The new controls mean doing exactly that, but with one caveat: you’ll keep moving in the direction of your last tilt so long as you keep holding the stick. Since you can’t control the camera anyway, after a short adjustment period it makes sense to me that pushing forward on the stick moves your character forward relative to their own eye line, saving you reassessing your thumb’s angle with every perspective flip. I’m painfully aware, however, that I’ve trained my brain to handle them. Mikami and co didn’t want you to feel confident, but powerless. Yes, Resident Evil’s tank controls are notoriously awkward, but that’s sort of the point. I’m less sure about the REmaster’s final addition: the new control scheme. It's not terrifying in the way Alien: Isolation is - despite the similarities between limited typewriter saves and Alien's emergency phone booths - but if you're itchy (tasty!) for a survival-horror game that emphasises jump scares and the tense scrabble to stay alive, this will scratch that itch very nicely. It’s a slow burn, but steadily the stakes mount and by the midpoint you’re jumping at clattering window panes, wary of the corpses on the floor that you’ve learned might not stay dead, and touching cloth every time the game breaks its restraint and deploys one of its orchestrated scares. You do not dash about solving puzzles, but plan your route and limited inventory space (six slots for Chris, eight for Jill) to gradually unpick the sadist’s puzzle box that is the Spencer estate. You do not spam out bullets in the Arklay mountains, you conserve ammo, loosing shots only when you know they’ll count so that you might eke out a little more life. If the notion bothers you anyway, it’s the PC version you want. In fact, thanks to the herky-jerky camera shifts and patient nature of combat, it’s barely even noticeable unless you’re looking for it. It’s inexcusable, but also, weirdly, less relevant than I’d feared. Consoles are denied the 60fps option of the PC version, but that PS4 sometimes dips into the low 20s smacks only of poor optimisation. I guess an economy of effort was required to make the REmaster a viable cut-price release, which explains some of its uglier moments.

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