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Great write up. The third time I played that level, I had worked out a system that made it very easy to survive the first village. Knowing that entering the entering the house with the shotgun is basically when shit hits the fan, I would go there last. First is to run through all the surrounding houses, engaging a… Read more

What's interesting about these kind of gruesome moments that would end the player's journey is that RE4 was the last of it's gore-revealing kind. RE5 and RE6 had moments like these(RE5 had chainsaw enemies too that aimed for your head)that did not decapitate or remove the player character's limbs. I think this applied…

Fantastic article, Kevin. I really like how the first sequence was. When I first played RE4 I was 14 years old. The opening sequence in the game scared the shit out of me. I remember dying so much. Normally I'd have quit, but RE4 was so damn compelling that I just wanted to keep going. To get it right. The entire game… Read more

Recently started playing RE4 with a couple friends after not touching it for the better part of a decade. When I was younger I could stomp my way through the village with ease, no troubles whatsoever as I pulled off perfect head shots, lead the ganados around the village and picked them off one at a time. This time,… Read more

The sense of dread in this game is fucking unbearable Read more

RE4, and that opening in particular was a milestone for gaming imo. Was never much of an RE fan beforehand (okay RE1 was amazing at the time), but the cinematic quality, atmosphere and restrictive-but-functional gameplay of RE4 is a near-perfect recipe. Read more