Resident Evil 4 Help
 

okay, well i've gotten pretty far in the game over the past 2 days, from chapter 1-2 to chapter 2-3.

and I got to the part where you have to choose between 2 paths, I read the document in that little shack by the merchant, and it said there was going to be Ganados? and an El Gigante.

and I want a tip on which route i should pick.

and there will be more help needed later on...

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Help on which route to pick? C'mon, just pick one... It's part of the fun...

Are you in the mood to fight a bunch of crazy people, or would you rather deal with some cave trolls?
The choices are your's and your's alone... Good luck...

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well being that it took me about 5 tries to fend off those people with that Luis guy, it wont be TOO much fun.

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Go left. I tried time and time again to fight that El Gigante but I couldn't figure out how.

Besides, you'll probably get more out of going left instead of money.

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I went the El Gigante way first...with barely any ammo. Took me a couple trys to kill him. I ended up going back the other way after to pick stuff up. :)

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The one with the Ganados was fun. And the chainsaw sisters are hot.

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Left is easier

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I found it incredibly easy to kill the El Gigante, i've already faced it once and wasnt that hard, but that's probably because I had about 4 first aid sprays, and well over enough ammo.

how many chapters are there exactly in this game? it doesnt even feel like ive even grazed the surface.

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Arent there like 5 or 6 chapters? Thats what I seem to remember anyways...I could be way off...

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from the sounds of it, it looks like i'll be taking the left way.

more help to come...

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The right way is a bitch because you have to face the El Gigante in a narrow corridor.

And yeah, there's six chapters. The game takes about 14-16 hours.

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I myself found the El Gigante easier to kill.

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I think I might remember mentioning how you killed it, but would you refresh us all as to how?

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Does it have to do with it falling over and tentacles popping out of it's head screaming out "Weak spot!", then running up to it, pressing A, and hacking away at it?

2-3 times and it's dead...

Though maybe not, on account'a I thought that was the obvious simple way to kill the thing...

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with the shotgun/tmp, it'll be so much easier to kill, because the guns can do quicker damage, and if you can get some headshots with the .233 rifle, that's also a good strategy.

those 2 chainsaw ladies are a bitch.

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Yeah, just shoot the bastard then run up his back and knife him. Killed him in 3 times.

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i find that the Red9 is a pretty good weapon to use against villagers/bosses.

but in the beginning when you face that huge ass fish in the lake, that might have been one of the easiest boss battles in a game i've ever played.

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I never knew about the knifing. I always killed them by gun. I didn't learn of the knifing until I watched my girlfriend play.

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I never even knew you could use a knfie on that bastard.

he's too big.

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First one I got to I didn't know you could either, but when there are two of them I figured it out. Just by running around.

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Question: is there an option to turn the gore off? On the GCN? The more I read about this game, the more I want to play it, but it's just too violent for my taste.
A sissy version would do the trick for me. :p

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WHat about closing your eyes when you shoot?

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I wouldn't advise that.

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lol. :D

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there should be a way to take the gore off, or maybe there isn't considering Capcom warns people before you even begin play about the strong language and explicitly gory scenes

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heh...

I guess it wasn't as obvious as I thought ;o

I think maybe I discovered it the first time because I was right up next to him when he fell, and the A button command popped up in the screen :>

Just make sure when you're up on the thing, you press the right button... sometimes it's A, sometimes it's B... I wasn't paying enough attention the first time and he threw me the **** off!

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I had the same problem when you first begin to leave the farm village I think it is, you begin to walk down a wooden staircase and those damn villagers push a huge boulder and you have to run away, at first it was tap X, so I was taping X, then I died, then I began tapping X before I even had to, and realized it was square.

I hate that.

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Just wait until you get to the 'knife fight' later on...

Worst cutscene ever in a game... ever...

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I watched the whole thing in a game montage.

looks like it'll take me a while to get there though, is that the first time you meet Ada Wong?

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Nah it's not with Ada, it's with some big pointlessly mysterious military guy... But yeah it's toward the end of the game...

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oh, I thought near the end, Ada comes running in.

Here.

btw: lord saddler skeers me.

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I remember I had heard things about the knife fight with Krauser and the difficulty of it. I only died once on it though. The first time you have to press buttons I noticed too soon :(


Second time it was a cinch

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Yea, I dont remember it being THAT bad either...I mean yea I think it took me several tries, but I dont remember getting frustratued...

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with the two routes, I ended up going the right route instead of the left because those 2 chainsaw ladies were beginning to piss me off.

and i bought that gun called the Punisher, was that a good or crappy buy?

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You bought the Punisher? That's a gun you get for free if you shoot 10 blue medallions. Or was that little mini-quest only in the GameCube version?

Anyway, the Punisher is not a terrible gun compared to the original handgun, but it's also not much better at all. The only real advantage it has is the ability to shoot two people who are lined up, but in practice that's not worth much at all because enemies very rarely line up like that (and when they do, there's usually five of them in which case you should be using something other than a handgun anyway). Besides that, by this point your original handgun is probably upgraded enough to be quite deadly on its own.

By the way, did you notice those boulders hanging pointlessly up on the edge of the canyon in the second El Gigante fight?

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Nah, that sidequest is in the PS2 version.







And I noticed the boulders...I couldn't get enough time to shoot them down on him though

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Wrong, it's in the Gamecube version, and it's 15 if I remember correctly.

I also noticed the boulder but when I used it, it didn't instant-kill him. Wasn't good enough for me. I wanted more ammo so I went left.

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It's 10 to get the Punisher. If you shoot 15, you get the Punisher upgraded to level 2.

And there are two boulders on the right path. You drop one on him, jump up and swing your knife like mad, then run to the door and break it down and get to the next boulder where you repeat the process. Hopefully, you've been pressing the button fast enough to kill him at this point.

What I did: went on the left path, killed the villagers and the chainsaw maniacs, went all the way through, got to the merchant and upgraded my weapons and then went back and flipped the switch so I could go through the right path.

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aw.

well, I just got off of the Gondola, and I went into this house and theres that huge dude and he changes into a creature.

any easy ways on beating him?

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I can't believe you ask other people for this... it's part of the fun to figure things out yourself....