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 demise are mainly style cliches. So it is not notably stunning 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 might verify that this trailer is far, 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 seeking Ashley. Starry-eyed and naive, Leon approaches a bunch of folksy locals to ask after Ashley, however I believe you recognize 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 inform you something in regards to the recreation, actually, although it does function 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 the most effective 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 opinions 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 an additional recreation to blow the bloody doorways off in the way in which 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 based mostly on RE4 would possibly appear to be. I might kinda want to see RE7 made into an anime, however possibly that’d be too creepy.