Add Resident Evil 4’s Mendez to the List of Skippable Fights

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One crafty player has recently taken to social media to share a reliable way of skipping the Mendez boss fight in the Resident Evil 4 remake. Their method of circumventing this creepy mid-game boss emerged around the time another Resident Evil 4 remake player discovered a surprisingly easy way to kill Salazar.

The Resident Evil 4 remake has been a massive success, with Capcom reporting the Resident Evil 4 remake sold tremendously well during its launch period. The game received widespread acclaim for modernizing the original experience with minimal compromise, not least because of its varied gallery of iconic bosses.

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But not all of those big bads need to be fought, as most recently underlined by a newly surfaced method of avoiding the Mendez encounter in the Resident Evil 4 remake. The technique was discovered by Chinese speedrunner Truekep and involves reloading the game while looking through a rifle scope on the barn stairs leading up to the fight until Leon clips through the walls and can exit the location. Upon doing so, the player will even encounter a non-aggressive Mendez on the other side of the building, still waiting for a fight that will never trigger.

Given the nature of this discovery, the Mendez skip definitely wasn't intended as a valid method of tackling the boss. That doesn't make it any less valuable for speedrunners, just inherently different from something like the Resident Evil 4 remake village fight skip, which was plausibly intentional by the developers.

The recently surfaced trick for skipping the Resident Evil 4 «goat head» section sits somewhere in between those two discoveries; it doesn't rely on glitches and was