Resident Evil 4 Remake
Scored 9.4/10. The remake standard. Capcom rebuilt a legend and somehow kept the camp and the terror in the same frame.
The 2005 original changed action games forever. The 2023 remake had the hardest job in the business: honor a sacred text and surprise its own congregation. Capcom did both.
LEON, REBUILT
Six years after Raccoon City, Leon Kennedy goes to a secluded European village to find the president's daughter, and the village is waiting. The parry gives Leon a knife game with teeth, the Ganados swarm smarter, the merchant still sells with a smile, and the whole thing looks and sounds like a nightmare in a tailored suit.
WHY 9.4
It trims a couple of original beats fans will miss and the island still runs a notch below the village and castle. As remakes go, nothing else is close. 9.4.
THE INDUSTRY NUMBER
Two scoreboards live on this page and they never mix. The score at the top is Moe's, argued above and signed. The industry's number, the collective critic aggregate, sits here for reference: Metacritic 93. Same game, two verdicts. Read both, then play it yourself.
