OK, I've been stuck on the final level for a week now! The game was great until now it's just annoying!
Four things that keep this game from being as good as older RE games:
1) Can't use an herb without placing it in your inventory first! WTF? What happened to pick it up and choose USE, simple like RE4? Also, no way to combine jewels into jewelry to make them more valuable! Hint: Don't do away with good features from previous games!! Yeah, we all miss the merchant too.
2) Way too much interactive cut scenes! I don't want to push X, wiggle the thumbsticks, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, BBBBBBBBBBBB, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, both triggers, XXXXXXXXXXXX, while watching cut scenes. This isn't Simon Says! One slight screw-up and start it all over! Too busy concentrating on my next button mashing to follow the story! Fail!
3) The story is weak overall and not scary enough. I still need to finish the last level though.
4) Should have more challenging puzzles. The tomb levels had the only puzzle solving that I can remember... and they were too easy. While the later boss battles were difficult. Maybe it's just me but it seems very unbalanced. Seems like they tried to incorporate the hottest games: Tomb Raider, Gears of War, Halo and Resident Evil 4 but ended up short of all of those. I'm surprised there wasn't a Guitar Hero level!