Resident Evil 4’s laser hallway gets the biggest upgrade in remake DLC
Capcom’s Resident Evil 4 remake wasn’t a one-to-one recreation of the 2005 GameCube original. Multiple sequences, like the ridiculous Robo-Salazar battle, were reimagined, while other moments were cut altogether. One of the more devastating cuts for the Resident Evil 4 remake was the infamous laser room, in which Leon S. Kennedy dodges and backflips through an array of instant-kill laser beams.
Separate Ways not only brings back that iconic corridor full of killer lasers, it gives it a major upgrade in the form of a legitimate reason to exist. The laser room also adds one of the most quietly gruesome death scenes to the Resident Evil 4 remake, a game full of gory beheadings and other blood-soaked player deaths.
[Warning:The following contains spoilers for Resident Evil 4 Separate Ways.]
In the original Resident Evil 4, the laser room was an obstacle that stood between Leon and Osmund Saddler’s favorite sitting room. En route to face the U-3 bioweapon, Leon is confronted with a handful of quick-time events that show off his acrobatic laser-dodging talents. It’s endearingly cheesy.
In the noticeably less cheesy remake, Leon never faces U-3 or the deadly laser security system. But Ada does, and it comes as part of a new boss encounter against a creature known as Martinico.
Martinico is one of the monsters created by experimenting with the Amber. It’s described in-game as a once-fragile but now uncontrollable test subject that, after numerous experiments, “gained tremendous resilience and regenerating abilities, and now it is impervious to conventional weapons.” Basically, it’s another unkillable Resident Evil monster.
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“It may be stronger, but its mental capacity has not improved at all,” an in-game message warns.
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