The Barry/Natalia gameplay is really fun. I thought Barry was supposed to be the firepower half of Rev 2, but at least this segment was just as, if not even more quiet than Claire's. Also, Natalia is sooo useful. I noticed that I control her way more often than Barry.
One nice thing about Rev 2, especially in comparison with RE5 and 6, is that the game doesn't cut to a tiny scene every two seconds. Like how in those games they think you're not smart enough to find a door, so they interrupt gameplay to show you the door. Almost none of that here, you are very rarely not in control of the character.