168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil 4 is an incredibly camp video game. The campy nature of its horror and characters is so ingrained that it's often taken for granted, and many people who call it the greatest horror gam⭕e ever made (me, f𓃲or example) talk about the level design, the oppressive nature of the enemies, the spectacular and varied set-pieces, and that iconic opening more than anything else. These are all fantastic elements that make the game what it is, but its sense of humour is often overlooked. Worse, it can sometimes be raised as a cudgel against the game - it can't be that great, look how stupid it is. But it's great, in part, because it's stupid. Players new and old should celebrate that.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil 4 is mostly known for Leon Kennedy's exploits protecting Ashley Graham from a cult in rural Spain. However, before he can protect her, he first has to find her. This is what the first quarter or so of the game consists of, with Leon wandering alone through a hostile village as he cracks wise and politely murders locals. For many people, this is the best slice of the game, and thus Ashley has a bit of a bad reputation amongst select players, some of whom are big enough losers to feel worse about her now they can't peer up her skirt like creeps.
This is a classic example of correlation not causation. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil games tend to start strong and then fade away - 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil Village begins with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the iconic Lady Dimitrescu, before Ethan continues on to House Beneviento where he is attacked by a giant foetus. The other two lairs he ventures into are footnotes in the overall discussion of Village. Similarly, in RE4, the most famous sequence is the early game attack at the rural village and surrounding farmland, where Leon has no escape. He either has to survive for about eight minutes or kill about 15 villagers, and the sequence ends with the church bell ringing, its inhabitants moving like drones to the tower, and Leon's classic (and very, very silly) line about bingo.
The game does slow down more in the later stages, although our reviewer Eric Switzer argues the improvements made to the Island section make i🦂t the best the g🎉ame has to offer now, not the worst. Having only just reached Ashley myself, I'm going to hold off commenting on what comes beyond that, but it's wonderful to see the game has managed to remain as stupid as ever, even with all its modern day tune ups.
While the village section is tense and can often make you feel like you're in the middle of a gritty action epic, the ridiculous nature of your enemies and their makeshift weaponry helps remind you of the tone the game is trying to strike. Then, after a hard fought battle through a haunted cavern, you fight a massive fish trying to eat your speedboat. Despite having to carefully conserve bullets throughout the journey, during this fight, we have an unlimited amount of harpoons to hurl at this huge slimy fish to save ourselves from a Jonah-esque fate.
There's a lot to do before you rescue Ashley, and given that she's the President's daughter, you'd think Leon would be in a hurry to get through it all. However, he's not above stopping for some shooting training. He's already an expert marksman, but even the best need to practise, right? Is this a precision shooting gallery with a variety of military standard targets, arranged in a cold metal room with the appropriate safety equipment, you ask? Nah. It's a fairground game with pirates in barrels and jolly old sailors next to them, where the ultimate prize is a keyring shaped like Leon. Why? As seems to be the answer to any question you could ask about Resident Evil 4, the answer is 'why not?'.
I'll be tearing through Resident Evil over the next week and will be checking if the silliness can hold on throughout, but even if it fades away as Resident Evil is wont to do, the opening hours have reminded me why I love this game. Everyone talks about the importance of Resident Evil 4's opening, but we rarely hit on the reasons why - mostly, it's great because it's stupid as f***.