"Is This Price Too Low?" - Resident Evil 4 Remake Separate Ways DLC Review

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The for is a nice reason to return to one of 2023's best remakes, but it isn't really worth buying unless you're just really, really invested in what Ada was doing the whole time. It's more, and if the prospect of that excites you then there is absolutely no reason not to check it out. Weird that it costs $9.99 now when it originally came for free with every copy of though (barring the original GameCube release, which didn't get it at all).

Much like how tweaked its timeline and events a bit, offers the same functional experience as the original with some changes. To mention them here would be to spoil the only truly interesting bits of, but suffice it to say that some of the content I expected to see in the game's original release back in March has finally made its way back. Shooting, stabbing, and exploding enemies is just as entertaining now as it was earlier in the year, and in players are given a grappling hook to mess around with as well.

In my review I spoke at length about the questionable necessity of adding the current evolution of crafting system and disposable knives to, and both return here. It's still not ideal, but at least Ada's knife durability seems to have been tweaked and appears to be far less flimsy overall.

Ada's grappling hook is interesting, but it isn't as useful or entertaining a mechanic as it might seem at first. Its best uses come during combat — while Leon would have to hastily abandon his position and run across the room to suplex a downed enemy into submission, Ada can simply fire her grappling hook at the enemy's face and pull herself over to them instantly. It's quick, it's satisfying, and the arc of Ada's followup melee attack is usually wide enough to know down two to three other