Horror at all times dabbles in childhood imagery for scares: it is why creepy dolls, animatronic toys and horrible sentient toys that hug you to dying are principally style cliches. So it is not significantly shocking that Resident Evil 4’s newest promotional trailer pillages the breezy sanctity of kids’s anime in the direction of its personal grizzly ends. I’ve performed the RE4 Chainsaw demo and may affirm that this trailer is way, a lot creepier.
Dubbed ‘Leon and the Mysterious Village’, the one minute romp has a gun-toting, baby-faced Leon wandering round a quaint Spanish countryside searching for Ashley. Starry-eyed and naive, Leon approaches a bunch of folksy locals to ask after Ashley, however I believe the place that is going: a man with tentacles rising out of his again whacks the poor boy within the head with a hatchet. Rattling! Mum would by no means have let me watch this.
It does not let you know something concerning the recreation, actually, although it does characteristic cute anime variations of a few of Resident Evil 4’s most memorable foes—burlap sack man is there, tentacle head man is there, and massive-spikes-for-hands man is there. It is most likely one of the best promotional video I’ve seen since that Darkish Souls 3 one, which turned FromSoftware’s cerebral RPG right into a schlocky ’80s horror movie.
Resident Evil 4 remake releases on March 24, however critiques dropped late final week. Richard Stanton dug it, even when he wasn’t fairly as hyperbolic as another retailers. “Resident Evil 4 re-invented thirdperson motion, and ever because it got here out I have been ready for one more recreation to blow the bloody doorways off in the best way it did,” he wrote. “However this isn’t the inheritor to Resident Evil 4, a lot as a tribute.”
However when you wait, why not sit again and picture what a full-length anime primarily based on RE4 would possibly seem like. I would kinda favor to see RE7 made into an anime, however possibly that’d be too creepy.
