Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition PS5 Review

 

Devil May Cry 5 is a Action Hack N Slash game was originally released in 2019 for PS4, XBONE, and PC, and it was later expanded for PS5 and XSX/S released in 2020. 

It was both developed and published by Capcom, and it is the 5th mainline installment in the series.

 

Before I begin reviewing the game, I wanted to discuss at the beginning of the whole franchise that was started back in the early 2000s days of gaming.

First of all, the creator Hideki Kamiya was attempt to create his prototype of Resident Evil game for the PS2 console as he develops focusly on action-oriented approach as opposed to survival horror formula from the RE's previous three's games, but unfortunately the Capcom's team were dissatisfied with the Kamiya's concept idea that did not fit well to the RE series, so instead he later recreated the whole thing and turned it into a entirely new original game titled as Devil May Cry.

It's a game that took inspiration from the Italian poet Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy in the terms of presentation design and cast of characters.

So what is the game anyway? it is a 2001's Action Hack N Slash game for PS2 where you take control of demon hunter named Dante went on his quest to battle against not only just the hordes of demons who invading the human world, but also taking his revenge on demon lord Mundus who is responsible for the deaths of Dante's Mother.

The game's initial release is critically acclaimed by gaming medias praising the game for its action-packed combat system, gothic themed settings, and of course the stylish innovations of gameplay design is what makes the original title a pinnacle of 3D Hack N Slash subgenre for early 2000s.

The game's success led Capcom went onto creating a sequel such as 2003's Devil May Cry 2 for PS2 which is the first title that Kamiya was absent on the development being replaced by Hideaki Itsuno as a lead game director.

While the 2nd title was commercially success at the release, the game however received mixed reception which was criticised for its lower difficulty, lack of strategy on boss battles, less refined combat gameplay, and dull overall presentation that are nowhere near good as the original.

After the disappointment of 2nd title, Capcom was later going back to its original form with the 3rd title such as 2005's Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening which acts as prequel to 2001's original game.

The game is receiving much praise for its series return to form while avoiding the mistakes of the predecessor, and of course the new battle system elements and more in-depth visual design marks the 3rd title as an massive improvement for the series, as it sold over 2.3 million units and has been labelled as one of the greatest video games ever made.

The 4th title such as Devil May Cry 4 was released in 2008 for PS3, X360, and PC, which focuses on a new protagonist named Nero, a young man possessing demonic powers who is on a mission to confront the series main character Dante, after he assassinates the leader of the Order of the Sword. 

The game has positive reception at the release for its new playable protagonist, smooth combat mechanics, game's difficulty system, and action-packed missions were praised by gaming critics.

The series was later rebooted with the 2013's title as DmC: Devil May Cry was created by Ninja Theory, a same team behind their notable titles such as Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.

The game is considered as controversial at the early teaser was widely negative due to Dante's redesign appearance and drastic change of his characteristic tone is not the same kind of hero as we know him from the original series, and then at the game's release while it has received positive reception by the critics, but was overwhelmingly hated by the fans of the original series were expecting the game to be just as good isn't just the right game for them to play calling the full reboot a much worse than the 2003's 2nd title in terms of story, character, and design choices just completely ruins the great franchise. 

Finally in the year of 2018 when Capcom has revealed a new title for the original series such as Devil May Cry 5 which is a sequel to the 4th installment of the series, so it got released in between 2019 and 2020 for PC and consoles.           

I really loved the classic DMC games like the 1st and 3rd title when I first had a HD collection for PS3, as well as the 4th title which made me loved the franchise, so I am definitely can't wait to play a new Devil May Cry 5 when I seen the game's announcement trailer off from E3 live conference on Youtube in 2019. I was originally planned to get the copy for the PS4 console, but in around one year later when they announced the special edition for the 9th-gen system I decided to change my mind by waiting for a bit longer, which is why I finally got a PS5 copy of the game this year since I first had a slim model PS5 console.

So what do I think about this game, is it anything plays just good as the original's previous installment or does it feel a bit stepped back in comparison? 

I got to say that I am really glad the whole game had turned out to be another best title in the series since the 3rd title which are still remained as my number 1 favourite in the series mainline, but why this game feels like its deserved to be my 2nd favourite game in the list?

I am here to make my review to deliver many positive things that got the game right and where as some others which I will discuss later on this review.

So without go further do, let's start the review.

Presentation

The game sets after the event of Devil May Cry 4, as the story explains the mysterious tree incident that apparently attacked the city by the hordes of demons led by demon king Urizen has took the control of the human world, the plot follows returning protagonists such as Nero and Dante was hired by a mysterious stranger named V as they went on their journey to stop the demon king Urizen.

The story in this game is actually solid which explains what has happening in the Red Grave city was plagued with the large demonic tree planted in the city spawning many hordes of demons attacking all the people for their blood, and you have a demon hunters and their crew went on their mission is to wipe out the wicked lord's curses that harms the human world, so I really liked the story sequences on each parts which delivers a present to past scenes just seems to work really well in the game.

You have likable cast of characters such as Nero as you may know him as the main lead from Devil May Cry 4, so his appearance is quite different from the previous installment with short silver-hair and his prosthetic right arm which I really liked his new design in the game while keeping his personality level between being hot-headed and passionate well intact in many scenes makes him quite likable throughout the campaign.

I say Dante is by far the bestest character of the whole game as much as we liked him in DMC 1, 3, and 4, so what makes him being the greatest video game characters in the series? he wore a long-red leather jacket...check, his medium-sized silver-hair...check, his dual-pistols and sword...check, his level of cockiness with goofy sense of humour...check, his cool and stylish fighting style...check, and of course his demonic power level...so there you go now you know exactly why everyone loves this badass dude.

The game also introduces a new playable character such as V which kinda looks like an emo version of Adam Driver...well judging with the design of the character.

He is also quite an interesting guy has the backstory explaining that he aims to find his way of restoring his original form back and he has ability to summon his 3 demon familiars to fight off the demons such as Griffin Hawk, Shadow Panther, and Nightmarish Golem.                     

The game has supportive NPCs characters such as everyone's favourite 2 babes like Trish which has really nice black leather outfit and her long-blonde hair, as well as the Lady is basically look like Julia Volkova being equipped with jam-packed rocket launcher.    

Then you have a sassy female gunsmith Nico who aided Nero throughout the campaign as she offers him with the upgrades and arm-weapons. She is also quite a smoking hot as the other two ladies I've mentioned above with perfect shape of the body...nice, and I also liked her snarky characteristics which she enjoys teasing Nero, being a reckless driver, and has hilarious southern accent just adds up a good comedy.    

The game's presentation is wonderfully amazing for its gothic settings themes that made the while series quite recognisable over the years.

I really liked getting into with dark-medieval stuff filled with demonic looking environments, creepy looking foes with their ugly-ass faces, gorefest particles all-over the places, and many stuff going on in the game which makes me finding the series quite appealing.

In this game, I wanted to praise the stage layout in each locations such as Red Grave City is a hometown which features mostly neoclassical architecture stuffs like cathedral, where as the recent modern stuffs like apartment blocks, neon-lit district, subway network, and a large bridge.

Alberton Graveyard are filled with abandoned site areas, Clustonbury Theatre used to have a musical play theatre that are completely demolished, Burrow Market kinda looked like a London's market area filed with huge clock on top, graffiti walls, and of course the red telephone booth, Pawn's Avenue is a street area filled with shopping places and large commercial ads screen, and of course the II Chiaro Mondo Hotel has the entrance, lobby, bar area, and 2nd entrance. 

Overall, it has excellent story, likable cast of characters, and wonderful presentation design.

Gameplay

The single-player campaign has 20 missions to complete, so you take control of Nero, Dante, and V in 3rd-person perspective as your main goal is to beat the entire stage by reaching to the finishing point or defeating bosses as the primary objective, while the secondary ones heavily focusing on scoring system which you need to gain enough scores to reach up to the high ranking spot, yeah only if you're one of those experienced hi-score players wanted for a big challenge. 

Pushing the left stick is to move player around, and pushing the right stick is to rotate the camera system around, while pushing the right thumbstick button to reset the camera position.

Each of these characters will have different gameplay controls, so starting off with these two such as Nero and Dante which they will have melee attack with the triangle button to slash attack on enemies in close-range, and pressing the square button is to fire with gun at the enemies works better in mid-range distance.

V on other hand has his own combat style of attacks such as 3 familiars attack by pressing the square button to use Griffon act as firing projectiles, the triangle button uses Shadow to perform close-range melee attack, and of course left shoulder button to summon Nightmare golem.

V can able to finish the enemies off by using the finishing blow with the circle button if the enemies or bosses are being staggered with low health.

They can able to lock-on target by holding the right shoulder button making an easier to aim directly at the enemies while clicking the left thumbstick button to change target in each foes.

Each of the characters has their own unique action such as Nero has ability to use exceed by pressing the left trigger button to charge up his blade power for higher damage attack on enemies, and he can use his devil breaker by pressing the circle button depending what arm equipment you're using, so he can able to do stuffs like electric bursts on enemies, launch shockwaves of huge energy beam, throwing enemies with devastating force, and creating force fields that warp and slow time for enemies, but he can also perform a massive powerful attack by charging up his arm equipment with holding the circle button then release which deal a severe damage on enemies and bosses but causes to immediately shatter afterwards.

Nero can able to use break away move by pressing the left shoulder button which can breaks the arm equipment, but using them is designed for harming nearby enemies, evade attacks or free him from certain enemy grappling moves can be useful for combat battles. 

Dante has ability to switch his fighting style with the d-pad button which changes his combat play such as trickster allowing him to dodge enemy's attack, sword master that expands the moveset of melee weapons, gunslinger which specialising in firearms like shooting multiple of enemies at once, and royal guard is designed to guard against the enemy attacks that deal damage, and he can also switch weapons by pressing the left and right trigger button.

Dante has the wide selection of weapons such as rebellion which is a default sword are perfect for swordmaster and trickster style, the sparda sword are perfect for combo system, the devil sword deals with devastating damage when using devil trigger, the balrog is a close range weapon with two movesets are quicker for combos but does not deal massive damage, the Cavaliere is a motorcycle's dual-weapon are slow but deals much heavier damage, the King Cerberus is chained with 3 nunchakus deals not many damage attacks but has fast and versatile combos, the Ebony and Ivory is a dual-pistol as a default weapon which are good for keeping up combos and can be charged to deal with better damage, Coyote-A is a shotgun that deals more damage than the dual-pistol, and of course the Kalina Ann is a rocket launcher works effectively against the larger enemies.       

Defeating most of the enemies will fill up your gauge meter which you will see on the top-left corner on the screen, so if the purple bar gauge has been fully filled up, then both Nero and Dante has ability to unleash the devil trigger which transformed them into a powerful demon form, so this will allow them to boost their stats power such as attack, defense, and speed, as well as restores vitality over time, and they can perform various of demonic attacks which deals severe damage on enemies and bosses. 

    

So far, the controls scheme works really amazing especially with the options that give you a choice to change things such as re-mapping the button layouts for suitable control preferences, changing the fields of view, and an option to choose between hold or toggle the lock-on aim just seems to be really helping the gameplay controls.

Aside with the controls, the combat system plays out really great because this series was known for its stylish fighting moveset and over-the-top combo scoring extravaganza which is why I really liked playing the game that heavily focuses on fast and extreme combat battle.

It's really easy to pull off the moves by mashing the combination of shooting, slashing, dashing, and dodging just to get a perfect ranking scores is what I've loved about the Hack N Slash genres.

The game delivers many awesome choices of weapons has an own advantages that allows the player to choose which are these is best used against any types of enemies and bosses have their own weaknesses, so I say playing as Nero is good for the well balanced combat between the swordplay and using the arm weapons are much useful for certain battles, where as Dante is probably the best ones to play because I get to switch his fighting style which changes the movesets and of course cycle the weapons to equip just makes his melee combat a much easier to pull off, and lastly the V is not the strong one but I do really liked his summoning minions like Griffin and Shadow acts as an combat weapons are better for strategic play in some parts.

What makes the game quite interesting to play is that when you have collected many red orbs as an currencies which can be collected by defeating many enemies or break it off from the orbs trees, then you can spend these on the shop via Nico's driving van or Shiny Statue, so you have a choice to choose which ones to unlock stuff such as new moves for combat and ability that adds up your skills including double jump, stepping on enemy head, expands stocks of exceeds, expands multiples of arm weapons, more multiples combo attacks, charging your firing shot, and many more to unlock your new skills that benefiting your combat system.  

There are quite of useful items like blue orbs that extends your vitality life bar and purple orbs that extends your devil trigger gauge bar makes vastly improves on player's health and gauge levels, and  there are a gold orbs that makes the player resurrected back to life when losing all health allowing the player to continue fighting on for action. 

I also wanted to praise the stage exploration where you can go around the levels to find good stuffs like collecting orbs can be hidden on some areas and of course discovering the secret mission which is a bonus challenge where you had to complete the task without failing the objectives, so completing the challenge will reward you with the bonus items.

The segments of the stages does share with platforming obstacles, unlocking the new paths, and of course you'll be forced to fight all of demons before you can able to continue move on to the next stages.

The boss battles is absolutely epic to play is because it feels nicely strategic when fighting with the boss that are tough as nails especially playing on normal or hard difficulty which requires a good strategy to find their weak spot and trying not to get killed in action is what keeps me playing the game further on.

It has gigantic Goliath is a powerful demon that can do massive damage with every attack, Nidhogg is an aggressive parasite has the 3 tentacles creatures with razor-sharp teeth that can sweep and charge you with certain range, Artemis is angelic demon will summon a barrage of arrows and firing various of lasers and bullets, Malphas is a large female demon has ability to use her demonic bird to do their dirty work delivering charging headbutts, heavy body slams, and strong pecks from its clawed feed and beaked mouth, King Cerberus is a huge 3 headed demonic hound wields with 3 elemental powers such as fire, ice, and lighting, and of course the demon king Urizen has the various of his ultimate demonic powers...this really proves the game has the best numerous of bosses that the series has the offer. 

The special edition comes with new playable character such as Vergil which he is basically on the same single-player campaign but has different combat gameplay, and it also introduced a 2 new game modes such as the turbo mode which doubles up the speed of the single-player game making it more intense and wacky to play, and you have legendary dark knight mode which is a extremely a challenging single-player game featuring a huge hordes of the enemies to fight against which I got to say these new playable character and 2 game modes is a fantastic addition to this game.                     

  

Overall, it has amazing controls, great combat system, excellent stage missions, and epic boss battles.

 

      

Graphics

The graphics in this game is excellent when utilising with RE engine for 9th gen system just made the game look gorgeous in terms of environmental design which I consider these as crisp and details for the texture mapping and surfaces.

The level design are nicely open but not trying to make it big is because the game is meant for creating a fair amount of spaces to keep the game a straight-forward Hack N Slash action such as the good platforming areas and the simple size of exploration.

I also wanted to praise the draw-distance in some areas which is looking spectacular with the landscapes structures that are nicely displayed.

The use of shadows and lighting effect in any levels are also quite good in some areas giving the game a dynamic look with the reflections of light and dark shades. 

I got to love the special effects for the combat battle because with the heavy explosive sparks from the weapons and those bloody crystal particles all over the places just seems really satisfying to watch.

The character's design has really amazing motion capturing system with nicely animated facial features and body movement just looks really great on the in-game cutscenes.

The game performances may differ on each systems such as the PS5 and XSX/S (X model) uses the ray-tracing system which provides the full enhanced details of the graphics including reflections and lighting system.

The consoles may have different frame-rate performances such as the XSX/S (X model) console are running smooth on the 4k fidelity mode and RT performance mode thanks to system's additional GPUs, where as the PS5 console are noticeably better on the high frame-rate mode up to 120fps which really optimised well for the faster gameplay, but to tell you the truth I didn't had an issue with using the RT performance mode on my PS5 slim which ran just as great being capped in between the 50 to 60fps in some areas just seems to be good enough to play because I much preferred to choose RT performance mode over the 4k fidelity mode in many ways.

Sadly two of the game modes such as turbo mode and legendary dark knight mode just totally missed out ray-tracing features due to system's limitations which is quite a bummer for those who really wanted to have the ray-tracing on to capture a photorealistic look just not gonna happen is because these two game modes really needs to remove the ray-tracing support in order to reach at the stable frame-rate level to keep the game faster and smoother as possible when playing the single-player game with double the amount of speed, as well as adding many hordes of enemies in the one whole screen which I can totally understand that argument, but it really makes the image of the game itself doesn't look good as the regular single-player campaign which is the only game mode that supports ray-tracing options. 

That being said, I believe both of these systems are looking tremendously stunning in terms of visuals enhancements, so I'm pretty sure those console owners of PS5 and XSX/S (X model) are completely fine with the game itself.

Overall, it has crispy environmental design, great character's animation, and stunning game's performances.

Music and Sounds

The soundtrack in the game is actually quite remarkable that fits the demon hunting action, so you have really cool vocal track like "subhuman" by Cody Matthew Johnson ft Michael Barr and "Bury the Light" by Casey Edwards ft Victor Borba which these are full-on metalcore style music, where as others like "Devil Trigger" by Casey Edwards ft Ali Edwards & Cliff Lioret and "Crimson Cloud" by Jeff Rona ft Rachel Fannan are basically an electronic style music.

While sharing with decent vocal tracks, the game also has the original score for most of the part which was composed by Kota Suzuki, Hiromitsu Maeba, and Yoshiya Terayama did such an incredible job for creating their rocking tunes in each stages fits the game's atmospheres. 

The sound effects in the game are quite solid for its use of the slashing and shooting sounds throughout the game, and it does have several of great environmental sounds on some areas especially for the 3d audio sounds which are designed to hear surrounding areas in the game's stages.

The voice over for most of the characters are very good indeed with really cool one-liners and has classy goofy dialogues with sense of humour just makes it sounds really good for the in-game cutscenes. 

Overall, it has remarkable soundtrack, solid sound design, and classy voice performance.

Special Features

The special edition comes with additional content being included in the disk such as Vergil as playable character, deluxe content like costumes, and of course two game modes such as turbo mode and legendary dark knight mode.

It does have unlockable galleries like concept art, characters bios, musics, cutscenes, and etc.

Overall, a very good pack of content.

Advantages

Excellent story and characters

Wonderful presentation design

Amazing combat gameplay

Epic battles with enemies and bosses

Stunning visuals

Remarkable soundtrack

Additional content 

 

Disadvantages

Turbo mode and legendary dark knight mode just totally missed out ray-tracing features

Final Verdicts

Presentation 9/10 - excellent story, likable cast of characters, and wonderful presentation design.

Gameplay 9/10 - amazing controls, great combat system, excellent stage missions, and epic boss battles.

Graphics 9/10 - crispy environmental design, great character's animation, and stunning game's performances.

Music and Sounds 8.5/10 - remarkable soundtrack, solid sound design, and classy voice performance.

Special Features 8/10 - comes with additional content such as playable character and two game modes.

Overall 9/10 - Devil May Cry 5 is another masterpiece title deserves to be a same spot as other classic titles like DMC 1, 3, and 4.

I am very glad that Capcom had learned the lesson from the atrocious 2013's DMC reboot that no one had been asked for, which is why the company decided to go back to the original mainline of the franchise that made the classic DMC games so memorable back in the early days of 2000s, so they had bought the 2019's sequel to the gaming platforms and it really turns out to be a great success that every DMC fans had been begging for the true DMC games.   

A game filled with excellent story, badass protagonists, rich and detailed presentation, and of course the over-the-top Hack N Slash action packed with great combat system, excellent stage missions, and epic boss battles is what makes the DMC 5 a one hell of amazing title to play, especially with the special edition are the perfect ways of playing a fast paced action game for the 9th-gen consoles packs with additional content and ray-tracing support.    

The physical copy of the game for PS5 and XSX/S is quite easy to purchase for between £15 to £20, where as the digital copy from the PS Store and Xbox Store usually cost around £35.

Is the special edition of this title an definite must play for a Hack N Slash fanatic who owns the PS5 or XSX/S console? absolutely because DMC 5 is a solid action game that I can highly recommended to all those who are previously experienced with the fast-paced genres should give this game a worth huge go.  

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Top 5 Terrifying Gaming Console Errors

 

Have you ever been spooked by the gaming system's fatal errors before? well you're not alone because it's almost a spooky holiday everyone. 

Get yourself a dressing-up costumes, trick 'n' treat candies, carving kits for pumpkins, and decorating sorted out, so tonight I am here to talk about something really scary that might going to haunt you for the rest of your days and nights do you know why? 

Well...what I am saying is that you normally had fun playing your gaming consoles which is a everyone's favourite activity device that we all love spent playing every single day and night, but there are some of the things that turns out to be something unexpecting...yes?

I'm talking about the faults of the system that could have an issues that makes your consoles or games unplayable, but it's more horrifying than that.

I am here to make my 5 things that had everyone experienced with the things that they will never forget their childhood nightmares.

Here is my top 5 terrifying gaming console errors.

5 - Game crashing error

There's one of the common issues for the gaming consoles is the crashing and freezing that became the reason why are the games just stopped functioning at all, well...as you pop your cartridge or disc inside your system to run the software you start playing the game for quite a minute till your game starts freezing or crashes which you'll notice something really weird on your TV screen.

It's not just the game freezes just freaks you out, it's mostly you could hear randomised glitchy noises that made your ears bleed and those scrambled messy screens just suddenly mixes around is what made everyone feel shivering when their game is doing something crazy.

The major causes of game freeze is that your game cartridge or disc is uncleaned or damaged or it could be your system's slot or lens that stops reading your game, so you may gonna grab yourself a cleaning kit to solve the issue.

It's not just only the retro gaming system had an issues back then, but the worst things for today's system is that your game could randomly crash during the gameplay which means once the game is freezes the app will greet you with the error message implying users to send and report the issues to the company. 

It kinda gives everyone an heart attack after seeing these kinds of crashing errors, so be sure to properly update both of your games and systems software to resolve it or rebuilt your database on the safe mode menu.

           

4 - Sony's Console's Screen of Doom 

What's even worst than seeing the start-up screen that display the error implying the player that your console could not read disc is due to wrong CD format...yeah we should know what the game disc is actually used for.

The worst nightmare is that did you know the first two Sony's consoles like the PS1 and PS2 does actually had something that may going to scare little kids or something that really haunts their childhood. 

First up is the PS2 console, so when you power-up your PS2 system it boots-up a regular start-up sequence which is quite normal but what if you insert the wrong format disc that aren't used for PS2 console? when placing with the random disc that aren't playing PS2s, PS1s, DVDs, and CDs music format then it prompt you with the red screen of doom which is not quite welcoming, so you may see a gloomy looking red screen and horrifying noise effect just feels very unsettling to watch.

What's even more creepy is that the PS1 console may going to scare you big time because when you had a modchip installed on your PS1 console or using the techniques like disk-swapping it tricks the PS1 system to play non-protected games, so if playing with the damaged or non-PS1 disc then it struggles to run the software and corrupting the BIOS which prompted you with the black background screen with the PlayStation logo, so what makes even more disturbing is that after being stuck on the screen for an minute will play a slowed down version of the start-up chimes which is very loud and distressing makes your head feel uneasy.  

So whatever you do is please try not to insert something random disk that aren't Playstation format otherwise you'll be greeted to the screen of doom.   

3 - SEGA Mega CD's warning message

Oh my god, can't you believe there's something that one of your own game disk is actually had a creepy message that warns the users not to play it on your CD player, so why is that?

Before I give the details about the reason why the warning message had been playing on your CD player, so first of all is that when you're trying to play out the music soundtrack that's included on your game disk you may discover that one of the track no. something may going to play out the track that contains the warning message urging the players that the disk is for use with a SEGA CD system only and not designed for playing on the audio CD Player.

Not only the warning message track had a scratchy guitar riffs that became louder and louder when the CD track keeps continuing playing through and through is just sounds pretty rad at the beginning which I'm totally liked the sounds of the cool and badass riffs, except one that kinda ruins their childhood was followed by a serious lady voice trying to make users turn off the CD player, I mean Jesus woman just please tone down your voice will you, you just scaring the f**k out of these little kids.  

   

To tell you the truth, I totally understand they wanted to use game disk on the CD player to play out their favourite in-game soundtrack which is absolutely fine and of course the game disk uses the redbook audio format showcasing the SEGA Mega CD's enhanced music for certain of the games, but what I've completely learned from the warning message is that they do not want users to play it on the track no.1 which contains the game data of CD-ROMs format, so it means that the track no.1 is actually used for the console systems to read out the game's file data allowing the system to load up the game.

If you play it on the track no.1 by mistake without realising then it can damage to your audio speakers or equipment which means that the track no.1 being played on the CD player makes a severe static noises could blow up your audio speakers, so whatever you do is please do not play it on track no.1 unless if you're a gaming geek just wanted to listen the soundtrack on your CD player just skip it to track no.2 instead.               

2 - Console's Disk Drive Failure  

There are common issue that the modern gaming consoles, especially with 7th, 8th, and 9th gen systems, had an issue with the optical disk drive that suddenly makes the weird grinding noises meaning there's the faults inside the system that had a loose optical disk drive.

If you pop-in the game disk inside the system's disc slot then you'll be encountered with the noises of the disk drive which means that your system had struggle to read the disk due to optical disk drive is either unstable or gotten quite loose.

The failure of the disk drive can also damage to your game disk meaning that the optical disk drive that are unbalanced had struggled to hold the game disk causing the disk itself to bounce off while spinning could result a awful looking scratched marks which is no good.

It sounded like the chainsaw inside the disk drive just shreds the f**k out of your game disk makes the ring-shaped marked all over the places, which is the worst things that can happen to any console owners did not expect the horrifying noises from your console just instantly kills your favourite game, unless if it's not very severe but just the light scratch then consider yourself an lucky because the light marks can be repairable with the cleaning kit except the ones that are severely damaged cannot be restored then you are definitely f**ked, so be sure to always check your system to see if its nothing fishy before popping the game disk in because there might be a gremlins in your gaming console.       

     

1 - Xbox 360's Red Ring of Death 

Ladies and Gentlemen, you may be witnessed with the dark old times that we will never forget our worst childhood nightmares, so you'll be encountering with the horrifying errors for your gaming system that are refused to continue to run and never be worked again...so that is Xbox 360's Red Ring of Death.

Yes everyone, I am talking about the days in mid-2000s when the launch system like the Xbox 360 had suffered with the most fatal flaws that got the players feel spooked when they discovered the most doomiest things that your gaming system had suddenly starts flashing the red light around the ring indicating that your game console just suddenly stops working and no longer functioning.

It happened many X360 owners since they bought it off from the gaming store at the launch release, so it was been reported in 2009 where the warranty provider company such as SquareTrade had confirmed the X360's system failure rate in the first 2 or 3 years is 23.7% that the customers had reporting a system failure in comparison with 10% for PS3 which the 2007's launch model had suffered the similar fate as the X360 and 2.7% for Wii which is likely related to Wii's disc-drive reading issue.   

What I've learned about the X360's devilish looking red light is that your system may ran with the issues that prevent your console becoming unplayable such as AV cable connector are not been properly detected on your HDTV screen, your system may have power outages due to damaged power plug, and of course the worst part of it is the system's overheating when your console is building-up the heat are the three general hardware failures that your X360 stopped working.

The main cause of the major issues is the poorly designed hardware components with cheaply made thermal paste on CPUs and improperly soldering joints could lead the expose of these components can develop the cracks and brittle that are almost irreparable which is why it made the X360 no longer working.

The X360's Red Ring of Death is definitely being one of the gaming most darkest moments in the history for those who own the launch model X360 back in mid-2000s are kinda got buggered by the doomish looking red ring that prevents them from playing the game regularly.

Luckily after the controversial RROD incident, Microsoft had confirmed the news to the consumers for the repair services to get their consoles fixed as soon as possible to cover up the RROD issue that the X360 owners had experienced with the faults that prevents the system from functioning.  

As in today, if you see your console had an issue then it's possible to take it to the gaming repair store to help you fixing the system or you may consider fixing it yourself by watching the console's DIY tutorial video to give you a guide how to fix and repair the system step by step.     

     

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Resident Evil 4 PS5 Review

 

Resident Evil 4 is a survival-horror game was released in 2023 for PS5, PS4, XSX/S, and PC. It was both developed and published by Capcom, and it is a full remake of 2005's original game of the same name.   

Before I get into the review, I wanted to talk about the good old horror masterpiece that was released back in the year of 2005 for the Gamecube. 

I remember the days when I bought one of the Nintendo's related gaming magazines which bundled with the bonus DVD disc that included the teaser trailer of the upcoming games, so I've discovered the game that caught my excitement as the long-time fan of the Capcom's greatest horror franchise, so that is Resident Evil 4.

I was blowned away with the trailer that I've watched on my DVD player, so what I've seen on the teaser trailer is that I'm really amazed with the incredible graphic design showcasing the Gamecube's hardware, the new style of presentation mixed with the elements of both horror and action combined, and mostly the most important part of the game is the new gameplay changes which makes the huge departure of the previous fixed-angle style like the first threes RE games are being replaced with the modern-take over-the-shoulder perspective, so it delivers the new different type of experience that Capcom wanted to create a new direction to the series.

After I've watched the trailer, I begged my siblings to get me a copy of the Resident Evil 4 for Gamecube during my summer off from the high school, but they struggle to get one from online retail like Amazon and eBay due to limited availability or some others are quite pricy which unfortunately which is why it took so long to get one just completely wasted my whole two months of summer holidays until I got it at the end of the summer months which I finally had a chance to play the game that I'm definitely looking forward for the biggest RE's sequel.

I'm been playing for hours of campaign which I am incredibly impressed with the whole game that took the horror genres to its new level, so it has multiples of crazy villagers and monsters to encounter, solving the puzzles in each areas, confronting the villains before the boss battles begins, it has solid overall story and likable cast of characters, the combat gameplay with strong precision aiming controls and additional QTE for close melee and other events, and of course the settings of the horror and action delivers a new approach to the series which is why I consider the game as one of my all-time favourite RE games in the series.        

The game was universally acclaimed at the release praised by the critics calling it the best horror game ever created and has won multiple game of the year awards in 2005.

The success of the game was ported to numerous formats, and became a cross-platform hit which sold over 12.3 million copies. 

It's redefining the evolution of the survival horror and 3rd-person shooter genres which popularizing the 3rd-person view terms over-the-shoulder perspective are used in later games such as Epic Games's Gears of War, EA's Dead Space, and Naughty Dog's The Last of Us.

As the Resident Evil 4 are clearly the best in the franchise, the game was later been remade it in 2023 as I learned the success of the other RE remakes that Capcom did it so well with the 2019's title like Resident Evil 2 as an main example of how to create the best quality remake as possible, which is why I see Capcom had decided to remake the 4th title that I am so excited to play it is because I wanted to see if the 2023's remake actually captures a same magic as the 2005's original game, so the answer is yes absolutely which I had a reason to enjoy the 2023's remake.

I will covering all the goods and some bads that I wanted to deliver the things that made the game quite fun to play and some that needs to be addressed.

So without go further do, let's start the review.

Presentation

The opening intro explains the outbreak incident took place in year 1998 when the whole town of Raccoon City was infested with the deadly viruses created by Umbrella Corporation. After the following destruction that wiped out the entire Raccoon City to end Umbrella's ongoing bioterrorism weapon, the former Raccoon Police Officer Leon Scott Kennedy, who survived the 1998 outbreak event, has been transferred to work with the US Government as an agent and undergoes combat training with Major Jack Krauser.

In 6 years later set in 2004, he is sent in mission to rescue president's daughter named Ashley Graham who was held captured by villagers in Spain. 

So far, the story in the game is incredibly great starting with the small backstory at the opening scenes which explains how did Leon had survived the event of the 1998's outbreak incident and then later joining with the US Government to become the undercover agent, so right after the combat training program had finished then it skips to the next scene set in 6 years later where he is sent by US Government to search and rescue president's daughter which is likely she was captured by the cult groups known as Los Illuminatos led by Osmund Saddler.

Yeah I believe these are the same cult groups does a weird satanic rituals going on where they practicing on something really dangerous performing like removing human organs and chopping their heads off to drain amount of bloods on the ritual stones which is quite disturbing especially like in every horror movies does a same scene of these satanic shit with multiples human sacrifices are sure does look nasty to watch.

I really liked the new idea of going on different direction in RE4 because it makes the game quite interesting to play, so instead of the traditional zombie horror approach like from the previous threes games it goes for a new style of horror that involving these mentally-sick villagers are being plagued by these parasites that controlling their minds, so I find that part is batshit insane which I had a reason to like the game.

Aside the opening story is really good, I also wanted to praise the cast of characters in the game like Leon Scott Kennedy which I really liked him from the original and remake of RE 2 and he is incredibly badass in this game, as he has the intelligent, makes really good one-liner, and of course putting up really cool gun fight against the villagers and bosses is what I liked about him.

He has the assistant Ingrid Hunnigan aiding him with the locations and infos through the radio call during the mission.

He then meets with the Spanish dude named Luis Sera, an former researcher who worked once with Umbrella, must work together to escape from the village while Leon still went for searching Ashley whereabouts.

I consider Luis Sera seems to be a nice guy when he's kindly helping Leon throughout the village especially he's giving out supplies of ammos to Leon during the shootout against the villagers and also he has a cool sense of humour which you can't go wrong with him...yeah, he's good.

Then you have Ashley Graham who introduce herself to Leon, so as I really hated her from the 2005's original game was worst known for it's annoying voice and acting overly-dramatic throughout the game especially I can't stand her catchphrase (LEON HELLLLLLP!!!) when she's screaming at Leon for help...god damnit my ears is aching so bad make it stooooop!!!

But in this remake, they have reduced her silly characterization to avoid annoyance of her dramatic voice and of course making her true competence than she was in the 2005's original game, so does it make it better? well it's a little bit better than was before as an character but she still kinda has the flaw for some part in the game which I will explain her problems in the gameplay for later.                              There are a returning character called Ada Wong in which you may know her as the mysterious Asian female agent in both the original and remake of RE 2. 

She then sometime meeting with Leon at short amount of screen time, till then off she's goes on her own adventure...yeah that's Ada for you guys.

To be frankly honest with Ada Wong is that I rather much preferred her appearance from the 2005's original game over the remake version is because I finding her in the remake is kinda flat with her new default outfit like the woolly jumper and leather harness doesn't seem to be quite appealing in comparison with the 2005's original game which she used to have a really nice long side-split dress and her choker that made her quite recognisable throughout the campaign. 

Not only her new default outfit that bothered me the most, it's mostly the voice performance aren't nearly good as the previous VA from the 2005's original game which I will explain it for later on this review...man I really miss the real Ada Wong aren't the same anymore.  

I got to like the Merchant guy with purple mask who carries his arsenals on his long-ass big coat, and he uses his likable catchphrase in every sentence by calling the player stranger, as well as making a really cool dialogue in any part of conversation with the player.  

I got to say the game does have the best selection of villains like you have tall-bearded village chief Bitores Mendez seems to be looking quite terrifying and shows off his incredible strength. 

Then you have Ramon Salazar who is an ally to cult member group was responsible for spreading the parasites across the local area ordered by Saddler.

There are one villainous soldier called Jack Krauser who was once US Army Major and Leon's former mentor and instructor but now joining the cult group led by Saddler, as he was responsible for kidnapping U.S president's daughter and brought her to the village as an act of revenge against the U.S government for their handling of his mission under Operation Javier that he survived 2 years prior that resulted losing his entire unit members. 

Lastly, you have a sadistic cult leader Osmund Saddler who are plotting to infecting not only just the U.S president's daughter, but also in hope that she will return home and infect high-ranking members of the U.S government, then attempts to control them, and of course seize control of the country and the world.

I say that I really liked the overall presentation of the game is because unlike the previous entries like RE 1, 2, 3, and CV which are heavily focused on the outbreak crisis sort of horror stuffs which has zombies and bio-monsters experiment from the most corrupted corporation facility, I find the RE4 is going in different direction which involves the evil cult leader and his groups of occultist involving mind-controlling, performing disturbing rituals, spreading plagues of diseases, does horrible kidnapping, and of course plotting to destroy the world which I really liked the changes that beings the new concept to the RE main series.

There are several of locations that are incredibly great in the game like you have places such as the village area are filled with many abandoned houses, old churches, filthy farmhouse, the valley, and lake caverns.

The castle area which as creepy looking outdoors, medieval-style rooms, deserted halls and libraries, and the clock tower.

The Island has grim looking underground area, medical facility, laboratory, freezer room, and the ritual area. 

Overall, it has remarkable story, likable cast of characters, and stunning presentation settings.

Gameplay

In single-player campaign, you take control of Leon Scott Kennedy in 3rd-person perspective as your main goal is to rescue and protect Ashley Graham from bunch of villagers and the occult groups.

You move around the player by pushing the left-stick controls, while tapping the left thumbstick or right shoulder button to sprint.

Pushing the right-stick controls will rotate the camera around which are also used for aiming as well.

You can crouch down your player by pressing the circle button which are useful for stealth play in some areas, and you can also interact the stuff and picking-up the objects by pressing the cross button.

You can access to your inventory screen by pressing the triangle button which allowing you to re-organise, sorting out, and equipping your weapons and items, and you can also highlight your weapons as the quick short-cut which is the quickest way of switching your weapons by pressing the d-pad button during the combat. 

In combat gameplay, You hold the left trigger button to ready-aim then press the right trigger button to shoot at the enemies, and you can also use your knife as the melee weapon by pressing the right trigger button, when not holding the left trigger button, to use it as slash attack or hold the left shoulder button then press the right trigger button to use it as quick stab attack, so it works mostly on close-combat range against the enemies. 

When the enemies are grabbing you, you can perform one of the QTE action such as tapping the cross button to push them away or press the right trigger button to use instant stab attack when the right shoulder button icon appears on the screen, and when you're properly stunned the enemies down you can also perform finishing kill in close-range when the cross button icon appears on the screen.

You can parry your enemy's attack by pressing the left shoulder button to deflect their melee weapon projectiles, so when they about to attack you make sure you do it in right timing then their weapon is near close to you. 

You can quickly reload your weapon by pressing the square button when you're out of the ammo, so do it wisely before you take the shot at your enemies.

You have Ashley in later chapter where in order to protect her from the stuff that endangered her, you had to give her three ways commands by pressing the right thumbstick button, so stuff like telling her to wait which she will not move around while staying on the spot, where as telling her to follow only if you see the areas are fully cleared or maybe you'll see the enemies came to close at her, and of course you had to give her order by interacting with stuffs such as hitting the switch or holding the crank for longer till you've reached at the point of the area. 

While out for exploring around the areas, you can also access to map screen by pressing the touchpad button to display maps which shows the location that you're on, so this will display the name of locations, the icons such as items, currencies, save point and etc. 

This will make an easier for players to know where they are and where they are heading to, so this is really helps you to find your destination in some whereabouts in the area. 

To keep you in mind that defeating various of enemies will drop the items like the herbs which each of these will have a different effect such as green herb which increases amount of your health, but combing with red herbs will increases higher amount of your health, the yellow herbs with green or red herbs combined will expand your health meter makes your player's health last longer.

Then they also dropped ammo items such as bullets, shells, and bolts, and then of course the most importantly the currencies which you can able to save those for one of the merchant's shop for buying and selling stuffs, but if you want to gain more currencies then you can able to find a valuable items which can be found inside the treasure boxes in any areas, so that you can able to sell it for the higher price.  

I also wanted to discuss the combat in this game because there each of weapons, accessories, and upgrades that has an advantages, so you have a pistol that are well-balanced are very good for the beginners does a decent amount of firing damage, where as the shotguns performs a strong close-range firing damage, the sub-machine guns has weaker firing damage but performs much faster firing rate and are quite effective for mid-range firing shot, the assault rifle is a stronger version of machine guns delivering a powerful firing damage shot, the sniper rifle has very powerful firing shot in one shot kills and really effective for long-distance shot, the bolt thrower uses the bolt like arrow as the ammunition, the handcannon is a big revolver delivers a instant firing damage shot works effectively against bigger and strong enemies, and of course the rocket launcher does a explosive damage instantly kills the enemies or bosses.

You can use the throwing weapon item such as hand grenades which you will throw it at the enemies and does a explosive damage impact, where as the flash grenades uses to temporarily blind your enemies for 5 seconds.

What made the game quite so amazing is that you can meet up with the merchant for shopping which he's sells you a various of weapons, upgrades, and accessories, as well as you can also sell your valuable stuffs or stuff that you don't really need to earn many currencies making it easier to afford available things.   

You will have the lists of various weapons like pistols, shotguns, machine-guns, rifles, launchers, boltgun, and etc, so you can able to compare your current weapon that you're using before purchasing the new ones that are really better and effective. 

The upgrades will improve upon your firing power making it a stronger firing damage, the firing rate will make the weapon targeting system much precise and easier to fire, the reloading speed will make you reload your weapon much faster, and of course the capacity will increase your ammunition spaces.  

You can buy the accessories became a useful tool for your weapons like the scope are useful for toggling zoom-ins at long-distance, the attachable mines that detonate upon proximity, the recoil attachments which reduces the firing discharge with perfect firing target, the laser sight is much easier to point at the enemies with targeting red dot.  

      

I say the controls is very good indeed is because you have an options to customise your control configuration to suit your playability such as your camera sensitivity and acceleration, suitable aiming precision, has 4 presets control layouts, toggle or hold sprint options, parrying with the right-trigger button instead of the left-shoulder button, and of course the auto-reloading function which makes the entire control schemes a lot easier to play.

I also liked the haptic feedback on the triggers depending on which weapons you're equipping with, so I really liked the heavy precision on the left trigger button when equipping with shotgun, and I also can feel and pushing the right-trigger button when using the pistol feels like I'm pushing the real trigger of handgun just makes the game playing realistic. 

Aside with the controls, the combat in this game is fantastic because I find most of these weapons works really well for its balanced and responsiveness knowing some of these light weapons are worked effectively on several of small enemies where as the bigger and powerful ones worked effectively against the bigger enemies and bosses, and I wanted to praise the upgrades that keeps the firing power, reload speed, and firing rate enhanced that makes your weapons becoming even more stronger and easier to battle against the later enemies that takes a longer to kill them, and you can't go wrong with the accessories that comes in very handy for some weapons that needs additional support like zoom-ins scopes, recoil attachment, and laser pointing devices seems to work nicely for combat gameplay.

I also wanted to say that I really liked exploring around the locations because not only you can do a main mission, but you can participate some side quests like shooting down blue medallions, shooting down rats and snakes, haunting for golden chicken egg, catch a big fish, and other requests, so if you're completed these side quest will give you sort of an reward which is why it keeps me playing the game.

The best part of the whole game is got to be an action segments which had the best moments in every chapters like the Leon and Luis fighting against the incoming foes at the minecart ride, there are a shootout mayhem where Leon was assisted by the person in the helicopter, the knife duel between Leon and Krauser is quite entertaining to watch and play at the same time, and then of course it has to be a boss battles which is epically amazing because it has several of the best bosses in any of RE games, so you have a gigantic sea monster on the large sized lake where you had to throw the harpoon at them while riding on the boat, there are one or two big ugly f***ing ogre can able to charge, throw, stomp and swing at you, there are tall-man father mendez will change his form into a long-spinal creature in burning farmhouse, there are fat guy with helmet welds with large two-claws blade that are stupidly long will violently slash you in pieces, there are a monster with big-hands and deadly long-tail in the freezing corridor area, there a Jack Krauser has impressive but deadly mutated arm-blade, and of course Ramon Salazar and Osmund Saddler has incredible powerful form are looking quite gruesome to fight.

I wanted to praise the puzzle aspects that leads you to the next area, so there are segments like gather the emblem pieces or finding the id card that unlocks the door, solving the symbol puzzle like hitting the 8 correct coordinate buttons and re-assign the colored church-glass, find the right combination time on clock, re-arranging the lithographic stones, figuring out the clues on dining table, switching the treasury swords around, and there's many more puzzles in the game that are not really hard to solve it.

As I've enjoyed the whole game, I wanted to point out one of the thing that kinda drove me insane is like I've mentioned about Ashley earlier ago, I find her A.I tends to be quite tedious in gameplay parts where she gets in your way when you're trying to shoot down the enemies and sometimes when she gets incapacitated by the enemy's projectiles she sat on the floor which forcing you to make her stand up on her feet, so if you don't save her while she was still on the floor for while then she'll receive a second hit from the enemies and dies...yeah it's still can be pain in the ass most of the time which is why her A.I system is not that perfect to be honest with it.

As the whole main campaign is still outstanding, I had a gold edition which comes with the 1 additional campaign called Separate Ways where you take control of Ada Wong, as it sets in the same event as the main campaign but mainly focused on her uncovered story scenario where she went on her mission to retrieve the most wanted sample, so the campaign is shorter than the main ones but still really good to play with additional story.

The game has 2 free DLCs to download such as the mercenaries mode where you take control of playable characters in each bonus stages, as your main goal is to gain enough hi-scores as possible by shooting many hordes of enemies for multiples combo before the timer runs out which I find this game mode really fun to play just like a good old 2005's original game, and then you'll have VR mode is basically a whole single-player game but requires PSVR 2 headset to play a VR mode which is an interesting thing because I never actually own the PSVR 2 headset, but I been heard many good things from those who have played it with the VR headset said really positive things about the VR mode just delivers an immersive horror experience they ever had...so that's really good to hear from these people.

Overall, it has very good controls, fantastic combat, epic boss battles, and great single-player campaign with fun puzzles and entertaining action segments. 

Graphics

You can't go wrong with the use of RE Engine providing the best overall graphics for the 9th-gen system that runs really well throughout the single-player action.

The environmental settings in many areas are considered as rich and detailed delivering a very good textures mapping and surfacing that are perfectly sharp, and I also praise the use of ray-tracing support for its cleaner reflection on the sea is quite amazing to look and you'll see the shiny looking objects are sure nice and glossy, and then the use of special effects such as the flames, rains, ices, and dust is also quite impressive in some areas.

The level design has the great mix of small and large portion of the areas that are surprisingly well designed making the exploration a straight-forward to browse around the locations.

I also loved the look of the draw-distance that are not stupidly blurry and cloudy which I am amazed by seeing such a clear details on longer ranged backgrounds.

The character's animation is very well done indeed which doesn't feel look clunky and dull at all because their movement is quite smooth and their facial features has a perfect lip-syncing that are not out of place and keeping it well intact during the dialogue conversation.

We all know RE series was the best for its gruesomely gorefest level makes the blood pouring around the ground, their limbs and particles of bodies gets mutilated in pieces, and of course the enemy and bosses violently changes their body form is absurdly gross to watch...holy shit, that's is looking quite extremely awesome. 

I wanted to discuss the game's performance for each platforms, so before I begin comparing with other system, the game has 4 graphical options such as performance mode, performance RT, fidelity mode, fidelity RT.

The performance mode is just an simple full-on 60fps resulting smooth gameplay but has low quality visuals, the performance RT which is like the performance mode but had ray-tracing turned on providing a good balance of frame-rate and visuals are slightly bit crisper, the fidelity mode is basically runs on full 4k resolution resulting a cleaner visual but makes performance dropped down between 45-60fps, and finally the fidelity RT which is like the fidelity mode but with ray-tracing turned on does make the visuals slight better but it ran quite slow in between 35-60fps.

I say I highly recommended to run it on the performance RT mode over the other 3 settings because I just mostly preferred to play it on a decent frame-rate and good amount of visuals, where as the fidelity mode stuffs are looking better for its cleaner resolution but has a rough edge on frame-rate performance in some areas.

That being said, the graphics is still fantastic especially on PS5 and XSX/S (X model) are the perfect pick for console owners to play this game, where as the XSX/S (S model) which is kinda mere below-average at best due to frame-rate dips in some areas but ran better than the PS4 version which is way worse running on low resolution and has sluggish performance makes it unplayable, so stick it to PS5 and XSX/S (X model) for the best option.

I also heard the PC version is way much better for its customisable visuals and performance options making it a best way to play RE games for PC gaming for suitable playthrough. 

Overall, it has rich and detailed environmental settings, great size of level-design, well-made character's animation, and gruesomely gorefest level.

Music and Sounds

As much as I loved the original soundtrack from the 2005's original game of the same name, the new soundtrack in this game is just sounds magnificent in which you can't go wrong with the RE series was known for its having the greatest video game soundtrack of all-times.

It has a perfect creepyness of ambient music as well as the epicness of orchestral music throughout the campaign, as it was composed by Misao Senbogi, who had previously worked on his score for the original RE 4 game, did involve participating of making a score on the remake along with others like Kota Suzuki and Nozomi Ohmoto did a wonderful job of creating the most finest music that fits the whole action of survival horror game.

The sound effects are incredibly fascinating is because I really liked the sounds that surrounding around the speakers just feels perfection with the gaming chairs or 3D headsets just delivers a impressive background noises and thumping sounds, but hey I also loved the radio conversation which you can clearly hear it from the built-in speakers of the game controller just absolutely amazing to hear. 

I say the voice casting for Leon in the remake is pretty sounds great in the game are just about good as the original VA from 2005's original game what makes the lead character so likable in the RE franchise, and I'm happy to say that the Ashley's VA in the remake is sounded less aggravating than the ones in 2005's original game which is an fair improvement since then...thank god for that, and unfortunately the Ada's VA in the remake is sounds kinda bad which didn't quite fit the performance of the character, so why's does Ada's new VA sounded like an very bored grandma is just beyond me, but in comparison with the previous VA from the 2005's original game are miles way better in my opinion.    

Overall, it has wonderful soundtrack and excellent sound design. 

Special Features

The best things about the gold edition is that I did mentioned about the additional campaign such as Separate Ways which is really good scenario, and it is also comes with extra DLCs Pack which includes costumes for Leon and Ashley, deluxe weapons such as Sentinel Nine and Skull Shaker, treasure map expansion, Leon accessory and of course the original RE 4 soundtrack.

The game also came with free downloadable DLCs such as the mercenaries mode and VR mode as well.

Overall, an astonishing features.

Advantages

Remarkable story and likable characters

Stunning presentation settings

Fantastic gameplay

Great single-player campaign

Superb overall visuals

Wonderful soundtrack

Extra content including additional campaign, mercenaries, and VR mode.

 

Disadvantages

Ashley's A.I needs an improvement.

Ada's appearance and VA's performance in the remake aren't good as the original counterpart.

 

Final Verdict

Presentation 9/10 -  remarkable story, likable cast of characters, and stunning presentation settings.

Gameplay 9/10 - very good controls, fantastic combat, epic boss battles, and great single-player campaign with fun puzzles and entertaining action segments.

Graphics 9/10 - rich and detailed environmental settings, great size of level-design, well-made character's animation, and gruesomely gorefest level.

Music and Sounds 9/10 - wonderful soundtrack and excellent sound design.

Special Features 9/10 - has additional campaign, mercenaries, and VR mode.    

Overall 9/10 - As much as I've loved the 2005's original game of the same name, the RE4 remake is a solid perfection horror title that you can't go wrong with the Resident Evil franchise which provides the best libraries of the remakes like RE1 (2002) and RE2 (2019) which I consider these twos such legendary masterpiece, so this game deserves to be on the same list which makes RE4 still being my number 1 favourite RE games...yes both the original and remake, so why not. 

I'm still satisfied with the well-written story and characters, as well as the overall presentation keeps the horror design intact.

The combat, the puzzles, the segments, the boss fights, and list so many goes on in the campaign that keeps me entertained with the game for the hours of fun.

The physical copy for PS5, PS4, and XSX/S has two different editions such as the standard edition are slightly cheaper about £20 to £25 where as the gold edition comes with extra content that I've mentioned before just cost around £35, but be warned to make sure you don't accidently buy the wrong version of the game which happens to be mistaken with the original game, so pay really close attention to the front cover stranger just to be sure it is a remake of the game should have an initials letter of R and E in red colour before making the purchase online.

The digital storefront including PS Store, Xbox Store, and Steam has standard edition just for £35 where as the gold edition bundle should cost between £40 and £45, but then again be sure to double check it before buying the right version to pick, hey stranger.    

         

Is it the recommendation for the horror gaming fans? absolutely because I'm sure the fans of the original RE4 will likely to appreciate the remake that does a job done amazing by the Capcom's development team, so this is a must play title for 9th-gen consoles and modern PCs. 

I am hoping they will consider remaking Code Veronica in the future perfect when their time is right to start developing someday...maybe just maybe someday I say, so that being said please go check out Resident Evil 4 remake I can guarantee that you will love this title as being the greatest horror game of all-time.   

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