8/12/2023 0 Comments Resident evil 4 remake adaThe encroaching parasite absolutely terrifies her, and she nearly has a panic attack when Saddler remotely mind-controls her during the castle section. There’s one change that improves both her and Leon: The fact that she’s infested with a Plaga and has been for some time is far more important in the remake. One of my favorite changes in RE4R is that she acknowledges Luis’s help and shows some emotion when Leon tells her about his death. She even leaps at the chance to drive the wrecking ball machine (and her apologies should she accidentally smack Leon with it are adorable). She helps Leon escape Mendez’s burning boss arena by smashing a window with a chair. She’s the one who cures Leon of his Plaga, figuring it out on her own despite having been too out of it to see him start the process on her. The fact that she’s more proactive in the story also helps. I feel that change alone has to have endeared her to most RE4R players. She helps in gameplay without having to be asked, dropping a Regenerator down a chasm of her own accord should it get too close to her. Hints of her personality outside the crisis occasionally shine through, such as when she tells Leon she wants to be an agent and save the world with him. She gets more conversations with Leon, commenting when he startles her throwing out a grenade or when he does something ridiculous like swing from a chandelier. Therefore, she’s less inclined to blindly obey an agent she doesn’t know until the approaching Ganado horde means she has to. You later find out this is because she was abducted by Krauser, an American agent she probably thought she could trust. She bolts out of the open door the first chance she gets, not listening to Leon. In her first scene, the new Ashley attempts to defend herself when Leon enters her room, already making her a bit more competent than her previous iteration. It sounds like an oxymoron, but she comes across as both younger and smarter. As such, the new Ashley has been rewritten to be far more likeable and helpful. Resident Evil 4 Remake had ambitions to be both, and that meant the characters, Ashley included, had to change. Resident Evil 4 was never meant to be a compelling yarn but an action-packed good time. Just to clarify: When I say “improved,” what I mean is that the character was changed in a way that made them better fit the world. Gamers became fonder of her over time, if begrudgingly in many cases, but let’s not pretend the devs didn’t know how annoying she was when they made her. Unfortunately, Ashley’s archetype, the damsel in distress, was also exaggerated – and the exaggerated damsel is, by necessity, kind of shrill and needy. The villains all spoke their evil monologues in self-indulgent drawls. Ada was a stereotypical vamp in an impractical dress. Leon was a parody of a slick action hero. The original Ashley was deliberately written that way for maximum comedic effect.Įverything in RE4 was campy and exaggerated. As with everything else on this list, don’t mistake what I say as being a criticism of the original game. But even so, her grating voice and personality were not built to endear her to the player. The original Ashley Graham has become the poster child for “annoying video game NPC” especially under the subcategory “escort missions.” Granted, I doubt I would have done much better than she did were I dropped into an infested foreign village as a college student. If you haven’t played it yet, read at your own risk. I think it goes without saying, but just to be clear, there are going to be SPOILERS for Resident Evil 4 Remake in this post. I’ll also talk about two characters who could have used an upgrade, but were not given one – and it might not be the ones you think. I’ll talk about four character that I think got an upgrade, in terms of character or (to a lesser extent) gameplay. I mean no disrespect to the original game, but the characters there, such as they were, were parodies and stock figures more so than people. More specifically, I want to go over which characters I think were improved in the remake, at least with regards to their overall writing and story arcs. But here I wanted to keep it to one specific thing about the game: The characters. Believe me, there was a lot of ground to cover – if you want an overview of what I think of the game generally, go read my review on GamesBeat. After several weeks and multiple playthroughs of Resident Evil 4 Remake, I’ve finally made up my mind on which topic I wanted to write about.
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