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Pacing can be a tricky thing to nail for any game, but the horror genre in particular struggles with it more than most other games, primarily because it’s a genre that doesn’t lend itself too well to overly long runtimes. We’d love to see that applied to the entire experience. The trailer shows familiar scenes from the game that were set during daytime in the original taking place at night in the remake, and the general tone seems way more horror-focused. We’ve got a good hunch that that won’t be the case with the remake. Sure, there was constant tension throughout the game, but tension and horror aren’t the same thing. The RE series’ action-focused phase began with the original RE4 back in the day, which was way more of an action horror game than survival horror. This goes hand-in-hand with the tonal changes that we’re hoping (and guessing) Resident Evil 4 will make, though not for the same reasons. We saw the RE2 and 3 remakes making tonal changes to that effect, and even from the single trailer that we’ve seen so far, it’s abundantly clear that RE4 will be doing the same. At the same time though, that tone doesn’t fit the modern-day style and aesthetic of Resident Evil, which has become far more grounded and subdued. That’s not exactly a shortcoming- that’s what it was consciously designed as, and that b-movie aesthetic is very much part of its charm. The original Resident Evil 4 is an absolute masterpiece to this day, sure, but it’s also an incredibly corny game. This one is probably the most obvious of the lot. We’re expecting the Resident Evil 4 remake to make significant changes from the original game across a number of key areas, and here, we’ll be talking about a few of the changes we’re hoping to see. Due out in March of next year, the survival horror remake is going to have massive expectations to live up to, and if we’ve learned one thing from past Resident Evil remakes, it’s that in spite of that, it’s definitely not going to play it safe. Capcom is keeping the remakes train going and has moved on to probably the biggest one yet with Resident Evil 4.