Whenever people talk about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil 4's excellent set pieces, they often talk about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the attack at the village where Leon is surrounded by enemies with no means of escape. I know, because I talk about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil 4's excellent set pieces a lot, and that's what I tend to mention the attack at the village the most. The only problem is this is the first thing that happens in the game.
After briefly wandering through an abandoned house which doubles as a handy little tutorial, you're besieged at the farm. Here, it can feel like you've already seen the best Resident Evil 4 has to offer, but playing through the remake, I realise what we should have been talking about is the rain-drenched attack at the cabin with Luis Sera and his trusty Red-9.
Once Ashley is rescued from the church, the next few chapters are concerned with escaping. You escape the church, then escape the village, then keep on escaping wherever you wander to next, keeping Ashley safe and kneecappin🌊g farmers as you go. Eventually, you have to escape Méndez, a looming priest who will chase after you and cannot be harmed or stopped. This leads to a rickety wooden bridge which breaks just as you make it across, finally giving you some distance and a brief feeling of respite - or so you thought.
Because you're surrounded on all sides, escaping Méndez does not mean escaping his eventual wrath. As you rush across another bridge, Luis calls for your attention from a nearby doorway, and despite your distrust, you're out of options. You and Ashley hide inside the cabin with Luis and try to form a plan. Ashley is conveniently packed into the cupboard like a winter coat in April, and Leon and Luis hold out until the crowd is thinned enough for you to make a break for it. In the original, another church bell eventually thins the hordes, but here you make an escape and leave the chaos behind for good.
You begin downstairs, and can either push a bookcase in front of one window and board up the others with planks of wood, slowing the flow of enemies for a short while, or (pro tip!) board up one window then push the bookcase in front of it, which will keep it sealed for the whole fight. Infected pour in, and you can blast them away as they climb ladders, take them out in packs with a shotgun blast, or adopt a more defensive position to conserve ammo. Luis helps to an extent, but with bullets scarce and more challenges to come, it's a test of endurance as well as skill - it's fine taking the whole hoard out in a hail of bullets, but after enough kills or time has passed, the attacks will come from upstairs too, and with even tougher enemy types to deal with.
At this point, Leon can race upstairs where Ashley is neatly organised with the scarves and mittens to karate kick ladders the farmers are using away from the cabin. Again, we have the choice to aim for crowd control in the centre of the room,🍬 or back into a corner to hold your position knowing nothing can catch you off guard. You know, aside from the villagers whose heads appear to turn into screaming intestine tentacle monsters when they die. Love those guys♊.
By this point, you’ll have more of an arsenal, having started to customise your loadout by picking weapons of choice from the merchant and stocking up on grenades and flashbangs. If you've been clever with your herbs, you'll also have a bit more health. This section is less helpless than the village opening - there's a clear goal, even if ultimately it still boils down to 'survive', and you're better prepared for it. But this is also why it should be discussed more amidst the game’s other incredible moments.
The opening village sequence has most players running around confused and terrified, which is the entire point. It's important the game makes you feel this way early on, but once you reach the cabin standoff, you've begun to outgrow this fear. What you're left with is resentment and animosity, there's a righteous anger to Leon fighting back, and he has a more varied toolkit to fight with. Add to that the customisation of how and where to defend the cabin, the sense of relief with each bullet enemies drop (at the farm, you're unaware of how precious bullets are), and the fact Luis fights alongside you also gives it more depth.
I will never shut up about the attack on the village and farm in Resident Evil 4, just as I will never stop telling people to play one of the greatest video games of all time. However, now when I tell them, I'll be sure to mention the cabin too.