Resident Evil 4: Separate Ways reminds me of RE4’s coolest scrapped concepts

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The Separate Ways DLC for the Resident Evil 4 remake is out and is yet another home run for Capcom. It expands on the original concept by further fleshing out Ada and Luis’s roles in the base game. It also properly reintroduces Albert Wesker into the series as Ada’s client.

Most importantly, it also means the return of Ada Wong as a playable character. She’s someone who’s even more confident than Leon is, using her charisma and spy gadgets to come out on top. When she isn’t wooing everyone around her, Ada swings around like Spider-Man with her grappling hook, making investigations a breeze with her contact lens scanner.

Despite Separate Ways not being a part of the main game, the remake includes several set pieces missing from the base game including the famous laser hallway. Other inclusions don’t have a direct parallel but reminded me of earlier Resident Evil 4 builds. These could be a coincidence but also could be a nice way to repurpose unused concepts.

Resident Evil 4 was many things before its eventual 2005 release. After the PS1 trilogy cemented Resident Evil as a popular franchise, the fourth mainline game began development in 1998.

This original version of Resident Evil 4 deviated more from a survival horror title than the final release version by being a “stylish” action game. Director Hideki Kamiya envisioned protagonist Tony Redgrave as a cool guy with superior intellect and superhuman strength.

Capcom intended this to be its PlayStation 2 debut, but trouble brewed over the premise deviating too much from Resident Evil. Producer Shinji Mikami eventually put his foot down and had Kamiya’s project become its own franchise.

This was how Devil May Cry was born, but some stylish action remains in Resident Evil