The Resident Evil 4 remake showing we got last week is still fresh in our minds; we got to go hands-on with the title and were spoiled afterwards with a second trailer, this time focusing on the story. And while RE4 on PS5 looks to remain faithful to the original in most things, one purported aspect has managed to get some fan's hackles up.
As detailed by IGN, in the original game, Leon was able to free an adorable furry friend who had become stuck in a bear trap. If you chose to free the animal (and what kind of monster wouldn't), the faithful canine would return to pay back the favour, helping out during a particularly tough boss encounter. However, things look like they might play out a little differently in the remake, as seen in the clip below:
The reason for the change is unknown; perhaps Capcom wishes to signal that they are, in fact, cursed cat-preferrers. Or, it could be some kind of misdirection, playing on players expectations. Regardless, an outpouring of grief for the poor perished pooch followed, and not a small amount of good-natured anger. Popular fan-pupper account Can You Pet the Dog perhaps encapsulated the mood best when they wrote, quite succinctly:
Why do you think the Resident Evil 4 remake chose to break with canon in this highly specific way? Is this signalling that we should gird our loins for an even darker departure than the original? Press F to pay respects in the comments section below, and hug your canine companion close, if you are blessed enough to have one.
[source ign.com]
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Its all a ploy for the 'Save the Doggo' DLC pack. Capcom will make billions
This could very, very easily be a fake out. I wouldn’t be so sure. It’s why I didn’t mention it in my own article.
F.
Not sure for the change but all I can hope for is that Capcom had a good reasons, maybe simply an artistic diversion that they felt would better serve this entry.
I love the pupper but I don't mind this change. It fits the atmosphere and art direction, in my opinion.
I think this is a trick for marketing dust? I hope anyway
oh geez its just a game not real. keep it to the original. in real life be really bad but its only a group of pixels in a game ( part of the driving force to kick ass in the game)
They ruined the game! 😭
I'm hoping it will be different in the final game I love dogs 🐕
Someone at Capcom watched Old Yeller and thought it was a comedy.
.... The monsters!
@Danloaded I'm ashamed to admit I would probably buy said DLC, as long as it was a reasonable price ($5 USD).
Capcom gone woke. SMH.
One more Doggo crosses Rainbow Bridge. Though the opening of 'A Plague Tale: Innocence' was far, far worse. 😢
Meh! Maybe we will get a bear instead not no scraggly mange wolf !
It's just a game tho
@Danloaded lmaoooo I'd buy it XD even though I'm a cat person myself
@KaijuKaiser You’re not wrong. You can find videos of people rescuing “dog meat survivors”; these dogs have the front legs tied behind they’re backs. It’s incredibly sad. Speaking to Resident Evil, they really should let this series rest.
"Hey, it's that dog!"
Hopefully it's just a trick. It was one of the many things that gave RE4 its identity.
Never played Resident Evil, but maybe it's a time sensitive thing now? If you take too long to get there, the dog is dead. Would be kinda cool actually xD
Its a tough world
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@Adam5k1 No, it was one of the first things I saw.
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Calm down, it's just a way to play with your expectations (like dogs not crashing through windows in REmake(1), nothing seen through window with Leon campaign in RE2make... ). In this particular case, probably it is a warning to expect a thougher fight with El Gigante.
Pretty sure in the original game the wolf was there as an easy egg for their other game, I think it was called haunted ground or something like that
They changed it to throw ppl off and the marketing worked, ppl are talking about it.
Cool. Never understood why people get so bothered by fictional dogs dying. It's arguably more upsetting to see it struggling in the trap anyway.
@Mauzuri Well that's ridiculous.
I don't think that's the same dog. It looks like a totally different spot from the original.
The dog helping you in that troll fight was one of the more funny and memorable scenes of the original game. It’s so Capcom to include Lassie as NPC assistance while a parasite plagues an entire country lol. Hope he makes a return somehow.
This game peaked in VR for me. No need to go back.
Millions of humans are killed in resident evil games, including helpless ones, no one bats an eye. One fictional dog gets killed and everyone gets upset. Shows how little people value other people's lives.
There were bear traps throughout the game. Maybe they put this one in thinking you weren’t saving the dog this time around, but later on, there could be the dog you get to save. Just moved it to a different location.
@iGotNintendoAtLaunch WHAT?
What is the reason for such cruelty?
I can't comprehend such actions or find a reason.
@Dr-M yeah it’s terrible. I smother my dogs with love; it is quite disturbing what happens to some dogs. Frankly I didn’t even know their legs could do that. But some ******* somewhere thought it’d be cool to eat dogs. Adopt don’t shop.
The fact that people are getting mad over a dead video game dog to the point of cancelling pre-orders shows how overemotional and petty people can be towards fictional media. Either that or people are nostalgia-blinded.
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