Ashley being more competent doesn't take away from that. You end up fighting tons of dangerous monsters and you end up in many hardcore situations. Leon isn't with her for most of the game anyway. But that's one of the reasons why I'm not that hyped about a remake.Ĭlick to shrink.I dunno, I don't get the point about the player feeling less cool if Ashley was a bit better at not being a damsel.

The escort gameplay is in a really good place in the game as is-a lot of people say that it's the one escort quest they didn't dislike. But suggesting that she actually fight enemies with knives and pistols just seems like it'd make the task of making sure she doesn't take die either completely trivial, or annoyingly difficult as it often was with RE5. As in, her struggling delays the enemy from picking her up. I don't think I have a problem with Ashley effectively resisting for a bit when she's grabbed. If Ashley doesn't have much of a problem dealing with the enemies it feels like what the Leon is doing is less significant or cool. It's important to make the player feel cool. (But I don't think citing her driving a bulldozer at one point while not being threatened is good evidence that she would be fine fighting fucked up cultists and garradors up close and personal anyway.) Again, both in the context of the original game's release and in the context of a hypothetical remake, RE4 represents a point in which players are taking on the role of a much more experienced, trained, and well equipped character going up against souped-up enemies and larger hordes of them, and the game has taken more of an action turn. I wasn't arguing that her using a knife or gun at some point is necessarily inconsistent with her character, just that her being helpless makes sense and reinforces the player's sense of heroism for everything riding on the Leon. But that's one of the reasons why I'm not that hyped about a remake.

Click to shrink.I don't think I have a problem with Ashley effectively resisting for a bit when she's grabbed.

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