Whaddayasellin’?
What a lovely position for the Switch to be in, hmm? The eShop is bulging with quality games – ported, brand new, indie, AAA – and every week there’s a fresh delivery. It says something that one of the very best video games of all time is slipping out on a Tuesday as a digital-only release. And Resident Evil 4 still is one of the best. We won’t waste time going into details everyone knows already – after all, this game has been re-released across multiple platforms since its 2005 GameCube debut (including Wii, which we’ll come back to in a moment) and the base game remains unchanged.
The sun-bleached, drained colours of rural Spain (or rather rural ‘unnamed European country’ where they speak a Mexican Spanish, of sorts) are as subdued as they ever were. The muted colour palette chosen for this third numbered sequel (fourth, if we count Zero) is incredibly restrained and contributes enormously to the oppressive environment Leon S. Kennedy encounters while tracking the President’s kidnapped daughter. Riddled with the Las Plagas parasite, the pallid villagers, cultists and henchmen are a refreshing change to the shambling zombies of previous entries. Resident Evil 4 always required a period of adjustment, and it still takes time to not go for that instinctual headshot, but these days that period is extended by other factors.
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