Resident Evil 4 "Movie" Run - Chapter 2-2

This RE4 run is a varient of VMerken's No Merchant Combat Knife/Handgun run in which I try to make the game as "movie-like" as possible. This is the NTSC Gamecube version.

The rules of a No Merchant Combat Knife/Handgun run are:
-Start from a New Game
-No business with the Merchant
-No continues, no deaths
-Combat Knife and Handgun only

In addition to that, this run adds these rules:
-No damage
-No pausing or opening the Attache Case for any reason

Furthermore, in this run I:
-Pace myself (walk during slow bits, etc.)
-Leave in the cutscenes unless there's some gameplay reason to skip
-Pick up and read all files except Playing Manual 2, Playing Manual 3 and Target Practice (because they don't exist).
-Don't reload incessantly (I try not to throw away 9 bullet magazines without reason, for instance)
-Don't pick up any items I don't need, like healing items and grenades
-Play Normal mode, because I'm not insane

I know I'm breaking one of VMerken's rules by playing on Normal. However, most of the challenge of this run is still there: since I never get hit, it doesn't matter that the enemies do less damage, and my strategies have all been tested in Pro and work. What Normal does is make certain scenes, like the infamous chapter 5-2, less meat-grindingly impossible.

YouTube permitting, each video should be one chapter. Since I'm not using continue points, I basically play typewriter-to-typewriter and then edit together my successful attempts at each section into one, flowing video of the entire chapter. The aim is to make something that one could theoretically sit down and watch and get most of the content of the game (even if they'd never played RE4 before). I cut on the black screen after each typewriter save, but if you pay attention you can still tell where they are: it takes slightly longer for the game to fade in from black when loading a save, and you'll hear a cut in the audio.

Also, to spice things up I added some "Leon's Mind"-style in-universe commentary annotations. These mainly serve the purpose of pointing out my Fridge Logic moments (and RE4 has plenty of those), and I put them in the annotations so you can turn them off if you don't want to see them. I also include out-of-universe "meta" notes in the description of each video.

Enjoy

Meta-notes:

00:35 - Milestone: first non-mandatory hangun shot!

13:30 - Milestone: first reload!

13:30 - Welcome to the first really difficult scene in the game. This is the part where my knifing comes to an end, as Ganados come from all directions in a tight space and I need to make good use of the handgun to get reliable kick-starts on them. My strategy for this is what VMerken calls the "up-down" strategy. You go to one floor, then when it gets full, run to the other floor leaving Luis to handle them all. I also use a steady stream of kicks to keep Ganados on the ground until time runs out--killing 50 Ganados isn't an option.

Check out VMerken's No Merchant Combat Knife/Handgun Guide here:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/gamecube/535840-resident-evil-4/faqs/41017

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