Object-ive Review: Resident Evil 4 Remake’s Knife
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Scarcely does a single game object carry the torch for one of the fundamental pillars of entire genre both as parabolically and literally as Leon’s knife in Resident 4 Remake, and never has there been an object that so entirely represents its game's reinvention of said genre.
To wit: Leon’s knife is uniquely Resident Evil because it translates survival horror’s resource scarcity into a single, pocket-friendly weapon, and it is uniquely Resident Evil 4 because it is fucking stupid.
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