Overview
Resident Evil 7 is the seventh main game in the Resident Evil series and the first one from the canon series to switch from a third-person to a fully first-person perspective. The game features Ethan as an entirely new protagonist not seen in any of the previous titles. After receiving a strange video file from his wife Mia, who's been missing for several years, Ethan sets out to find her in a rural part of Louisiana, taking no heed of her warnings about staying away and forgetting about her. Unable to give up on the love of his life, Ethan arrives at a derelict farm house, determined to bring Mia home... or at least uncover the truth behind her disappearance.
While the game introduces more weapons and increases the levels of action as the story progresses, it starts with the protagonist in a fairly helpless situation, with foes that cannot be killed easily, and don't even stay dead when they are. Ethan will find himself running for his life or trying to hide in order to save bullets for when he may really need them. The inventory size is limited and can be increased by collecting additional backpacks, and items cannot be dropped anywhere to be collected later. Instead, there are various item boxes around the map, mostly in save rooms near the tape recorders (which are used to save game progress), where the player can store and retrieve items (the boxes are all "magically" connected, so stored items in one box can be retrieved from another).
