Resident Evil 4is perhaps the perfect remake. It updates just enough of the original RE4 to make it feel fresh but keeps all the major plot points. Plus there are a ton ofeaster eggsto impress franchise fanatics, like howyou can still save the dogfrom a bear trap and you canstill die to a giant fish for getting angry at the lake.
Another easter egg that Resident Evil 4’s remake keeps is Leon’s Jet Ski skills. Slight spoilers ahead for anyone who hasn’t beaten Resident Evil 4 or who never played the original. You have been warned.
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In RE4’s final chapter, just after beating Saddler, Ada drops a bomb onto the island and gives Leon and Ashley two minutes to escape. The best way to get off an island that’s about to blow? A nearby jet ski, of course. The final segment of the game has Leon navigate an underground waterway that’s full of debris and falling boulders from an explosion that has yet to happen. It’s a dramatic end to an action-packed spectacle of a survival horror game. And you may even enhance that spectacle by performing tricks.
There are several ramps that Leon has to drive over to escape the island.In the original RE4, you can perform a backflip or side flip by holding both left and right triggers and then tilting the thumbstick back, left, or right, depending on the direction you wanted to tumble your watercraft. The remake makes it even easier to perform–you just have to hold the inspect button(which is F on PC, X on PS5, and A on Xbox).
Fans are loving this nod to the original game in the remake, but they’re also mourning the loss of a Resident Evil running gag that seems to have ended in RE4. The bolt cutters, a standby tool of both the RE2 and 3 remakes as well as Resident Evil 7 and RE Village,are nowhere to be found in the Resident Evil 4 remake. They weren’t in the original game either, so we can hardly blame Capcom for not shoe-horning in some bolt cutters just to satisfy fans, but perhaps the developers misunderstood just how important the bolt cutters were to die-hard Resident Evil fans.
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