Resident Evil 4 : Raising The Standard
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
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0:00 Intro
1:56 The Return of Survival Horror
5:40 The Breakable Knife
7:14 Crafting, Inventory, and Bolt Thrower
10:52 Puzzles, Puzzles, Puzzles!
13:42 Loot and Side Quests
15:22 Combat and Balance Changes
21:50 Cut Content
26:30 Camera Problems
27:43 Characters and Boss Fights
32:23 Listing Criticisms
35:48 Conclusion - Ігри
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I wish capcom could give us the ability to take out all bullets from our loaded guns.
Why: lets say u found a new pistol (lets call it pistol B) in resident evil, that pistol is better than the pistol u are currently using (lets call it pistol A). But pistol A is loaded with ammo and you want to take out all ammo from pistol A and load those ammos in pistol B but capcom dont give you that mechanic so it kinda sucks.
How did you get Ashley in the Heather Mason outfit?
Re3 remake jill should have a personality like re4 remake ashley.
No one harassed Gao relax
Also for someone who says he LOVES RE4 you say you can't finish it? The game is not exploitative (in regard to kicks). Its built in crowd control.
@@DatcleanMochaJo I finished it multiple times back in 2005. Played through Mercenaries for months. It's just that now it doesn't hold my attention for more than a few hours. I like this new version much more.
Regarding the cut scene where Leon throws the knife into Salazaar's hand, I think you could argue this was replaced by him just plainly shooting him in the head right before his boss fight. Seriously that part made me laugh so hard my first play through because I was actually saying out loud why doesn't he just shoot him in the head during all these interactions they keep having. And then he does it.
Same, that and the gate smashing down on a hostile made up for any of the campy stuff that was left out. Those two moments alone gave me the "ok this is awesome" vibes all the way through the game
Bro I lost it when Leon shot Salazar 💀
Leon is on sight with every enemy in this game lol I love it.
Yep. The sight of Leon getting fed up and just shiotung him over and over was epic
i love also the fact that Salazar turns into this goofy manchild like in the og, its worth listen/read what he says in the fight, it made me personally chuckle ( and lead me once to a death)
One of the most underrated aspects of games in general is pacing and this game pretty much perfects it, like once you get into the flow 3 hours will feel like 5mins, unlike many other games where pacing as a concept is nonexistent.
This is also something that the original perfects same with devil may cry 3 and it contributes alot as to why those 2 games are so infinitely replayable
Eeh I actually think the pacing is one of the few things the remake does worse than the original. There's just a lot more cinematic padding if that makes sense
The pacing in the last third is actually better than in the original.
@@energeticyellow1637 correct
@@energeticyellow1637 Step up from padded cinematic experience of Re3r but yeah, it does feel a bit sluggish at some points then at others it feels like one awesome set piece back to back to back. Either way love the original and greatly enjoying the remake. Cheers
the ashley section was so good imo thats the point of the game where i was like “okay this is actually terrifying”
Yeah it was a lot better than original Ashley part
I disagree.
It was scary till I realized that you can stand with your activated lantern in the open and nothing will happen to you.
It gets a bit more tense after you lose your lantern however if you pay attention you soon realize that quite a few enemies from the pervious section are missing which lessen the moment and in addition to that the whole running away sequence wasn't particularly challenging for me at least.
@@apkhbmbgamlkbh1531 I didn't realize the lantern was effective until near the end, which made repeated playthroughs far less scary and tense. The section would've been improved 100% of they left that mechanic out.
@@apkhbmbgamlkbh1531 my first playthrough after I completed chapter 9, I got a challenge that basically said "for completing the Ashley section without using lantern on enemies" and I was like WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!
Because, I spent the better part of an hour doing Ashley's section by itself never realizing you can USE the lantern to stun knights. The room with the 4 gongs took me half that time and I died so much. I came up with my own way of doing all the gongs and not get attacked by knights (start North West gong and finish at North East gong in a U-shape setting them off is the best way). Unsure if I missed something the game told me or I just wan't intuitive enough to aim with the lantern but yeah, that's what happened to me. Your description of Ashley's section sealed the deal for me, not only was her character not annoying but also her section is fun now and you can skip it aswell practically.
@@NakedGhost3234 That sounds fun. I will try this on my next playthrough
Fun fact: If you shoot the bells Salazar communicates you with, he will shut up, which is a nice callback to the "fall with this old trick" scene.
I just wish he actually got pissed off at it though. He just laughs and stops talking in the remake
The Krauser fight felt like a Metal Gear Solid boss fight. The monologuing about being soldiers and everything just added to it.
I thought I was the only one lol
@@phanton_of_the_WOPera I half expected him to scream "SNAAAAAKE" at some point
In general this game has a slight of that Metal Gear feel. Like when you can use Heat scopes to check which bags contain Regeneradors.
Or how you can parry projectiles flying at you, the same way - enemies can parry your shots with their weapons.
@@lukkkasz323 The original did too. Krauser always felt like he was ripped out of MGS3
Fun fact: If you keep the golden egg in the village until you get to Salazar and then throw it at him and if it hits him it will take away 70% of his health.
You can also just keep the one in his throne room
@@Crouton-or keep both and kill him with two eggs 🤣
HOW? HOW TF DID PEOPLE FIGURE THAT OUT??? WHO THOUGHT “hmm I’m going to keep the golden egg and throw it at Salazar just to see what happens”
@@RideMyLighting Because of the merchant quest where he ask you to throw one at his picture. For many people it lead to "Huh, I wonder what would happen if I threw it at the REAL one" or just that'd I'd be even more funny 😂
@@danielaiken2048 You just blew my mind and i feel very stupid!
The replay value alone is fucking bonkers. I beat the game twice and I would be playing it much more if I wasnt also working a job and going to uni. The amount of different loadout/ challenge runs and speedrunning strategies I have in my head is driving me insane. These days a game can only hold my attention for maybe 2 hours at a time before I get tired and lose interest. With the RE4R I didn't even notice I played for like 12 hours straight. I felt like a kid again when playing this game. It will be really hard to top this one for me.
Totally agree. Can’t wait for mercenaries later this week, just hope it’s not like Village even tho I did find it reasonably enjoyable it wasn’t as fun as og RE4
Soo true this game has me addicted, already got 60 hours on it
I already beat it 5 times granted I’m doing speed runs so yeah. Fastest time is 3 hours 53 minutes
i almost never speedrun re games because i prefer them casually, but after my profesional playthrough i immediately had the urge to load up new game+ with maxed out pistols to do a pistol/knife only speedrun on hardcore, on my 3rd playthrough/first speedrun i got S rank at 5:26 with only 4 minutes remaining. Gonna try for S+ on proffesional now that i have learned alot of the glitches/skips
That's awesome man. Cool to hear it.
I can see a lot of the cut content being put into seperate ways and assignment Ada. The laser room can fit in with Adas hacking mechanic, and U-3 is reference in the game, and you see the entrance to his boss arena in the base game. Considering Ada moves through the same areas as Leon, albeit from different directions, I can see her tackling some of the stuff that wasn’t done by Leon
But... Ada story is not in game.
So all of this is just assuming.
@@mycity7590It's not assuming, there will 100% be an Ada DLC
@@mycity7590 separate ways files including U3 have already been uncovered and leaked by data miners
Damn, I didn't even notice his boss entrance was in the game! Which chapter can you find it in?
@@shreksolosgoku I can’t remember but I do know it’s right before the Krauser fight
It's been years since I anxiously and desperatley waited for a new game. I can see myself playing this game for a couple thousands hours. Just got S rank on Professional, damn was that an experience.
What's that take? Accuracy or something? Dying less?
@@keepthechange2811I believe it's deaths and time to complete
The cool part is if you want a guaranteed kick, you can use a flash bang. This game has a lot more choice and item management, which I like a lot.
You can also do a knife kill when they're stunned
Not only that a guaranteed knife stab which is really powerful against like salvordors
actually it's not chance based though, it's damage based; you have to deal above 1.0 and on higher difficulties your damage is 1/4th it's normal damage so you're not staggering until you get 1 to 3 shots.
Yeah I always assumed a damage threshold had to be met to stun.
I don't know if this is just my imagination but shooting the leg feels like they drop to one knee more reliably than shooting the head makes them turn away, so it feels like a choice between dealing more damage and having a more reliable melee prompt.
I think my favorite part of RE4(r), is the continuity between it, RE2(r), and RE3(r). In all Resident Evil games, prior, you knew the names of the characters, you loved them, but it always felt disjointed; you had to do "research" in order to piece all the events together. With the remakes, all of it flows so fucking smoothly that the Resident Evil Universe FEELS real. Leon's bitterness, and change in demeanor from RE2(r) to the opening sequence of RE4(r), feels like trauma; like it personally affected him. His demeanor change, whilst seeing how much more confident he is in combat, whilst still keeping some of his "dorkier" quirks, makes him FEEL like a real person you're connected to.
I love what Capcom's doing, and I hope they keep all models and voice actors for their upcoming games. [And I love Ada's new voice actress.]
You're definitely in a huge minority about Ada. What's about her voice that you love?
@@MultiKamil97honestly it’s not the VA fault for lack of direction or context, but at the end of it it caters to her mysterious spy personality. I get it, she’s a bit stiff, but at the end it’s not as bad as everyone makes it out to be.
1. Didn’t use a celebrity; typically results in a TERRIBLE representation of a character.
Ex. 1 - Ronda Rousey as Sonya. Dogshit. Honestly.
Ex. 2 - Megan Fox as a vampire in MK1 (forgot that characters name because she did such a poor job I didn’t care to remember).
2. VA tried her best, but again, with little direction and context it’d be kind of hard to do a “superb” job.
I know reason 2 was already explained but I think all considering, still a good job.
What I was worried about was them adding unskippable cutscenes and walk n talk sections. But luckily you can skip all major cutscenes and codec calls. The only walking section is towards the end but luckily it barely lasts a minute long. Makes replaying the game soooo much better imo.
If that laser sight mod does happen, be careful with it. The laser sight is really good in this game because it makes every shot count as fully focused. You don't have to wait for the reticle to tighten in, and you get the stagger chance and crit chance bonus every time. So if the eventual mod just adds laser sights to everything, that'll throw off the intended balance unless the mod author accounts for it.
Yeah, after already completing the game and having the real experience, it should be fine for replay.
Just as with the zoom while aiming, putting the laser sight on everything would break the game
@@Jose-se9pu I don't think the camera mod is nearly as big of a deal. It does make the game a bit easier, but in a way that affects the whole experience equally. The laser sight mod would only benefit guns that didn't have it to begin with, so it'd either have to buff the existing laser sight guns, or nerf all of the guns that gain access to it. Or nerf them if the laser sight is equipped. Or at least limit it to new game + where balance is pretty much out the window anyway. If you don't account for it, the Blacktail becomes even more crazy and the existing laser sight guns become obsolete garbage.
To be clear, I think the limitations Capcom added are kinda dumb, and I wish they'd chosen some other way to balance it. Like, the Blacktail literally has a scope rail on it, but you just can't use it because they wanted the gun to be a certain way. But if you just give every gun instant focus with no other changes, that throws off the balance between guns massively.
Edit: I wouldn't be surprised if the Blacktail *does* end up with pretty much guaranteed stagger under that mod.
@@Jose-se9pu saying removing aim zoom breaks the game is absurd. As for laser sight, it's not that I wish they had just slapped it on every weapon. It's that I wish they had included it AND balanced it appropriately for that.
I think the best way to balance this would be an unlockable weapon attachment after completing the game on professional. Maybe there's more to this that I'm not seeing, although I was hoping for a few more weapon unlocks/upgrades after completing certain requirements. That was one of my favourite aspects of the RE2 Remake. Still looking forward to unlocking the Salazar knife and Chicago typewriter though.
Playing on Hardcore as my first ever play through of an RE game was magical.
if re4 was your first re game then hop on RE2 or RE7 next its worth it
Resident Evil 8 Village is closer to RE4 in terms of progression and gameplay even if it's more actioney and gets a bit "dumb" in the end.
@@traceyrinaldi4759 yea true but he has to see the survival horror part of re too
@@CRT_YT thanks for the suggestion, will definitely check out RE7 and RE8!
That is literally the best way to experience the game on the first play through.
My favorite change to the various enemies has got to be Navistadors, their ability to camouflage themselves with a brown hue is first seen in an area that contrasts well, they feel out of place.
Then you're attacked by like 4 of them and they're pretty aggressive. They don't hit super hard, but grab you quickly.
Then you enter the mines and they become much harder to see, it teaches you to go slow and watch the environment.
And their final area is great, super dark and there's only like 3 of them, but theyre damn near invisible.
Being able to 1 shot them with a Pistol while they're camouflaged gives a good reward for paying attention.
Bug hunting has never felt so good.
This was the first RE i have ever played, and one of the first games for me where i was actually sad when the story ended despite being so long. Great game and also great video.
Def try the others chronologically if you liked it. Esp. the gamecube remake for the original
Hey VPR! Welcome to the RE fandom 💞 I highly HIGHLY recommend the other remakes and 7/8.
no play the rest of the remakes and and then 7 and village
What??? How old are you? How can this be the first RE you played?
RE 2 & 3 Remake are AMAZING, you should definitely try it
22:41 He's a huge fire breathing statue in the clock tower.
23:27 Some good news, the gondolla and U3 will likely return in Ada's DLC.
24:11 He guns him down before he finishes a sentence instead, you can also shoot the speakers to cut him off.
27:07 That's why I love 21:9.
I think the knife throwing scene was cut and changed into the scene where Leon shoots him while his talking at the beginning of his fight
Yeah, that's just not a change I like very much. I need those character moments in the lead up to the fight. I just feel nothing for Salazar here.
@@underthemayo it isn't about the missing knife throw. It is, like you said, about underusing Ramón and his spoiled brat personality that makes him feel dull. On the other hand, Saddler benefits from not appearing directly until the last scenarios because it gives him that "cult leader" status that the original lacked (I always found funny how the guy is present at the church but doesn't manage to capture you or Ashley, or how randomly he shows up to back stab Luis like he hansn't got a million goons under his command)
@@francocavecchia8246Saddler though is weaker in the remake in my opinion. His presence felt bigger in the original while in the remake most of his appearances are in short cutscenes. It doesn't make him more mysterious, it makes him less interesting. He felt like a typical villain instead of being this unique, cult leader. His face also looks kinda forgettable. In the OG he had a characteristic look, now he looks like an every-man.
@MultiKamil97 the ease of which he handles leon though
I'm kind of bitter about the fact they did a great remake of RE4 when I think about the massive disappointement that was RE3R, a game that should have been as good if not better. Nevertheless, I love what they did with this one and I really hope future remakes will benefit from the same amount of care from Capcom.
Re2 and 4 were one company re3 was another
re3 remake 2 when
I hope U-3 will appear in Ada's camapaign considering that he is indeed referred in some of the in game files.
About that Knife throw into Salazar's arm, I think that might have something to do with cut idea of Salazar infecting peoples using his hand.
Salazar got changed to fit more with the horror vibe, so in my opinion Salazar should have been done as "playfully evil", à la Chucky, instead of the "sinister creepy" that is done in the remake.
Great video. I agree with everything you said in this review. RE4 original is my favorite of the series and I loved the change to resources. I found the game incredibly difficult at times because I had to shed old habits and force myself to develop new strategies for this game. Relearning a game that I have practically mastered is probably my favorite thing about this remake.
Thanks for making such a comprehensive review. I don't often watch such long reviews but I enjoyed this
I honestly am happy to hear you feel this way about the Remake.
I honestly say it's better than the original not only for the better balance, but the fact it has more survival horror focused and gives some characters more lore. It feels like it more connected to the re universe as a result and feels more like a RE game. I enjoyed the original as a game, but the focus on action with horror taking a huge back seat hurts it for me.
@Sparda G It had horror in places, not the same thing as the RE games that came before.
All REs had some form of action, no doubt about that. However, that action wasn't the primary part of RE, it was secondary. RE4 though, it flipped that idea.
I was sad when Ada didn’t appear in her Chinese dress and do a cart wheel kick to get her gun back :(
RE4 Remake for me is a hybrid horror
A perfect blend of survival horror and action horror
Survival horror.? Strange, maybe it's because the rng was to friendly for me but I ran through professional not giving to much care about the ammo as I knew the game would eventually drop me some. I did go in though expecting to enjoy it as an action horror and that's what I got.
Another great review. I'm looking forward to playing this one. Good to see everyone seems to be united in the praise. The little tweaks to things like crafting ammo etc telling you how much you'll get are small things but make such a difference to gameplay smoothness and immersion!
You can notice this game was made with love.
My biggest Cut problem was the encounter with Ada. Hello? Her iconic trademark disarming backflip? HELLO?!
Excellent point on the resource scarcity and incentives to use your entire kit. I played OG RE4 on Normal, then Professional in anticipation for the remake, and by the end of both playthroughs I was drowning in ammo and healing items. Here? I can barely scrape by even on a NG+ run with an upgraded arsenal and I love it. It's so much more intense and rewarding to get through.
It bridges the gap between the og games and the second trilogy so well in that regard. You actually feel like you're at the end of the rope and need to plan perfectly at parts. It made me beat the game twice so I could get those cat ears and play like in the original, guns blazing. There's 3 different ways to play. Completionist, speed run, and with infinite ammo it plays more like the original. Absolutely love it
You're right. In an action game with endless waves of enemies it's a really good idea to have no ammo.
/s
@@neamraven especially when the enemies are bullet sponges like in the re3 remake
@@mrpringle9479 They're fine in RE3R. They're bullet sponges in RE2R.
I didn't think RE4 needed to be remade but capcon knocked it out of the park with this remake. It's already in my top 5 RE games
I'd put this and Skillup's review at the top of the list. Great work.
Best review I’ve seen of this game great video!
I'm glad you're the first (I've watched) breaking down the difference between survival horror and action horror and how the line is blurred here. That's why I'm actually excited to see them revisit 5 and (hopefully) give it the same treatment 4 had. The combination of the old arcade action styles in 4-6 with more visceral and believable enemies and atmosphere. The brown/grey look of 4/5 in exchange for the beautifully rendered environments and lighting in the REmakes changes the tone of playing so much it's insane
5 was an action game, and all these remakes respected the original.
All I hope is they remove co-op, but that is unlikely for the same reason.
Give us Code Veronica first please!
@@alexandernilssonmusic I hope Capcom REmake team know how bad we want CV. It (og) may have low sales but I guarantee a remake would explode in popularity if it got the RE 2/4 R treatment. If they do 0/1/CV/5 with the same quality I'll buy it. I was more than sceptical for 4 until reviews came out and I had to have it
@@RADIANTRAIN5 Totally 💯
Really good video right here; thanks mayo!
I did the Hg/knife, no healing and no merchant only on assisted thinking I’d have all kinds of handgun ammo but even on assisted, most boxes had money; I generally had just enough ammo to get by, sometimes even running out! I like that they coded the game in a way that makes it so you’re strapped for ammo all the time, even in the easy mode with no other weapons to get ammo for! I love this game, I think I like it more than the original.
This game is what Village should've been
If only Capcom was that competent
Village was good for what it was though
@Rick Ross 8 had very good gameplay. Obviously it doesn't compare to the RE4 Remake, but there is no reason that Ethan would be wrecking an shit like Leon is.
@@AokosBriefcase "but there is no reason that Ethan would be wrecking an shit like Leon is."
To be fair, this is *far* from being the reason as of why it's trash.
@@ProsecutorValentine I see a lot of people saying they hate the game, but the only criticism I have for it are the DLC and Lady Dimitrescu's very short screen time. I do wanna see your opinion tho, so please respond if you have the time ! (And if you don't, know that I respect it)
it’s amazing how much they added to the little things, even fitting gems into treasures and the shooting range is more fun
What do you mean fitting gems into treasures, that was in the original game, are you saying it's more fun in the remake, in what way? It's literally the same thing in both games.
@@DeadEndScreamer its literally not, it is designed differently, and it is expanded, it depends on which gem u will put and then which price it will be
There are few games I replay aftwr finishing them to see what I missed. There are even fewer I replay multiple times to see what I missed, trying the items I didn't use on my first playtrough and most importantly, to master the game's mechanics and get better at getting in the flow state the best examples for me are Doom Eternal and Forgive me Father. I love this game!
The shotgun knocking people down the way that it did in the original vs the way it performs in the remake (you have to aim at the legs to knock enemies down now by taking out their legs up close) is kind of an encapsulation of this entire remake taking ideas and making them better. On every level they just took ideas and made them better.
Yea if you aim at the torso you straight up cut them in half 😂
@@SolidSnake240 that shit is so cool man. Love that addition
@Afro Shinobi seriously it's great and yet there are people who say the gore is toned down from other remakes 😂
For me the way enemies like Dr.Salvadore of even random ganados when they grab ashley can straight up gnore a point blank shotgun shot to any part of their body is what encapsulates the remake, taking a consistent and reliable gameplay system and making it an RNG mess on difficulty higher than normal.
@@DeadEndScreamerI feel similarly about some of that, weaker weapons not always stunning is good but I feel like way too often I'd not even get a flinch with the stronger weapons, they'd tank right through them. It felt like that issue was tied to certain actions, though; for example, if they were about to lunge on you for a grab, the game would ignore the hit entirely.
Great video man, I'm on my third play though and am having a blast with this game. Did the first one on Hardcore, the second on Professional using my previously upgraded weapons, now doing another Professional run from scratch for the achievements and bonus weapons. Seeing what they've done with this game, as well as RE2 makes me sad they did not give RE3 the same treatment. Such a wasted opportunity there, especially since it's clear they were perfectly capable of nailing it.
History likes to come full circle. The OG RE3 was also criticised for being rushed and feeling more like a DLC to RE2 than an actual sequel. They did the same with the remake but they seemed to rush it even more than they did with the OG which is sad because RE3 is in my TOP3 favourite RE games and seeing so many things cut from the remake is just disappointing.
I think that focused shots should have been a consistent stagger. It starts to feel more like evil within or dead space than re4 when you're going through several encounters without ever getting a melee opportunity due to rng (on hardcore). The beat em up and crowd control mechanics have always been what separates re4 from something like dead space and I don't think making them rare on hardcore was the right choice. Towards the end of the game I was just killing every enemy with three focused red 9 headshots without ever getting a melee opportunity. Making it a consistent stun only on focus shots would have been the nice middle ground for me to change up from the original while still keeping the melee aspect in play.
I also think red 9 just had terrible stagger chance. With sentinel 9 and black tail it’s like 75% headshots stagger
Not just focused shots. Any shot to the head or the knee should be a guaranteed stagger. If it's not, the game is RNG based rather than skill based. The shooting is also complete RNG with the bloom. The game is made for people who play it once on Standard.
@@IAmDaDumb1 Red9 was horribly nerfed. It's a useless gun now.
@@neamravenMaybe but the aggressive enemies should still be around since the original with its guranteed stagger was too easy since enemies were slow and predictable.
I really liked all your points in this video and it could be easily me blaming the movement for my death or not appearing stabbing or kicking icon fast enough to make me kill the target. This review is spot on!
Better than original for sure!
Thanks for the video! It's cool to see how varied opinions can be about the details.
On my end, I think the Verdugo encounter in RE4 was the most memorable fight in the game. It was the scariest boss fight where I felt the most terrified, so to see only tweaks in the remake made me happy. Don't mess with what's broken! I do miss It (U-3) though...
I'm also on the opposite end of adding regular enemies to boss battles. It's the ultimate crutch in boss fights, so glad Capcom showed restraint there. And while I agree that Salazar had a more dislikeable personality, the game does let you know that it was Salazar that undid all the effort of his family to keep Las Plagas buried. It gives us a clearer reason to kill him other than being a petulant ma-child. Overall, I do agree that for the most part the boss fights were not memorable encounters, but credit to improving the lead-up to those battles with better narrative devices.
And the soundtrack in the original was overall better. Ganado II music was more intense, Mendez boss music was suitably creepier, Salazar's was more exciting, Infiltration, etc. Remake did better with the Verdugo music and sound, the new Gigante battle in the castle and for el Regenerador, but overall the music was just good but not what I would play in the background.
I share your enthusiasm for the bolt thrower and the knives. Easily my two favorite new mechanics they added to the game.
My only complaints: I miss old merchant VA, the lake monster shooting fish jumpscare isn't as effective, no "no thanks, bro"
The merchant new voice it's realy good tho
No thanks bro is the achievement
Right after I finished the game I came to your channel to see your review. Now it's out :D
I remember seeing a ton of comments on the syntheticman RE4 video about how everyone is shilling for this remake and they can't wait for "real" resident evil UA-camrs like Ink ribbon and Underthemayo to give it a real review and let everyone know just how soulless and shit the remake is.... I'd love to watch the mental gymnastics and coping they're doing now.
Yeah, just because I don't like village's misguided direction or RE3's rushed production doesn't mean I'm just gonna hate everything. I'm sure there's plenty of people who are upset that I don't hate this.
synthetic man says its great and gave it 8/10
@@Koi33. I was just referring to his viewers. Some of them can get pretty intense XD This was on the video he made about the original RE4 btw
@@Koi33. I don't know his work besides one video I saw, but hopefully his audience doesn't turn on him.
@@underthemayo that would be funny
I agree, The combat is much deeper compared to the original, the game is less "cheesable"
lol yeah sure, you totally can't cheeze every area by leashing the enemies past their AI zone in the remake.
@@DeadEndScreamer basically no😅
Yeah, the removal of the laser sight for some weapons was just boneheaded. I don’t mind if it’s an upgrade, but not having it on some weapons disincentives me to use them at all.
Why would I bother? The accuracy it guarantees far outweighs any other variances between the weapons. Stupid move by Capcom, I’m amazed modders haven’t fixed this yet.
I love the Knights section in the masoleum,its dark creepy reminds me of the RE 3.5
Was waiting on this!
I'm surprised you miss the Laser Room. I do too, but it was probably excluded for being a reference to the Live-Action movie at the time.
Also the Salazar statue was reused as the flamethrower in the clocktower.
I would give RE4R a 10/10 but it's missing those humourous enemy animations and sound design.
I think the laser sight was removed because of a chain of changes that derive from being able to move while aiming + the fast pace of combat. Basically, in the original, wherever the laser sight was, you hit every time. They clearly wanted to force the need to be more patient and calculated with shooting and force players to be precise with shots instead of relying heavily on the laser sights perfect accuracy to carry you. So they added the cross hairs instead which balance the over abundance of handgun ammo with inaccuracy, which I also think is another deterrent to abusing the handgun.
I also love that the two best handguns (blacktail and red9) can’t even use the laser sight, as this is another balance change. They are more powerful than the rest of the handguns, but thus are less accurate. If you want the accuracy of the laser sight, you must sacrifice the damage ceiling of the best pistols. I think this overall adds to the incredible balance of the weapons system, as every weapon has advantages and disadvantages, with really only a few weapons being significantly better than their counterparts (LE5, Killer 7)
Also, the cannon sensitivity is so low I think because it’s supposed to add to the tension of trying to aim it while someone is trying to attack you/it’s a really big heavy cannon, so it’s be dumb to see it spin around at the speed of sound
Great argument, except it's not based on the fact you can in fact use the lazer sight in this game and the fact that in the original game the aim had a wobble to it not making it nearly as precise as you claim it to be.
haha, I wanted to watch your video now but I still haven't finished the game.
So I just listened to it to avoid some spoilers. Sick review man, favorite youtuber
With regards to the knife in Salazar's hand, if you go back to his throne room after escaping the dungeons there's a knife in one of the paintings at the back of the room. Nice little reference
Good review, I have to disagree with your opinion on the section where you play as Ashley though. Near the start of it you find the lantern, which gives you a means to safely bypass the knights, then the lantern is taken away from you by completing that puzzle and suddenly you have nothing to aid you in passing the knights, creating a really tense moment. I honestly thought that part was genius and a vast improvement over the original, but hey, to each their own.
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I figured that too. I didn't want to go through normal to unlock professional. I started a campaign anyway to prepare for the remake. I was doing super well. But then I noticed it got ridiculously hard by the time I got to the horde house with Luis. I was aware of the dynamic difficulty but I didn't know the extend of it. Turns out, if you play well enough, it turns into professional mode. I wanted to beat the game without dying, so I was getting nervous on the next big encounter. I ended up beating the game within a few days with 1 death (died trying to escape the castle cage. Was shooting at the lock and wolverine guy jumped down right in front of my line of sight. Then a single attack from him hit me twice and killed me... At full health). I still had alot of fun with it.
25:26 I think it's also important to remember that the laser site targeting went on to be used in resident Evil 5 so there's a nostalgic aspect from that standpoint too
One of the few reviews where the gameplay content is actually very high skill and clean. Maybe a minor detail but I found myself saying "Oh, he's really good!" fairly often. Yes, I know, you could just edit out mistakes, but so can everyone else and they still manage to have mostly "meh" gameplay.
23:27 It's funny, I was talking to my friend about this and I had mentioned something that apparently a lot of other people had mentioned too which is, things like the laser room and lift might be used for a Separate Ways campaign since it makes more sense for the agile cool spy character to be doing stuff like this, especially something like the laser room. Even when it comes to U3, the first half of the boss is pretty meh because you don't even fight it, you're running away from it the entire time in the hanging shipping containers, it'd be much more interesting if you instead used a grappling hook to fly around the arena that a certain character already has ;) so fingers crossed I guess
Do you know if I can use a Golden Ticket to instantly get the knife levelled up, or does it only work on guns for their hidden ability? (does the knife have a hidden ability, even?) I heard that levelling up knife durability is the most important thing. I might just sell one of my tickets to get lots of money, and then use that get my knife levelled up faster. I bought 5 x tickets, just as I wanted to mess around and see what OP stuff I could access in the first playthrough (I know I still need to unlock the guns, but you get the 5 x tickets for every new save, so I can just blow them on the more basic weapons)
Amazing Review Mayo!
Great review, tho i mostly disagree with your criticism , especially with facial expressions and Ashley's section (hella better than Original) but other than that i 👍.
(Tho i hope that was a joke when u said that interactions between Ashley and Leon were better in og, cuz all interactions that i can remember were limited with "You pervert!", And "LEON HAAAAAAALP!!")
Yep the Ashley part in the review HAS to be a joke.
I believe some of the cut content will make a comeback in the Separate Ways dlc (if they are doing one), like the fight with U-3 or the lift to make her section more appealing and on par with the main campaign (i didn't like Separate Ways that much so if capcom can remix a good chunk of it, it'll be a welcome change in my eyes)
It aged well 😃 Though I wish we didn't have to pay for it. Separate Ways was entirely for free in the original and I wish they would've keep it this way. It's a sign of the times, I guess.
Here’s a tip for those seeking the s+ rank get the wolf tail it’ll make the village a lot easier until you can get the Chicago sweeper unlimited in the castle also use the sg09 cuz it has the highest crit chance for headshot stun also the silver suitcase helps
I am so bitter that they put so much effort into this compared to RE3 (my personal favorite.) Don't get me wrong, I love all the remakes, I'm just piissd that RE3 was the one to get short thrift.
The missing interactions with Salazar and Saddler were something I definitely mourned. The first meeting with Saddler was something that introduced you to a big bad that would essentially haunt you and Ashley for the respective rest of the title. With him doing the "evil guy is evil for evil reasons" and revealing the plan to you, that was much more of a solid introduction to the main villain of the game than in RE4 Remake where its basically "Hehe, Big Cheese egg you now, and here is evil cutscene". Still loved the game though, to bits in fact. I accepted most of the changes with open arms, though I also miss being able to pay for an ammo upgrade and get a full magazine. I felt the same way you did though and took it as more of a lean into the survival horror aspect of the game so I let that go pretty quick. All in all, solid release and remake, and a game I'll definitely be telling my survival horror fan friends to play it.
As someone who’s first playthrough was also on Hardcore, most of my tactics have been to always hit multiple enemies at once, make use of enemies with fire and pipebombs, hitting explosive barrels, ALWAYS having fish on hand for health, only using yellow mixed herbs in dire situations, upping my sniper game, and juking enemies when having to back track.
The opening village section was the hardest part. Everything else was relatively easier. I had such a blast.
Also, make use of sending items to storage to fit more in your inventory. Chances are there’s a typewriter nearby to retrieve them later anyway. You won’t ALWAYS need guns that take up so much space in your inventory.
Brilliant video, thanks mayo
Holdon holdon, did I just hear ashley and leon's relationship was better in the OG? I disagree HEAVILY and I don't know where you got that from. Also my goodness your takes on bossfights is baffling. I'm just, woah.
An excellent video and i agree with mayo at the end , this feels like a "better" game than OG re4. Even the most die hard fans of re4 (going out on a limb here but i consider myself one) would say that the pacing dragged to a halt during the island section. Island is massively improved now. I think the fire room and U3 might be incorporated in the ADA DLC , if not then still not a big issue.
The basic heart of re4 to me is the "combat - treasure - upgrade" loop which is translated wonderfully well in this remake.
@Rick Ross Yeah, who can disagree when OG RE4 had horrible controls, annoying characters and piss-easy bosses ?
@@ElPolloLoco7689 say you can’t use tank controls without saying you can’t and also the bosses are 10x easier in the remake the recency bias is insane for this game. And the only annoying character would be Ashley but she’s fine imo
I’m so glad you brought up the icon being the same for stabbing an enemy or melee. That was very frustrating
"The fight on the lake with Mar-a-Lago." LOL at that slip of the tongue.
Not Raising the standard, just doing a normal remake. And even then, they remove the game's OST. And is going to sell part if it as a DLC
the game has new OST that pays homage to the original, you’re not playing it in silence.
@@butterr-iq4nm Compared with the original is barely noticeable. Same with 2 and 3
I played the original and now the remake. Personally I don't like the survival horror aspects creeping back in. What do I mean? Frankly the lack of ammo. I was more than ok with amount of ammo and grenades the original gave you to meet the over the top action. This time around, I feel like Im always in need of ammo. I don't like this version where I barely get to use my shotgun. To me, this isn't RE4. Also, having played the original, it seems the lightning is out of them bottle. I'm just not having the same level of excitement playing the remake as I did the original. Perhaps I hyped this game up too much but I've been disappointed.
Have you tried lowering the difficulty? You'll have more ammo and enemies stagger easily like the original.
@@underthemayo I'm playing through on standard right now. One thing I realize I'm not doing after watching your video is using the bolt thrower. I'll give that a try
It's def been a minute since I've played OG RE4, but I don't really remember ever feeling like I was swimming in ammo. I feel like it always had resource management strongly built in just like the older RE's, but idk, maybe my memory is a foggy. It's been years and years.
Imo the laser sight being restricted to the 2 pistols that do the least damage is a balance choice. it's way easier to aim with the laser over the standard crosshair.
The standard crosshair takes time to improve accuracy as well so take that into account.
great vid, but poop take (imo)-> 16:20
This makes the og way more fun imo as there's a consistent formula to fights, and its fun to beat the game as fast as possible, these "exploits" allow for more evasion from stuns and crowd control, it feels more arcadey which I see as a plus from a gameplay standpoint. (ik its your opinion, I just wanna state mine) RE4R is amazing but the OG just cant be beat in some areas imo bc its so buttery smooth for lack of a better word.
I strongly disagree to the statment that this game makes RE 4 2005 "boring", profesional still challenging. it had everything on day one and the unlocks amazing. high reward for completing pro, and the mercenaries. Remenber the PRL?
I think this reviews are too forgiving in my opinion. just becouse of the hype train.
To newcomers, enjoy this great remake, but Jesus the original is greatness for what it achived in its time and the fun/tension that still provides.
Yup the original is still amazing. Don't mistake me personally getting bored now with calling it a boring game. Very different.
I found myself with a surplus of ammo in new game hardcore, but then again I subscribe to the RE4 school of using just the TMP and fully upgraded M1903 rifle in an effort to be as stingy as humanly possible with my ammo lol, glad it still works nearly 20 years later
The laser sight wasnt added to all weapons since it replaces the reticle. After u get the ylupgrade that weapon has pinpoint acuracy even while moving
I really feel like I'm playing another game from most people. I may have spoiled myself by playing the original game before picking up the remake, but I am just not enjoying the experience at all. I played on Hardcore, found the experience tedious and restarted a fresh game 75% through my first run, and tried different things to what I started out doing, and it was still a tiresome experience to play. I don't mind resource management, I don't mind difficulty, but I find the REm4ke in conflict with itself and what the message it conveys to me. Does it want me to play it more aggressive, more action-oriented way? Enemies are sponge-y and inconsistent when it comes to staggering them, and it doesn't drop enough ammo to really play that way. To the point where soft-locks in instances where you're skint on resources and the game offers none in an area where you need lots to get through it. They give knives regularly because the knife breaks so often, so it's not really an option to play defensively either. Does it want me to just run from one end of the map to the other? That's just not very fun to me. I see and appreciate what it's going for but there's an internal conflict in its design that really puts me off from finishing my playthrough.
Have you tried playing on Standard?
@@underthemayo Yep. It's just not for me, I think. I can pick up and play OG RE4 any time; it's the simplicity of it that just brings me back time and again. Same for the first three RE games. Remake 2-4 just aren't for me.
I picked up re3r for the first time today and I had the exact same problems as you. I couldn't get past 20 minutes without getting bored.
You forgot to mention that they repurposed the Gundam to make the clock tower climb more amazing. I also enjoyed your take on the Gigante maintaining the spirit of the Gundan chase. So, basically, they didnt cut the ramon statue: they EXPANDED on it!
And you can destroy the statue
@@omensoffate Yeah! I just discovered that today watching Bawks speedrun, aha
I cannot get that elevator trophy
@@unicorntomboy9736 Do it in NG+ or just use a save and spam shooting to keep every enemy off the lift.
@@anders6326 I tried. I have impaired reflexes due to disabilities
I don't see why that wrecking ball section couldn't have had a trophy attached to it instead. There is an in-game challenge for it after all
So two things I love first is that it feels that you get crafting materials for ammo more them ammo giving you the choice of how you wanna play and second I despise puzzles in games because I'm stupid but this game I haven't gotten to the lab yet mind you makes the puzzles solvable I don't get it at first but as I look around it comes into picture the dinning room one is the crown example so far initially I thought it was silverware but as I looked more into it I figured to true nature and thats peak game design
@31:33 "The fight on the lake with Mar-a-Lago is straight up bad." 😂
RE4 Remake is still an action horror game with survival elements. A survival game will punish you in a detrimental/irreversible way for dying. A survival horror game is that but in a horror setting.
Ehhh, that feels super nit picky. If that’s the standard, then I can’t really see how the majority of RE games are survival, since they all have ways to save and have non irreversible consequences. If that’s the survival horror standard, then what game even has “irreversible” consequences unless you can’t save your progress at all?
To me, and since I’ve heard of the genre, Survival horror has always been by definition a game where you are put in a position where you must survive against horrifying monsters, creatures or people.
Almost every RE game has been a survival horror game, with really only RE6 being a game I’d say has “survival elements” as they really never pushed you into a state where you felt like you were trying to survive.
The original RE4 turned the formula around by instead creating this sub genre of “Action Survival Horror” which is the same formula of trying to survive the horror, but with simply more options to help you do that. Sure, there’s less of a survival feel to the game when you have so many ways to play the RE4 remake, but it’s undeniably still an Action Survival horror, it’s just found an incredible way to add more action while also adding more horror (darker setting, more detailed monsters, faster, tougher and stronger enemies) which makes surviving hard af if you don’t manage your resources well, which clearly makes the game an action survival horror game in my opinion.
Yes, it's still an action horror game. But the first one to make me not need to be defensive when someone calls it survival horror.
@@dansbigfanguitarist Yea it's how I view it, which is why it may come across as nitpicky.
One thing I came to realize when playing modern survival horror games is that I stop being scared after dying the first time. I think this happened first with Alien Isolation. It's when realizing that that I feel this is what most survival horror games are missing.
If you take RE, the original games have a limited save system with the ink ribbons, which on the surface may not seem that different from checkpoints, but they are, because where checkpoints keep track of your progress for you at no cost, you had to keep track of your own progress at the cost of a limited resource with the ink ribbons, and since ink ribbons took up space in your incredibly small inventory, it wasn't viable to carry them all the time because you would need that space for something more important.
You also had to use the ink ribbons on the typewriters, which in the original games were far spread out in safe rooms in between enemy encounters, so there was an element of tension in the decision making of progress of saving in the original games. You can't tell me you saved everytime you walked by the safe rooms in classic RE. The detrimental consequence to dying in classic RE was potential loss of important progress. Not 30 seconds to a minute, but one hour to a few hours, or even in the entire run. That's why no save runs are so intense because if the person playing messes up and dies, there goes their entire run.
Simply put, if you have no reason to fear dying in a horror game, then you have no reason to fear the things that can kill you, or at least that's how I see it. It's a difference between a game being visually scary and mechanically scary. Even non-horror games like Minecraft get this right, it's the reason why the creeper is the most notorious enemy in that game, not just because it can kill you quickly, but because of the detrimental/irreversible consequences you have to endure when it does so. Minecraft is not a horror game, but dying in it can be scary, that's the key difference.
As for RE4, I understand that an ink ribbon system won't work for a game like this. So what I propose instead is take a page from Devil May Cry, and have end of chapter rankings that reward you bonus pesetas based on your performance, and one of these variables can be how many times you died in a chapter. No death? Cool, here's a bonus, but decrease that bonus for every death you take, and it would work too because you can't go back and undo it via a chapter select like in DMC, not unless you reload an earlier save.
Imo if the Blacktail has a laser I wouldn't use any other pistols ever again. Compact, only slightly less damage than the Red9, and has a high rate of fire.
A fully upgraded Blacktail is the only handgun you will ever need in the entire game
I really liked the puzzles in the game. They're really easy and simple, but really, that's how it's mostly always been in the series. Just a quick little puzzle that only really takes a little bit of thinking to solve, but looks cool.
More important than the review, Mayo has given us the secret to taking him home with us.
For real though, great video. I watched the first third of it and I was sold on the game.
You can't make the argument that you love RE4 while consistently shitting on the core gameplay loop, saying it bores you, that you can't finish it anymore or that you didn't connect with it.
have you heard these words called "criticism" ?
Been waiting for your review. So worth it. You're one of the few I watch for reviews nowadays. I'm guessing this has become your favorite RE game now? This game is so good.
Of the modern ones (RE7 - RE4 remake) this is probably tied with RE2 remake. Favorite of all time still goes to RE1 remake, with RE3 being my favorite of the original trilogy.
@@underthemayo so you think that capcom will fix re3 in future??😊
One thing I'm surprised you didn't mention is that the shooting range rewards are all random. Because you can get duplicates and the number of tokens are limited it's pretty much impossible to get all the charms on a single playthrough. The overall reduced accuracy of guns also negatively affects the shooting range because of the skull tokens you have to shoot requiring precision, but all guns overall have lower accuracy so it can make it pretty frustrating at times. I pretty much only did the shooting range for the challenge requirement.
On a complete tangent the minimalist challenge requires you to use only a pistol and knife which is fine, but I found out the hard way that eggs count as weapons if you throw them so I had to restart my playthrough as a result since I did the merchant quest to dirty the Salazar painting.
Whats so good about proffessional mode is that when you play it even if a person cheats the game will still have the difficulty needed to punish you. There still the pressure of trying to fun it. Now as a speed runner yeah no there no pressure unless your running the clock against another person thats about it. Plus I saw a modder make a new difficulty mode Nightmare that makes the game so damn punishing only the feint of heart would play. Its a nice turn around from the usual stuff.
NGL but all remake games feel like a Soulless Corporate Reboot Cash Grab 🤑
Soulless, I disagree. Lots of creativity gets put into these sometimes. As for cash grab, I don't care about a cash grab if it's well made and fun!
I can't help but laugh when people talk about being realistic in an RE game..
The merchant just turns up, Leon is able to make rounds out of resources found and they just fit in his weapon and they work, the amount of weapons you can carry, you can spend hours in the gun range and ignore the parasite in you, you don't just shoot the merchant and take all he has. .. I face palm at that.
I found Ashley annoying, the old options were, follow me, hide, wait..
In the original I could get her to wait in an area were I knew she wouldn't be grabbed. Here she just follows you but a way off meaning she got grabbed so often it annoyed me.
The cannon controls seem to be like an analog stick even if you're on mouse and keyboard. It seems like moving your mouse and then holding it there it'll keep moving in that particular direction.
I really do wish they kept some stuff like the original water hall puzzle and Salazar fight. A good amount of the game seems like it was compacted down. I still loved playing it and seeing the new stuff though.
Western triple A devs should really take notes