So he’s an odd thing to just say out of the blue. Silent Hill 2, in regards to writing, is a far better game than Resident Evil 4. In almost every single way, Silent Hill 2 is the superior horror game. But, on a gameplay perspective, on a replayable perspective, Resident Evil 4 is the better game. And it is a game I remember playing when I was a little kid, and found far less scary than the Remake, so I was able to enjoy it far more at that age. So let’s talk about it, shall we?
Resident Evil 4 followed Leon S. Kennedy, a strapping young man who has gotten his first job as the president’s bodyguard to search for his missing daughter, Ashley, in a rural European town. But once he arrives, he finds the town taken over by a parasite found by a dangerous terrorist cult in hopes of taking over the world. What follows his crazy American action, gross monsters, attractive women, and a lot of villagers slaughtered in the hopes of one white girl with palystic stew. Resident Evil 4 is the first in it’s main series to make a massive jump from horror into action, and yet somehow, despite that, it managed to please everyone. I never hear people say they hate Resident Evil 4 or call it a bad game. Sure, some say it’s not THAT good, like best game ever made good, but they don’t outright hate it. And it’s for good reason. Resident Evil 4 does so much right and then some. The gameplay is a lot different now from the previous game of shooting enemies in a slow manor and conserving bullets. You now have a plethora of weapons to carry, from handguns, shotguns, rifles, assault rifles, and crazy broken weapons like the Chicago Typewriter and the Hand Cannon. You also have access to grenades like normal exploding Hand Grenades, Incendiary Grenades that set things of fire, and Flash Grenades that blind enemies, and kill the parasitic ones. Also, the enemy variety in this game. The villagers turn to cult members and later into soldiers, all of them able to swarm you in seconds if you aren’t careful, and each group having better weaponry as the game goes on, making it more challenging as the game goes forward. It also has a variety of monsters, from the acid spitting bugs to the infamous Regenerators that stumble slowly towards you in their creepy moaning. And of course, there’s the glory that is The Merchant. Aside from being there to give you new weapons at a price, he also has a minigame for you to play, where you can shoot targets to both feel at east from the terrors of places like the castle and the prison, while also unlocking bottlecaps of the characters in the games. And that’s another thing, the unlockables in this game. From the insane;y fun side game of Mercenaries which is a really tough challenge but rewards you with the best gun in the game, along with other weapons unlocked from other means, as well as alternate costumes for you to unlock. The game has a ton of content for you to unlock, especially in the later releases of the game. There’s more end game content and replay value in Resident Evil 4 than the entirety of EA’s entire library, and without having to pay for DLC or microtransactions. Incredible.
Resident Evil 4 is considered by many to be one of the best games ever made, and for good reason. The level design, the gameplay, and the huge amount of value to just picking it up and playing it for the hell of it. Nothing compares to it, honestly. And if you want to play it, you can do that right now. It’s on every single console ever made, so have fun with playing on whatever console you so desire.