there's so so so much to adore about this game and i absolutely want to give it a 10 but there are a few things holding it back for me so im gonna talk about those first.
for some reason a lot of (very stupid) people think that ashley is like really difficult to work with in the original game?? she is exceedingly simple and adds a lot of fun challenge to the experience. and while i think ashley in the remake is an infinitely better and more lovable character than she is in the original, sadly the new commands are a huge step down. instead of "stay put", "hide" and "follow" being your 3 main commands, now you get "stick close", "follow at a distance" and very very rarely will you get to have her hide.
this change now puts ashley in danger at all times and while it is much easier to get her out of said danger, most of that danger could be avoided completely had they just given me the option to have her stay put for a few minutes. on top of the anxiety her staying close can fill you with given she's so much more likable now, she also winds up getting in the way of all the fantastic new side quests pretty frequently.
another issue the game has is difficulty. this may be a "noahs bad at games" kinda thing but when you boot up the game, you are presented with 3 difficulties. the third being hardcore. hardcore is explicitly stated as "recommended for players familiar with resident evil 4 (2005)", and while at the start this is true, the game becomes brutally difficult and punishing later on to the point of feeling frankly unfair. perhaps the text meant for player's familiar with PROFESSIONAL DIFFICULTY in the original RE4, but i wanted an authentic RE4 experience and the game lied to me and i got my ass smacked by sloppy little critters for 20 hours.
the final complaint i had was that my internet is not very good so my ps4 pretty regularly drops wifi for a few seconds, this became an issue because for some fucking reason every time you drop wifi in a single player campaign experience the game PAUSES and tells you it happened. again i am playing a single player campaign experience so why the FUCK do i need to know that?!?!?!
aside from that, the game is great!! doesnt necessarily replace the original as an experience and i cant quite say which version i prefer yet, but similarly to RE1 remake, this is pretty much the gold standard for remakes. very little is cut out and what is cut out was either not noteworthy in the original or repurposed and changed to work better with the modern RE gameplay formula.
characters are all great, music is the best its ever been, the game looks and runs perfect on my ps4, the gameplay is a fantastic compromise between RE2 remake, RE8 and shockingly enough DMC???? lots of character action esque things going on here.
the bosses are all pretty great except salazar, salazar is a bitch and a wiener and i hate him. ashley and leon are so fucking adorable together and ashley is like top 10 RE characters for me now. and the actors all do a pretty fantastic job. if i had to pick a weak link, the guy who plays mike is the WORST, but otherwise everyone does a solid job. ada's new actress can sound a lil shaky here and there but she's doing a good job.
all the monsters are fucking horrifying, the gore is fucking disgusting, the guns all feel great to use (except the crossbow), knife combat is so unbelievably fun that krauser 1 and 2 are my new favorite RE bosses ever, the shooting gallery is a hoot and a half. its all just real great.
i think what i appreciate the most is that they really change the story to work better with the darker tone its going for, but it still has plenty of absolutely silly, campy and corny moments and lines plucked straight from the original.
yeah its great! Idk! video game good make me smile! 9.5/10 until i replay on standard difficulty i guess???
for some reason a lot of (very stupid) people think that ashley is like really difficult to work with in the original game?? she is exceedingly simple and adds a lot of fun challenge to the experience. and while i think ashley in the remake is an infinitely better and more lovable character than she is in the original, sadly the new commands are a huge step down. instead of "stay put", "hide" and "follow" being your 3 main commands, now you get "stick close", "follow at a distance" and very very rarely will you get to have her hide.
this change now puts ashley in danger at all times and while it is much easier to get her out of said danger, most of that danger could be avoided completely had they just given me the option to have her stay put for a few minutes. on top of the anxiety her staying close can fill you with given she's so much more likable now, she also winds up getting in the way of all the fantastic new side quests pretty frequently.
another issue the game has is difficulty. this may be a "noahs bad at games" kinda thing but when you boot up the game, you are presented with 3 difficulties. the third being hardcore. hardcore is explicitly stated as "recommended for players familiar with resident evil 4 (2005)", and while at the start this is true, the game becomes brutally difficult and punishing later on to the point of feeling frankly unfair. perhaps the text meant for player's familiar with PROFESSIONAL DIFFICULTY in the original RE4, but i wanted an authentic RE4 experience and the game lied to me and i got my ass smacked by sloppy little critters for 20 hours.
the final complaint i had was that my internet is not very good so my ps4 pretty regularly drops wifi for a few seconds, this became an issue because for some fucking reason every time you drop wifi in a single player campaign experience the game PAUSES and tells you it happened. again i am playing a single player campaign experience so why the FUCK do i need to know that?!?!?!
aside from that, the game is great!! doesnt necessarily replace the original as an experience and i cant quite say which version i prefer yet, but similarly to RE1 remake, this is pretty much the gold standard for remakes. very little is cut out and what is cut out was either not noteworthy in the original or repurposed and changed to work better with the modern RE gameplay formula.
characters are all great, music is the best its ever been, the game looks and runs perfect on my ps4, the gameplay is a fantastic compromise between RE2 remake, RE8 and shockingly enough DMC???? lots of character action esque things going on here.
the bosses are all pretty great except salazar, salazar is a bitch and a wiener and i hate him. ashley and leon are so fucking adorable together and ashley is like top 10 RE characters for me now. and the actors all do a pretty fantastic job. if i had to pick a weak link, the guy who plays mike is the WORST, but otherwise everyone does a solid job. ada's new actress can sound a lil shaky here and there but she's doing a good job.
all the monsters are fucking horrifying, the gore is fucking disgusting, the guns all feel great to use (except the crossbow), knife combat is so unbelievably fun that krauser 1 and 2 are my new favorite RE bosses ever, the shooting gallery is a hoot and a half. its all just real great.
i think what i appreciate the most is that they really change the story to work better with the darker tone its going for, but it still has plenty of absolutely silly, campy and corny moments and lines plucked straight from the original.
yeah its great! Idk! video game good make me smile! 9.5/10 until i replay on standard difficulty i guess???