Is there really any reason to play this instead of REmake 2?

Here is the way I see it: Remake 1, 2, and 3 are all decent games and while they have a lot of similarities to the source material, they make a lot of changes both in dialog, gameplay, and puzzles.

I would still strongly recommend playing the original on all 3 games as they still are great titles. REmake 1 is the one that gets it the closest, but it still does a lot of things different then the original.

truth, wouldn't say bad but clearly dated and not that great anymore

>Conceived by producer Tokuro Fujiwara as a remake of his earlier horror game Sweet Home (1989), the development of Resident Evil was led by Shinji Mikami. It went through several redesigns, initially conceived as a Super NES game in 1993, then as a fully 3D first-person PlayStation game in 1994, and then finally a third-person game with pre-rendered backdrops. Gameplay consists largely of third-person action with added emphasis on inventory management, exploration, and puzzle solving. Resident Evil establishes many conventions seen later in the series, including the control scheme, inventory system, save system, and use of 3D models superimposed over pre-rendered backgrounds.
retard underage

People saying soul is a meme don't get what it's supposed to mean. They think it's literally "old game good hur, new game bad dur" when there's more to it than that

It's way more fun, for starters.