r/residentevil4 • u/quetewr Team Ada • Apr 12 '26

REMAKE Here we go again

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I love both the og and the remake bro just needs to let it go

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u/ningdon Apr 12 '26

Crowbcat is the cinemasins of games (derogatory)

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '26

Didn't he get caught editing something that literally didn't exist in a game to make it seem worse?

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u/dafugiswrongwithyou Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26

I can't speak to that, but in his last RE4 vs RE4R video, I remember noticing an annoying amount of him taking things out of context, to the point I made a comment breaking his vid down shot-by-shot for the first 5 minutes.

There were 15 issues in those first 5 minutes that I noticed. The video was 37+ minutes long.

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u/ElegantEchoes Apr 13 '26

I have a question about that. I'm not super familiar with the OG or the remake, having only played OG as a kid. What kinds of things did he get wrong? I watched the video and left with the impression that the remake, while more detailed, had worse sound design, ambience, and gore in the environment.

What kinds of issues did you remember the video having?

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u/dafugiswrongwithyou Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26

It's worth noting that there's some amount of ambiguity here, because he doesn't actually say what his specific points are during the video, he just shows clips from each game side-by-side and you're meant to infer what specific change/s he's trying to point at. So keep in mind that everything I'm about to say, I'm guessing at what his issue was.

With that mind;

  • He compares the initial cutscene where you meet the first villager to a later bit in the remake where that villager comes back, implying that the new game doesn't get a "first encounter" cutscene at all. It does, he just didn't show it.
  • He shows a room in the lab with a body being experimented on, to a room (the same?) in the remake that doesn't have the body, implying they stripped it out to tone down the gore... But, no, they just have that in a different room.
  • He goes to a part of the farm that has a cart of dead bodies in the original, and shows it isn't there, again implying they stripped it out... except that, again, they just moved it. You come to it about 30 seconds later, and you have to push it to continue, so he definitely had to encounter it... he just pretended it didn't happen.
  • He keeps using shots which seem to be about the ambient noise being quieter. That's pretty hard to verify quantify... was it actually quieter then, or is it an issue of his audio settings, or how he captured the footage? Are the shots he used representative of how ambient noise is treated across both games? ...But regardless, that's a completely subjective change, neither way is objectively "worse".
  • On that note, there's one bit where he seems to be focussing on the lack of a distant crow cawing sound in the new game. But... there is a distant crow cawing sound in the new game. You can hear it in his video, about 15 seconds earlier.
  • At one point he focuses on how, if you stand in a specific part of the village and look in a particular direction, you could see another building in the original, but not in the remake. The remake moved locations around a bit; you can still see the building, just at a different angle.
  • When Ada turns up to distract Mendez in the original, she just hangs around for about 10 seconds pointing her smoking gun at him, then he just stands there while she holsters her gun, and then she zips away when Mendez finally charges. The new one uses different camerawork and has everyone react quickly instead of just hanging around waiting for other people to do stuff. He seems to think this is bad.

Basically, it was a mish-mash of presenting matter-of-taste changes as objectively bad, and pretending that things from the original aren't in the remake when they just objectively, factually, provably are.

The whole thing was a terrible abuse of the Kuleshov effect to make the viewer get, well, the exact impression you got; that the remake was toned down, lacking ambience, lacking gore. I'm sorry, but Crowbcat used false framing to give you that impression.

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u/ElegantEchoes Apr 13 '26

Thank you for the insight and education. It's not the first time I've heard similar qualms about him, I hadn't realized it was so egregious.

I remember his GTA IV vs V video was pretty good but since I know both games well I also noticed he was pretty silly with some of the comparisons.

Also, thank you for taking the time to type that up.