Content from Last 48hrs

Completely agree. Like that it is an effective way of making you consider whether it is worth the noise of blasting a bunch of zombies, running around etc. vs playing more stealthily, but making him go away is a bit... tedious, whether you do it by shaking him off and getting some distance (normally in the wrong direction for your current objective), or by hiding in a safe room till he resets.

Yeah, there are triggers where he does and doesn't appear, but when I'm in one of the parts where he's active and I only have an hour to game and in the first half of that hour I spend a total of 15 minutes hiding from him that doesn't work for me. I think the threat of him appearing is very effective, the dread that he might at any moment appear, which is why I would have preferred an option to make him less frequent, so that threat is still there without it sucking up so much of the time I have to play.

iirc there are certain story beats where he disappears till you hit the next trigger, I looked up when those were and spent that time exploring everywhere I could before hitting the next trigger. It would be nice if there was a toggle or something for frequency of appearances so you could play a more "casual" mode.

Honestly if I could have just had a mod to make him appear less frequently I would have left him in, because he was terrifying, but that wasn't an option so here we are. I don't have enough game time to spend 2/3 of it just waiting for him to go away.

Resident Evil 2 Remake I really liked this game, though I do think Claire's story is a lot better than Leon's, so I'm glad I played hers first, or I might not have cared to play the second one. I do think Mr. X is a big detractor from the game, he's too omnipresent, and takes too long to go away when you reach a safe room, so you end up spending a stupid amount of time just waiting for him to leave, which is neither engaging nor scary, just tedious. Luckily I was on PC and could install a mod to remove him. If I had been on console there's a good chance I might have just quit the game. Without him though it was excellent, really top notch survival horror, especially as Claire. However, because of that, I don't feel like I can really rate it given that I only liked it because of a mod that changed a core aspect of the game, so I guess no score from me.