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8. Happy Birthday - Resident Evil 7
Now to be clear, Resident Evil 7 is a mostly terrific game, yet there's one sequence in particular which offers up an exhilarating experience quite unlike anything we've ever seen in a Resident Evil game before.
One of the game's antagonists, Lucas Baker, taunts player character Ethan Winters with a series of Saw-style traps, the most memorable of which is the iconic "Happy Birthday" trap.
Ethan is tasked with placing a lit candle on top of a birthday cake, which per the convoluted nature of Lucas' trap, is considerably tougher than it first appears.
After viewing a tape in which doomed cameraman Clancy fails the task and burns to death in the process, the player must figure out the tricky means through which they can escape the room alive.
It's an expertly devised sequence that, again, is like no other puzzle in a Resident Evil game, enough that it feels like Capcom missed their calling for making a Saw video game.
Though a couple of mediocre Saw games already exist, there's an attention-to-detail in Resident Evil 7's Happy Birthday trap which suggests the team behind it is absolutely capable of delivering a masterfully clever, twisted adaptation of the hit horror movie franchise.