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I mean they attempted to expand on Ashley, Krauser, Luis and Umbrella to much better connect the games (tons of umbrella references, Leon outright hates Luis for it here).
The attempt is there. But everything else isn't as good including the surrounding details like art direction and music.
They knew we liked the Krauser cutscene in the original and that tons of players fought Krauser boss in melee, so here they gave us multiple knife duels with parry against him, that was cool.
My most hated point however besides all the other bosses being a shadow of their former selves, is the lack of more modes. The challenges are just speedrun shit dodging all enemies to finish as quickly as possible, in the game lauded for its action gameplay. Fucking wow. They had t know people challenge themselves to all sort of handicaps in the original RE4 such as pistol only or knife only runs, some of those should have been actual challenges in the remake with rewards.
Or Ashley mode, OR MERCHANT MODE, I'm surprised they didn't lean more on the Merchant being a fan favorite making him an unlockable to replay the story or outright making an original short mode in which you follow his side of the canon story and how he was running from one place to another, or a racing minigame in boats against other RE4 characters just as a funny gag, etc..
Re4 is the most memetic and legendary game in the franchise, it should have gotten tons of original new modes like the RE7 DLC or the RE2R Ghost Survivors thing, but we got exactly the same stuff as in 2005 (Separate ways and Mercenaries).
Waited 20 years just for them to remake the exact same stuff and deliver no new fun stuff to the fans.
