And finished.
Literally swimming in ammo at the end.
I just ran past like 80% of enemies. So Old-school works outside of annoying areas that you have to fight through.
I don't think I even used the Magnum once. Just all the other guns, and barely the Grenade Launcher, didn't even bother with the upgraded ammo, either.
Normal seems... uh... not very "Survival Horror"-y, but the atmosphere was alright. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I don't necessarily agree that it falls apart at the ship. It kinda picks up there, IMO. But it radically changes from "story of a broken family" into "F.E.A.R. Homage: Right down to the Final Boss Fight."
Speaking of which: That boss-fight was stupid as hell, and crap. I saved up a shit ton of ammo just to:
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Bumrush her ass while guarding, then spraying the Flamethrower at her while backing up. Then spraying it some more until she lets me go to grab the Albert-R01 (nice call back, Chris kept Wesker's S.T.A.R.S. M29F apparently) and then fire 3-4 of the 8 shots into her face to kill her finally.
I'll be picking up the DLC I'm missing (Banned Footage, End of Zoe) tomorrow and going through that along with Not a Hero.
I thoroughly enjoyed it. If this is what 8 is going to do (bar first person perspective) I'm on board with the series again.