The whole franchise is special, Capcom currently on a successful streak that will either continue with hit after hit or eventually crash and burn. I hope for the former, because these games are a wild time. Resident Evil 4 was certainly faithful with very little cut content, but it was tweaked to make it more accessible by today’s standards. It even fleshed out the characters, Ashley and Luis getting some love.

Combat was extremely fun, and it had a lot to do with the knife. Being able to parry enemy attacks made quite the difference, and while it was possible to go a playthrough without parrying, it really helped with harder difficulties. Speaking of, due to some stand-out tricky segments it was challenging but more than satisfying to master.