Resident Evil 4
PlayStation 4
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I don't re-review games too often. In fact, I have not re-reviewed a game since I played through Uncharted 2 about ten months ago. But I have been in a gaming rut lately. I haven't been "feeling" anything I've been playing. Titles like Yooka-Laylee, Breath of Fire, and Syphon Filter just have not been able to snag my full attention. So I thought I'd put those games on hold and take a quick detour and play through the Resident Evil 4 remake again. Maybe it will get me out of that rut and back into the swing of things again.
When I first played this game, I enjoyed it. I even gave it an A-, which is a pretty good score coming from me. But I also indicated in my review that the game was sort of stuck in limbo between being a faithful remake of the original RE4 and being its own separate identity. When Capcom remade Resident Evil 2 and 3, each game was like an all new experience. But this one closely follows the original in some parts, while doing its own thing in others. I personally would have preferred a ground up remake instead of a compromise between the two. As a result, it often made this remake feel completely unnecessary as I was playing through it. That said, RE4 is still a fantastic game and one of my all time favorite titles of all time. So I was not complaining too much.
Coming back to it over a year later, I still feel almost exactly the same way. It's a good game. I enjoyed playing it. Is it as good as the original? No. Why did Capcom feel this remake was necessary when there are titles like Code Veronica and RE:0 just sitting there waiting to be remade? I don't know.
I'm not going to knock the game too much, because it is fun. But if they are going to remake a classic like this, they need to one-up it in every way. And that didn't happen.
Would I recommend this game to people who have not played Resident Evil 4 before? Yeah. I sure would. I'm not sure I can recommend it to people who have played the original though. It just doesn't do enough to set it apart from that game. Give me the original any day of the week.
Again, it is not a bad game. It's just a completely unnecessary game. I feel like I am running out of stuff to say and just repeating myself over and over again. That's okay. This is a re-review. I don't put much thought into these. I'm just going to go ahead and give this game its final score. Again, it will get an A-, which is a great score. It may feel like I'm hating on this game, but I truly do enjoy it.
All right, I am going to log off now. I've reviewed and re-reviewed the original RE4 and now I've done the same to its remake. I am RE4'd out for the foreseeable future. I've basically played the same game four times now since I started this blog. If I feel like playing this game again anytime soon, someone please stop me.
THE GRADE:
A-
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