In comparison to RE7 I’ve seen the director said they made it less scary so it would draw in more players, also I’ve heard it is a bit more action based. For people who rate games like this based around horror I think more people will lean towards 7 over 8. RE8 just came out so the high praise is due to the hype. Like with the Mortal Kombat movie I saw a lot of posts by random people talking about how great it was then articles were coming out about it being pretty bad (I wasn’t impressed myself either) & some were saying even the 1995 film was better