Haunting-Pop-5660 t1_jdxr3l5 wrote on March 27, 2023 at 11:30 PM

Reply to comment by djmetalhawk in Is Resident Evil 4 remake a replacement or will you keep playing the original? by LostNDarkness

If you didn't like the original, you probably won't like this one unless your complaints are purely down to mechanics.

Otherwise it's basically the same game with very minor tweaks.

M1de23 t1_jdziteg wrote on March 28, 2023 at 10:10 AM

I feel like the remake is scarier and more relentless. Like whatever little qualms I had with the original they’ve rectified.

Haunting-Pop-5660 t1_je0h9f9 wrote on March 28, 2023 at 3:08 PM

I'll agree with you that it feels harder, like you have less room to breathe, and the atmosphere is definitely darker. They seem to have trimmed a fair bit of unnecessary fat from certain areas (like the Castle) as well.

Adding stuff like the side quests and the expanded Blue Medallion stuff is really cool, and I love what they've done with the shop... but it is more or less the same game at the end of the day, and I think it's important that it be that way. If it wasn't, it wouldn't feel like what we all played nearly 20 years ago, and that was a big component of what would make it enjoyable.

So don't take what I'm saying as a gripe. It's just that it is mostly the same, just better.

M1de23 t1_je2tmbh wrote on March 29, 2023 at 12:18 AM

I haven’t gotten very far, I’m up to the part where you met the merchant for the first time. But the game isn’t really the same or 1:1 exactly like the original. Like they’ve terraformed the environment to incorporate more of the lake into the village area. It’s truly impressive, also the area after you get captured with Luis. It’s a remix of the interior space of the area after the sniper canyon area in the original. Really cool how they managed to remix it the way they did. So many things they’ve done so far with this remake is so astounding, like they didn’t have to go this hard! They could’ve just improved the graphics and left it at that but they really outdid themselves. I can’t wait for the regen labs on the island. I’m buzzing!