10 best puzzles in the Resident Evil series, ranked

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Though it gave us Resident Evil 4, Capcom’sseries shift from straight-up survival horror to more action-oriented territory displeased many fans. And if you miss the slower, more cerebral gameplay of the early Resident Evil games, then this list is for you. We’ve come up with a ranking of the 10 most interesting puzzles in the series that are 100% roundhouse kicking, boulder-punching-free.

The original Resident Evil 4 and its dozens of re-releases mostly did away with Resident Evil’s classic puzzles — but not with the concept of puzzles altogether. Perhaps as a cheeky reference to the more elaborate item-hunting puzzles of the past, RE4 tasks players with a challenging but uncomplicated puzzle of sliding tiles.

What you see is what you get with this one: Eight tiles that players have to move around until they form a neat picture that will open a door. It’s simple, completely different from what you’d expect, and it does a good job of pausing the action to have Resident Evil players do something completely fresh for the series.

Resident Evil 2 Remake gets a lot of love for completely overhauling the original’s gameplay, but it also deserves some credit for its new puzzles. While some of the original’s puzzles could have worked in a remake, there’s just no point in having fans re-solve something they’ve known for over 20 years. It’s cool for remakes to add new stuff, and the Drug Lab Puzzle from the remake is a good example.

Remember how the scientists from the Resident Evil series seem to not be very good at their jobs? Most players probably don’t as in the original RE2 we just grab a vaccine and administer it to Sherry without much concern. The remake does a great job here by actually forcing players to do some lab work