The tone is still too serious for my liking, despite some one-liners still being in... but I have to admit that I'm impressed with what we've seen so far. The village shootout's level design is basically a 1-1 match for the original, and the Castle section is still in (though I suspect that it'll be heavily truncated), as is the Del Lago fight.
I'm not happy about the addition of a crafting system (because of course it has a fucking crafting system, it's a modern game, it has to have the obligitory Minecraft ripoff), but I am happy to see that they haven't messed with the Tetris Attache case too much.
The new parry system looks good though, and the idea of Leon parrying a chainsaw with a piddly little butter knife tickles me in all the right places
That being said though? The guns look weak as shit compared to the original. I don't care if it's more realistic, I can tell just by the video footage that the gunplay is going to feel much worse than the original, never even mind the Wii Edition.
I like the addition of more context-sensitive actions though, like the burnable cow and the wooden overpass being chopped down. That's the kind of stuff I want to see!
I am still not convinced that most of the original game's content is going to survive the chopping block though. I cannot imagine a scenario where Capcom actually manage to recreate even half of the original game's content in this HD-era. The original game's scope is just far too big. Still. If there was anything that they were absolutely sure to not mess with, it was going to always be the initial village shootout section.
Also. Everyone except for Lois & Hunnigan look weird.
Edit:
ALL CUTSCENE QTES ARE GONE! (wait... what the hell does this mean for the Krauser Knife Fight!? Surely that isn't getting cut right? RIGHT!?)