Resident Evil DS - yes I can make it through someday!

Did not expect to like this either, but it's another game I've been waiting for to try out 4 person combat multiplayer, and then got sucked into finishing the single player game.

The multiplayer is interesting in that you only see yourself as a character onscreen. Any other players appear as colored stars moving around. I can see how this makes sense, since if you had 4 bodies in the tight spaces of the game, you'd have a lot of trouble seeing them. But it looks pretty unfinished and elicits this kind of conversation while playing:
"come on, little star!"
"kill that zombie, star buddy!"

And so on. I have played a couple times with co-workers, most fun with the resident Resident Evil fan (master_of_unlocking) but the stars get distracting.

I really do like the puzzle solving, even the limited inventory and having to think about what you're carrying and how to get to the next save point with enough typewriter ribbons to save. Sometimes it even feels like having full pockets in Animal Crossing.
(dropping off health herbs in a storage chest and dropping off cool hats I just bought at Sable's in my house, in order to make room for either ammunition or some new piece of furniture, feels kind of the same somehow).
And the speed might be just right for me. Just a bit faster than Narnia DS, not as fast as a real shooter game.

Aargh and I need to be able to do a decent save file by making it past that hallway full of hunters (big nasty super-zombie monsters) without dying or being poisoned earlier by the spiders...