This game is basically like that one person you laugh AT, not laugh WITH. Be prepared that the only fun you'll have in this game will be from laughing at the frankly terrible writing/VA work and ridiculous cutscenes/QTEs.
When it comes to the controls, it's terrible, but not in a "it's so bad, it's good" way. The game has this strange fetish of only allowing you to do one thing at a time, for example: While reloading, you cannot move OR look around. While moving, you can't properly turn around. While aiming/shooting, you cannot move. Everything has to be done in isolation. I'm guessing that this is a remnant from the previous OG games, which were proper horror games, so this limitation was a way to build tension or something.
About that, despite the game being called "Resident Evil", it has nothing to do with horror. This isn't a game about avoiding most threats, on the contrary, you're expected to shoot everyone and everything in sight, which can be a bit of a problem, since you're not allowed to buy ammo whatsoever, so you'll be perpetually out of ammo for half the game.
The enemy designs are terrible due to many things, but the main one is how incredibly bullet spongy EVERYTHING is in this game. A standard zombie takes around 5 pistol rounds to the face, which seems doable, until you realize they now move faster than the player, use pikes, knives, grenades and even actual firearms from around the halfway point of the game. They also get helmets that make them immune to headshots, FUN.
RE is known for having pretty mediocre or just straight up bad bossfights, so what do you think they did with them in RE5? Tone them down? Remove them entirely? Nope, fu€k you, you get a bossfight basically every 5 minutes, and yes, I'm counting the "normal" strong enemies among those, because they do the exact same thing (High HP, instakill attacks etc.). They COMPLETELY drain EVERYTHING you have, be it ammo or medical supplies, and then drop some trinket worth 5% of what you wasted on them.
Money is basically worthless in this game, because again, YOU CANNOT BUY AMMO. All you can buy are upgrades which don't do anything and guns that you get for free in the levels.
If you're gonna play this game, you're basically forced to convince someone to play this pile of garbage with you, because CO-OP is the only way to not end up in a psych ward.
If you THINK you want to play this game, just watch the funny and ridiculous cutsenes on youtube, because this "game" has genuinely nothing to offer from a gameplay point of view.
