So, on Wednesday evening, I finished Resident Evil VII: Biohazard. Or possibly "Resident Evil VII: Biohazard"; I don't know what the preferred style on video game titles is, and I refuse to look it up. Because I don't review them. Because I only very rarely play them.

I am a casual gamer. This is my confession.

Back to "Resident Evil VII: Biohazard" for a moment: I quite enjoyed it! Perhaps not quite as much as I liked the previous three entries in the genre, which were more like clever action games with a patina of horror. This is more in the horror-survival mode: As Ethan—who is searching for his wife, Mia—you spend much of the early going running from villains and being scared by dark corners and spooky sounds. Mia, you see, has been kidnapped by a band...