Resident Evil 4 Remake’s Dr Salvador is scary because he’s “normal”
Dr Salvador, also known as Chainsaw Man, or “Oh No, Not Him, Not Now,” is set to return for Resident Evil 4 Remake, serving once again as the scourge of Leon Kennedy – or, more specifically, Leon Kennedy’s neck. As we head towards the Resident Evil 4 Remake release date, horror game developer Capcom reveals the secret behind the most terrifying of Ganados, who is apparently scary because he resembles “a normal guy.”
While it troubles me a little that Capcom’s definition of “normal guy” extends to a parasite-infected maniac covered in blood and charging around with a chainsaw, there is a certain logic to how Dr Salvador has been designed for the RE4 Remake.
According to Hirofumi Nakaoka, art director on the coming survival game, various other iterations of the Chainsaw Man were planned and discussed, with Capcom aiming to build an enemy who was even more terrifying.
“I liked the chainsaw villager,” Nakaoka explains, “so when we heard that he would return in this remake we really gave a lot of thought to how he should look. Talking with the director, we tried a lot of different things during the design process, like making him really muscular or super tall. Maybe giving him this really long coat. We tried different things with Chainsaw but it just didn’t feel right.
“So, we went back and played the original again, and took another look at the chainsaw villager. And we realised the thing about him is he’s pretty normal. He looks like a normal guy but he’s got a cowl on his head and he’s holding a chainsaw. That’s what’s scary. That’s where the horror comes from.”
Making Dr Salvador too monstrous would make him too inhuman, too unrecognisable, Nakaoka suggests. Thinking back to the credits sequence of the original Resident
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