Yeah I played it at night, didn't really do much to improve the game and I didn't really feel any tension throughout. For me the time of day that I play a game makes zero difference in the atmosphere, i'm just not the type of person to get scared by games(or movies and TV shows), guess I just have nerves of steel.
Astrosmasher- I don't think RE has lost it's way at all, personally i'm not overly fond of the first three entries in the series, since 4 was the first game in the series I actually played, it's just hard for me to go backwards from that. I think the RE series has naturally evolved for the better, it couldn't stay the same forever(the one thing I hated the most in the early games was that awful limited save system, that's also why I have no desire to play the early Tomb Raider games).