I like the gameplay, I liked the settings, and House Beneviento is the scariest an RE game has ever been, BUT... everything Peklo said w/r/t the writing is spot-on. Ethan is a nothing character, and to Ludendorkk's point, Chris kinda is, too? He spent his first several appearances as a boy scout, then in Revelations, they tried to give him some depth by having him be "the best ex-whatever, who needs to sober up and come out of retirement," but that didn't really land. In 7 he's basically just the tie back to the rest of the series, and here he basically fills the same role, he's just there from the beginning.
RE's lore is fucking hilariously bad at this point, because they've written themselves into so many corners that they really would have been better off actually running with either the soft-reboot everyone thought RE7 actually was, but turned out not to be, or taking RE2K19 as a jumping off point to splinter the series off in a reboot that uses REmake and it as the starting point. Showing the Umbrella logo prominently in teasers and then in a prominent spot in the game itself makes you think this all ties back to Umbrella in some way, but it's just casually dropped in a missable document at the very end in the dumbest and most perfunctory way possible. And on top of that, they pulled in a bunch of lore bullshit from 7 that made Miranda kinda/sorta the big bad there, too.
Ethan-as-Mold-Person was kinda clever, honestly, and answered the question of "how does this fucker keep sticking his limbs back on," but also: I'm glad he's dead, because, again, he's a mayonnaise sandwich of a hero, and I was frankly insulted that this game went from having me fight Mountain Village Magneto while driving a tank and then expected some serious moments of emotional response from me as Ethan makes his noble Sad Dad sacrifice. Like, five seconds ago a bad guy called Chris a "boulder-punching asshole" and now you're like "GET SAD, FUCKER." And, nah, you didn't earn that. As Peklo said, this game is riding hard on RE4, but RE4 had an extremely playful tone throughout, and never asked me to view Leon as anything more than a less-rugged Jason Statham.
Still, as I said, writing criticisms aside, I quite liked the gameplay, atmosphere, locales, etc. and am now working on unlocking shit.