Replaying the game over the weekend-to mark its 15-year anniversary, on Saturday-I realised that the reason it has smeared itself on my memory is down to a mythic, fairytale quality. The roads, the forest, and the village are all doomy and dung-hued. The sky is grey-white and stale, like an old tablecloth, and-despite the flamenco music that flares up on the soundtrack-it doesn’t loom above a recognisably Spanish patch of earth. For a start, the light on offer isn’t the sort to make those of fair and freckled complexion reach for a bottle of sun cream. For someone who had just played Resident Evil 0, especially, with the hurtling gloom of its early train setting, it would be entirely reasonable to fear that fear would wither under the sun.īut one look at the first few minutes of Resident Evil 4 and their faith would be restored.
The only sunlight on offer was in the hesitant, hopeful rays that usually accompanied the ending cutscenes. Such reactions would be understandable the series belongs to Raccoon City, after all, its horrors hemmed in by a dark sea of trees. If you told that to a fan of the series in 2002, the year the previous main entry, Resident Evil 0, was released, you would be met with either anger, laughter, bewilderment, or near-despair.
Resident Evil 4 is set in Spain and begins in broad daylight.
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