History NightmareFuel / ResidentEvil4Remake

* Ashley's playable segment when she's separated from Leon, and her section is a bit more cramped at places. The only things she's armed with in the remake is a blue-light lantern that can temporarily freeze the Armaduras (Plagas hiding in suits of armor) in place, unlike the flammable lanterns that she could throw at the zealots chasing after her in the original and quick-time events. She has to go through a library maze in the dark, tight staircases with little room to move about, and then a mausoleum to find the Salazar family crest, all the while having to dodge the Armaduras along the way. Even worse, once she solves the puzzle to get the crest, the lantern goes out, forcing her to sprint for the exit ''without'' the lantern while the Armaduras are chasing after her.

** Pesanta'’s backstory. Once just an innocent housekeeper, trying to keep Salazar in line, she was taken away by one of Salazar’s scientists and continually and agonisingly experimented on until the aforementioned scientist threw caution to the wind, implanted her with insect DNA and a new type of parasite and miraculously it worked, transforming her into the abomination we see, forced into serving Ramon Salazar.

* Martinico. An incredibly strong B.O.W., able to destroy concrete like glass. It's also immune to conventional firearms, with the lasers being the only thing capable of harming it. It escaped confinement and wreaked havoc in the facility it was contained, killing anyone in its path, and if it as much as breathes on Ada, [[OneHitKill she's done for]]. Now imagine such creature escaping the island and free on the world, killing God-knows-how-many. There's a reason the laser hallway is been built, to contain this monster.

** Pesenta’s true form is absolutely horrific. An unholy matrimony of insect and human, with visible brain showing, fleshy tendrils in place of a mouth, a scorpion’s tail, complete with evil yellow eyes. It doesn’t even die when you kill its body, the parasite controlling this thing comes off and starts trying to kill Ada.
** Pesenta'’s backstory. Once just an innocent housekeeper, trying to keep Salazar in line, she was taken away by one of Salazar’s scientists and continually and agonisingly experimented on until the aforementioned scientist threw caution to the wind, implanted her with insect DNA and a new type of parasite and miraculously it worked, transforming her into the abomination we see, forced into serving Ramon Salazar.

** Pesenta''s backstory. Once just an innocent housekeeper, trying to keep Salazar in line, she was taken away by one of Salazar’s scientists and continually and agonisingly experimented on until the aforementioned scientist threw caution to the wind, implanted her with insect DNA and a new type of parasite and miraculously it worked, transforming her into the abomination we see, forced into serving Ramon Salazar.

*** Dr Salvador (and by extension the Chainsaw Sisters) traded in his iconic [[OffWithHisHead beheading]] kill for something equally brutal and terrifyingly sadistic. Get caught by Dr. Salvador, and he will jam the chainsaw right through Leon's chest and out his back, then [[CruelAndUnusualDeath run the chainsaw through his organs, reducing them to chunky tomato puree]].
*** The villaigers have upped their violence too. If a sufficiently-damaged Leon gets grabbed in the front, he'll [[EyeScream have his eyes gouged out by the attacking villager's thumbs]] instead of choking and slamming him through the ground.

* The very first scene in the game is of a BoundAndGagged young woman in modern clothing, implied to be a lost backpacker who wandered into the village, being sacrificed by Los Illuminados. Later, when you enter the town hall on your way to the church, you find the place piled up with hundreds of skulls and other "mysterious" round objects of varying sizes wrapped up in bloodstained bandaging. They've obviously been at this for a while. You can find the corpse of the young woman, still on the altar, while exploring the lakeside settlement. Another woman's body is found in a house nearby, not far from where the first victim is, kneeling and strung up against the wooden beam.
** One of the skulls in the town hall is disproportionately huge, having belonged to a previous failed attempt at breeding a Gigante.

* You’re introduced to your first ‘post-death Plaga’, as your first enemy in this game. The Ganado Desnucado. These Plagas don’t burst out of the head, rather, they burst out of the neck! Theyre basically a corpse with its head hanging off its body, charging at you in an attempt to kill you while you can see the parasite piloting the body in their neck. Lovely.

* Speaking of, Dr Salvador’s revamp in this is terrifying. While the other ganados have an almost vacant look, Dr Salvador looks outright insane, with bloodshot, parasite ridden eyes forced open into a permanent stare. And just like the original, he is ''far'' more durable than the other villagers and can kill you in one hit. And this time around, he doesn’t just decapitate you should you die by his hand. Nope, instead he puts his chainsaw through your chest and grinds your organs into a bloody pulp, all while staring into the camera with those horrible, parasite ridden eyes.
** But don't worry, the decapitation has been migrated over to the hatchet-wielding Ganados instead. And it takes more than one chop to sever Leon's head should he die this way.

* Sharp-eyed players will notice that the U-III Verdugo - Pesanta - Ada fights at the beginning threw a spike that had several pustules, which explodes and some of high-speed ooze scratches Ada. While she does react to it, she quickly brushes it off, but she immediately hallucinates multiple Pesantas and the mood of the area shifts to something a bit more psychedelic with purplish lighting. She later encounters Pesanta again in the village (before the Cabin standoff in Leon's section), but the sky changes colors, there's blue flames that locks her in the central area, and she has to fight not just Pesanta itself, but its copies that can [[YourMindMakesItReal also hurt her]]. Ada in all of her appearances has never been shown to be infected with anything onscreen - ''Separate Ways'' Remake is the first to show her going through an infection, even though she keeps most of her reactions hidden behind a mask of stoic professionalism. And that's not even factoring Pesanta's continual pursuit of her throughout her campaign, tracking her due to the parasite it had infected her with.

*** Perhaps the most horrific thing about Pesanta is her backstory. Once just an innocent housekeeper, trying to keep Salazar in line, she was taken away by one of Salazar’s scientists and continually and agonisingly experimented on until the aforementioned scientist threw caution to the wind, implanted her with insect DNA and a new type of parasite and miraculously it worked, transforming her into the abomination we see, forced into serving Ramon Salazar.

** Also the reason it existed: Martinico. An incredibly strong B.O.W., able to destroy concrete like glass. It's also immune to conventional firearms, with the lasers being the only thing capable of harming it. It escaped confinement and wreaked havoc in the facility it was contained, killing anyone in its path, and if it as much as breathes on Ada, [[OneHitKill she's done for]]. Now imagine such creature escaping the island and free on the world, killing God-knows-how-many.

* Los Illuminados has now been expanded upon. No longer is it potrayed as a generic evil cult hell-bent on world-domination but a genuine neopagan religon with it's own bible, rituals, and even past leaders.

* The previous three dominant Plaga hosts engaged in a healthy amount of BossBanter, revealing more of their personality and views throughout the fight and clearly reacting to Leon getting the upper hand. Saddler starts out the same...until the Novistadors show up about a third of the way into the fight. He suddenly gains a stutter and starts screaming about hearing the voices of his flock before sending them after Leon, and soon after he proclaims it is time to "shed the one" and that "his flesh shall give birth to a God everlasting!" What really makes this creepy? ''These are his last words.'' For the rest of the fight, he's reduced to roars and incomprehensible muttering, completely ceasing with his banter, even lacking a GameOverMan quote like the other dominant Plaga holders. There is never any explanation for what happened to Saddler at this point; even with the implications he's merely an extension of the Plagas HiveMind for the whole game, it doesn't explain why, at this random point in the middle of the fight, Saddler effectively ceases to exist when his three lieutenants never went through anything like this.

* Speaking of, Dr Salvador’s revamp in this is terrifying. While the other ganados have an almost vacant look, Dr Salvador looks outright insane, with bloodshot, parasite ridden eyes forced open into a permanent stare. And just like the original, he is ''far'' more durable than the other villagers and can kill you in one hit. And this time around, he doesn’t just decapitate you should you die by his hand. Nope, instead he puts his chainsaw through your chest and grinds your organs into a bloody pulp, all while staring into the camera with those horrible eyes.

* Just like in the original, Mendez’ mutated form is absolutely horrific. His entire midsection is replaced with a centipede like Plaga. He loses half of his body in the middle of the fight, and doesn’t even flinch. Just like in the original version, he makes sure you cannot escape by not just shutting the gate, but by twisting the metal handles together without breaking a sweat.

* Ramon Salazar. Thanks to visual upgrades, he is no longer an annoying BrattyHalfPint exchanging quips with Leon. But an incredibly creepy and sadistic aristocrat whose body is visibly rotting and decaying thanks to Las Plagas and is so corrupted by Saddlers influence.

** The parasite on its back is far more gruesome this time. Instead of just being a weird crab thing on its back, the Garrador's parasite has clearly burrowed through its back.

* The post credits scene of the game reveals the return of Albert Wesker, who coldly explains Ada his plan to kill billions of innocent people to achieve his goal of world domination. Thankfully Ada rejects Wesker's plans, but that's not to say his plans are neccesarily foiled...

* The final shot of Wesker [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou staring into the camera]] with a PsychoticSmirk, setting up the events of ''Resident Evil 5''.
-->'''Wesker:''' Soon the sun will set on the age of man.

* The Novistadors now camouflage themselves into the environment and will ambush you. What's most horrifying about this is that they are clearly fairly intelligent. Far from blind aggression, they do not reveal themselves until they are within killing range of you. Their origins are clearly spelled out in one of the files found in-game; they're literally created from the secretions of the Las Plagas injected directly into a woman's womb. One can only hope they were injected ''after'' the women became mindless puppets.

** One Regenerator encountered later acts like the others, prompting Leon to take out the Plagas like normal. Except, it ''regenerates into an Iron Maiden'', and once the last Plagas is taken out, it explodes, sending its needles flying that can hurt Leon if he's too close or isn't behind cover.

* The LaserHallway room from the original game returns -- and if you fail to respond to them, Ada stops in her tracks as they go right through her and a brief burn of smoke rises from the side of her head, before blood starts to leak from her face. The game then has a SmashToBlack right after, implying she just became a gory mess of being cleanly sliced into cubes like [[Film/ResidentEvil2002 a certain death in the first movie.]]

* Sharp-eyed players will notice that the U-III Verdugo - Pesanta - Ada fights at the beginning threw a spike that had several pustules, which explodes and scratches Ada. While she does react to it, she quickly brushes it off, but she immediately hallucinates multiple Pesantas and the mood of the area shifts to something a bit more psychedelic with purplish lighting. She later encounters Pesanta again in the village (before the Cabin standoff in Leon's section), but the sky changes colors, there's blue flames that block off sections, and she has to fight not just Pseanta itself, but its copies that can [[YourMindMakesItReal also hurt her]]. Ada in all of her previous incarnations has never been seen to be infected with anything onscreen - ''Separate Ways'' Remake is the first to show her going through an infection, even though she keeps most of her reactions hidden behind a mask of stoic professionalism.

-->"Oh, god! What is ''wrong'' with these people!?"

* The laser hallway room from the original game returns -- and if you fail to respond to them, Ada stops in her tracks as they go right through her and a brief burn of smoke rises from the side of her head, before blood starts to leak from her face. The game then has a SmashToBlack right after, implying she just became a gory mess of being cleanly sliced into cubes like [[Film/ResidentEvil2002 a certain death in the first movie.]]

* Ada won't just face off several regular Ganados at night or one Chainsaw Ganadao, but ''two'', one male and one female, in the same area of the factory where Leon and Luis were held captive the first time. What can make this a challenge is how small the area is, as well being mostly dark sections with a few lit up spots from the broken ceiling, and then there's factoring if Ada has enough ammo and upgraded weaponry.

* Ada won't just face off one Chainsaw Ganadao, but ''two'', one male and one female, in the same area where Leon and Luis were held captive the first time. What can make this a challenge is how small the area is, as well being mostly dark sections with a few lit up spots from the broken ceiling, and then there's factoring if Ada has enough ammo and upgraded weaponry.

-->"Oh god! What is ''wrong'' with these people!?"

** To expand on this, from the moment Leon rescues Ashley from the Church, Saddler telepathically reaches out to the villagers and orders them to recapture them both. From that moment onward, until you escape from the House Siege, every single Ganado you encounter will be chanting the same line, over and over again: "Aprisa, aprisa, se escapan los corderitos, perseguidles, guiadles hacia el perdon infinito." [[note]]English: "Hurry, hurry, the little lambs are fleeing, chase them, guide them towards infinite forgiveness."[[/note]] The thing is, they will ''never stop'' mindlessly droning out this mantra. They won't stop when they spot you, they won't stop as they attack you, they won't stop as you kill them and they succumb to their wounds... It fully hammers home just how horrifying the HiveMind of Las Plagas truly is.

** From the showplay trailer, the first house is [[NothingIsScarier seemingly empty at first]] after leaving the slightly foggy forest, before Leon discovers the first body of one of his police escorts down in the dark basement, and then hearing the panicked screaming of the second officer over the radio before he gets cut off. Leon initially encounters his first Ganado who attempted to ambush him, but as he gets back up, he encounters even more Ganados (who aren't present beforehand), forcing Leon to turn off his flashlight and get around them, which hints at a stealth system. Even with the scrambling action that is the initial fight in the village [[DaylightHorror taking place during the day]], the atmosphere of tense horror is far more prevalent than the original.

* The post credits scene of the game reveals the return of Albert Wesker, who coldly explains Ada his plan to kill billions of innocent people to achieve his goal of world domination. Thankfully Ada rejects Wesker's plans but that's not to say his plans are neccesarily...

* The Novistadors now camouflage themselves into the environment and will ambush you. What's most horrifying about this is that they are clearly fairly intelligent. Far from blind aggression, they do not reveal themselves until they are within killing range of you. Their origins are clearly spelled out in one of the files found in-game; they're literally created from the secretions of the Las Plagas injected directly into a woman's womb.

* Plaga Type Cs can now crawl into Ganados to hijack their body, turning them into something like {{Lightning Bruiser}}s and causing them to barrel towards you while ignoring any gunfire or damage. And that's not the worst part. When a Type C hijacks a Ganado, it is ''not'' a smooth process, as the Ganado will scream in agony as the many arms sink into the body and skull. When you see Type Cs near Ganados, you may be tempted to throw a grenade just to prevent that sound.