The Resident Evil 4 remake may change a lot to bring the horror classic up to modern standards, but the best part of the melee combat remains.
I anxiously trail around the basement of a disgustingly wet and moldy house in search of my girlfriend, but I can’t help but feel like there’s something else down here waiting for me. A scuttling noise echoes down the tattered hallways, and a sound reverberates off the broken walls as if someone is dragging something massive behind them.
I’m trying to figure out where the noise is coming from. I think it’s right above me. Suddenly, two elongated arms burst through the ceiling and grab hold of me; some half-human, half-spider hybrid stares at me, grinning its rotten smile as I dangle helplessly upside down from the ceiling.
Armed with only a shotgun and the knowledge that there are more of these things waiting for me in the depths of this unforgiving house, I take a deep breath, reach for my shotgun, and think to myself, “this is going to be a long night”.
I only came to this abandoned house in Louisiana to find my girlfriend, and now I’m here fighting off mutants and some furious family members. I am a systems engineer from Los Angeles, for crying out loud, I am not cut out for this. Back into the action
After Resident Evil Biohazard and Resident Evil Village, a part of me had forgotten what it was like to have a capable protagonist in a Resident Evil game, one who didn’t get swept upside down by some mutated spider or helplessly chased by a bloated Fishman every other weekend.
