History YMMV / ResidentEvil4

** GlassCannon: Ada. Has a one-hit-kill sniper rifle and better close-range weaponry than Leon but easily has the weakest .

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhYDyFxSqAE Wesker]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPCpAWXCNpw HUNK's]] Mercenaries themes.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-_dZRVljUU Infiltration]].

And if you should survive THAT, as well as a PressXToNotDie cutscene, the last thing to do is simply survive the encounter with Salazar's 'right hand' until the elevator shows up! Count on spending at LEAST an hour playing through this nightmare. The single hardest part of this level (if not the game PERIOD) is between the start of the clock tower to surviving the cutscene, because there's no typewriters in between, so no opportunities to save.

* [[ItsPopularNowItSucks It's Popular Now It Sucks]] The style change, while making the series more popular, has caused many fans of the series's original style to feel betrayed, cheated, and forgotten. These were the same fans that, until Part 4 was released, were [[UnpleasableFanbase complaining that the series had grown repetitive and stagnant]].

* {{Narm}}: That is, if you assume any of this was supposed to be taken seriously to start with.

** Krauser, so much so that he made another appearance and got some more background in ''ResidentEvilDarksideChronicles''

Proceeding properly, you have to retrieve the last piece of a puzzle key in a room with fire-breathing horse heads to unlock a door to progress further.\\

THEN you have to head to a clock tower to get it running while surviving flaming rocks catapulted at you and the tower is swarming with Zealots inside and out. And when you leave the tower, you have to deal with another crowd (the leader of which has a freaking rocket launcher), then try to simply survive a locked room with TWO Heavy Duty Garradors (the other zealots in the room are the LEAST of your worries!)\\

* BaseBreaker[=/=]BrokenBase: Some people think this game is too actiony and not atmospheric, and some think the previous ''ResidentEvil'' games sacrificed fun and playability for said atmosphere. The full argument goes on ''[[InternetBackdraft and on]]''.

And if you should survive THAT, as well as a PressXToNotDie cutscene, the last thing to do is simply survive the encounter with Salazar's 'right hand' until the elevator shows up! Count on spending at LEAST an hour playing through this nightmare. The single hardest part of this level (if not the game PERIOD) is between the start of the clock tower to surviving the cutscene, because there's no typewriters in between, so no opportunities to save.\\
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In the Playstation 2 version, the programmers at least had the MERCY to put a typewriter right after the clock tower, making the fight with the 2 Garradors much easier to prepare for.
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The Castle Tower doesn't deserve a mention? Especially on Professional Mode, when you get to the elevator, be prepared to have saved your ammo, otherwise ''you will be frustrated'', you're in a horribly enclosed space, if so much as two enemies get on the elevator it stops, not to mention just generally being one of the most annoying parts of the game.

* [[ItsPopularNowItSucks It's Popular Now It Sucks]] The style change, while making the series more popular, has caused many fans of the series's original style to feel betrayed, cheated, and forgotten. The same fans that until ''Resident Evil 4'' was released were complaining that the series had grown repetitive and stagnant.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel:
** Regenerators, Iron Maidens, all of the experiments that you see on the Island, Novistadores, U-3, Comillos... This is just ''full'' of it.
** Leon seems to be in pain, but he says he's okay. He seems to get better, then starts [[spoiler:''to strangle Ada'' because of the Plaga. Leon's ''eyes are red and he's psychotically grinning.'']] Good luck sleeping after ''that.''
** After playing this game, you ''will'' freak out over the sound of chainsaws revving.
** Anything involving the transformation into a Ganado.
** Salazar's morbid art room, and the cult overtones of Los Illuminados.
** It's a Ganado, lit on fire, who lunges at you from a door that has nothing behind it.
** The the sad ominous pictures in the end credits which show what happened to the village [[spoiler:and the village's children]]... '''Brrr'''.
** [[BodyHorror What happens]] when Novistadors melt off your face.
** The female villager that's impaled on the wall with a pitch fork '''THROUGH THE FACE!!'''
** If you look around in the farm area you'll see a wagon that's filled with dead bodies. Presumably of villagers who tried to put up a fight against the infected.
** The mysterious [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdYuh3RpSd8 bag]] found near the end of the game.

* FetishFuel: Ada. [[FetishFuelStationAttendant Good god]].

* FridgeBrilliance: All the ganados have red eyes because of the effects of Las Plagas except for Bitores who only has [[MismatchedEyes one red eye]]. It turns out one eye didn't turn because it's a glass eye. In a turn of FridgeLogic however, when you pick up the glass eye it's red.
* FridgeLogic:
** Occasionally, when you bust open a box there will be a venomous snake inside. These boxes were previously nailed shut which means that somewhere, somehow, there is a Ganado ''boxing snakes'' presumably just to screw with Leon.
*** Assume that Saddler has at least ''some'' knowledge about [[KleptomaniacHero Kleptomaniac Heroes]] and the {{Evil Overlord List}} and ordered some of the boxes to be filled with snakes on the off chance that they might actually kill Leon. Of course, this only leads to further [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim Fridge Logic]] when you realize that he has bushels of grenades at his disposal and an overly elaborate and exotic death is completely unnecessary.
** Why exactly do the Garradors, who are obviously supposed to be trying to kill you, have their [[EyeScream eyes sewn shut]]?

* BadassSpaniard: Luis Sera, as the cabin siege sequence can attest. "Did you send out those invitations!? I told you, no more than FEEEFTY PEOPLE!"
* BaseBreaker / BrokenBase: Some people think this game is too actiony and not atmospheric, and some think the previous ''ResidentEvil'' games sacrificed fun and playability for said atmosphere. The full argument goes on ''[[InternetBackdraft and on]]''.

* GenreSavvy: Barely anything fazes Leon, up to and including the announcement that the island he's on is about to explode.

* OlderThanTheyThink: Quite a few new fans of the series don't seem to realize what the "4" in the game's title actually denotes.

* ThatOneLevel:
** Level 4-1.\\

* TookALevelInBadass: Leon.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Leon and Ada. Given that she could almost be considered an "ex" for Leon given their encounter prior to this game, their interactions here just amp it up even further.
** Ashley also propositions Leon for some [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "overtime"]] when they get back to America. He says no.
** And then there's Leon and Hunnigan, who after being out of radio contact for some time, is seen at the end, having taken her glasses off. Leon remarks she looked kinda cute and asks for her number. She reminds him he's still on duty.

* DemonicSpiders: [[ChainsawGood Dr Salvador, the Bella Sisters]], [[GatlingGood J.J.]], [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel the Regenerators, the Iron Maiden]]...

* HellIsThatNoise:

** Level 4-1.
*** Firstly, if you want the free Broken Butterfly, you have to backtrack through 4 rooms to get it.
*** Then, proceeding properly, you have to retrieve the last piece of a puzzle key in a room with fire-breathing horse heads to unlock a door to progress further.
*** Then, you have to obtain 2 Grails to unlock a door, one of which protected by 2 sets of 3 suits of armor with Plagas controlling them.
*** Then after Ashley gets kidnapped (again) you have to survive an onslaught of flying insects.
*** THEN you have to head to a clock tower to get it running while surviving flaming rocks catapulted at you and the tower is swarming with Zealots inside and out. And when you leave the tower, you have to deal with another crowd (the leader of which has a freaking rocket launcher), then try to simply survive a locked room with TWO Heavy Duty Garradors (the other zealots in the room are the LEAST of your worries!)
*** And if you should survive THAT, as well as a PressXToNotDie cutscene, the last thing to do is simply survive the encounter with Salazar's 'right hand' until the elevator shows up! Count on spending at LEAST an hour playing through this nightmare. The single hardest part of this level (if not the game PERIOD) is between the start of the clock tower to surviving the cutscene, because there's no typewriters in between, so no opportunities to save.
**** In the Playstation 2 version, the programmers at least had the MERCY to put a typewriter right after the clock tower, making the fight with the 2 Garradors much easier to prepare for.

FridgeBrilliance: All the ganados have red eyes because of the effects of Las Plagas except for Bitore who only has [[OddEyes one red eye]]. It turns out one eye didn't turn because it's a glass eye. In a turn of FridgeLogic however, when you pick up the glass eye it's red.

FridgeBrilliance: All the ganados have red eyes because of the effects of Las Plagas except for Bitore who only has one red eye. It turns out one eye didn't turn because it's a glass eye. In a turn of FridgeLogic however, when you pick up the glass eye it's red.