This game is what a remake should be like instead of just a graphics update like so many other remakes. It takes a great base from the original, which for me is one of the best games I've ever played, and fixes up a lot of the clunkiness from the original release. The smoother and improved movement, shooting controls and knife combat feels so much better and more intuitive. The only downside to this is that the game isn't as scary or tense since it is much easier to do everything, although I will say the developers tried to mitigate this by making the enemies move quicker and come from unexpected angles more often.
The game looks absolutely beautiful, with all the environments and character models looking very nice. Shadows and lighting look very nice and the environments are very detailed. Sound quality is also top notch with all the sound effects from guns and all the various horrors you see during the game fitting right in and helping to sell the experience. The only other minor gripe I have about this game is that the new voice cast is mostly good overall but a couple key characters had voices I found to be somewhat grating with the worst offender being Ada, who made me want to mute the audio everytime she started talking but Leon, Ashley, Hunnigan and the Merchant I found to be very good for the most part but I still prefer the voices from the original game overall.
I really enjoy the changes to the story and I found it to be a much smoother experience overall because of these changes. Story beats felt much more smoother flowing from one to the next overall and there was nice bits of added backstory to help explain character motivations better than they did in the original and also while I would have preferred they didn't get rid of the U3 boss fight from Leon's story, I will say that it helped to shorten the part of the game on the island, which I always thought was the weakest part of the original game with parts of it feeling like a slog to get through sometimes.
Overall I really loved this game and even though I still love the original more probably because of nostalgia, this is the definitive Resident Evil 4 experience in my opinion.
The game looks absolutely beautiful, with all the environments and character models looking very nice. Shadows and lighting look very nice and the environments are very detailed. Sound quality is also top notch with all the sound effects from guns and all the various horrors you see during the game fitting right in and helping to sell the experience. The only other minor gripe I have about this game is that the new voice cast is mostly good overall but a couple key characters had voices I found to be somewhat grating with the worst offender being Ada, who made me want to mute the audio everytime she started talking but Leon, Ashley, Hunnigan and the Merchant I found to be very good for the most part but I still prefer the voices from the original game overall.
I really enjoy the changes to the story and I found it to be a much smoother experience overall because of these changes. Story beats felt much more smoother flowing from one to the next overall and there was nice bits of added backstory to help explain character motivations better than they did in the original and also while I would have preferred they didn't get rid of the U3 boss fight from Leon's story, I will say that it helped to shorten the part of the game on the island, which I always thought was the weakest part of the original game with parts of it feeling like a slog to get through sometimes.
Overall I really loved this game and even though I still love the original more probably because of nostalgia, this is the definitive Resident Evil 4 experience in my opinion.