Resident Evil 4 Review (And more general points about Survival Horror as a Genre)

posted by Kenny (more from this author)
Wednesday, Mar 28, 2012 - 12:55 am (PDT)

“Resident Evil 4” and I have a complicated relationship. The first time I tried it in 200X (I don’t remember the precise year I first played it), I enjoyed it a great deal. I got into the second chapter then got angry at the game for turning into an escort mission and being unsure where to go. The second time I tried to play it was last year- I despised the game’s control scheme and couldn’t get past the opening fight against a town of the…

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