It isn’t unusual for Resident Evil video games to open with a combat-free intro degree—Resident Evil Village has two of them again to again. You play by means of a home scene at residence after which stroll by means of the evening to the village the place all of the monster-murder lastly kicks in. They’re characterful methods to start a horror recreation, although they do put you off replays given all that slow-paced atmosphere-building solely actually works as soon as.
Resident Evil 4’s remake would have had considered one of these intros, a Chapter 0 the place you play Ashley within the moments main as much as her seize. You’ll be able to see moments from it within the trailer, nevertheless it was lower sooner or later in growth—maybe on account of complaints about how comparable prologues messed with the pacing of different Residents Evil. (Capcom appears averse to giving gamers the choice to skip stuff in replays, which you’d assume can be a straightforward repair to the issue.)
Thanks to modder and YouTuber Michael Kemp, we can see what this mini Episode Ashley would have looked like. Well, sort of. The leftovers found among RE4R’s files don’t include the cutscenes, the enemies, or whatever Ashley would have used to light her way through the dark, though they do include a couple of different running animations including a more frantic version for chicken-flapping her arms around while being chased by a ganado.
I don’t know if I’m really disappointed about the lack of another stealth sequence where you play a girl that people on the internet would have complained about—fans of Resident Evil 4 are here for Leon doing roundhouse kicks and tend to talk about Ashley like she murdered their puppies and also grandparents, so it’s probably for the best this bit was cut.
