Resident Evil 4 Remake Originally Began With a New Introduction Where You Played as Ashley

Resident Evil 4's helpless companion quality Ashley was erstwhile planned to prima successful a newly-designed intro made for Capcom's acclaimed remake.

Everyone knows by present however Resident Evil 4 opens: with fan-favorite quality Leon S. Kennedy thrown into the enactment arsenic helium investigates the abduction of Ashley Graham, the U.S. president's daughter. And successful the last mentation of the superb Resident Evil 4 Remake, this is again however the crippled begins.

But Capcom planned — and astatine slightest partially built — a caller instauration series dubbed Chapter 0 which would person seen players sneak astir arsenic Ashley, earlier she's yet dragged disconnected by brainwashed ganados. And now, a caller video showing immoderate of the ngo has been enactment together.

Ashley's Chapter 0 would person taken spot successful an expanded mentation of the forested country extracurricular the game's main village, adjacent to wherever Leon is yet seen creeping on astatine the opening of the remake. A snippet of this survived successful a trailer for the remake, wherever Ashley witnesses a grisly ritual sacrifice anterior to getting captured.

The non-combat ngo sees Ashley sneak along, hiding from a patrolling ganado, and spotting different who is carrying Luis — presumably to the basement wherever Leon finds him later. But, ultimately, we each cognize Ashley is going to get captured — thing that, aft a little pursuit sequence, we past spot play out.

If you're keen to spot the remains of this ngo successful action, modder Michael "Thekempy" Kemp has a video of its surviving elements — though it seems similar overmuch of the ngo was unfinished, oregon removed from the game's last version.

While Resident Evil 4 remake features plentifulness of other sequences not recovered successful the archetypal Resi 4, it's casual to spot wherefore this 1 fell by the wayside. It's hard to ideate anyone being amazed by Ashley's capture, since that sets up the full game, and the quality already has her ain abbreviated sections of gameplay aboriginal on.

And past there's the information that Ashley is, well, not loved by immoderate Resident Evil fans. The Resi 4 remake goes immoderate mode to making her little of a damsel successful distress, but it's possibly unsurprising that Capcom yet chose not to unfastened the crippled with her, alternatively than simply letting players leap consecutive successful to Leon's mission.

"The Resident Evil 4 remake is the series' astir relentlessly breathtaking escapade rebuilt, refined, and realised to the afloat grade of its tremendous potential," IGN wrote successful our Resident Evil 4 Remake review, scoring it 10/10.

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