Resident Evil 4 remake DLC remakes the laser room perfectly

Capcom’s Resident Evil 4 remake wasn’t a one-to-one recreation of the 2005 GameCube original. The ridiculous Robo and Salazar fight was reimagined while some scenes were completely cut. The most devastating cut was for the Resident Evil 4In the famous laser room remake, Leon S. Kennedy does backflips while avoiding a barrage of deadly lasers.

Separate waysThe laser room not only restores the iconic corridor with its killer lasers but also gives it an upgrade by giving it a reason to be. It also includes one of the quietest and most gruesome scenes in the game. Resident Evil 4A game that is full of beheadings, and blood-soaked deaths.

[Warning: The following contains spoilers for Resident Evil 4 Separate Ways.]

The original Resident Evil 4, the laser room was an obstacle that stood between Leon and Osmund Saddler’s favorite sitting room. Leon must perform a series of laser dodges in a quick time event before he can face the U-3. It’s endearingly cheesy.

The new version is noticeably more wholesome. Leon will never face U-3, the laser system that can kill you. Ada, however, does face U-3 and the deadly laser security system as part of her new boss battle against Martinico.

Martinico was created through Amber experimentation. It’s described in-game as a once-fragile but now uncontrollable test subject that, after numerous experiments, “gained tremendous resilience and regenerating abilities, and now it is impervious to conventional weapons.” Basically, it’s another unkillable Resident Evil monster.

“It may be stronger, but its mental capacity has not improved at all,” an in-game message warns. “In the unlikely event that it breaks free, there is little we can do to contain it again. Only the powerful lasers can stop it for good.”

This laser room was built as a measure of security to stop Martinico from getting away to the island. Martinico follows Ada as she walks through laser-protected areas. She decides to use the laser grid to her advantage as she escapes the island’s comms center, where Martinico resides.

Ada has the same agility as Leon in 2005. She will easily be able to squeeze and dodge through the laser grid. She will fail to pass the laser grid if she cannot make it. Resident Evil 4 gives us one of the game’s most memorable and disturbing Game Over sequences.

Ada will be fatally cut by the beams just like Martinico if the button is not pressed. However, Ada does not crumble to a pile or laser-sliced flesh, she is instead frozen as her body shuts off. It’s unsettling.

It’s also an apparent homage to the gruesome laser deaths in Paul W.S. Anderson’s Resident EvilThe film is from 2002. In that film, members of the Umbrella Sanitation Team find themselves trapped in a room outfitted with deadly lasers, where they’re killed one by one in gruesome fashion. The leader of that group, James “One” Shade (Colin Salmon), gets sliced into dozens of cubes by a grid similar to the one from Resident Evil 4.

Here’s my other favorite thing about how Separate ways handles the laser room: It’s self-aware about how ridiculous it is. Ada’s comments on Resident Evil are a little bit funny at certain times in the DLC. She refuses grabbing treasures from a mucky well, then she won’t jump in a reservoir of water as other Resident Evil Heroes do. She is wearing some expensive stiletto leather boots.

She describes a hallway with killer moving lasers.