Mass Effect Legendary Edition’s photo mode was a constant temptation, pulling me away from dramatic moments to check how they’d look with vignetting turned off and maybe a filter. So I’m kind of glad I finished Resident Evil Requiem before its photo mode was patched in. Firing it up today, I lost a chunk of my morning to checking out all of Leon and Grace’s poses and stickers and how they look kicking like a maniac.
While the amount you can move the camera away from the characters is limited—maybe something for modders to fix—this is a decent time-killing photo mode. It could do with a way of changing light sources though, like the one in No Man’s Sky that lets you move the sun wherever you click, because otherwise you’re just cranking the brightness up and hoping details in the background become visible before the foreground gets washed out.
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