Review: Resident Evil 4 is the perfect reimagining of one of Capcom’s biggest hits

Review: Resident Evil 4 is the perfect reimagining of one of Capcom’s biggest hits

Review: Resident Evil 4 is the perfect reimagining of one of Capcom’s biggest hits

The Remake recreates the Capcom classic, offering a new experience without forgetting everything that makes the original great.

resident Evil this franchise has gone through a lot of ups and downs, but despite that, I’ve always been a huge fan of its games, especially original trilogy that marked my childhood. That said, I’ve never been a big fan of Resident Evil 4, though I do acknowledge its influence, especially on a generation prefix 2I always thought it was a bit of a drag and the more active grip didn’t get my attention.

Capcom is currently coming with its remakes classic Resident Evil, named by them rethinking, a new version of the fourth game was announced, which raised my expectations, as it was an opportunity to fix things that I didn’t like about the original. But apart from that, it was gigantic responsibility from the company to remake what is arguably the franchise’s most beloved game.

Luckily, Capcom has been able to take on this responsibility and create a game that, like Resident Evil 2reimagines the project while retaining everything that makes the fourth game so iconic and adding some new features and surprises. The result is one of big games a company that is not in the shadow of the original.

Data sheet

Title: resident evil 4

Developer: capcom

Distributor: capcom

Platform: Xbox Series S/X, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and PC

Launch: March 24

Floor: Third-Person Shooter, Action

Fight Ganados one more time!

Follow Leon and Ashley’s Journey Once Again

Premise resident evil 4 It stays the same and is pretty simple. Leon S. Kennedysurviving his first day as a police officer in Raccoon City began working in the special forces of the President of the United States. On one of his assignments, he is sent to a village in european interior bring back the president’s daughter, Ashleywho was kidnapped.

Arriving there, Leon once again finds himself in a terrible situation, but instead of infected zombies t-virusfinds people affected by Las Plagasa parasite that takes over their body, turning them into cattle. Now our main character needs to survive trying to find the girl and bring her home safely.

The premise is pretty simple and worked great for the original game. In this new version it also supports almost 15 hours of gameplaybut with some details which further enhance the journey. The main one is that basically all the supporting characters get a little more attention, especially Ashley This Louisa man whom Leon meets at the very beginning of his journey.

Ashley earns more construction from the moment of its first appearance, ceasing to be just a helpless girl whom Leon must rescue in order to become a character in his own right. It makes her so much more interesting and less insufferable if you found it insufferable in the original game.

On the other hand we have Louiswho in the original appeared occasionally at good times and had some terrible jokes. here he is swiping charismaperhaps the most charismatic character in Resident Evil 4. His appearance has great motivationless like he comes and goes at his convenience. However, your jokes and comments about Ashley’s body the humor present in the original game was replaced with something more interesting and appropriate for the modern franchise.

Finally, even villains that Leon meets along the way are better worked out. be in terms storytelling or gameplayeverything is here reinforced and polished. But despite the fact that the story is something important to Resident Evil, what makes the franchise so expensive is the gaming experience, mostly combat, environment and location explorationand here the rethinking went to another level.

The most stylish fight in the franchise

The knife is the highlight of Leon’s arsenal.

Although the gameplay of Resident Evil 4 is marked by the PlayStation 2 generation, it is currently well from. One of the best examples of this is the fact that whenever Leon target shoot, the character stays has stoppedsomething that is hard to imagine these days. But at the time of release it was dynamicthe reward and what’s more, it was great to kick Ganado in the head and Leon kicked the target and other nearby enemies.

As with storytelling, Capcom took points important what made the action of the original so compelling and made necessary modifications to make it work for the time being. result almost perfect. Initially, it is possible for the player to find some controls heavyaiming is slightly different from Remake of Resident Evil 2 or 3but after half an hour, getting Ganado in the head to perform strikes shouldn’t be a problem, making it possible to understand the clash news.

A detail that has always been the subject of player complaints was Ashley. In the original, she could easily die, or she was picked up by enemies and taken away. Now she can still call her game overbut, for example, in order for the Ganados to catch her, you need more time, which gives the player space to plan.

Your artificial intelligence succeeded increased, since the original was released almost 20 years ago and will be attacked less frequently. Also, there is a function to do this move away from Leonpreventing it from being hit by attacks directed at the protagonist or grenades and other explosives.

In addition, we have do, an extremely important item in almost every game in the franchise. Here, as in the first Resident Evil Remake, you can collect some knives and everyone has a bar durabilitywhereby, when she gets to the end, her knife break. But, unlike the original, the weapon is used to finish off enemies, whether furtively – since now you can crouch and move without attracting the attention of enemies – or if they are on the ground.

You can also use an object to get rid of capture and a few hits that will kill you immediatelylike a fatal cut electric saw from the enemies who use it, called Dr. Savior. But the biggest highlight of the item is the power crop blows. Most enemy attacks that use items, whether thrown or not, Leon can use his knife to parry most attacks. If the cut button is pressed in right moment the enemy will be stunned, causing the hero to kick.

The new usefulness of the knife takes combat to the next level, as throwing a bullet without thinking is no longer the solution. Another detail that complements this fight is that it is also possible to dodge attacks by ducking or running as painbox de Leona (character area that, on hit, deals damage to the affected hero), is built in this way ideal. So if he is somewhat mm from the ax Ganado will not fall. With all these new additions, the difficulty can be a little higher until the player learns it, but after that the game has a nice twist where the challenges increase along with Leon’s arsenal.

With a knife and perfect animation, you can do what most Capcom games have: create beautiful and exciting moments. This something is present in monster hunter and is the soul Devil May Cryand now Resident Evil. Depending on your domain and your weapons, which, like the original, have a wide variety, it is possible to create scenes taken from action movies, such as John Wickwith explosions, exaggerated punches and in the end only Leon stands.

The only downside is that Quick Events (points where the player needs to press a button quickly to continue) have been completely removed and I believe they will work very well in one scene or another.

Even though combat is one of its highlights, study it’s just as important to Resident Evil, sometimes even more, and here we take it a step further than the original.

beware of the dark

There is much more darkness in the new game.

As a fan of the original three games, I’ve never liked how exploration works. resident evil 4since the game looks pretty linear. There are not many possibilities return to the ancient sites, and even if it were possible, there would be nothing to do. Because the new one is rethinkingits structure was not completely changed, but it introduced changes that I liked a lot more rhythm.

The first is its setting. Resident Evil 4 basically splits into 3 large different areas and you go through them, completing the chapters and progressing through the story. The first location that can already be seen in the released demo is village and everything around you. It’s already in the original scary since the game starts and Leon is still defenseless, he doesn’t have many weapons, let alone ammo.

Besides the places we pass grotesques, either in dirty houses or exploring the forest at night not knowing what to expect. But when I walk I feel that tone frightening he is lost. The remake is different. The first part is still scarier than the rest, but the rest of the areas manage to maintain their creepy tone.

Apart from the new models, the main thing that makes all these places truly scary is their lighting. Lights often only illuminate one nearby area, causing us to find more dark moments, which in itself opens up gaps for fears – planned or not. In addition, there are times when the only illumination is Lantern Leonwhat works beautifully.

At this time, the sounds of enemies or just scenarios are usually heard in the background, which makes the player even more wary of moving forward. The only problem with the setting is that in the review version on Xbox Series Sthere were some mistakes in puddles scenarios. They stayed with their non-stop flashing texturesomething that can be distracting, although not very annoying, but it will probably be fixed in first day updatewhich will be available when the game starts.

But besides being scary, research these places are even more interesting. While the chapter structure remains the same, the world seems much more interconnected, the ability to return to previous places to perhaps pick up something left behind. The transfer from the original game to the new one is not one to one, leaving a feeling “Wow, is this part X of the original?” and sometimes it is, but at other times it may be something quite different.

There is one freshness arrive at a new chapter, since it is impossible to know if the events will similar, if we have new enemies or even if the puzzles remain the same. At the same time, the new Resident Evil 4 remains fresh even for those who have played the original thousands of times and memorized all its secrets.

Rating: 10 out of 10.

resident evil 4 is one of the most well thought out reimaginings ever made by Capcom. Even though it’s not as scary as the second game, it makes up for it Exciting action and fun timesa great choice for those who haven’t played the original and want to know the franchiseand for diehard fanswhich once again shows that the company has a promising path for the franchise.

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