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Resident Evil 4 mod adds the remake’s cool-as-hell knife parry to the original gameShing!
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Image credit:Capcom
Image credit:Capcom
This year’sResident Evil 4remake marked an incredible return for one of the greatest games of all time, turning the best game of 2005 into (probably) the best game of 2023 (so far, anyway).
While RE4 Remake was ahighly faithful reimaginingof 2005’s Leon Kennedy: Village Wrecker, it also introduced a ton of excellent new features, from small things like improvements to escorting Ashley around (no health bar!) to bigger, game-changing additions.
Easily among the best of the best was the Remake’s introduction of a proper parrying system to RE4’s existing knife melee combat, allowing Leon to knock crossbow bolts and lobbed axes out of the air, as well as deflecting swipes of blades and even chainsaws close-up.
Resident Evil 4 Remake: 17 Exciting New DetailsWatch on YouTube
Resident Evil 4 Remake: 17 Exciting New Details
If you wondered how the original Resident Evil 4 might’ve played with that same parry system, wonder no longer; thanks to a couple of modders, you can now add the modernised parry system of Remake to the PC release for the original 2005 game.
As demonstrated inthis videofrom modder qingsheng, the Remake counterattack mod works just like it does in this year’s remake, allowing mid-noughties Leon to bat incoming projectiles out of the air like his twenties-something descendant.
Re4 2005 knife Counterattack testWatch on YouTube
Re4 2005 knife Counterattack test
Whether you want to totally change upResident Evilas it was in 2005, or are just curious in seeing how the modern parry works in the older game (spoiler: it’s a lot of fun), the RE4 UHD Trainer andknife parry modcan be found over on NexusMods.
Of course, if you’re happy sticking with the Remake for now, there’s plenty of modding fun to be had in the new game, too - frombanana gunsto a terrifyingchainsaw-wielding Shrek
