Resident Evil 4 | The Completionist

00:00:00.000for years now there's been a rift

00:00:02.129between the fans of the Resident Evil

00:00:04.140franchise one group prefers the slower

00:00:06.750paced survival horror of the more

00:00:08.460classic games in the series while others

00:00:10.800are fond of the more recent

00:00:12.559action-oriented testosterone factories

00:00:15.179that Capcom has been producing while the

00:00:18.150franchise has recently shifted back to

00:00:20.100the spooky end of the spectrum with

00:00:22.109Resident Evil 7 the initial schism

00:00:24.630between the action and horror and in

00:00:26.400many ways the series most successful

00:00:28.650attempt at blending these two elements

00:00:29.880can be traced back to one very important

00:00:34.050game Resident Evil 4 the one that

00:00:37.860reinvented the re formula and went on to

00:00:40.590become one of the most beloved games of

00:00:42.360the fifth console generation millions of

00:00:44.550people have experienced the seminal

00:00:45.989title in some way shape or form but

00:00:48.360actually completing it is something else

00:00:51.210entirely and that's exactly what I'm

00:00:54.120here to do today hey everyone and

00:00:56.579welcome to a very special episode of the

00:00:59.460completionist today we are celebrating a

00:01:01.739momentous occasion it's been 6 years

00:01:04.140since I started making videos on the

00:01:06.270internet more specifically the

00:01:07.799completionist and I've been doing a

00:01:09.270video a week every single week since we

00:01:12.270started so how do we celebrate such a

00:01:15.360large and grandiose occasion right we've

00:01:19.170already hit so many milestones and we

00:01:20.820continue to do so each and every year

00:01:23.280well to me I wanted to go back to basics

00:01:25.680and what was important to me and when I

00:01:27.180started the show there was two games I

00:01:29.520really wanted to talk about Mega Man X

00:01:31.770and Resident Evil 4 now Mega Man X was

00:01:35.369the beginning of my gaming journey when

00:01:36.869I was a kid but here Resident Evil 4 was

00:01:39.900the resurgence for me I went from being

00:01:42.600someone who didn't really play video

00:01:44.310games in high school to falling back in

00:01:47.189love with video games Resident Evil 4

00:01:50.159made me the ultimate gamer and today

00:01:52.350we're gonna talk about why I love this

00:01:54.509game so much let's begin yes

00:02:05.290[Music]

00:02:21.980Resident Evil 4 marked a serious shift

00:02:25.350in direction for the house that Wesker

00:02:27.510built before re for Resident Evil went

00:02:30.450hand in hand with the undead

00:02:31.950pre-rendered backgrounds and

00:02:33.570multi-layered puzzles but re four bucks

00:02:36.330the trend by ditching all of that in

00:02:38.640favor of fast moving enemies action a

00:02:41.130third-person perspective action a

00:02:43.530progression system action and more

00:02:45.900action

00:02:50.269but this risky switch didn't just come

00:02:52.950out of the blue the series introduced

00:02:54.750more action elements little by little as

00:02:57.390it continued but the biggest changes of

00:02:59.730all can be traced back to one man Paul

00:03:02.790WS Anderson oh you remember him he's the

00:03:07.500guy that brought us the big street

00:03:09.239adaptations of Mortal Kombat and Dead or

00:03:12.450Alive good to god well when Anderson got

00:03:20.970his hands on the rights to Resident Evil

00:03:23.190he injected more than a few instances of

00:03:25.650excessive force into the mix while a lot

00:03:28.349of people were surprised by the movie's

00:03:30.000tone they apparently still liked it

00:03:32.430since it made over 100 million dollars

00:03:35.310and spawned five sequels

00:03:37.590so when Capcom saw those big bucks

00:03:39.599rolling in from what was essentially an

00:03:41.129action movie they felt a little more

00:03:42.629emboldened in taking liberties with

00:03:44.730their franchise the proof is in the

00:03:46.590pudding

00:03:47.220Resident Evil 4 originally had four

00:03:49.680proposed versions that were all rejected

00:03:51.739before the final version was set in

00:03:54.299stone they include one version

00:03:56.250interestingly enough that eventually

00:03:57.810became Devil May Cry and another version

00:04:00.329that as it turns out was much closer in

00:04:02.730tone to classic resident evils with a

00:04:05.400spooky ass castle full of paranormal

00:04:07.560enemies but it's clear that innovation

00:04:09.840was a priority for the people behind re4

00:04:12.660since what players ended up getting in

00:04:14.430the end was the most experimental and

00:04:16.620risky game in the series since its

00:04:18.720inception and although every aspect of

00:04:20.639the game seems altered from its

00:04:22.079predecessors it still retains the

00:04:24.300quality that the French has was known

00:04:26.220for in fact Resident Evil 4 is

00:04:28.949considered by many as the greatest game

00:04:31.919of all time and even though it started

00:04:34.410out as a GameCube exclusive this game

00:04:36.419was just too damn good to keep to one

00:04:39.060system nowadays it's just thought about

00:04:41.190every platform Under the Sun I'm pretty

00:04:43.470sure that even my niece's leapfrog

00:04:45.120tablet has already four on it let's see

00:04:47.430doom Street Fighter 2 up yep there it is

00:04:51.330here you go kid have a ball in addition

00:04:53.460to receiving countless awards and

00:04:55.199accolades and selling over 6 million

00:04:57.210copies Resident Evil fours legacy can be

00:04:59.940felt everywhere

00:05:01.110in today's gaming landscape and I'm not

00:05:03.419just talking about the Resident Evil

00:05:05.099games that followed it either if you've

00:05:07.020enjoyed any third person action game in

00:05:09.210the last decade

00:05:10.289you probably got this game to thank in

00:05:12.569some capacity it was that influential

00:05:15.419and it's one of my favorite games of all

00:05:16.919time that being said it's been a long

00:05:19.199while since I've completed it and I've

00:05:21.810forgotten most of the completionist

00:05:23.310stuff to go along with it so we'll see

00:05:25.439how I feel after the dust has settled

00:05:27.210but I'm sure I'll still love it it's

00:05:29.430freaking rt4 I'll be completing Resident

00:05:32.550Evil 4 HD the recent remastered version

00:05:35.580on the PlayStation 4 which basically

00:05:37.500represents the most definitive version

00:05:39.599of the game in a prettier package but if

00:05:41.909memory serves me correctly this is one

00:05:44.009of the meatiest Resident Evil games when

00:05:46.349it comes to completion there's a hard

00:05:48.300mode to deal with some mini campaigns to

00:05:50.430be once the main one is done and the

00:05:52.650possibility of having to speedrun the

00:05:55.169game for some sort of reward

00:05:57.360not to mention resin evils most

00:05:59.550pervasive postgame activity mercenary

00:06:02.219mode since re4 is so heavy on the action

00:06:05.129it's probably a whole new kind of

00:06:07.620cluster I'm used to taking out

00:06:09.719slow-moving reanimated corpses not

00:06:11.729farmers and cultists sure I've had to

00:06:14.699Juke the occasional zombie dog it can be

00:06:17.009pretty quick but these mother are

00:06:19.259driving trucks man these aren't monsters

00:06:21.810they're just workers I'm pretty sure

00:06:24.389they have a union too I'm not stupid I

00:06:26.759don't mess with any unions I don't want

00:06:28.680to get sued

00:06:33.170[Music]

00:06:37.410in case I haven't made it clear already

00:06:40.240Resident Evil 4 is a massive departure

00:06:43.270from just about everything the series

00:06:45.310was known for almost none of its

00:06:47.230features remained unaltered during the

00:06:49.150transition to its brand new style of

00:06:51.040gameplay that includes the direction the

00:06:53.320method of storytelling and especially

00:06:55.060the overall tone of the game itself

00:06:57.280sometimes a huge upheaval and MO can

00:07:00.070help a medium survive and an re forced

00:07:02.320case help the franchise to thrive once

00:07:04.720again the changes are evident even from

00:07:07.000the very beginning of the story we're no

00:07:08.770longer concerned with the Raccoon City

00:07:10.660outbreak or any of the events

00:07:12.190surrounding inter the main characters

00:07:13.870really instead this game follows

00:07:16.240Resident Evil 2 alum Leon s Kennedy on

00:07:19.570his mission to save the u.s. president's

00:07:21.700daughter from a mysterious European cult

00:07:24.280ah look who's moving up in the world

00:07:27.760not a rock anymore huh now you're a

00:07:29.890big-shot Secret Service agent huh the

00:07:32.410President must have a lot of faith in

00:07:34.300you to send you in completely alone

00:07:37.240instead of an entire armed squadron to

00:07:40.450retrieve his own offspring soon after

00:07:42.940arriving in a seemingly quaint Spanish

00:07:45.250village Leon's drivers are killed and

00:07:47.740he's attacked by the entire town what a

00:07:50.920goddamn beginning for a game and no it's

00:07:53.800not because he forgot the tip at the

00:07:55.270local cafe it turns out that everyone in

00:07:58.060the surrounding area has been infected

00:07:59.890with parasites known as las Plagas now

00:08:03.880the townsfolk are more than a little

00:08:05.860homicidal and completely loyal to an

00:08:08.620evil cult that's bent on world

00:08:10.780domination known as los Illuminatus so

00:08:13.930Leon's gotta find Ashley stop the cult

00:08:16.780and get back to American soil where the

00:08:19.120monsters are much easier to spot what

00:08:21.190with their rotting flesh and all America

00:08:23.680now right off the bat the premise makes

00:08:25.690things feel a bit different than what

00:08:27.130we're used to instead of controlling a

00:08:28.960character who's desperately trying to

00:08:30.610escape the danger we're playing as a guy

00:08:32.860who's diving headfirst into it Leon is

00:08:36.070way different than the way he was

00:08:37.840portrayed during the events of re2 he

00:08:40.750used to be a relatively normal

00:08:42.690understandably freaked out guy now this

00:08:45.760dude literally made

00:08:46.760jokes after almost getting hitched

00:08:48.620pushed in by a chainsaw wielding madman

00:08:51.680hearse everyone going bingo

00:08:54.410you shut the [ __ ] up Leon you almost

00:08:56.780died those two drivers did die did you

00:08:59.960even know their names Leon has ceased

00:09:02.420being a relatable and has become a hyper

00:09:04.850macho superhero with ability straight

00:09:07.370out of the matrix what the hell kind of

00:09:09.950training do they put Secret Service

00:09:11.900agents through this isn't inherently a

00:09:14.330bad change but it does change the vibe

00:09:16.910of the game completely

00:09:18.350if the playable character is utterly

00:09:20.090unfazed by the events around him then

00:09:22.280the player probably won't feel that much

00:09:23.780either but it kind of works when you're

00:09:25.730building an experience that aims to make

00:09:27.560the player feel like a badass action

00:09:30.230hero instead of a regular dude the rest

00:09:32.900of the characters reinforced the same

00:09:34.940tone - Ashley Graham the first daughter

00:09:37.610fits the role of the one-dimensional

00:09:39.920damsel perfectly ada wong has leaned all

00:09:42.710the way into her status as a femme

00:09:44.690fatale with questionable loyalties and

00:09:46.910Sadler the supreme leader of low Salloum

00:09:49.310inaros

00:09:49.730drips with more stereotypical european

00:09:52.100bad guys sleaze than hans gruber himself

00:09:54.800and let's not forget everyone's favorite

00:09:57.230character shopper Mike

00:10:02.290our main man Mike only shows up during

00:10:05.230the very last sequence of the game and

00:10:07.360apparently him and Leon are the best of

00:10:10.420buds and what do best buds do more than

00:10:13.300anything else why cut down waves of

00:10:15.579human beings with a hailstorm of odd

00:10:17.259metal that's what yeah resident and evil

00:10:21.430now it's very clear that the game

00:10:23.829doesn't take itself very seriously so

00:10:25.870the few moments when it does slow down

00:10:27.670and attempt to make the player feel a

00:10:29.230bit scared it comes as a breath of fresh

00:10:31.509air it only happens a handful of times

00:10:33.579throughout the campaign but when it does

00:10:35.319one can't help but miss the aesthetic of

00:10:38.139classic Resident Evil and also

00:10:40.660appreciate the new vibe in re for all

00:10:43.569the more the game's music goes a long

00:10:45.670way and letting the player know when

00:10:47.319it's time to run time to gun or time to

00:10:49.839get freaky that being said most of the

00:10:52.149soundtrack is fine for the most part it

00:10:54.940serves its purpose by mostly staying out

00:10:57.250of the way while keeping the player

00:10:58.959appropriately pumped but none of it is

00:11:01.360memorable outside of the save room theme

00:11:03.579I don't know why but I'm pretty sure

00:11:05.110that there is an unwritten rule that

00:11:07.209save room themes must be the best song

00:11:09.370in any Resident Evil soundtrack the

00:11:11.649sound design comes alive with sound

00:11:13.420effects though from the individual

00:11:15.010sounds of each type of gunshot to the

00:11:17.110crispy ass reloading Foley to the bleeps

00:11:19.540and bloops while perusing the inventory

00:11:21.370system it all sounds clear and great

00:11:24.040even the dialogue while still slathered

00:11:26.470in a thick layer of cheese is a step up

00:11:28.870from previous re instalments see that

00:11:31.600the president's equipped his daughter

00:11:33.370with ballistics - Jesus well at least it

00:11:38.319was a good read one of the most obvious

00:11:40.209changes that Resident Evil 4 brings to

00:11:42.069the table is the shift from a forced

00:11:44.079perspective and pre-rendered backgrounds

00:11:45.819to an over-the-shoulder view and

00:11:47.980environments rendered in real time and

00:11:50.199this shift allows for angles and

00:11:52.120perspectives never before possible in an

00:11:54.819re title not only that but the locales

00:11:57.699recruited in full HD look wonderful and

00:12:00.610detailed the usual formula of giant

00:12:03.250indoor location underground labyrinth

00:12:05.800secret lab is thrown out the window in

00:12:08.529favour of rural village creepy castle

00:12:11.199and military training facility and while

00:12:13.300the first two are plenty engrossing

00:12:15.580island full of commandos is a bit of a

00:12:17.320bore in comparison rotting farms and

00:12:19.750windswept hallways are hard acts to

00:12:21.820follow when you're just coming with some

00:12:24.370dudes hanging around some tents but make

00:12:26.709no mistake the first two thirds of the

00:12:28.810game offers some of the coolest

00:12:30.279locations ever presented in a Resident

00:12:32.920Evil game in every conceivable way this

00:12:35.680game is a different beast from its

00:12:37.329predecessors it's just yeah but it's

00:12:43.450still a wonderful experience

00:12:45.160all the way through getting invested in

00:12:47.350a silly ass Resident Evil story is still

00:12:49.839as bad an idea as it's ever been but the

00:12:52.329gorgeous environments and wonderful

00:12:54.310sound designs sell the necessary

00:12:55.959sensations well enough on their own

00:12:57.970there may not be that many scares

00:13:00.250anymore but re 4 does make you feel

00:13:03.130exhilarated and immersed in a world

00:13:05.529where one white dude can take down a

00:13:08.110whole army of spaniards by himself that

00:13:12.080[Music]

00:13:15.750guy's name was the Wiese by the way and

00:13:18.310the last thing he ever heard was his

00:13:19.899name badly mispronounced how American

00:13:22.540can you get

00:13:27.310[Music]

00:13:32.560the gameplay in Resident Evil 4 almost

00:13:35.870feels like the result of a ripple effect

00:13:37.880wherein one or two small things were

00:13:39.650changed which ended up necessitating

00:13:41.720change for the entire system but somehow

00:13:44.300instead of becoming a trainwreck every

00:13:46.940new idea comes together in a beautifully

00:13:49.490dark and violent Symphony that never

00:13:51.860stops feeling satisfying from the moment

00:13:53.900the game boots up its decidedly not your

00:13:56.870older brothers Resident Evil it may just

00:13:59.570be better at its core re 4 is still

00:14:02.270about killing monsters solving puzzles

00:14:04.550and making hard decisions in order to

00:14:07.250keep your sorry ass alive but the

00:14:09.410balance between these features have been

00:14:11.240aggressively shaken up along with the

00:14:13.250addition of a few brand new mechanics

00:14:15.050firstly the change to a third-person

00:14:17.540over-the-shoulder perspective

00:14:19.190drastically changes the way you view the

00:14:21.320world around you and the way in which

00:14:23.210you engage your enemies you can only see

00:14:25.370directly in front of you regardless of

00:14:27.320your location and the camera is

00:14:29.000essentially yours to control at all

00:14:31.040times and it's a good idea to move that

00:14:33.440camera around at regular intervals since

00:14:35.870you never know what's hiding in those

00:14:37.850hard spot places and with that change in

00:14:40.460point of view comes a change in overall

00:14:42.830level design as well say goodbye to the

00:14:45.260massive structures that took almost all

00:14:47.360of the game to unlock and fully explore

00:14:49.820forget about backtracking to previously

00:14:52.340visited areas with new keys in order to

00:14:54.980access new routes re4 for the most part

00:14:57.920is as linear as they come now once again

00:14:59.960I don't want to come off like I'm hating

00:15:02.060on this choice far from it actually sure

00:15:04.520it's sad to see that particular design

00:15:06.440aspect of Resident Evil be retired but I

00:15:09.050can safely say that re for Sh

00:15:11.210on most other games when it comes to

00:15:14.180pacing no you don't really have to ever

00:15:16.790think much about where you're going or

00:15:18.950how you're gonna get there but this game

00:15:20.690never comes close to feeling slow or

00:15:23.510boring every single encounter feels

00:15:26.090stimulating and refreshing because of

00:15:28.550how many different types of encounters

00:15:29.990the game has to offer and how skillfully

00:15:33.230similar encounters are spaced out from

00:15:35.630one another if you've just been hit with

00:15:37.430the massive wave of enemies you're bound

00:15:39.620to go through a

00:15:40.339boss fight a bit of exploration and an

00:15:42.680on rail sequence before you run into

00:15:44.509another mob again Resident Evil Ford

00:15:47.180knows just how to keep the torture fresh

00:15:49.879for its players something else I dearly

00:15:52.220missed though is the importance of

00:15:54.019puzzles they're still around but they're

00:15:56.120no longer the brilliant set pieces that

00:15:58.519they were once before in re for all the

00:16:01.279puzzles are incredibly simple and have

00:16:03.499no ramifications outside of their

00:16:05.689immediate area instead of having creepy

00:16:07.970galleries with mysterious switches and

00:16:10.129crows staring ominously down at you now

00:16:12.980we've got a pearl pendant that can get a

00:16:14.870little dirty if you don't shoot a stick

00:16:16.550first array the pervasive QuickTime

00:16:19.129events in re 4 don't help me feel any

00:16:21.740smarter either sometimes the game just

00:16:23.839insists that you participate during its

00:16:26.180cutscenes or mash a few buttons to keep

00:16:28.610Leon for being aced out by a trap

00:16:30.889I appreciate the game trying to keep me

00:16:32.779motivated as much as possible but the

00:16:34.790QuickTime events feel more than a little

00:16:36.949dated Resident Evil fours mo of make

00:16:39.889everything simpler is also felt in the

00:16:42.319save system you still have to save your

00:16:44.540game at typewriters but the ink ribbons

00:16:46.670are nowhere to be seen

00:16:48.290meaning that you can save as many times

00:16:50.629as you want thus removing yet another

00:16:53.029source of tension and resource

00:16:54.589management that the classic games used

00:16:56.389to implement on top of that the game

00:16:58.459will offer players a free chance to save

00:17:00.559after every chapter

00:17:02.389oh and whenever you die you don't even

00:17:04.370have to go back to the last time you say

00:17:06.319you get to start from the last

00:17:07.850checkpoint you reached not necessarily a

00:17:10.339good thing or a bad thing it's just a

00:17:12.890lateral move to facilitate the more fast

00:17:15.529gameplay that has the added effect of

00:17:17.839allowing you to laugh in the face of

00:17:19.429impending death but it's not like you

00:17:21.529never die anyway what with the

00:17:23.360absolutely massive arsenal at Leon's

00:17:25.399disposal in addition to series mainstays

00:17:27.740like pistols and shotguns you can get

00:17:29.960your hands on a fully functioning

00:17:31.850machine gun and a badass sniper rifle

00:17:34.640this thing shifts you into first-person

00:17:37.039when you aim with it providing a brand

00:17:38.870new way to pop heads like carnival

00:17:41.659balloons the weaponry is put to

00:17:43.399excellent use in Resident Evil 4 thanks

00:17:46.039to the complete overhaul of the aiming

00:17:48.200and shooting system aiming used to be

00:17:50.360kind of an oversight in previous re

00:17:52.790allowing players to kind of

00:17:54.560automatically lock on to the nearest

00:17:56.180target when they aimed now you've

00:17:58.760actually got to work for that head shot

00:18:00.890or that flesh wound against the arm or

00:18:03.200that kneecapping you sadistic bastard

00:18:05.560every single firearm includes a laser

00:18:09.140sight yes even busted ass old school

00:18:11.720shotguns

00:18:12.680you can now pinpoint exactly where you

00:18:15.590want your rounds to go and depending on

00:18:17.930where you shoot the bad guys they can

00:18:19.910react in a variety of different ways

00:18:21.620sometimes the real back and pain setting

00:18:24.770them up for what can only be described

00:18:26.540as fighting game moves Leon can perform

00:18:29.630a roundhouse kick a standing side kick

00:18:32.420and that is full-on Geils front throw

00:18:35.180not only do these moves look great they

00:18:38.210deal massive damage and have the

00:18:40.430potential to stun multiple enemies

00:18:42.440nearby now here's a surprise the combat

00:18:45.800knife is actually useful this time

00:18:48.050around yeah there have always been those

00:18:50.210guys out there who could dominate

00:18:51.500tyrants with just a knife but in this

00:18:54.080game it's one of Leon's most valuable

00:18:56.360assets after stunning an enemy with a

00:18:58.700shot it's often a great idea to run up

00:19:01.190and start slashing to both conserve ammo

00:19:04.040and also teach them all the not to mess

00:19:06.800with you most of the enemies you come

00:19:08.570across will be the gun otto's who are

00:19:10.460pretty normal for the most part if you

00:19:12.110consider out

00:19:16.500damn okay these dudes aren't normal at

00:19:19.980all they're way smarter than the average

00:19:22.140zombie and every now and then they'll

00:19:24.240transform into these extremely deadly

00:19:26.700head parasite thingies even beyond that

00:19:29.370the game offers all kinds of cool and

00:19:31.710new enemies including these tortured

00:19:34.140Wolverine looking dudes and the

00:19:35.940regenerators the regenerators by far are

00:19:39.270the creepiest enemies in the game and

00:19:41.490they will not go down to conventional

00:19:43.890gunfire just listen to the messed-up

00:19:46.380sounds these guys make now no no I'm

00:19:53.429good

00:19:53.880I'm fine I didn't need to sleep this

00:19:55.470month anyways that's okay if you get

00:19:57.299lucky enough the enemies you will kill

00:19:59.370will also drop an item for your trouble

00:20:01.590which is yet another new feature in re 4

00:20:04.049in addition to ammo they can spawn some

00:20:06.659new items to the series including yellow

00:20:08.909herbs which increases Leon's maximum

00:20:11.039health hand grenades and even cold hard

00:20:13.770cash

00:20:14.100you can loot the local money known as

00:20:16.230pesetas or valuable items such as spinel

00:20:18.960velvet blues and other valuables that

00:20:21.210sound like they have stripper names and

00:20:22.740then sell them for a profit sell them to

00:20:25.500whom you're asking why to the best

00:20:27.990goddamn character in the entire game

00:20:30.780that's something that might interest you

00:20:33.090enter the merchant this mysterious

00:20:36.600[ __ ] or [ __ ] look I'm not so sure

00:20:40.110he just pops up all over the game all

00:20:42.000the time we'll sell you useful gear and

00:20:44.760buy the stuff you don't want anymore

00:20:46.799it's through this guy that yet another

00:20:48.720new venture for the Resident Evil series

00:20:50.880presents itself a progression system

00:20:53.490Leon can purchase bigger and bigger

00:20:56.220inventory cases as well as upgrades to

00:20:58.860his weapons from the merchants being

00:21:00.630able to increase a guns bullet capacity

00:21:02.760or damage output is something that's

00:21:04.830never really happened before in a

00:21:07.020Resident Evil game and that feels kind

00:21:09.600of cool in the past you may have been

00:21:11.610able to pick up an item that gave you

00:21:13.530more item slots or something that

00:21:15.659slightly cut the damage you take but in

00:21:17.820this game you're growing the entire time

00:21:20.309making you feel genuinely more powerful

00:21:23.100it may not be spooky but it does feel

00:21:25.620pretty awesome to spend a bunch of cash

00:21:27.929on upgrades and then

00:21:29.820ahman eight the next room full of

00:21:31.320unsuspecting cultists but the merchant

00:21:33.810provides more than fine sundries he also

00:21:36.810runs a shooting gallery minigame that

00:21:39.120you can access at different points in

00:21:40.710the main campaign staying on target and

00:21:43.140getting those headshots will net you

00:21:44.790bonus points and multipliers making for

00:21:47.430a pretty fun little diversion from the

00:21:49.080main adventure of course accidentally

00:21:51.330hitting the Ashley targets will subtract

00:21:53.280from your score do not shoot the

00:21:55.380Ashley's the main draw of this mode for

00:21:58.380completionists are the little bottle

00:22:00.150caps that you get as rewards for getting

00:22:02.370high scores they're called bottle caps

00:22:04.800but they're more like little Smash

00:22:06.360Brothers trophies featuring the gruesome

00:22:08.610gallery of characters from re4 look at

00:22:11.160that they even talk collect the whole

00:22:15.690set

00:22:16.350Ashley pops up all throughout the

00:22:18.330campaign as well effectively turning

00:22:20.310huge sections of Resident Evil 4 into

00:22:23.310one giant escort mission if she takes

00:22:25.920too many hits should go down permanently

00:22:28.260and if a bad guy gets too far away with

00:22:30.480her she'll get taken to the next

00:22:32.670dimension which is where nappa and the

00:22:34.740ginyu force are and no one wants that

00:22:36.840that being said this is one of if not

00:22:39.630the best escort system I've ever

00:22:42.600encountered instead of attempting to

00:22:44.790making Ashley's AI intelligent they just

00:22:47.340made it really dumb and reliable before

00:22:49.830everyone out there assumes all this

00:22:51.300book--the about me let me just say this

00:22:52.800escort missions are hard to get right in

00:22:55.710a game re4 has designed it to be exactly

00:22:58.860what it needs to be when you're in these

00:23:00.330tight situations Ashley will do her best

00:23:02.430to stay out of your line of fire and if

00:23:04.680she does manage to get in the way of

00:23:06.330your laser sight she'll actually duck

00:23:08.370out of the way

00:23:09.420thanks ash there are even some spots in

00:23:12.000the game where you can command Ashe to

00:23:14.220hide completely excising the escort out

00:23:17.310of the particularly difficult sequences

00:23:19.680out of all of the innovation that re4

00:23:22.350provides making escorting actually fun

00:23:25.260might be the most impressive one and

00:23:27.510even though she can still get on your

00:23:29.370nerves with her calling out for you

00:23:30.930every time you get too far from her

00:23:34.940or every time she happens to wander like

00:23:37.950a dumb gazelle in the line of fire

00:23:39.960do not and I repeat do not shoot the

00:23:43.830Ashley it's an automatic game over if

00:23:46.560you do it took me a long time to get

00:23:48.930those urges out of my system Hey

00:23:51.810there was a donut on my desk and someone

00:23:54.450took it who did it

00:23:57.010[Music]

00:24:08.130[Music]

00:24:12.040what done' you you are eating my donut

00:24:17.170that is my donut that i paid for is my

00:24:19.660only cheat day snack and you ate it I

00:24:24.960mean this don't know yeah is yours yes

00:24:30.090it's funny because it tastes like my

00:24:32.170donor

00:24:33.330really hmm you you don't do something

00:24:37.720that

00:24:43.010[Music]

00:24:44.930don't shoot - Ashley when all is said

00:24:48.560and done I was still hungry for more

00:24:50.750hell there are only about a dozen

00:24:52.970trophies and I only had to go out of my

00:24:54.770way for one of them I'm a little

00:24:57.110surprised that they didn't take this

00:24:58.520opportunity with the re-release to add

00:25:00.980in some more busy work challenges but

00:25:03.410thankfully the way this game is now

00:25:05.360seems almost perfect Resident Evil 4 is

00:25:09.080the biggest baddest most unapologetic

00:25:11.630Resident Evil of its time it's somehow

00:25:13.760manages to break every rule as

00:25:16.160predecessors established while also

00:25:18.350presenting so many new solid ideas that

00:25:21.140has managed to create an entire

00:25:22.880zeitgeist all its own that's something

00:25:25.520that can only happen when the quality of

00:25:27.470what's offered is just that good and

00:25:29.630once all is said and done what Resident

00:25:32.270Evil 4 does best is create an urge to

00:25:35.390just keep playing it over and over again

00:25:38.150just don't give it to those Ashley

00:25:41.090shootin urges not a good idea don't

00:25:43.790shoot - Ashley

00:25:47.190[Music]

00:25:51.929first and foremost I am extremely

00:25:54.610relieved to report that there is no

00:25:56.590grading system in Resident Evil 4 no

00:25:59.650matter how quickly you beat the game and

00:26:01.570regardless of how many times you've

00:26:03.250saved throughout you will not be graded

00:26:05.140on your performance

00:26:06.549god bless those pass/fail classes that

00:26:09.490being said re 4 still has plenty of

00:26:12.309extra modes to play through and rewards

00:26:14.380to unlock starting with what you get for

00:26:16.720beating the game for the first time

00:26:18.100first up the tile screen changes to this

00:26:20.530nifty little scrolling image of the

00:26:22.360opening village ah memories of a mob

00:26:25.270trying to eviscerate you beating the

00:26:27.370game unlocks a mode called new round

00:26:29.799which is basically just new game plus

00:26:31.809you get to play all the way through the

00:26:33.700game again except you've got all of your

00:26:35.530equipment from the get-go and the

00:26:37.030merchants will start the game with his

00:26:38.679full list of merchandise speaking of the

00:26:40.870merchants in new round mode he'll have

00:26:42.760two new weapons available for purchase

00:26:44.740the first one is a burst fire handgun

00:26:46.840called the Matilda and unlike little

00:26:48.789telekinetic schoolgirls it is not safe

00:26:51.220for the whole family it boasts the

00:26:53.200highest rate of fire among all the

00:26:55.510handguns in the game and it's a neat

00:26:57.429shout-out to Leon's original upgraded

00:26:59.350handgun from Resident Evil 2 and it can

00:27:01.809be yours for only 70,000 pesetas the

00:27:04.900merchant will also have the rocket

00:27:06.880launcher with infinite ammo for sale it

00:27:08.860costs a pretty penny at 1 million

00:27:10.780pesetas but man is it worth it being

00:27:13.390able to stomp through the game with an

00:27:14.950unstoppable death machine strapped to

00:27:16.990your shoulder is a Resident Evil

00:27:18.970tradition and I'm glad to see that it

00:27:20.620survived the transition into Resident

00:27:22.240Evil 4 and now that you've strapped up

00:27:24.159with some badass weaponry you know

00:27:26.530you've got to have a dope new wardrobe

00:27:28.419to go along with it which is why you're

00:27:30.280also rewarded with special outfits for

00:27:32.140both Leon and Ashley once you beat the

00:27:34.600main campaign Leon gets his classic

00:27:37.000Raccoon Police Department outfit which

00:27:39.039also grants him a 30% damage reduction

00:27:41.169and Ashley gets this thing yeah you

00:27:45.610ready for some extra modes well here we

00:27:47.679go

00:27:48.159beating the game also NAB's you not one

00:27:50.500but two many campaigns starring Ada Wong

00:27:53.470the first one is called assignment ADA

00:27:55.900and it's a brief adventure in which

00:27:57.490ADA must collect 5 samples of las Plagas

00:28:00.429Maram the military training Island ADA

00:28:02.860is not just a sin

00:28:03.950rescan of Leon either she has several

00:28:05.990techniques all on her own

00:28:07.310including a grappling book that lets her

00:28:09.140scale certain buildings there are no

00:28:11.150save points as you can't upgrade

00:28:12.650anything at the merchant but thankfully

00:28:14.810this mode is short enough to finish it

00:28:16.670in one shot

00:28:17.660clearing assignment ADA will net you a

00:28:19.490special automatic rifle known as the

00:28:21.740Chicago typewriter but not in assignment

00:28:24.200ADA you can find the gun in the other

00:28:26.240Ada Wong mode known as separate ways

00:28:29.090this campaign is far longer and actually

00:28:31.280runs parallel to Leon's quest in the

00:28:33.740main game it's pretty cool to see how

00:28:35.630ADA interacted with the event and the

00:28:37.370main story from another angle

00:28:39.050kind of like Marty and back to the

00:28:40.610future - unfortunately the original

00:28:42.440cutscenes for this mode didn't receive

00:28:44.900the same HD upgrade that the rest of the

00:28:46.760game did so they look pretty rough like

00:28:49.340Back to the Future 3 hey it's a good

00:28:51.560movie just not a great one

00:28:53.630not only will beating separate ways

00:28:55.280unlock the Chicago typewriter for use in

00:28:57.410the main campaign it'll also unlock yet

00:28:59.720another special set of costumes for Leon

00:29:02.240and Ashley Leon gets a dope suit that

00:29:04.730makes them look like a smooth criminal

00:29:05.900and Ashley actually dawns a full suit of

00:29:09.980armor

00:29:10.520it makes her virtually invulnerable to

00:29:12.380every single form of damage in the game

00:29:14.480and even makes her too heavy for enemies

00:29:16.790to lift her proving once again beyond

00:29:19.100the shadow of a doubt that chubby kids

00:29:20.960are harder to kidnap did you think we

00:29:23.000were done with the main campaign not by

00:29:25.040a long shot beating the game also

00:29:27.380unlocks professional mode which

00:29:29.180basically acts as resin evil force hard

00:29:31.790mode with enemies being able to take

00:29:33.410more damage deal more damage and with

00:29:35.540much more infrequent item spawns but

00:29:37.790your reward for beating professional

00:29:39.350mode is access to the PRL for 1/2 an

00:29:42.620insane energy weapon that instantly

00:29:45.140vaporizes any enemy with a Plagas

00:29:47.840parasite within it including the bosses

00:29:50.330so if you think of beasting your way

00:29:52.220through the game with an infinite rocket

00:29:53.930launcher is a bit too old-fashioned then

00:29:55.700this is the overkill machine for you and

00:29:58.310of course there's mercenaries mode and

00:30:00.470this time around it's an absolute

00:30:02.360monster there are 4 different stages to

00:30:04.760play on each with their own enemy types

00:30:06.770and layouts and you can choose from 5

00:30:09.080different main characters Leon ADA

00:30:11.420meathead Merc Jack krauser mercenaries

00:30:14.240mainstay hunk and

00:30:15.820good old albert wesker just like ada

00:30:18.130each character comes with their own set

00:30:20.260of special moves to separate them from

00:30:21.910Leon and every single mercenaries

00:30:23.890character has their own load of weapons

00:30:25.960and items drastically changing the way

00:30:28.090they're played while Leon has a nice

00:30:30.130even spread of range and power hunk has

00:30:32.920to rely on his trusty machine gun and

00:30:34.660krauser just has his bow and arrow to

00:30:36.610contend with oh and his freaky monster

00:30:39.100arm of death you can earn up to five

00:30:41.080stars per character per stage which

00:30:43.150means if you want to collect every star

00:30:45.430you're gonna have to play with each

00:30:47.170character on each stage and while some

00:30:49.600said you seem to work for one particular

00:30:51.340characters loadout that same person can

00:30:53.710struggle like hell on another stage it

00:30:56.290took me over three hours just to get all

00:30:58.840five stars with Leon on this wannabe

00:31:00.970Waterworld stage

00:31:02.260thanks to his not having any weapons on

00:31:04.030hand that can reliably stun these crazy

00:31:06.190chainsaw wielding psychos even though

00:31:08.230getting every single star with every

00:31:10.270single character was a pain the gunplay

00:31:12.610and re4 is so well executed that it was

00:31:15.700always fun to play this is without a

00:31:18.250doubt the best mercenaries mode in any

00:31:20.920re I've ever played and the reward you

00:31:23.410get for getting every star isn't too

00:31:24.910shabby either you unlock the hand cannon

00:31:27.520a Magnum capable of taking down an enemy

00:31:30.310in just a couple of shots even the

00:31:32.740recoil on this gun commands respect this

00:31:35.830gun makes me want to go out and join the

00:31:37.450Secret Service too while there's no

00:31:39.430specific prize for completing everything

00:31:41.290in the game there are more than enough

00:31:43.030rewards peppered all throughout the

00:31:44.560experience to warrant doing just about

00:31:46.480everything which is the way things

00:31:48.280should be being encouraged to keep

00:31:50.140playing such an awesome game while

00:31:51.940you're still playing it seems like a

00:31:53.740lost art these days so I'm glad to see

00:31:55.990that ra4 has got that nailed down from

00:31:58.330the way it gradually rewards you to the

00:32:00.340manner in which it allows you to upgrade

00:32:01.780your arsenal the meticulous way in which

00:32:03.970it paces you throughout its action

00:32:05.680Resident Evil 4 is carefully crafted to

00:32:08.650keep you invested and excited even after

00:32:11.530I've done all of it I am more than

00:32:13.420willing to dive right back in to start

00:32:15.580it all up again while I completed

00:32:17.560Resident Evil 4 there were 68 deaths for

00:32:21.550campaign playthroughs with 2 being 8 as

00:32:24.220many campaigns 24 bottle caps earned

00:32:27.430over 3

00:32:28.990pesetas spent 12 trophies unlocked 55

00:32:33.100hours of total playtime and one sitcom

00:32:36.400featuring Leon and shopper Mike

00:32:38.290premiering Tuesday nights at 8:30 on the

00:32:40.600CW set your DVRs or wait for Netflix

00:32:43.870it's very easy to see why so many people

00:32:46.990praise Resident Evil 4 as the best game

00:32:50.380of all time let alone the best entry in

00:32:52.750the franchise it may not have the creepy

00:32:55.360atmospheres of the originals or the

00:32:57.160calculated and patient gameplay

00:32:58.950associated with them but it offers

00:33:01.210gameplay solid enough to influence an

00:33:03.280entire genre and worthy enough of

00:33:05.620completion no matter what year it is

00:33:08.700Resident Evil 4 is the kind of game to

00:33:11.740digest with friends playing with someone

00:33:14.350in the room in this small tight

00:33:17.140narrative with corridors and castles and

00:33:20.500villages with sound effects that are

00:33:22.870creepy and terrifying with explosions

00:33:25.600and action scenes and car chases and

00:33:28.240ganado 's and their heads exploding into

00:33:30.790crazy parasites with Lawrence Adler

00:33:33.190being around this game is so large on

00:33:36.940such a smaller scale for gamers that it

00:33:40.450made the game too viable almost aside

00:33:42.520from super smash brothers melee this

00:33:44.740game is so important that it almost

00:33:46.390defined its own genre and created a slew

00:33:49.480of games that not only were inspired by

00:33:51.100it but continued to build on what RT

00:33:54.280four left for us without a shadow of a

00:33:56.920doubt if you've never played a Resident

00:33:59.320Evil and you said hey where do I begin

00:34:02.350without needing to know anything and

00:34:04.780everything re port is the perfect place

00:34:08.379to start and with the reiterations of

00:34:10.480remastering after remastering they've

00:34:12.669only made this game larger and more

00:34:15.369worthy for completionists from the

00:34:17.649beginning to the end the extra modes

00:34:19.629mercenary all the unlockables this is

00:34:22.179one of those games that they got better

00:34:24.280and better about re-release in the game

00:34:26.169with more things for it to reward the

00:34:28.629gamer as a thank you providing more

00:34:30.940content for those people who eventually

00:34:32.980ended up playing it in the end it's like

00:34:35.109a weird version of DLC without DLC if

00:34:38.169you will so with that in mind guys I

00:34:40.869give this game

00:34:41.859my absolute completionist rating of

00:34:44.129complete it

00:34:50.650calmly that's all taught me after today

00:34:54.170guys thank you so much for six years of

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