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Resident Evil! Fourrrr!
Oct. 21st, 2007 12:19 pmI just beat Resident Evil 4 for Wii, and have been tooling around in its various "remix" modes. In the face of all of its gory headsplodey content, the game packs in a lot of charm, and the different play modes that open up once you finish the main storyline are a big part of it.
My favorite one is "Separate Ways", in which you replay abbreviated versions of the game's five stages as the femme fatale NPC. In the main storyline, she pops up occasionally to provide deus ex machina-style support for the hero. In this mode, you must perform those same ridiculous stunts yourself, pulling the main character's butt out of the fire before sashaying off to the next level. In the process, you build a sort of "secret history" for the main game, suggesting what was going on in the background while the main character was too busy running around blasting baddies to notice. I love it.
It also has the more common mode of letting you replay the main storyline, either at a harder difficulty level or carrying over all your equipment and power-ups from the last play-through. I have no plans to do this. The only game I've ever done that with was Ace Combat 4, because flying around in jet fighters is hella fun. But an action-adventure game about running around on a series of maps, that's the sort of thing I only wanna do once per.
My favorite one is "Separate Ways", in which you replay abbreviated versions of the game's five stages as the femme fatale NPC. In the main storyline, she pops up occasionally to provide deus ex machina-style support for the hero. In this mode, you must perform those same ridiculous stunts yourself, pulling the main character's butt out of the fire before sashaying off to the next level. In the process, you build a sort of "secret history" for the main game, suggesting what was going on in the background while the main character was too busy running around blasting baddies to notice. I love it.
It also has the more common mode of letting you replay the main storyline, either at a harder difficulty level or carrying over all your equipment and power-ups from the last play-through. I have no plans to do this. The only game I've ever done that with was Ace Combat 4, because flying around in jet fighters is hella fun. But an action-adventure game about running around on a series of maps, that's the sort of thing I only wanna do once per.