Resident Evil 7: Biohazard - Banned Footage Vol. 1

All-in-all, Banned Footage Volume 1 is an interesting little package. You get a tense puzzle-focused escape room, a fun-as-heck action mode that I'm sure I'll be playing in the coming months, and a bastard-hard masochist-a-thon for those who want that. While I'm not a huge fan of Ethan Must Die, there'll be people out there who dig it, and those two tapes continue aspects of Resident Evil 7 that I'm hungry for.

By individually ramping up areas where Resident Evil 7's gameplay could’ve done more, Banned Footage Vol. 1 serves a light yet savory plate of pickings, which pile up the puzzles on one side and bring the heat with testing trials on the other.

Despite the quality of Bedroom, and to some extent Nightmare, this first DLC pack doesn’t really enhance the Resident Evil 7 experience at all. It feels like a mish-mash of cut content and silly minigames that may have suited the old games, but feel totally out of place in this new era.