Why no Easter Egg from me this Year ? + Opinion
2 years ago
Saturday (from this journal's date), I had an unfortunate kitchen accident. Using a Slicer on potatoes, I unfortunatly had my right hand's Index who got cut by the tool, I've lost 0.04 inch, or 1mm of flesh of my Index's Tip, and bled pretty bad at the time. But thanks to some bought I've done the previous day, I had the right bandages to isolate the bleeding with compress and cream. The bleeding stopped during the night, and the next day, it was only safe for not bleeding anymore, as long as I don't press the finger's tip on something. Now, the wound is sealed, no more risk of open it accidently, but yet it stills sensitive, so I'll have to be careful for at least this week to be sure that it will not bleed anytime soon. In the meantime, it's been about almost a week I've got "Resident Evil 4 Remake". And what is my opinion on this game ? I love it. "Resident Evil 4" was my 1st game of this franchise I had in hands (I know, shame on me for passing away those famous games since the PS1, especially that I still have this console), and I've loved it, but yet how did I discovered the previous games ? Well, with parody, but I know how much Capcom won with those games, especially the 2 and the 3. But the 4th was impressive and refreshing from the previous titles in terms of gameplay, and I also found the context quite great. When "Resident Evil 2 Remake" got out, I've followed a Youtuber to see how the game seems to performed, and by the look of it, it was an impressive game, and also a great Remake, the 3rd, well, got more bad stuff, but still do the job right. And what about the 4th ? I've played the original on PS2 with many, many, many, many "New Game+" with both "Limited Ammunition Arsenal" and "Infinite Ammo Weapons", especially with "Leon's Gangster Suit" and "Ashley's Invincibility Armor", and also complete the game with the highest difficulty availlable to unlock the supreme weapon: the "P.R.L. 412". What were my favorite Limited Ammo Arsenal weapons ? Here: Fully upgraded Silver Ghost, Fully Upgraded Riot Shotgun, Fully Upgraded, Fully Upgraded Bolt Sniper Rifle, and 7 Magazine Killer7 with others upgrades full, because it was leaking exclusive upgrade, so I prefered keeping the basic magazine on this gun. On this remake, do my arsenal changed ? No way. What do the game did great ? The Village Section is almost perfect, why ? Because there were at the fortified place 2 choosable path on the original game, in which you either face an "El Gigante", or a full ganado platoon with "Bella Sisters" on the other path, so bad that it has been removed, but other than that, I've loved what they've done with "Bitores Mendez", a serious improvement compared to the original, and it "UnderTaker" (As a Joke, I compare him to an humoristic character played by Louis de Funès: Rabbi Jaccob) Attitudes makes him more BadAss. The Castle, this part, is perfect, fully improved, and also that Salazar is more sadistic than childish, which makes him more charismatic, we don't have the quote "No thanks, bro", but it is a "Success", so Capcom didn't forget that line, and the Island, fully improved compared to the original, and "MG 08" as "Ganado's Machine Gun" ? I say yes, just so bad that the initial J.J. as been unfortunatly replace with a brute wearing a Boar Head armed with an automatic Bolt Thrower, while the original was an Overmuscled Rambo armed with a Minigun. That is the only things that the "Remake" did bad: "Animal Headed Brutes", just why ? Not just having "Overmuscled Ganado" instead ? They are supposed to look like normal person while being bugged. But other than that, I've loved what they did with all of the characters, especially Krauser, Leon and Ashley. For Krauser, better backstory for why he became awful and how things ended with Leon. As for Leon, he is more marked after the events of Raccoon City than in the original, he seems a bit depressed, but do what he can to not witness what he happened before, and how the "Plaga's Eradication" script has been done, I've loved how they've done it. And Ashley ? She is more proactive and very much less a dead weight than in the original game, unless you finish the game with the "Extra 2 Clothes with her Medieval Armor", she is more capable, can climb down, do more moves to protect herself, try to stand away of the ganado, so there's struggles between her and them, and she have more will against the "Plaga", in overall, you really care for her, because she do the best she can to not be hopless. While the arsenal has brought back almost all of the weapons of the original game, the P.R.L. 412 unfortunatly is not include, there's only 1 drawback, and it is the Iconic HandCannon, nerfed too much, it Firepower is useless compared to the "Broken Butterfly" and the "Killer7", because it got too much recoil and no "Lasersight" to compensate. But what about the new 1 ? Well, the "LE5" can do the job: tighter spread and "Armor Capacity" makes it better than the initial "TMP who got Higher Firepower and Magazine size but higher spread, and also can be equip with Optic, maybe useful. And the "CQBR" ? Well, maybe on "New Game+", it got full potential for full use, because it is using "Rifle Ammo" and they are not very abundant, but with very good sparing and multiple try, or "Trigger Discipline", can turn good, but I did liked that with the rifles you got an FPS aiming instead of TPS crosshair aiming, which is really interesting, especially when facing enemies at certains distance with blur distances. What I would like to see from either the devs, or the modding community are: a Leon WW1 US Soldier's outfit, as we got the "Red 9" and the "Springfield",a good aesthethic matching for visual pleasure, a Leon Modern (2004) US Army Woodland Camo gear with helmet, flack jacket, knees and elbows pads allowing Leon to takes overall less damage with an unbreakable jacket, and as new weapons, first the come back of the P.R.L. 412 as a reward for a "S+ Rang Professionnal New Game" along with the "Cat's Ears", but I would like to see a real "M16" Rifle, either an "A1, A2, A4", any of those, but with the carry handle, and full size rifle, not carbine sized, because we already get the "CQBR", and with which performance ? All but the Firepower stats improved from the "CQBR", like having "4.2", and having the Damage multiplier by 1.5, and occupying the same lenght as the "Springfield" but with 2 squares instead of 1 of wideness. Why that ? Just because as an american rifle, you don't see it in almost all "Resident Evil" games or movies in action, a bit unfair, as the M4 is too commonly represented as an assault rifle while it's a carbine, and also if no "Foregrip" accessories "M16" could be done, I know it is supposed to help getting better handling on weapons, but it does also impact the weapon size, making it also not very confortable in every situation, I would love it. Anyway,," Resident Evil 4 Remake" is really great, I've enjoyed playing it: higher backstories for everythings, rework of every places, almost all marvels, and perfect gameplay. I would like to know your opinion on this game if you did played it, and how you feel the "Remake" towards the original.
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