Resident Evil 4

Hello everybody! 

I'm back with another post. This time, I decided to tell you something about one of my favourite games. The game is called Resident Evil 4 and as the title suggests, it is fourth in the series. The most basic description would be a third person shooter, but it could also be called a zombie apocalypse sort of game. 

The main idea is that the president's daughter has been kidnapped and an agent is sent to rescue her. The agent's name is Leon S. Kennedy. He is one of the few surviviors from Racoon city, which is what happens in one of the previous games. 

In the game, you can pick a difficulty from easy, normal and hard. The hard is really hard and I think it should not be attempted unless you already have a good understanding of the game. Including what kind of monsters appear where and all the tricks to defeating them. 

For a beginner, I definitely recommend to start on easy. The only bad thing is that you have to start from scratch when you want to change the difficulty. 

I myself have been playing the game on and off for several years now. But only a few short months ago did I attempt anything else than the main story on easy. 

Yes, there are extra stories to play through. The main one you play as Leon and have to fight your way through hordes of las plagas infected people, but for now, we will simply call them zombies, even though they are not your typical zombies. The game has five chapters seaprated each into four segments plus the grand finale where you defeat the main evil boss. 

Apart from the main game there are two extras. One is called Separate ways and here you play as Ada Wong, who can be considered the main female character. In the main story, you can see her helping Leon on occasion and Separate ways is basically everything told from her point of view. All the 'in-between's that happen when she's not meeting with Leon. 

Playing as Ada has one big disadvantage. You weapons cannot be upgraded. But even so. Once you played it for the first time and managed to win, which is pretty damn hard! Well. No. It's not. The boss fight is. Well, was, before I found out how to zoom the rifle. And after that, I've been maing a good use for it. 

It's all about configuring the keys to suit your fingers. For me, it meas similar config to Devil May Cry 4. 

On the side, do any of you prefer games that can be controled with keyboard only as oposed to games that require both keyboard and mouse? I know I prefer those. But sadly, I don't think it's possible to comfortably control Assassin's creed 2 without the use of either mouse or gamepad. Which I have, but have yet to figure the best config for it. 

Okay, side note aside, there is one more story in the game. Again, you play as Ada and I don't think that this one even has merchant. It's pretty damn hard and while I managed to play through almost till the end, I didn't have enough amunition to defeat Krauser at the end. 

I was left with mostly grenades and frankly, I don't think it's possible to fight him with those only. 

Of course, there are also mercenary mini games which I don't really play. I mean, sometimes, in a fit of boredome, I try, but I always run out of amunition pretty fast. And then get cleaved by the chainsaw! Beware the chainsaw! It's evil.

There's a lot of stuff to unlock. Like costums for Leon and Ashley (the president's daughter. Also, there's weapons to unlock. My favourite is the infinite rocket launcher, because that means I can kill the bosses pretty easily. And I love that. Of course, I make it a habbit of not using it unless it is a boss. Othervise, I woiuld have the inventory overflowing with amunition. 

So. That's it. Hope I hooked you up. Tell me if you play the game. I'd like to hear what you think of it. Also, if you are considering getting it, tell me what your first impression is if you do end up playing it!

Heh. I remember that the first time I played it, i was so scared! Scared what was waiting behind the corner! And yet, I finished it and then played it again and couldn't stop. I think that by now, I'm on my seventnh playthrough and with Ada on second. As well as trying to fight my way through normal difficulty. Thankfully, I don't have to worry about Ashley. Considering that she's wearing a suit of armor, which is one of the two unlockable costums. 

Okay. That's it. 

Bye~