DO NOT BUY Resident Evil 4 Remake

Hello, welcome back to a new video review.

So recently I've been playing the brand

new Resident Evil 4 Remake, and as an avid

fan of Resident Evil and horror games in

general, I knew I just had to play this

game. Unfortunately, so far it's been a

bit bland, boring, uninspired, and kind of

lacking in luster. So as someone who

really enjoyed the Resident Evil 2 and 3

and 1 remakes, I thought, okay, Resident

Evil 4 Remake, it's the same game as the

original Resident Evil 4, but it's a

remake, so obviously it's gonna look

better and play better just like the other

remakes. Have been quite enjoyable so far.

Unfortunately, for some reason, I feel

like they've kind of slipped the ball on

this remake version. I don't know what it

is about Resident Evil 4 that doesn't

really feel the same, doesn't really have

the same vibes or atmosphere as Resident

Evil 1, 2, or 3, but it doesn't really

feel or play like a Resident Evil game.

Okay, it kind of looks like one, it's got

a very similar control system, inventory

system, and everything, but there's

something about it that isn't very

Resident Evil-y. So as you know, the

original Resident Evil games took place in

or around Raccoon City, and there was a

police station, a scary mansion, and

basically Resident Evil 3 was like a

combination of being on the streets and

back in the police station again. But

because Raccoon City got blown up at the

end of Resident Evil 3, obviously you

can't really have any more Resident Evil

games in Raccoon City. And I think that's

a real shame because I feel like without

Raccoon City, Resident Evil doesn't really

have many legs to stand on. They basically

just take the same concept of walking

around in dark, scary buildings, but

they've moved it now to a European village

that is full of kind of farmer peasant

people who seem to have some kind of

infection, but they're not really like

zombies. So they're still alive and they

can talk and they're like cognitive

humans, and they've got some kind of worm

things coming out of their bodies which

gives them superhuman abilities. So

they're infected with something. I guess

it's not the T-virus because they're not

the same zombies as you would expect from

Resident Evil games. And I feel like

Resident Evil without zombies is kind of

like peanut butter without marmalade, if

you know what I'm saying. It doesn't

really feel like the same kind of game

when take away the zombies. The whole

point of Resident Evil is the fact that

it's supposed to be about zombies and

you're supposed to be trying to survive

against zombies. Now these technically

aren't the same kind of zombies in the

original Resident Evils, so I don't know

what they were thinking with these kind of

enemies, but I didn't really like fighting

against them. I just felt like I was

fighting against weird farmer bearded

peasant men in a village. And okay, it's

not really that bad I guess as an enemy

type, but it's just not as cool or

interesting or even as scary as hordes of

zombies trying to slowly shuffle their way

towards you to eat you. These zombies in

this game don't even try to eat you. When

they attack you, they just use like farm

tools, pitchforks and axes, or they'll

just punch you. I've never known of a

zombie trying to punch you. They would

usually try to grab you and bite you, but

these enemies in this game don't even try

to bite you, so they're not even trying to

eat you. So in this game, instead of

wandering around a creepy police station

or a creepy mansion, you wander around

kind of like the countryside and you go to

villages. And you're walking around inside

of these kind of like old-looking houses

and huts made by villagers, and it just

doesn't really feel very scary, to be

honest. I found Resident Evil 2 really

scary because of the idea of a police

station, which is supposed to be the

safest sanctuary in a city full of

policemen that are good people. And then

the idea of being in a police station

that's completely empty and abandoned and

the policemen have fallen to the zombies

was just really creepy, and the atmosphere

was just very dark and disturbing. But in

this game, wandering around these villages

doesn't really feel the same. I don't

really feel like the graphics of the game

are that impressive for a game coming out

in 2023. In fact, I would even say this

game looks basically identical to Resident

Evil 2. It's just Leon has a different

kind of hairstyle, different color of

hair. I don't know if it's because he's

older now or maybe he dyed it, but he does

look a bit more manly than he used to in

Resident Evil 2. But apart from that, the

game basically looks and feels the same as

Resident Evil 2, the remake version.

You've got your pistol, it's kind of shaky

when you're shooting. It's kind of hard to

get headshots because the aiming cursor

wobbles around so much. And the enemies

kind of sway left to right. But the game,

it doesn't really feel like it's breaking

any new ground with the new graphics or

anything, or the gameplay. It basically

just feels like Resident Evil 2 but

replaced the zombies with farmer peasant

people. So I want to talk about the combat

of Resident Evil 4 Remake. It's kind of

weird and different compared to the other

Resident Evil games. Whereas in the

original Resident Evil games, the combat

was not really something that was very

fancy or anything. It's just like you got

a pistol, you got a knife for

self-defense, maybe a shotgun. It was very

bare-bones and and you weren't really

supposed to be running around gunning

everything down. But in this game, it

feels like it's more action-oriented. And

for example, you'd have a horde of

villagers coming at you, and you're

supposed to evade them or run away, or you

can try to take them on. And the combat

just feels kind of funny because it's like

you're just mowing down these villagers

wandering slowly, walking slowly towards

you, and then you're just spamming knife

attacks at them and doing fancy finishing

moves with the F button. The game started

to feel like a hack-and-slash melee game

because I kept running out of bullets. I

don't know why Leon is so stupid. He goes

on like this mission to do something and

he only brings like 10 bullets with him.

He doesn't even bring a box of ammunition.

You're supposed to pick them up as you

defeat enemies or you just find them lying

around, but you're constantly running out

of ammunition. So you can shoot like 10

shots before you have to resort to the

knife. And the knife is just like you're

hacking, slashing, and spamming it at the

enemies. And if they attack you, you can

do like a counterattack where you have to

spam the F button. And it just feels like

a kind of like a dumb hack-and-slash game

at this point, and I felt like, wait, I

thought this was supposed to be a horror

game and not this hack-and-slash action

game with a knife. Why didn't he bring a

katana and just cut them all down if he's

so good with the blade? The combat feels

very frustrating because you start getting

surrounded by the villagers, and the

controls are kind of annoying. To try and

get out of a mob of enemies, you kind of

have to like backtrack and go against

where the camera is pointing, and you

don't really know where you're facing.

It's just kind of cumbersome. There's no

rolling or jumping like a Dark Souls

games, you'd be able to just roll out of

the way. There's no rolling. You can't

even block with your knife. So then later

on in this village scene, if you decide to

run away from the villagers, this guy with

a massive chainsaw starts following you.

And then basically just running around

this village with this horde of dumb

villagers walking to chase you. I don't

know why they don't just run. They will

just kind of walk towards you. I kind of

lost interest in the game at this point

because it just felt so silly. I'm running

around this village, got this mob of angry

villagers trying to chase me, and I'm

thinking, what the hell happened to

Resident Evil? This wasn't what the game

used to be about. It used to be about

being in a creepy building, getting

spooked by maybe a few zombies that burst

out of nowhere, being very stressed out

because you don't really have many bullets

or supplies or herbs to keep yourself

alive. And this just feels silly. I don't

know what I'm playing at this point. I

just felt absolutely no fear, no

scariness. The game's supposed to be a

horror game, but you're in broad daylight

outside in a village. It just doesn't

dingy police station all alone,

and you can hear like weird scary sounds

coming down from the corridor. The game

just feels not scary, even though that's

the whole point of Resident Evil games.

From what I've played so far of the game

and from what I've seen, I don't really

feel like I can recommend this game, and I

think I'm going to give this Resident Evil

remake a skip and play something else. My

final verdict of this game would be do not

buy, and I would have to give it a score

of 6.2 out of 10.