When I previously reviewed the original RE4, I said that game aged perfectly well for a game from that era. I was certainly someone who believed a remake was totally unnecessary, but I guess I was wrong.
The previous remakes were great. RE3 obviously being the weakest for the amount of things that had been removed, but RE2 left a lot behind too. It just did it a lot better. This game though, left almost nothing behind. Some of the sillier stuff was taken out, as were the QTEs and I'm glad for that, so what we have left is a raw revisit to a classic, with some horror elements that were completely absent in the first version amped up to create probably the best game in the overall franchise.

I did play through Separate Ways too, a mode that in the original game felt completely disposable and utilised poorly. This time around it delivers on the promise of Ada's parallel journey through the game. It's got some unique stuff too. It was relentless though, bringing back old foes and ramping up the difficulty to an absurd degree so it wasn't a breezy adventure.