Gonna start my review here saying that I consider remakes and original games to be completely different. If i find certain issues with the remake unless they're super glaring and just plain horrible, I will always say the original one is not going anywhere. And Remakes stepping away from the original is always something I'll welcome! What's the point on doing something that's already done if you're not gonna try and make it at least a little bit different.
The resident evil 4 remake is a game of now and will never top the original one, which is a game of its time. It isn't going to be 2005 again so we can't make a 2005 game, therefore resident evil remake takes itself more "seriously", and while I missed a lot of iconic Leon lines it wasn't a bad choice, in my opinion.
All that said, I honestly had so much fun with this game. I had to pace myself to not finish it in one or two days but I kept thinking I wanted to put so many more hours on it daily. Everything about it felt great to me and I just had a real great time with it! Which I think is the most important thing about games.
I have to take some points away with voice acting. While Leon, Ashley and Luis were great (also really enjoyed ashley and luis in this game, honestly) it was so dissappointing to hear Ada. She's a character I really enjoy and her new voice actress just wasnt..it. At all. Like I'm sorry to say but she was just bad. In the same vein I didn't really enjoy Krauser's voice actor either, it just sounded like evil guy number 50 and i dont know, that wasn't really doing it for me.
I'm definitely going to be replaying this at some point.
Leon S. Kennedy I need you.