NOTE : PLEASE READ THIS GUIDE IN ONLY COURIER NEW FONT SIZE 10. Hello and welcome folks, Welcome to a new kind of terror and horror. Welcome to my walkthrough in progress for Resident Evil 4 !!!. ¤m#¤¤mm¿ p¤**¤¤q _qmmmm¿¬¿p mm¤mmm¿_ p¤**¤¤œ=q_ p=¸pœœpœœp Ñ# 3ÑظØÅ 3ÑL_ ؆ Ñ ¯Ñ# ¸ÑF [Ñþ_ Å 3 3Ñ L ÑÅ__qÑÑ`åÑM™™™™™ª ¯™Ñ#p_ ؆ Ñ Ø ØÑ™™™™™™¹ [ ™Ñ¿ Å 3Ñ Ñ# ‘Ñþ åÑþ ¯™Ñ#‚؆ ÑL qÑ ¶ÑL [ Ñ#_Å 3Ñ Ñ# ™Å_ ÑÑþ____„~ ___цņ ÑL __ØF ÑÑþ____„ [ ¯ÑÅ qÑ ¯¯¯ Ñp ¯¯¯¯ ˆ¯¯¯ ¯¯¯ ¯¯¯¯¯¯ ¯¯¯¯ ˆ ` ¯¯¯ ¾_ .. ______ ,: . _د¯¯¯¯™™ Ñþ Ø´ˆ¶Øˆ ¯åÑ .tL,. qÑ______ Ñ¿ Ø [Ñ ¶Ñ ..LGjLt: . Øѯ¯¯¯¯¯ ‘Ñ_ /` [Ñ ¶Ñ .. ;DLtitLGf;: ‘Ñþ åÅqÅ [Ñ ¶Ñ ¸ .fDjiitttjGKKt. ˆÑÑþ¿¿m™ \Å ,åÅ, ¸åÅ„„„„q# . .;DLjtjjjjjjfDEt. :LDfjtjjjffjjGDD; .iDftitttttijjLfGG; iGjiiittfj;,LGLfLG;. ,f;;iitijLj,.,DDLfGG; .tLi;;jtiiti:. :EEfjfL, . ;Lf;iiiitLi: :DGftjL;. .tGi;,,ii;;;: . .tGfiiji. .ff;;,,;iti.::::...:;jji;ti: jf;,,,,;ii,.,,,tfjjfit;itiij; . WELCOME TO A NEW NIGHTMARE... .tj;,,,,,,;ittjtttii;,;,,,,;jft,it. it,,::.....:.. .,t;,,,,;;jGGL,. ;i,. :tt,,;,,::tj;,. :;. :ji:,,;,. .i;:. : :t;,:,;;. :;: :i;;i;,;. it: .:i..;i,,.,ft: :; iijti,:. :tft::. .:,:. .. .. . . WELCOME TO THE NIGHTMARE THAT IS RESIDENT EVIL 4 !!.. Okey i think that was dramatic enough. Completion rate 15 % out of 100% so far NOTE : THIS WALKTHROUGH IS NOT YET COMPLETED BY ANY MEANS, I WILL MOST DEFINETLY ADD LOTS AND LOTS OF STUFF IN THE COMING DAYS OR WEEKS, THE ONLY REASON WHY IM HURRYING TO UPLOAD AN INCOMPLETE VERSION IS BECAUSE I JUST WANT A PLACE-HOLDER FOR MY WALKTHROUGH WHICH I CAN UPDATE WHEN EVER IM FEELING LIKE IT SINCE ITS MY MID-TERM SEASON I DONT KNOW IF I WILL BE ABLE TO GET ONLINE THAT OFTEN FOR A WHILE. THIS MESSAGE WILL BE DELETED ONCE THE WALKTHROUGH IS COMPLETED. -- Welcome to my walkthrough of Resident Evil 4 for the Nintendo GameCube console. This walkthrough will only cover the GC version for now so dont ask me about the ps2 version thats scheduled to come out later in 2005 , since we hardly know anything about it as of now. This walkthrough is brought to you by Adnan Javed, better known as ChandooG on the GameFAQ's message boards and as A-J among his friends and many many forums. So far this is for the Nintendo version of the game only, and if the game is ever ported to any other console i shall add information about them as required. This walkthrough by all means is not complete and i will most definetly by adding tons and tons of stuff to it in the coming days, like i said above right now im just in a hurry to make a place holder for myself and thus im uploading an incomplete version of the walkthrough for now. ENJOY ! Overview : Resident Evil 4 / Biohazard 4 FAQ / Walkthrough By Adnan Javed Alias AJ ChandooG on gamefaqs.com message boards Returnofthemaniac@hotmail.com adnanj@gmail.com Updated on Jan/27/2005 Original ver Jan/21/2005 www.planetdreamcast.com/residentevil _ _ _ __ | |_ __ _| |__ | | ___ ___ / _| | __/ _` | '_ \| |/ _ \ / _ \| |_ | || (_| | |_) | | __/ | (_) | _| \__\__,_|_.__/|_|\___| \___/|_| _ _ ___ ___ _ __ | |_ ___ _ __ | |_ / __/ _ \| '_ \| __/ _ \ '_ \| __| | (_| (_) | | | | || __/ | | | |_ \___\___/|_| |_|\__\___|_| |_|\__| ____ ________________ ____________________________________________ | | | | | |S no| TITLE | DESCRIPTION |CODE | |___ |________________|_____________________________________|_____ | | | | | | |0. | VERSION HIST. | History of the walkthrough. |re4000| | | | | | | | | | | |1. | INFORMATION | The most basic information anyone |re4001| | | | would wanna know before playing. | | | | | | | |2. | INTRODUCTION | An introduction to Resident evil 4 |re4002| | | | for those not aware with its history| | | | | | | |3. | STORY | A small look at the events leading |re4003| | | | up to Resident Evil 4. | | | | | | | |4. | CONTROLS | The controls of the game, Ashley |re4004| | | | and the advanced control features. | | | | | | | |5. | CHARACTERS | A look at the main stars of the |re4005| | | | show, indepth and spoiling. | | | | | | | |6. | BEGINNER TIPS | The most basic tips everyone |re4006| | | | should know to survive. | | | | | | | |7 .| WALKTHROUGH | The heart of the mass, complete |re4007| | | | start to finish walkthrough. | | | | | - Chapter 1 | 1-1 | | | | - Chapter 2 | 2-1 | | | | - Chapter 3 | 3-1 | | | | - Chapter 4 | 4-1 | | | | - Chapter 5 | 5-1 | | | | - Chapter 6 | 6-1 | | | | | | |8. | NON SPOILER | For the non-spoiler type, a new |re4008|(NOTE) | | WALKTHROUGH | thing i've implimented here. | | | | | | | |9. | THE MINI GAMES | All the low down about the mini |re4009| | | | games in resident evil 4. | | | | | - Assignment Ada |adare4| | | | - Mercenaries |mercre4| | | | - Shooting Range |shtrgre4| | | | | | |10.| ITEM LIST | All the items in the game listed. |re4010| | | | | | | | | | | |11.| ENEMIES | A look at the enemies you'll see |re4011| | | | in the game, no bosses here. | | | | | | | |12.| WEAPONS | A look at the weapons you'll be |re4012| | | | using through out the game. | | | | | | | |13.| MEMO LIST | All the memo's, notes and files |re4013| | | | you can find in the game. | | | | | | | |14.| CHEATS | For the cheating type. Contains |re4014| | | | secrets, tips and codes for RE4. | | | | | | | |15.| MISC RAMBLINGS | Contains FAQ's about RE4 and a |re4015| | | | few other stuff, check it out. | | | | | | | |16.| BACK STORY | History of Resident Evil, also |re4016| | | | contains Wesker's reports 1 & 2. | | | | | | | |17.| BOSS STRATEGY | Separate boss strategies for those |re4017| | | | not willing to spoil themselves. | | | | | | | |18.| REVIEW | Read what I thought of Re4. |re4018| | | | | | | | | | | |19.| LEGAL | All the legal information . |re4019| |___|_________________|_____________________________________|______| (NOTE) = IF YOU WANT THE NON SPOILING WALKTHROUGH DIRECTLY ENTER THIS AREA's CODE. Note : If you want to go to a particular section of a bigger section like if you want to just go to Assignment Ada, then go to the main mini games area, I have made separate codes for the different mini games there too. For easier navigation. To ask me any question about this walkthrough or the game, or just for your general feedback, which is always appreciated. just send me a mail at the following addresses adnanj@gmail.com returnofthemaniac@hotmail.com 0. !*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´)¸.·'´)*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!* _ _ _ _ __ _____ _ _ __(_)___ _ _ | |_ (_)__| |_ ___ _ _ _ _ \ V / -_) '_(_-< / _ \ ' \ | ' \| (_-< _/ _ \ '_| || | \_/\___|_| /__/_\___/_||_| |_||_|_/__/\__\___/_| \_, | |__/ !*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´)¸.·'´)*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!* re4000 Alright, so this is most probably the most ambitious work I have ever done so far, its also probably the first walkthrough that i didn't finish in the first version, mostly because of my mid terms so here's version history area for the back story kinda people (like me). VERSION 0.1 ----------- Started the initial work on the walkthrough, wrote down some of the smaller sections, the walkthrough is still not complete though, i will probably do that before january is over. Other sections will come soon afterwards. Please send me feedback on what you think about it. VERSION 0.2 ----------- Alright, another day and another batch of the walkthrough is now done, though i probably will upload the next version when i've done the main walkthrough part, but im leaving that for the end since this is a huge game and that will take me the most amount of time to complete. God help me.. Still I have plenty of stuff that i have to add, and i haven't even touched the walkthrough part for the past few days. Im anticipating this thing will go over 400 kb if it keeps getting bigger like this. PS. The reason why i updated it so quickly after GameFaqs accepted it was 'cause i made a HUGE error for the release dates in the info section, I accidentally copied from another game lol. VERSION 0.3 ----------- After receiving more then one complaint that the timeline section was too big and not that useful i decided to trim it down a whole lot and its now a lot smaller and slimmer, there you go people lol. I will most definetly continue the main walkthrough from monday hopefully. VERSION 0.4 ----------- Completed a crap load of stuff, sorry that it took so long since its been raining like hell where I am at this time and often my electricity goes out for hours at a time. Next update will most likely be the full guide. ps. Main walkthrough is done now. One or the other big things i did was shuffle around with the table of contents and the sections and now the enemies and weapons are located after the walkthrough, not before it like i usually do. If you guys have some questions about the game then gladly email them to me and I will also add them to the FAQ area as well. I STILL have to add more stuff to the walkthrough even as we speak to dont be surprised if it gets even bigger in the coming days because its NOT finished yet. END OF SECTION. 1. !*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´)¸.·'´)*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!* _ __ _ _ (_)_ _ / _|___ _ _ _ __ __ _| |_(_)___ _ _ | | ' \| _/ _ \ '_| ' \/ _` | _| / _ \ ' \ |_|_||_|_| \___/_| |_|_|_\__,_|\__|_\___/_||_| !*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´)¸.·'´)*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!* re4001 Game : Resident Evil 4 / Biohazard 4. Platform : Nintendo GameCube Release dates : (NA) 01/11/05 (EU) 03/18/05 (JP) 01/27/05 Game Genre : Survival Horror genra. ESRB Rating : Mature, 18+ Playable characters : many Scenario's : 1 (1 main and other mini-games) Number of Endings : 1 Boss Fights : 5 or so. ----- Personal Information Author name : Adnan Javed Alias : A-J , ChandooG Author age : 18 Contact : Returnofthemaniac@hotmail.com Comments : The best survival horror game, thats what people are calling this gem of a game, with some of the most stunning graphics ever seen on a console game, its worth getting a cube just for this game alone. END SECTION. 2. !*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´)¸.·'´)*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!* _ _ _ _ _ (_)_ _| |_ _ _ ___ __| |_ _ __| |_(_)___ _ _ | | ' \ _| '_/ _ \/ _` | || / _| _| / _ \ ' \ |_|_||_\__|_| \___/\__,_|\_,_\__|\__|_\___/_||_| !*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´)¸.·'´)*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!* re4002 What do you get when you mix a little bit of Metal Gear solid style action, some silent hill style psychological scares, and a little bit of old school resident evil charm and scare into a pot and mix, you get Resident Evil 4, thats right, Resident Evil 4, the game thats gone through even more stages then Jacko himself. Resident Evil as we know it has been changed completely and by god its been done all for the very best. For those who dont have any idea about the history of just this one game, let me take you down memory lane. Rumors about Resident Evil 4 began surfacing as far back as when Code Veronica X was first released for the PlayStation 2 console, back then the earliest RE4 rumors were that you get to play the game from the prespective of an Umbrella agent, possibly Hunk, and there were even fake box arts which people believed true thrown on the internet, im pretty sure most of you have seen some of them as well, the most famous one i still have on my PC. Now those rumors about Resident evil 4 were shot down after Capcom signed the exclusive deal with Nintendo and their GameCube console. After that it was quiet for a little while but after Resident Evil 0 was finished more rumors about Resident Evil 4's developement started to surface, and there was eventually confirmation that it would eventually come out on the nintendo GameCube console and the main star of the show would be none other then Leon S Kennedy, rookie cop turned hardened veteran, there was even a trailer launched for the game some time ago, the trailer featured Leon roaming through a castle like enviroment with lush backgrounds and eerie monsters. But eventually all that was shut down and it was announced that the series's creator Shinji Mikami wanted to take the series to a new level and that he was now working on Resident Evil 4 from scratch. After that it remained quiet for some time and we would hear tids and bits about the game and its setting, seemingly more like an action game compared to a horror game, but the fans just dont realize that you cant judge something unless you get your hands on it. Exactly the same case here. As time passed we started getting footage and video's from the un finished game core, and the first thing everyone agreed on was that the game looked abso-fricking-lutely amazing, nothing like this had ever been seen before, the graphics were shocking and breath taking. So it continued, the next big shock in Resident Evil 4's history came when Capcom made a public announcement on their website that they will eventually make a PS2 version of Resident Evil 4 by the end of 2005. Not much is known about that port at this time but people (most people i know) wonder wether such high quality can be ported over to a less end console compared to the GameCube. I personally wish that it does. Thats about the end of Resident Evil 4's history, the game was released first in the US area's before any place in the world, same as resident evil zero which came to US before japan. Now most people are rushing to get their copies of the game, and thats just what led you to this walkthrough, so here we have. Resident Evil 4, in all its prime and glory, and by god people should get this game as soon as they have some time, or if you dont own a gamecube i would ask you to buy one just for this game since this is probably the next big thing in video gaming. But dont just think that Resi 4 is eye candy, the plot behind the game though mostly un-related to the previous titles is highly engaging and involving, you'll see characters from Leon's past and some new people Leon will get to know during the course of the game, first thing, i just want to clear that Wesker is NOT in the main story game, so dont get in confusion about that at this early stage of the walkthrough. Now, carry on reading the walkthrough. CAPCOM SAYS. ------------ Resident Evil® 4 marks a terrifying new chapter in the world renowned Resident Evil® series- exclusively for the Nintendo GameCube™. Players rejoin Leon S. Kennedy, six years after his first mission as a rookie cop from Resident Evil® 2. Now as a U.S. agent, Leon is on a top-secret mission to investigate the disappearance of the President’s daughter and has made his way to a mysterious location in Europe. As Leon encounters unimaginable horrors, he must find outwho or what is behind everything. Key Features: - Unsurpassed visuals withbreathtaking 3D graphics and effects - Behind the camera view follows Leon’s every move and allows for intuitive movement - Never before seen enemies with advanced AI - Enhanced aim and shoot features - Innovative “A” action button allows players to perform various actions ©Capcom Co., Ltd. 2005 ©Capcom U.S.A., Inc. 2005 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. RESIDENT EVIL, CAPCOM and the CAPCOM LOGO are registered trademarks of Capcom Co., Ltd. Nintendo, Nintendo GameCube theofficial seal are trademarks of Nintendo.Theratings iconis a registered trademark of the Entertainment Software Association. All other trademarks are owned by their respective owners. END SECTION. 3. !*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´)¸.·'´)*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!* _ __| |_ ___ _ _ _ _ (_-< _/ _ \ '_| || | /__/\__\___/_| \_, | |__/ !*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´)¸.·'´)*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!* re4003 Six years have passed since the destruction of Raccon City. US agent Leon S Kennedy has been assigned to locate the president's kidnapped daughter. His investigation has led him to a rural port of Europe. Hoping to find information, he makes a stop at a village. But what he found was more then out of the ordinary. Upon entering the village, Leon is suddenly attacked. He has no choice but to return fire in self defence. But that wasn't enough to stop "Them". It reminded Leon of the horrors that had occured in Raccoon City. " I thought the nighmares were over.." Flesh that knows no pain, strength beyond any human, it all seemed very familiar, too-familiar. But something was different, something about their eyes... inspite of all the madness there was something human still in them. " No they're different, they're not zombies" " Then what are they ? " " What happened here ? " -------- That creepy prologue was taken from the official Resident Evil 4 website, you should know most of the back story about Resident Evil 4 for now, and most of what the game starts off with, to make it a little simple most of the game's story does not have that much to do with the past resident evil games, so thankfully resident evil 4 is equally enjoyable by the people who haven't played any of the previous resident evil games, although you will be unfamiliar to some of the characters you meet a little further in the game, you still wont miss out on that much. Now when the game starts, Leon has gotten an assignment from his agency which tells him that he needs to head to Europe and find the president's daughter who was kidnapped some time ago. Leon heads to Europe and his search leeds him to a strange village and the area surrounding it. Leon heads with two cops and makes his way into the woody area, he takes a little route leading him into a little cabin in the lush forest area, he finds a single villager inside the cabin, Leon asks the villager about the President's daughter, but the guy doesnt respond, slowly the guy reaches for his axe and suddenly out of no where tries to kill Leon, he skillfuly dodges the attack and shoots his assailant down, who takes far more then any normal human could take to die, but this wasnt any zombified human either, he was mostly humanoid and intelligent, nothing like the undead Leon had faced before, so what were they ?! While Leon is pondering over this suddenly he finds more and more villagers coming his way and attacking him. Now Leon must find the presidents daughter as well as safe his own neck from these villagers. END SECTION. 4. !*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´)¸.·'´)*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!* _ _ __ ___ _ _| |_ _ _ ___| |___ / _/ _ \ ' \ _| '_/ _ \ (_-< \__\___/_||_\__|_| \___/_/__/ !*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´)¸.·'´)*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!* re4004 Here is a basic layout of the control configuration for Resndent Evil 4. D-PAD : Move the characters around, navigate characters ANALOG STICK : Move the characters around, navigate characters A BUTTON The action button, perform all sorts of actions with this button and fire weapons when ever ready and aiming. B BUTTON The cancel button, press this to cancel out of menu's or cancel a choice, also hold down this to run. L BUTTON Aim with the knife, simple as that. R BUTTON Aim with available firearm that your character is holding. X BUTTON Communicate with your partner character, give orders and what not. Y BUTTON Open the menu. Z BUTTON Open the navigational map. C-STICK : Rotate the camera in any direction. Look mode. START BUTTON Pause the game and take a breather. ASHLEY CONTROLS --------------- Here is a brief list of controls that Leon can command Ashley with or make Ashley stay and what not. Before anything, I should tell you Ashley's death cases, Ashley can die with the methods that Leon can, meaning you can shoot her either yourself, a single bullet and she's dead. She can also be attacked by the monsters on screen, or if you leave her in the same place for a little while and the villagers come and take her away, its game over. ( Similar to ICO) if you want to prevent the villagers from taking her away, shoot the villager so that he/she drops Ashley. Ashley has a similar life bar as Leon's and that helps you keep a quick eye on Ashley's health bar, besides that you will see icon's displaying what kind of action Ashley is taking at this time. Since i suck at ascii.... I will just make text versions of them. ICON OF TWO PEOPLE : This means simply that Ashley is doing nothing else but following Leon around. ICON OF ONE PERSON : This means that Ashley is standing alone and waiting for Leon. ICON WITH LINE IN MIDDLE : This means that Ashley is being attacked and you gotta go help her EXCLAMATION MARK : This means that Ashley's being taken away by a villager and you need to quickly free her. Besides that Leon can also often use Ashley's help to reach previously un-reachable area's, when you get to one you'll get the respective icon. ADVANCED CONTROL FUNCTIONS -------------------------- Resident Evil 4 has some advanced moves too which are really simple to perform, i call them advance because they're extra ordinary moves that cannot be performed by just a single key. QUICK TURNING ------------- Quick turning first came into view in Resident Evil 3, after that in the later games the methods of quick turning were slightly changed but in Resident Evil 2 the turning method is exactly the same, when you want to quick turn hold down the down key and press the B button and Leon will turn in a 180* spin and your good to go. HAND TO HAND COMBAT ------------------- Another new feature to Resident Evil 4 is the inclusion of hand to hand combat, not really combat but in certain cases Leon will perform kicks or even suplex moves on enemies, if you want to execute one make sure that the enemy in front of you is in a dazed position, meaning that if you are facing a villager then hit it once in the knee so he's either on his knees or dazed, then run right up to him and press the action key and Leon will do a devestating kick. If you do the same thing for the monks then Leon will perform the suplex move. Here in simple words is a chart of what your characters can do when an enemy is either kneeled or dazed from a head shot many people dont realize this but each character ( im saying each because im counting the one's in mercenary mode here too) has two different meelee attacks they can perform depending on the current condition of the enemy, here's the chart. You can perform one of them on a ganado whom has been stunned with a shot to the head. Leon: Kick Ada: Fan Kick Krauser: Kick (Two Kicks - Immensely Powerful) HUNK: Neck Snap or something (Instant Death, to anything) Wesker: Thrust Punch (ala CVX) The second, is only do-able if you shoot them in the calf and they kneel in pain. Leon: Low Kick Ada: Back Kick Krauser: Knee (He thrust his knee into the air. Anything it hits takes damage.) HUNK: Kick (Similiar to Knee, but with the foot.) Wesker: Chikyo Chagi. Wesker lifts his foot up high, brings it down with immense force, shattering the skulls of enemies under his foot RELOADING A WEAPON ------------------ Reloading the weapons is one of the oddly changed things for the game, you can not reload the weapon normally, when you want to reload it you should first press the R button so that Leon has the weapon ready, then press the B button with it and Leon will reload the weapon, but you will be vulnerable during this time. CAMERA CONTROL -------------- Since Resident Evil 4 is a game made completely in 3D you can view the area around you at your free will, at any time use the C stick and you will be able to view the entire area with a controlled perspective. SAVING YOUR GAME ---------------- The method for saving the game is thankfully not that different from the other Resident Evil games, you will find typewriters scattered through out the game and you can save your game at them, but unlike other resident evil games you do not need a ink ribbon to save, meaning you can save as much as you want. END SECTION. 5. !*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´)¸.·'´)*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!* _ _ __| |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ __| |_ ___ _ _ ___ / _| ' \/ _` | '_/ _` / _| _/ -_) '_(_-< \__|_||_\__,_|_| \__,_\__|\__\___|_| /__/ !*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´)¸.·'´)*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!* re4005 LEON S. KENNEDY =============== Leon S Kennedy is the main protagonist of the game, that means the hero for those who dont know hard english hehe, anyway, most of the people would know Leon best as the idealistic rookie cop who was on the first day of his job heading to Raccoon city police department when all hell broke loose, the rookie cop didnt loose his wits though and Leon was one of the few survivors that made it out of the city alive before it was nuked on October 1st. Well his story doesnt end there, there's a lot more that happened afterwards. After the Raccoon city incident, Leon was immediately contacted by the government and was offered to work for them and become one of their top agents as shown in his epilogue file from Resident Evil 3, having no other alternative Leon agreed to their request and started his long and grueling training process in the government facilities, there the true gem was carved and Leon gained usefull skills which would have made his life much more easier if it was the Raccoon city incident. At last Leon was trained well enough to start taking top secret orders and high class missions, and that is what he did until he was asked to find the missing daughter of the president of the United States of America who was kidnapped some while ago, his mission led him to the internal area's of Europe, to area's unfamiliar to him. Leon must use his skills and wit to complete his mission objective and escape the vicinity alive with the presidents daughter, he always keeps in contact with his HQ via a MGS style codec which comes in handy when he needs some sort of advice. Leon still has nightmares about the Raccoon city incident and the death and slaughtered civilians of the dead city, but the only thing that helps him breath easy is that he was sure the Umbrella corporations nightmares were over, little did he know that he would run into something far far worse then mindless zombies. ## The game's protagonist. This former police officer of the Raccoon Police Department was responsible for the destruction of the Umbrella facility that appeared in Resident Evil 2 and has now become an elite top agent of the United States. This time he must go solo on a mission in Europe to discover the where abouts of the kidnapped president's daughter and rescue her. ## ASHLEY GRAHAM ============= Ashley is the sweet love-able daughter of the President of the United States of America, little is known about her to the player, but the mission Leon is at this moment involves her rescue. Ashley was kidnapped returning home from college by mysterious people and since then has been missing, even though this is a high level crisis, the general public has no idea of this incident, and the government wants to resolve this in the shadows which is why Leon is being sent alone on the mission to find her. Some time ago there was a tip that Ashley was spotted in a rural village somewhere in Europe, and thats where Leon is going to search for her. So far there has been no sort of ransom demand for her disappearance. Speaking of Ashley, being a sweet college girl she obviously has no idea how to use weapons and she cant handle herself in a situation like this very well either so its imperitive that Leon rescue her and bring her back to the States ASAP. ## Daughter of the President of the United States. She was kidnapped by a mysterious group on the way home from college. Allegedly, she was spotter in a village in Europe. But there has been no sign of her ever since. ##. LUIS SERA ========= Not long after Leon first confrints the mad villagers, he finds Luis all roped up in a hidden room inside one of the houses, unfortunately their first meeting doesnt go that well as Leon is attacked by the chief of the village before he gets to know much about Luis. Later he tells Leon that he is also a cop from a neighbouring town and he's here for business of his own. But whats he doing here really, anyone with a sane mind would want to be as far from a place like this as possible. Actually Luis knows far more then he lets Leon think, Luis knows all the dirty secrets of the village and he seems to know the village chief quiet that well, not that they're friends or anything. The truth of the matter is that Luis knows just about everything, right down to the reason why the villagers are all mad and want to kill every one. Luis is actually here because he stole something of great value from these people, but what could it be ?! play and find out. INGRID HUNNIGAN =============== Think of Ingrid as the Mei Ling of Resident Evil 4. For those who are not familiar with who Mei Ling is, well all she does is keep in contact with Leon over the communications line and provides him backup, and intelligence when needed. Ingrid is Leon's only contact from Europe to his head quarters, talk to her when ever you need information on what to do next. Or just want to chat or flirt with her hehehe. BITORES MENDEZ (Aka Village Chief) ================================== Yes, he is the big guy who looks a little like Barry, but let me clear it that he has no relation to Barry what so ever. The first time Leon runs intl Mendez is when he first meets Luis, not long after meeting Luis, Mendez walks into the room, and when Leon tries to fight his way out, Mendez single handedly over powers Leon and sends him smashing to the world of unconsciousness. Mendez is obviously endowed with super human strength and his physical statue is far bigger then any of the normal villagers, in reality he is the leader of the village and he is the only one of them who knows a little english, though he looks menacing like a tyrant he can speak like normal people and retains most of his human intelligence too, and he is also the priest of the village, but he preaches some sort of weird cult like religion to the villagers, overall the villagers all consider him the highest priority, and his will is the final step. ## Leon's search for Ashley leads him to a small village. This intimidating one-eyed individual is the chief of the village and a priest who teaches an obscure religion to his macabre disciples ## JACK KRAUSER ============ Jack Krauser is one of the former agents of the same agency where Leon now works, but Jack apparently died in a helicopter crash during one of his missions when Leon was just new, they both didnt have much of a friendship so Leon doesn't know much about his character. After Leon is in the village, among one of the shocks he gets is the return of Jack. Apparently he's still alive and kicking, and seems like he's been doing some double agent work of his own. In terms of skills Jack is just as skilled as Leon, or maybe we could say he's an even more skilled and dangerous individual since he's been an agent for a much longer period of time, capable of killing a person wether armed or dis-armed, Jack's motives in the village are unknown. Though it looks like he works for Saddler, he's working for another person too, later in the game after the "Bitch in the red dress" or so what he calls "her" arrives, we get the impression that Jack is working for the same people as SHE is. Jack explains to Leon that he wanted to gain the trust of Saddler and his crew, and HE was the one who kidnapped Ashley just to show his loyality to him, but unfortunately for Jack, Saddler doesnt like americans one bit so his plan didn't work that way either. What else is there for Jack to do now, play the game to find out. OSMUND SADDLER ============== If you dont want the game spoiled for you then dont read this guy's promo since i will spoil almost the entire plot here mehehehe (Im an evil mofo). Saddler is the guy who is responsible for the villagers current condition He is the guy who released the virus, or plague which turned all the people of the villagers, who were once calm and collected, into murderous maniacs. Eventually Saddler wants to take over the entire world using his plague since he is the only one who has any form of control over this plague. Saddler hates americans over all else, which is why he doesn't like Jack even after Jack kidnaps the president's daughter for him, Saddler doesnt like Ashley either but she is the perfect candidate for his plans, which is why Ashley is alive up till this point, otherwise she would have been killed a long time ago. RAMON SALAZAR ============= Salazar's family have a long and un-happy history when it comes to the Los Plagos, you see Salazar's ancient ancestors were the people who are responsible for sealing the Los Plagos creatures and stop them from infecting anything else, but after Saddler's reign began he used the current generation Salazer, Ramon, to unlock the mines with the Plagos creatures trapped in them. Ramon is nothing but a pawn in his game. Personally Ramon is fairly interested in Ashley and experimenting on her but he thinks that Leon is nothing but a nuisance and wants to get rid of him. Will he succeed ? ADA WONG ======== "The bitch in the red dress" is what Jack calls her, and the title is just about suited for her. Ada wong and Leon go way back to the times of the Raccoon City incident, Leon met up with ada in the RPD precient while she was searching for her missing boyfriend, Leon aided her in her search until they got to the underground umbrella labs located below Raccon City, thats where Leon realized that Ada was just working for the *Agency* and all her mission was to locate the G-Virus sample. It was Ada's falling for Leon that made her lay the gun down and not kill Leon when she had the chance but that ended up causing her life when Annette Birkin shot her off a chasm, but Wesker apparently still had use for her and he didnt want Ada to die, he saved Ada and now Ada is working full time with Wesker. They're best of buds.. As far as this assignment is concerned, Ada is here for reasons of her own, you will find out more about her agenda when going through the game, but i'll just tell you here, Ada is here because she wants to collect samples of the plague thats responsible for the villagers going mad, whats the reason you ask, well the reason is that Wesker told her to get it. Why did Wesker ask her to get it, well i really cant say that since its a really big spoiler in the story. END SECTION. 6. !*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´)¸.·'´)*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!* _ _ _ _ | |__ ___ __ _(_)_ _ _ _ ___ _ _ ___ | |_(_)_ __ ___ | '_ \/ -_) _` | | ' \| ' \/ -_) '_(_-< | _| | '_ (_-< |_.__/\___\__, |_|_||_|_||_\___|_| /__/ \__|_| .__/__/ |___/ |_| !*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´)¸.·'´)*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!* re4006 SHOTGUN TRICKS -------------- The shotgun isnt just a powerul weapon, you can use it for a few good uses other then just blind shooting, this is one of the things every resident evil player should realize, shotguns are the perfect stopping weapons meaning they will stop an enemy in its tracks, use this in context with the knife and you can save yourself plenty of ammo, example, shoot anyone with a shotgun (works best on villagers) and they'll either flinch or drop, if you shoot them lower, they'll drop on the knees. That gives you perfect oppertunity to kick them or use the knife to slash away for a few moments. Saves ammo too. ITEM HUNTING ------------ One thing about RE4 is that there might be items hidden any where, so when ever you come near barrels or boxes, slash them open with your knife so you can see what lies inside, most of the time you'll find handgun ammo which comes in really handy when your facing the normal villagers. TIPS FOR SAVING AMMO -------------------- There's many things you can do here or there to save some ammunition through out the game, though it sounds useless but if you follow these tricks then by the later stages of the game you will have a pretty big stock pile of ammo to go by. Example, its not always necessary to use your guns to shoot open pad locks or small locks, the knife works just as fine on those things, so use that too. FIGHTING TECHNIQUE ------------------ One more thing you guys should know, its more like a good fighting method in its own thats why i didnt just mix it with the tips for saving ammo heading above, when your at the initial stages of the game and have only a few villagers to go through in certain area's, you should aim at their heads with the handgun and shoot, they'll occasionally flinch and get disoriented, at that time run up to them and the game will prompt you to kick them with the action button, do that and they'll fall down allowing you time and safety to slash them safely. DISARMING TRAPS --------------- You'll encounter traps laying around in several area's of the game, now rather then risk getting trapped (or blown) you can safely disarm the trap from a distance with a shot from the handgun, just aim at the center of the trap (where the touch sensetive area is) or the explosive in the middle of the trap, and fire a single shot, and your all free. THE PRICE IS RIGHT ------------------ One thing you should know about Resident Evil 4 is that the merchants will always buy the weapons back at full price once you sell it to them, no price drops just for the weapon being slightly used, so if you ever need to have some urgent money for something, dont hesitate in selling any weapon, you can buy it later at the same price as you sold it to him. Another money making method is to make a herb combo and sell it to the merchant and they'll buy it a very high price. Good money. FISH EATER ---------- This particular tip is only for the chapter 1-2, after you start it, a little while into it you will come to a place where you can see fishes, kill them and you can restore your lost health with them. Remember this area for later. HEALTH CHART ------------ The health system in RE4 though seems different from the rest of the Resident Evil games at first sight is almost exactly the same, just the way you see Leon's health bar is now changed and slightly more accrate then before, but the rest is almost exactly the same. Here is a brief say of the various health status's and various healing items that you can use to restore health. GREEN BAR --------- When Leon's health bar is in green it means that Leon is pretty much alive and kicking, this is his top condition and you can do just about everything at full capacity. RED BAR ------- When you take damage, your health bar drops slightly depending on the type of damage you have just taken, and when its at a certain stage, it will flash a little and then turn red, that means that Leon isnt in a good condition and he's getting pretty weak, in this mode Leon will have a slightly different walking animation. some action scenes like swimming back to the boat are slowed down because he's bleeding. NOTE : Like the previous Resident Evil games, the various kinds of herbs can be mixed to attain various healing effects, these are all the same as previous games so I won't be elaborating on them. You all know it by now. HEALING ITEMS ------------- Here is a list of the healing items and that you can find and use during the game, their effects are also listed with their respective names. Read through these so you have a good idea of what kind of item to use when your in any trouble. GREEN HERB ---------- This is your basic healing item from all the Resident Evil games, doesnt restore that much health, but these are most useful through out the game, always be sure to carry some herbs around with you in case of emergencies. RED HERB -------- The red herb also makes a return in Resident Evil 4, for veteran players it wouldn't be a mystery why the herb is in-effective on its own, for the newcomers let me tell you that the red herb can not work on its own, mix it in with the green herb to be able to restore your health bar to the maximum. YELLOW HERB ----------- The Yellow herbs were first seen in Resident Evil Gaiden, but the use was different in that game, here the use is entirely different from Gaiden, the yellow herbs like the red one's are ineffective on their own but mix one with a green herb and use it to have a small increase in your maximum health bar, the amount of bar increased will be full meaning you will gain a little health too. (if it isnt full already). BLACK BASS ---------- In some parts of the game you will find fishes that you can slaughter and use to restore Leon's health bar, the bass is one of them, they come in small or large sizes, the small one raises only a small amount of the health bar but still comes in handy at times. LARGE BLACK BASS ---------------- This is the larger counterpart of the Bass fishes, though it restores your heath bar to the max, it also takes up quiet a lot of space in your inventory menu. CHICKEN EGG ----------- These are.. err.. Egg's to say the least, and they only are able to restore a small amount of your health bar. Sweet. BROWN CHICKEN EGG ----------------- Same as the normal chicken eggs but they raise the health bar slightly more then the ordinary one's, more use full. GOLD CHICKEN EGG ---------------- The ultimate healing item, it only takes 1 slot in your inventory menu, but it restores your health bar to the max, these are must keepers for the frantic situations in the game. Mostly like boss battles. GREEN + RED + YELLOW HERB COMBO ------------------------------- The ultimate herbal combination you can imagine, not only will it restore your health bar to the max, it will also raise your max health bar a little bit, perfect. END SECTION. 7. !*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´)¸.·'´)*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!* _ _ _ _ _ __ __ ____ _| | |_| |_| |_ _ _ ___ _ _ __ _| |_ \ V V / _` | | / / _| ' \| '_/ _ \ || / _` | ' \ \_/\_/\__,_|_|_\_\\__|_||_|_| \___/\_,_\__, |_||_| |___/ !*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´)¸.·'´)*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!* re4007 NOTE : For quick navigation if you want to go to a particular chapter in the walkthrough just type the following code to go instantly. CHAPTER ?-? Replace the two "?" with the numbers of the chapter you seek. START CHAPTER 1-1 ----------- Alright, lets have the nightmare start shall we, once your finally in control of Leon start heading forward while looking at the gorgeously lush looking area's around you. (cough MGS-fanboys ) ahem, so carry on. Head straight for the cottage you see in a little distance, you will spot some crows along the way, so whaddaya we do, croak them, err, by that i mean shoot the crows and they die (REALLY !!) but the goodness of the whole situation is you get some extra $$ thats cash, to spend so take a minute or two to improve your sniping skills. You'll need it. When your near the cottage, immediately you should be aware that the entire area is errily quiet, just like a typical horror movie, before making your way inside the cottage however, check the area left of the dang thing and you'll find a crate with a grenade inside (WOOH) take the contents and head for the cottage. Inside the cottage, head forward and you'll see a well-rendered scene you know the one that we've all seen in the trailers, leon will walk up to the villager and attempt to communicate (right) but it goes sour quickly and pretty soon Leon's defending himself from a maniac. As soon as you get in control of Leon, shoot the villager in the knee (you can try to pop one in the head if you feel like it, but i like my method hehe), so shoot him in the knee and when he's down use the knife to slash his head off (not literally), this method saves ammo too. After your done killing this fellow, you'll notice that your suddenly not alone in the area, there's more villagers like the one we just killed all around the area, before doing anything harsh try looking through the cottage and find some ammo for your gun. Done ? Now, its about time Leon made his get away from this place, so take it to the second floor and get near the window, see the action icon, well do just that and Leon will jump out the window (how original) and we'll be face to face with some more villagers. Try to pop one in the nearest of the two villagers here, if he dodges or something, round house his ass to the ground and then shoot his head off with your ammo, do the same for the second one and they'll be dead in no time. Now if you try to head back to from where you started the game, then do it by all means, before you can reach the way your path will be obstructed and you wont be able to head anywhere there. So its best if we just keep moving forward for the time being. Head down the path, passing the cottage from hell we were just in and in a little while you'll come to another small shack, there's boxes inside it, smash them and take the items inside and continue along the path. While heading forward, you may be attacked by another single villager if that happens, use the previous routine (the shoot-knee-then-slash) to take care of this one too, after that keep heading forward until you hear an animal's moaning in the area, when you see the wolf in a trap, take some time to free the poor thing. Awww. But beware that this means there's more traps around the place too, so keep your eyes open when your walking in the field from now on. You have been warned. Importnat notice now, after the wolf thing you'll start seeing traps here and there, most of the traps can be easily disarmed by shooting at them with a single bullet, but there's other things you can do with them too, like for now when you reach the fork of the road there's a trap at that too, shoot a bullet in the air and a villager around the corner who heard the shot will come barging in and get slaughtered by one of his own traps. Thats always fun to see. PS. Traps include Bear traps and dynamite rigged traps, keep eyes open !!. Continue forward until you see another small shack, check inside this one for some items too. For those who are thinking that this just seems like an easy game, be warned, for you will be crying near the ending parts of the game, because it changes that quickly hehe. Head forward and you'll see a wooden bridge and some villagers blocking your path, take the villagers out and cross over the bridge (its the one we've seen in the trailers). After the bridge, continue down the path and you'll see one last shack. Enter it, there's a villager inside of it kill the villager and take the ammo from inside of the shack, now exit it and make your way to the big door at the end of the path, go through it to proceed forward. Right then, after passing through that door, we are one step closer to the village of the, err, villagers, called Pueblo. Head forward and you will have another scene, Leon will use his nifty binoculars to see whats going on ahead, seems like the villagers are having a cop-BBQ at this moment, only an insane man (or a man with action replay codes) is going to head straight into the village, so we being the sane people are going to go around it. Once your back in control of Leon, take the path heading to the left side, around the village to be more exact. A little forward and you'll run into a female villager with her back turned to Leon, dont think that she's a good one, the female villagers are every bit as vicious as the male counter parts, so take the opertunity and shoot the back of her head off, but that will cause the villagers to be aware of Leon and head your direcion. Ah well.. One of the near stone structures will have an open window for Leon, so head inside it, if any villager follows you inside then do take the time and chop their heads off, inside this building you'll run into some barrels and boxes, destroy them to find valueable items inside of them. Once your done shopping head to the main door of the structure and use the action command to kick the door open, as soon as your back out into the open, ignore all else and make a dash for the house on your left. When you reach the entrance of the house, you'll have another scene. Leon will go in and lock the door behind him in an attempt to keep the villagers out. Bad idea Leon my man, first thing you'll notice is the wood covered window and the people banging it from the outside, ASAP cover the window with a nearby cabinet so you wont be back attacked in this fight. Next, you'll see some stairs heading up to the second floor before going up however, check behind the stairs and smash the barrel there for some more ammo. Head up and take the shotgun off the rack (no sir, no traps here, and thankfully no Barry either lol). Take the shotgun, after that take the shotgun shells from the bed and the grenade on the cabinet, once your prepared, its time to kick some villagers ass. Note, this is a must do part of the story, so be prepared to kick some major villager ass, also, be prepare to die horribly if your not good at the controls so far. First off, take out the handgun and start shooting the villagers heads off, if head shots are hard then do the knee first then slash with the knife routine to save some ammo too, but its gonna get really hectic so the knife is really risky. Once you've disposed of some villagers some more will arrive from the surrounding area's including one of the well known Chainsaw dudes. He's our primary target now. Try to find a higher place to shoot from since it'll be easier for you to do so, now, ignore all other villagers for now and focus on the saw dude, take out the shotgun and shoot him, headshots are a little hard on him since he's waving his head around so much so shoot his legs and when he's down shoot the rest of him. Use the normal handgun for the other villagers though, higher ground should make this part of the fight easier for Leon. Just when you think that its hopeless (or after a said period of time) the church bell in the distance will ring and all the villagers will forget about Leon for the time being, time to breath a sigh or relief. Suddenly, the entire village will become abandoned again, when just a few minutes ago they were all trying to slit Leon's throat, whats all this about ?! we'll find out in the future. With all the villagers a little busy you are free to go through each and every single house or structure in the area to find items, there might be many items here or there, i dont know all of them. Once your done item hunting, make your way to the brown wooden doors to the west of the houses, enter it and you'll come out in some kind of a farm like place. Now first of all, dont worry about being back attacked 'cause the people in this area will probably be working on their farms so you can take them out easily, ps. They're limited here so its adviced you take out all of the villagers in this area so you can explore much freely. Thank you, now head forward and you'll see a blue sign hanging on one of the walls, read it and it will mention to destroy 10 medallions or something like that, okey im down with that. Once your done reading the sign and killing all living things in this area, i would highly advice you to explore the surrounding farmy area since there's many items here that even i dont know about, in short this area is full of items for Leon to find so take some time for item hunting. Once your done with that head to the north end of the area and Leon will find a heavily fortified door which he cannot open on his own, he needs someone to help him. Just remember this place for the later parts of the game when Ashley is with you (Dont act like you dont know who that is). Head a little east of this area, and there's another door here, Leon can use this door to exit to the next area so do that. Bye farm. You'll come out in a hill covered area, this looks like a bad area since Leon is practically vulnerable to anything, say wild boards or even some moving boulders !!. Thats right, a little forward into the area and you will see a scene, some villagers will push a huge piece of Rock from the top of the hills and it will come crashing after Leon, time for our 1st button mashing mini-game my friends. When the game asks you start mashing the X button like hell to make Leon sprint faster then any man alive, after that when the chase is about to come to an end, the game will ask you to press a combination of X and B or L or R (its annoyingly random) to dodge the boulder, do that and the chase scene will finally be over. There's many more button mashing things to do in the future so keep your thumbs ready at all times. After that intense sequence you'll probably want to do a little relaxing so be free to just walk down the rest of the path until you reach what appears to be a cavern in the path, its actually a sewering tunnel, head through it and when you come out to the other side Leon will spot a very old house in the distance. Next destination ahoy. Pass through the field and make your way to the house, caution warning as there are what i like to call Suicidal villagers in these woods, they all carry burning sticks of dynamite on them and want to shove them up Leon's err you know what, the best thing to do against them is to keep shooting at them from a distance on the legs so they keep falling down, eventually the fuse of the dynamites will run out and the villagers will explode on their own, make sure you collect the items after wards, thank god that im here to give you all these small tips hehehe, and make your way to the house safely. At the main entrance of the house, you'll notice that the door is locked and there's a small pad lock blocking your way, take out the knife and slash the pad lock to hell, open the door and head inside to see what awaits thee. Inside the house, you will run into a small save room, save if your in the mood, also in the house you'll find a couple of scattered handgun ammo boxes around, take all of the items you can find in the house and head for the back side of the house, here push the bookcase from the side using the action key, behind it is a cup board, do the same for it and you'll run into your first friendly charater of the game. Luis. You will have another scene now, Leon will untie Luis's and they will have a little conversation but unfortunately for them the church session is just over and the villagers have arrived, and Leon's seriously not in the right situation at the time being. You will also see the first shot of a grumpy faced Barry Burton look alike. Leon tries to Kung Fu his ass but unfortunately, err, gets HIS ass kicked. Who is he you ask !? You'll have to wait till the time comes to tell you who he is. You will see the scoring screen which tells your statistics for the previous chapter and you can also save your game if you feel like it. Thats the end of the chapter 1-1. _ __ _ _ ___ _ _ __| | ___ / _| __| |_ __ _ _ __| |_ ___ _ _ / -_) ' \/ _` | / _ \ _| / _| ' \/ _` | '_ \ _/ -_) '_| \___|_||_\__,_| \___/_| \__|_||_\__,_| .__/\__\___|_| _ _ |_| / | ___ / | | | |___| | | |_| |_| CHAPTER 1-2 ----------- While Leon is still out you will see a small scene of someone injecting Leon with a mean looking injection on the back of his neck, after a few minutes Leon will start coming to his senses, but we (the player) has no idea where Leon is, but all we know is Luis is tied with Leon. Oh good While your thinking that your gonna get some rest for the time being, your dead wrong, in a few seconds a villager walks into the room with an axe in his hands and he aint here to show it off, before the villager chops Leon and Luis's heads off with a single slash, quickly press the action button to see Leon's amazing escape feat. He's gotten good. Once you both are out of the ropes, Luis will run off ahead leaving Leon behind pondering the situation, as soon as your in control of Leon, take any items lying around in this area and escape through the door that the villager came in from. Once your outside, another small scene, a hooded figure will approach and wave Leon to follow him, so do that, once your outside, head around the cottage and you'll see that man again, actually he's the first of the few merchants you'll see in the game. Time for some shopping. Now, you will be able to purchase new weapons, or upgrades for some of them from this merchant fellow, he won't reveal his face to you so stop thinking about that. You should have enough cash on Leon at this time to buy him a brand new Rifle and a scope for it, one more thing, you can also sell items you do not need to this merchant for some cash too. With the new rifle (with scope attachment) in hand make your way a few steps back to the entrance we came after this merchant from, you'll see what lies ahead. Its not pretty, villagers, and more villagers. So now we have to go through them one at a time. This is one of the things that can get really risky if you dont know a tip to make it easier, in this case you will find a top portion of a wall ripped, stand right in front of the wall and take out the scope and start aiming, this is the perfect sniper spot for you. Aim at the villagers in the distance and start shooting them. NOTE that always make sure your going for a head-shot kill, since if you dont kill them instantly they will ring the alarms causing a whole group of villagers to come after you in frenzy, and BOY we dont want that. Once you've lightened the place a little bit, take out the handgun once more and head through the local door, you may still encounter an odd villager here or there but at this stage in the game they shouldn't be too hard for you to take out with your trusty handgun. Head up the path to the east hill, once your at the top of this hill you will see a barricade of sand bags, go over it. There will be a single villager here, take him out then search the box for a piece of a plate we'll need in a little while, now from this higher point in terrain if you can still spot some villagers going around on the lower area's, this is the perfect place to take them out using the rifle, once your done sniping drop down into the main compound area and climb the roof of the shack near the entrance and you'll find the second piece of the plate, now we can proceed. Head to the north end of this area and you will encounter a door we couldn't have opened before, but now with the two pieces of plate we can proceed, a word of advice though, you dont need the rifle that much for a long time now and it takes up tons of space in your inventory menu, so i would ask you to go back to the merchant and sell the rifle back to him (Dont worry about money, its completely refundable, for those who dont know what that means, you will get all of your money back. ) With the money in hand, proceed through the plate-ed door now. Out this door, you wont be that far from a door leading into a mine and thats where we're going, kick open that door and proceed inside you'll run into some more villagers here, inside head through the door thats on the right wall, you'll run into 3 more villagers here take them out with the handgun (or shotgun to make life easier) then proceed to the opening at the end of the room, use the action button to jump out of it. Now you will come out in an area with a few more villagers, who have dynamite attached to them, the best bid to take them out is to get behind the rail carriage and shoot the dynamite so they all explode with the explosions, after they're done continue down the path, this area is also full of floor traps which will eventually slow you down. Like before the best method to disarm the traps is to just shoot them with a single bullet, but if your feeling like saving some ammo you can also trigger the traps by slashing at them with the knife from a very close range. Once all that is done and your thinking about exiting through the door at the end, check around the area for some useful items, and be sure to check the oven there too 'cause its got some items inside it as well. Exit through the door now. On the other side of the door turn to Leon's left and you'll find a boarded up place, slash the boards with the knife to remove them, behind the boards you'll find an Elegent Mask, take it and proceed, kick open the rusty door at the end and proceed further into the next hallway. There's just 1 villager here, take him out quickly, and then take the ladder leading down, once your down the ladder you'll come in an area with some items scattered around for you to take, also in the same area you'll find three fish, if you want to refill your health bar, shoot them and chow down baby. If you wish you can also save some for later times (yum yum). Now climb up the ladder and you will come outside through a open well. Finally, open air. Head forward in this fairly spooky but straight path, you will come across some more traps along the way, destroy all of them and head forward until you come to an old looking house. Proceed further and head inside the house. Inside you will come across a single door with a small puzzle on it Its fairly simple really, take note of the emblem marks on the door and now you just have to keep rotating the moveable green part of the door until its shape matches the patterns on the door. Once you do that, the door opens. Now for those who haven't figured it out yet, we're inside the house of the big chief guy who kicked leon's ass a little while back, in the house take note of the portrait hanging on the wall, afterwards search the box lying near the book case and you will find a key in it, take it and head to the only door available. Before anything, you will run into the big chiefy again, apprently he doesn't like Leon going through his bed room, and after seeing a little scene, you would have finished the second part of the first chapter. Proceed. _ __ _ _ ___ _ _ __| | ___ / _| __| |_ __ _ _ __| |_ ___ _ _ / -_) ' \/ _` | / _ \ _| / _| ' \/ _` | '_ \ _/ -_) '_| \___|_||_\__,_| \___/_| \__|_||_\__,_| .__/\__\___|_| _ ___ |_| / | ___ |_ ) | | |___| / / |_| /___| CHAPTER 1-3 ----------- Alright, for those of you who want to see a familiar sighting if you go back through the same doorway that we just came from now you will see a special scene in the game where Leon will be saved by a woman in a red dress. This might be familiar to you guys from the trailers that we've seen for the game. Afterwards, the area would be clear for you to start exploring and find some useful items for Leon. You can find another green herb on the cabinet just next to the door, and a useful brown egg in the oven as well. Also take the grenade from the glass case before you leave, once done save your game and exit this place at will. Before you can exit out you will be surprised by a group of new villagers with another chainsaw man with them, the best method to take on them at this time is to stand in the doorway and pump any thing that walks through the door with shotgun rounds, easy peasy. Drop any treasures that the enemies might drop and now its time for us to make our way back into the town. Before you can reach into the village you will be attacked by some more villagers but by now they shouldn't be hard enough for you to Kill, if you have some rifle rounds left then you can climb up a higher terrain and snipe their heads off from there, or just use your standard handgun and slash method, either way the villagers are not that vicious for the time being and not that hard either. Once your done killing anyone interfering make your way to the door with the red markings and use the newfound insignia key to open the door. Before proceeding forward be sure to check the farm area once more since there might be new formed chicken eggs there for you to carry, there's even a chance of you finding a golden chicken egg. Once your done here, go through the door with the markings and once through you'll realize that you can actually save your game here, do that and proceed through the other door in this room. Once in this new room, take a look around and take aim at the lantern hanging around. Shoot it so it falls down and you'll find a spinel inside. But be aware of the small fireball that forms when it initlaly falls. Once your done here proceed down the hole, and soon afterwards you will find another lantern, and there's seem to be items hanging around for you, at the end of this cave however you will run into another merchant, we'll be coming back to this place in a little while so save your valueables for the time being. Out here, you'll notice that there are some birds near the entrance of the grave yard, you can shoot them to get some extra cash if you want, but if they run away after seeing you then you can have them respawn by going back to the previous area's and coming back here. Once your done with that proceed further. Whilst in the grave yard area you can locate the rest of the blue medals as well, meaning that if you shot more then 10 already go and talk to the nearest merchant and he will hand you the Punisher. A really cool gun. Proceeding at the end of the grave yard you'll notice that the doors leading into the church are locked for now but you have an option to get a really rare item here if your willing to do a small puzzle. The puzzle is really simple, all you have to do is go and look for the twin marked graves in the grave yard area, once you have found all three twin grave markings you can use the podium here to solve the puzzle, its really not that hard to explain and mostly random so you should do it on your own. The prize will be a green catseye. Well thats all fine and dandy but what about the church doors now, for that we will have to go to a different area, so from the church door take the path on the right side and you will come to a bridge and some villagers on it, kill the villagers by kicking them off the bridge, and proceed through the gaped bridge. On the other side of it you will find a small cabin, head inside it and you will find the file which explains where the key is and also an item or two. After that keep proceeding forward and you'll notice that you will enter an area where you'll find plenty of birds, if you aren't able to kill them all in the first try then go back to the previous area and come back here since these birds can give you a significant amount of money, its really useful if you kill all of them here. There's also another save room and a merchant in the surrounding area as well, the best way to reach them would be to go through your map and take the other path from here, once your done with that, (I would personally like you to go and save right now) then proceed through the door which is leading into the lake area. One thing you should know that the path leading towards the lake isnt an easy one either, you will encounter tons of villager and another one of the quick boulder dodge thingies here as well, so once your ready, proceed further. Once you reach the swampy area's, you'll find a cabin in the left side, enter the cabin and find any items that you can use here. Exit and proceed further when your done. After that you will come towards another quick boulder scene, once you've dodged the boulder properly turn back and shoot at the sparkling thing and you will get another spinel. NOw comes a hard part. You will come across an area with dynamite traps and a few villagers who want nothing but killing you, if you want to be creative and save some ammo then make the villagers run into the traps by luring them into it. They'll follow you blindly, not only will this kill them, it will also clear the path for Leon to proceed. How nice. Near this area is a house on the right side, head inside it and blow the crate to find some items or possibly a snake inside, if its the snake then dont run away, kill it and you'll get something from it as well, once done proceed out and when your about to end this swampy area you'll find another small cabin on the right side, take it and inside find the handgun ammo and any snakes that might be in crates. After that is done proceed straight to the lake shores area and its time to head on. Once your finally at the lake area, head to the left and you will find a red herb, but you'll also see a scene here of the villagers dropping one of the two cops that came with us at the start into the village to feed something apparently, once your done watching that take the herb here and proceed towards the cabin thats not so far from you. Inside the cabin save your game at the typewriter since there is a big boss fight coming pretty soon. Also you might find a yellow herb inside as well, take it and head out of the cabin, ready your weapons before proceeding further. Oh wait.. There's a really cool trick here that you can get Leon eaten by the boss even before the fight begins, if you stand near the water for a long period of time then the boss will suddenly jump out of the water and eat Leon, thats funny as hell and can really make the first timers wet their pants. Once your done goofing around, proceed into the boat and get into the water, not long after you've entered the water, you'll see the huge creature emerge from the water and now its time for our grand boss fight with it. BOSS FIGHT : DEL LAGO --------------------- For the first time players I would like to apolagize in advance that you will most certainly die a few times before you finally finish the boss fight but on the plus side it is entirely possible to end this fight without Leon getting even a single scratch, but that as they say, is extremely hard to do. One more thing you should know is that your boat is at the mercy of the boss and you have no control over it for this entire boss fight so its just better that we concen trate on the boss ahead of us. First lets see what kinds of attack Lago can do to damage Leon, first off he would try to drag the entire boat along with itself into one of the big floating pieces of wood in the middle of the lake (who the hell put them there anyway) and if that happens Leon will immediately lose half of his life, and not only that but you will also fall down into the water and you will be forced to swim quickly back into the boat, the bad thing is that if your not pressing the action key fast enough then Del Lago will eventually come out and eat Leon whole. Thus ending the fight instantly, and we dont want that. To prevent Lago from ramming you into the wood, you should quickly steer your boat out of its path when its near. But be warned as you'll have to drop the harpoon since Leon cant swim and fight at the same time. Second most commonly used attack is the dive and hit thing, he will dive underwater and attempt to ram your boat causing Leon to fall off again, and making him loose a good chunk of his health bar. Once you see it trying to go for this attack, quickly drop down the harpoon and turn the boat as much right or left as you can since thats the only method of saving your skin. Like before falling down into the water will lead you to swim back into the boat or be eaten by Del Lago. The final attack that he does most often is that during the fight he will suddenly dive deep into water and disappear, now before starting to think that the fight is over, you should know that he comes raming up out of the water to hit you, the game will tell you which side of the boat he will be coming out of so aim your harpoon in that area and as soon as it shows its head, let one into its mouth, that will cause Lago to miss its attack and just jump over you, this gives you the time to shoot another harpoon in its back as well, easy as pie. Now lets talk about the fighting technique, Leon can only fight this battle with a harpoon in his hand, but the good thing is that you get infinite number of harpoons to fight the boss with. When you want to attack it, raise the harpoon by pressing the R button, you'll see Leon aim the harpoon and a small crosshair will appear on screen with it, now aim the crosshair directly at Lago and fire with the A button if you made a hit then you will see blood coming out of the contact point. The bad thing is that the harpoons can take a little time to "reload" so you dont want to miss that often. The fight will take no more then fifteen or so harpoons before the boss finally dies, it is entirely possible to finish this without taking any damange from the boss at all, in case of taking damages use small healing items like eggs or green herbs that you have in your inventory. Soon the boss fight will be over, Lago will be dead and..uh.. Leon's foot is caught in something as well.. uh oh. Damn those capcom people for putting this new instant button thing in this game, okey dont panic and quickly press the button that comes on screen repeatedly and Leon will eventually cut the rope tied to his feet and this chapter is done for. ----- Watch the scenes and proceed towards the new chapter. _ __ _ _ ___ _ _ __| | ___ / _| __| |_ __ _ _ __| |_ ___ _ _ / -_) ' \/ _` | / _ \ _| / _| ' \/ _` | '_ \ _/ -_) '_| \___|_||_\__,_| \___/_| \__|_||_\__,_| .__/\__\___|_| _ |_| / | | | |_| CHAPTER 2-1 ----------- When the scenes are over and your back in the world of thes sane, get up and check around the cabin that your inside at this time, there's some items here that you can take, so take all that you can and proceed out of the cabin. Now you will notice that the game has gone into night time and thats how its gonna remain for a long long while. Outside the cabin you'll notice that your boat isnt that far from you, if you wish you can take the boat back to the main land area but at this time its totally pointless since we still haven't done what we came here to do originally, you can however go back for trading with a merchant but thats your choice alone. Now, proceed forward into the new area and soon afterwards you will run into a new enemy to the game, seemingly they look like your normal villager enemies but the distinct thing is the Los Plagas you can see on their heads, and that is this kind of enemies weak point, just aim at the Plagas with any gun and make sure you take it out, if you decapitate the villager or sometimtes totally randomly you will see the Plagas coming out of the villagers head itself, and then you'll have to deal with it separately. The best method to take on them is by using a shotgun since the scatter can hit them as well. But a niftied method is using a flash grenade which can kill these instantly. Proceed further down the path and jump over the ledges in front of you, past them continue further till you reach the rope, take it downwards. First thing here, you'll notice a single villager with throwing axes and he's aiming for you, if you happen to have some rifle ammo then that would be the best thing to take this guy out with. After that, check the nearby tower to hopefully find some items inside it. Once that is done we proceed further. Now you have to shoot down the three craters and create yourself a bridge which you can use to cross over the stream of water and go to the other side where the lever is that controls the flow of water, to start off shoot the crater to make it fall down into the water and once you reach the middle section of this area, take the tower to the right up and when your up there shoot one round into the sparkly thing, you just found the Amber ring. Okey now fire at the other crates to create a bridge towards the other side now, once your over there climb up the tower and shut down the lever causing the flow of water to stop and giving you a path to proceed further now, you'll see the cave entrace in the waterfall now and thats our destination. But before you can go there you will be attacked by some more villagers and its a little annoying, the best method to thin down this attack is to jump over the crates back towards the area where the tower with the lever is, once your on the other side you can easily take out the villagers when they're crossing over the craters, but with this method they'll probably fall into the water with their money, so its best if you let them make the final leap onto the land where you are, then you can take them out one at a time just as easily while retaining all the cash that was to be lost. Once this attack has been thinned out, make your way towards the cave entrance in the waterfall, and enter it. Inside you will find the item that we came to this side to seek, the Round Insignia. Take it, and have a little conversation with Ingrid, after that is done take the door that pretty near you and you will come out in the docks area. With the boat and all. Not that I have to tell you again, take the boat and its time to head back to the main land, more specifically back to the church. But be sure to make a pitstop on the way towards the merchant and more importantly the save room since another big boss fight is about to take place in a little while. Once your at the merchant's place, trade in all the valueable items that we found on our trip and save your game at the typewriter near the area. Be ready now and proceed towards the direction of the church. On your way, when you reach the area where we shot all those damn crows, you'll see a scene, the villagers apprently want to set a trap for Leon, but unlucky for them it back fires horribly, and the EL GIGANTE kills all the villagers in a matter of seconds, you might remember this scene from the trailers of the game as well, eventually after killing all the other villagers gigante will notice Leon and now its his time to die. Or is it. BOSS FIGHT : EL GIGANTE ----------------------- El gigante, is a huge fricking mass of meat to say the least and it looks remarkably like the big troll from the Lord of the Rings movies if you have seen any of them, but unfortunately Gandalf won't be coming here to help you beat him so Leon will have to do the fight on his own. One thing I would like to ask you before the fight even begins is to make sure you have the stock for the TMP if it is available at this point in time and that your TMP and shotgun are both fully loaded and ready for some mayhem. One thing I would most certainly like to point out is that the fight will mostly involve you trying to dodge one of his quick attacks or mostly running around the area we're in just waiting for the right time to attack him, so button pressing and quick turning should be what your thinking about right now. The boss has many different kind of devestating attacks. Now the common thing it will do is punch Leon into the ground. Besides that it can Kick Leon while he's on the ground getting up from that punch as well which takes a lot of health out instnatly, the best and only method to prevent this is to just not get close to the boss at all, besides that its not wise to stand close to it and fire shotguns or rifles since the time it takes for Leon to change the round will be enough Gigante needs to stomp a mud hole into Leons ass. But close combat is much safer with smaller fire arms as its easier to just fire a few rounds then quick turn and get the hell outta there. One more thing it does most often when your near it is grab Leon and try to choke the life out of his body, or squeeze his body completely, when this happens the only thing you can do is to quickly press the knife slashing button so Leon can free himself from the grasp of El Gigante (this is seen in trailers too). Note that once you drop down its wise to quickly run for cover since the Giant recovers quickly and you'll be standing right next to it after falling down. Many of the other attacks of El Gigante need Leon to be quick at dodging, like often times he will pick up a piece of rock and throw it in Leon's direction, this is really easy to dodge as you only need to be out of the rock's way which can easily be done, secondly it will often pick up a tree and try to smash that into Leon, that can be only dodged by pressing the L and R buttons at the same time when the game asks you to (the dodge meneuver), but when Gigante has the tree with it, it slows down a whole lot giving you prime chance to shoot its head with some powerful weapony, but be ready to drop the weapon and run for your life when its close. The final attack involves El Gigante doing a simple chargint attack on Leon, this can also be dodged only by pressing the L and R keys when the game asks you to press them or risk getting slaughtered. Now lets get down to the actual killing method for the boss, the only thing you can do to kill it is keep shooting it with any weapon that you have until it bends over in pain and reveals the Los Plagas on its back, before that, the best method of weakening the boss is the quick weapony since there will be hell to pay if your caught while firing with a shotgun or rifle, the TMP works best here, since you can shoot a few rounds at the giant's head and run back as quickly as you can. Thats the trick you should use. One shocking thing that happens during the fight is that the wolf that we helped WAAYYYY at the start of the game will come to help Leon out, the wolf doesn't really do much but it distrace the giant for a little while allowing you to shoot it without the risk of being hit back. Eventually you would have shot the giant enough and now the Plagas is revealed on its back, the most efficient method of taking it out is to climb gigante's back when he's bent over (The game will tell you the buttons) and slash away with the knife when you have the chance or use a powerful weapon like the shotgun to deal damage to the Plagas. You can use stuff like flash grenades to make your life a little easier during this battle as well. You'll have to repeat this process a couple of times before the boss fight is finally over and you will be rewarded with 15,000 in cash. Woo Hooo... --------- One thing i didnt' mention in the boss fight section is that you will also be able to take new items from inside the houses which might be destroyed during the fight by Gigante, the best time to do that however is when ever it is distracted by the wolf. Gives you enough time to get in and take the items. Heal occasionally. Once the boss fight is done I would personally like you to go back to where the typewriter was and save your game immediately, also you might want to check in with the merchant if your feeling like it. Once all that is done its time to go see the church. Proceed back through the path we took from here originally, go over the bridge and all, but before you reach the church you will be attacked by another new enemy, the Comillos. These are actually just wolves that have been turned mutant by Los Plagas. Get rid of them with a weapon like the shotgun and procee to the church, check the cabin on the way again since ammo is available in it again, also shoot the birds nest near the graveyard area to find another Spinel. Proceed towards the church entrance now. Once inside the church, your free to explore the house of god if you feel, you can find several items, like some money near the central alter, and a grenade on the barrel on the right. Once you've taken all this, climb up to the ladder up the 2nd floor and when ready, jump on the chandelier. Once it starts to swing, make sure you dont jump before it actually reaches the top of its swing on the other side, you'll land near a small puzzle console. This is actually a panel with 3 different colors on it, you have to use the panel to rotate the colors until the pattern matches the one in the middle part of the console. An easier method of solving this puzzle is by doing this. Rotate the red one twice Rotate the green one three times Rotate the blue one once. That will unlock the second floor doors and give you the access towards the next chapter. Head towards the door that we just unlocked with that stupid puzzle, inside you will finally get to meet the president's hot daughter. Ashley Graham. Ta-Daa. From here take Ashley back to the first floor and end of this part. _ __ _ _ ___ _ _ __| | ___ / _| __| |_ __ _ _ __| |_ ___ _ _ / -_) ' \/ _` | / _ \ _| / _| ' \/ _` | '_ \ _/ -_) '_| \___|_||_\__,_| \___/_| \__|_||_\__,_| .__/\__\___|_| ___ _ |_| |_ ) ___ / | / / |___| | | /___| |_| CHAPTER 2-2 =========== Before anything, I would just like to tell you some of Ashley's controls that you'll need to keep in mind. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Here is a brief list of controls that Leon can command Ashley with or make Ashley stay and what not. Before anything, I should tell you Ashley's death cases, Ashley can die with the methods that Leon can, meaning you can shoot her either yourself, a single bullet and she's dead. She can also be attacked by the monsters on screen, or if you leave her in the same place for a little while and the villagers come and take her away, its game over. ( Similar to ICO) if you want to prevent the villagers from taking her away, shoot the villager so that he/she drops Ashley. Ashley has a similar life bar as Leon's and that helps you keep a quick eye on Ashley's health bar, besides that you will see icon's displaying what kind of action Ashley is taking at this time. Since i suck at ascii.... I will just make text versions of them. ICON OF TWO PEOPLE : This means simply that Ashley is doing nothing else but following Leon around. ICON OF ONE PERSON : This means that Ashley is standing alone and waiting for Leon. ICON WITH LINE IN MIDDLE : This means that Ashley is being attacked and you gotta go help her EXCLAMATION MARK : This means that Ashley's being taken away by a villager and you need to quickly free her. Besides that Leon can also often use Ashley's help to reach previously un-reachable area's, when you get to one you'll get the respective icon. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Like in all video games to date, now that we have our partner or the person that we were looking for, now our quest will be 10 times more harder then ever before, ganodo's coming from left and right and they just dont want anything more then to see Leon's head off of his shouldner, ps. thats how the chainsaw people kill you hehehee. Anyway, i should tell you that this next chapter is not a really big one but a dangerous one to say the least. Now the good thing about Ashley is that you have almost complete control over her actions as well, you can make her stop anywhere and go on a little ahead to fight any oncoming baddies yourself, and she'll stay there like a good girl. Use the X button to make Ashley stop where ever she is. Remember that. You will be in combat from the moment you get out of the shed, so a good tactic is to make Ashley wait by the doors of the church and you enter the grave yard area where about 7 or so villagers are waiting for you. But you have a sort of an advantage in this battle, see that explosive barrel on the cart near the graveyard doors, you should use that to your advantage and you can easily take out a couple of the villagers using that barrel. Once the barrel's gone and so are some of the villagers, take out the weaker weapons and take care of the rest of the villagers. Once the area is clean, go and get Ashley to follow you. Now that we have Ashley with us, Leon's mission is practically complete so all we have to do is get to the extraction spot, so make your way back to the cavey area where we got into this part of the game from originally, so when you head back through the tunnel you'll see that the merchant who was there is still standing there, its a good idea to visit him and cash out the punisher for the blue medallions if you haven't done that already. You'll also be able to purchase a new gun called the Red 9 (Cough, star wars reference) , its almost like your normal handgun but a slightly slower rate of fire and lower reloading time makes it nearly useless, since your normal handgun is good. Once your done shopping, go through the tunnely area, save your game at the typewriter in here and its time to pay another visit to our good old friendly village. Now this part is a little tricky, since the village is also filled with more new villagers, including some of the los plagas villagers as well, before fighting or doing anything here head immediately to the tower and make sure Ashley stays there, then drop back down and start taking out the villagers one at a time, its best that you use something else besides the shotgun since we're going to need the shotgun shells in a little while, kill the villagers with super caution and be very aware of the los plagas villagers, you know how to take them out dont you. Once the ruckus is done for, before you go and call Ashley, go through the area since you'll find newly stored ammo and items here for the taking, once your done with your shopping go and call Ashley down from the tower and catch her before she falls butt first on the ground (this is also in one of the trailers). Once your done with this area its time to head for the farm area. So head over there. Right near where you enter the farm area from is a dumpser, now if you want to keep Ashley safe then its best that you ask her to hide in there, (and even more surprisingly she agree's without any hesitation, wow ) once Ashley is hiding, its back to the usual mischives, take out all the villagers that have spawned in this area, it shouldnt be a problem from now on for you. Keep an eye out for any newly layed traps in this area as well, since there WILL be traps. Once the area is cleared, go get Ashley and you both head toward the gate on the north eastern way, there's a locked gate here. If you remember from the very start of the game we couldn't open this gate since Leon was unable to do it on his own, but Ashley here can help Leon in opening the gate and thats exactly what happens. Go through the gate. And surprisingly thats the end of this small yet really fun chapter. Lets see what happens next. _ __ _ _ ___ _ _ __| | ___ / _| __| |_ __ _ _ __| |_ ___ _ _ / -_) ' \/ _` | / _ \ _| / _| ' \/ _` | '_ \ _/ -_) '_| \___|_||_\__,_| \___/_| \__|_||_\__,_| .__/\__\___|_| ___ ___|_| |_ ) ___ |_ ) / / |___| / / /___| /___| CHAPTER 2-3 =========== Alright now, once you enter this area you will have another series of events which will end up with Leon Ashley and Luis (what the hell..) to be barricaded inside a lone house and you will be attacked by the mad villagers from all sides, its game time (that was cheap lol). Anyway, the best thing about having Luis at this time is that he is immortal for the time being and no matter how much the villagers hurt him, he's never gonna die (we all know it will happen eventually though mwahah, the bastard). So the best and probably the smartest method of going through this big fight is that you should stand in one corner while Luis does most of the damage and takes most of the damage as well. But still since your isnide a barricaded house and no way out, you can easily get trapped by villagers as well, and that means you have to stay on your toes and watch out for anything that comes towards you. (besides Ashley of course XD ). Now lets get down to the actual fighting part, for the starting part the villagers be attacking you while your on the first floor of the house, you can get yourself some time and room by pushing any available cabinets in front of any windows so the ganodo's cant come in that easily, another easy strategy to get through this area is to stand in the middle of the stairs and equip the shotgun, anything that comes your way should be plastered with shotgun shells, thats why I was asking you to save all those shotgun shells, Luis will stay on the first floor no matter what, the good thing about Luis is that no matter if he kills the villagers, they'll still drop the money for you to take. So head down and collect money time to time but beware not to let any villagers up or not to get killed by any villager as well. A little while later you will be called by Luis and will now have to fight more villagers on the second floor, the thing is that it gets only harder on the second floor, the villagers will not only come up the stairs but there's a couple of windows in this area too and the villagers will use ladders to climb up the windows to surprise you as well, Luis isnt that helpful in this part but he'll continue to do his job from where he's fighting at. You can also see the cabinet where Ashley is hiding in. One thing you should constantly do is kick the ladders down, which can be done very easily and helps too. The shotgun is the only weapon I would ask you to use during this whole assault. The ladders will constantly be re-placed and the villagers will continue to come up that way so dont think your home free after throwing one ladder down. If Luis is in trouble make sure you save him too (not like he needs it anyway). Just when it looks like all hope is lost, you'll hear the church bells and as it happened at the start of the game, the villagers will leave anything they're doing (like killing) and go to the church, wow these people aren't so bad afterall, they're just uber religious lol. But as the villagers start go leave, Luis will leave as well. Now its time for us to proceed as well. Now that the villagers are all gone, its time for us to do a little exploring of our own, quickly run up and down the house to catch any tressures dropped by the villagers before they disappear for good, includes ammo too. Besides that outside the house you'll find TMP ammo on a bunch of logs and behind the house you'll find some handgun ammo, its all a keeper and we'll need all of these in the time being. Now inside the house there was a type writer if I recall correctly with a memo next to it, go and read that memo, you will be told that you need to choose one of the routes now. Left route leads to a fight with a lot of villagers at the same time, and the right route leads to a fight with another El Gigante, they're both hard but Gigante is much harder then the villagers, also gives out more money too, so thats a risk if your willing to take it. At the end both the places will ultimately lead you to the same area, so its more like a "how do you wanna die" situation if you ask me. This is the infamous Two Routes that you must have heard about from your friends or anyone on any local game boards. Once you've done one of the paths, skip forward to AFTERWARDS. THE EL GITANTE PATH ------------------- Obviously this is the path that leads towards El Gigante, so if you want to take this path, if you want to risk a harder fight but higher reward, take the right path out of the area, after you go a little forward in this new area the gigante will come out and the fight will begin. Note that Ashley will point a boulder which is palced on top of the giant's head, if you manage to shoot the boulder's holders it will come plunging down onto EL Gigante but it won't kill him, rather it will give you a chance to escape this area unscratched since he will be stunned for the time being. This is a quick and efficient method out of this area but thats not what we came here for, we came here for the money. So lets get on with the fighting part. Ashley's the one who's gonna be the damsel in distress during this fight since Gigante likes to pick her occassionally and smash her with the ground, if that ever happens then you will quickly have to shoot the giant in its hand so that it drops Ashley, and heal her whenever you have the chance since she'll be taking the most damage during this fight. When it comes to the actual fighting part this fight will be much more easier if you have an upgraded TMP (stock) and a clip which can hold up to a hundred bullets at the same time. To start the fight get a lot of room between you and the giant and then start to shoot the giant non stop, after taking something like 60 bullets the giant will stagger to its knees and you will see the Los plagos on its back, now its time to do the same thing again, climb its back and start slashing at it like a mad bastard. But immediately reload once you fall back down. Watch out for his normal attacks as well, this gigante does all the same attacks of the previous giant and some more. Like before you will need to do this thing 2 or 3 times before gigante actually falls down and die, when that happens you'll get something like 15000 peseta's again. Thats what im talking about. Also, now that the area is cleared you can safely check the huts in the surrounding area for a lot more ammo and some more valueable items, there's also a purple gem in the area for the taking, look at the flashing thing above the huts and shoot it with any gun to make it fall down. THE GANODO PATH --------------- Once you enter this ganodo path you will have a little scene and after that you will immediately be assaulted by a group of villagers, as you regain control of Leon immediately shoot the cart, or the barrel on it and it will dispose or some of the nearby villagers and make your life easier for starting this area. After that is done, take a look at the dumpster near your surroundings and command Ashley to stay in there for the time being. She'll be safe for now. Once Ashley is safely tucked inside, you should go and take out the ganodo threat in the immediate area. Keep heading forward around the pit area and you will find a ladder which will be leading down into a mining cart. Head down. Down the ladder you will find some shotgun ammo which can come in real handy for the upcoming area. Once your done with this and are ready for some real kick ass fighting, head for the main pit area and go to the eastern side of the pit and you'll find a place to jump down into the pit and also a ladder standing there, before you think about going down kick the ladder down first, that will help you in the coming fight. Now jump down the pit and that'll attract even more villagers. As soon as the villagers start appearing, keep your eye on the two female chainsaw wielders, and its time for us to make a break for higher ground since fighting in this lower area is highly dangerous for Leon. So take the ladder going up on the western side and you will be at an advantage, you will be able to take out most of the villagers one at a time as they come up, use the shotgun shells on the chainsaw villagers but you are good with the TMP or the handgun with the normal villagers. Once the mess is cleared one of the chainsaw person will drop a Ruby and the other will drop a Camp Key. By now your probably thinking about Ashley's safety, well she's as safe as she can be in the entire game so lets press a little more forward for the time being, so head down into the pit and us e the camp key to open the door leading further into the pit. A little further you will run into some more villagers, you can try to take out them from inside the pit but its best if you immediately back track towards the exit of the pit and take one of the ladders up, then wait for the villagers to come one by one. Even though there are more ladders here the vllagers will only come towards the one that you are standing next to, so that would be your advantage in this fight. Kick the ladder down and start shooting from higher ground onto the groups of villagers. Even if the villagers reset the ladder, its not a hard thing to knock the ladder down again. FINALLY, when the entire area has been cleared of villagers, its time to go and get Ashley, once Ashley is by your side, head back down and go through the exit door of this area. This double route thing is done now. Over. AFTERWARDS ---------- Okey now fortunately we have made it past both the dangerous paths and its time for us to press forward, no matter which path you had back there you will come out in a new area with a merchant standing there greeting you, if you want to, you can pay a visit to the good people, and also there is a type writer and another new document in the small house nearby, save your game at once since we just came through hell and there's more coming soon. Before pressing forward, take the box of handgun ammo next to the house with the type writer, once your done here continue forward and take note of the door thats locked here, we'll get an item to open it in a little while. Head a little more forward and you will come to a place where you will have to take a gondola down to the other end of the platform, but you didnt think it was just gonna be that easy did you. During your ride you will be attacked by all places, you will have more villagers coming from gondola's of their own on the right side and just some lonely villagers standing on the left side who find it ammusing to jump on your gondola and try to make it fall down. You should know first that if your gondola falls over then its immediately game over for you my frined. Anyway, the best method to deal with this part is the TMP since all villagers in this area take just one bullet to die, if you have a TMP and tons of ammo for it you will be safe for most of the ride since all you have to do is fire like hell and make sure atleast one of your bullets hit the mark. Otherwise its going to be an extremely rough ride for you. An alternate but risky method is to use the rifle for most of the ride and try to be a perfect aim. But thats just hard to stick with the TMP method. When your finally on the other end of the awesome ride, thank god for ending it and continue forward, enter the small control room and check the lockers for some valueable items or ammo we can use after that head back out and take the stairs leading downwards, it is a good idea if you ask Ashley to stay at the top of the stairs for the time being since there won't be anything coming there. Once that's done head down the stairs and take the path forward into the cave like area. You will run into some more villagers here but they shouldnt be a problem for you after all that we're gone through. Anyway, fight and kill all the villagers that you come across and make your way to the end of the path and you will find an item box with a yellow catseye inside, this is a valueable item, now on a side note if you happen to have some previously stored valueable items like the elegent dress and the green catseye and the purple gem, then you can combine all the gems with the dress and the end result will be an item that will give you way more money then each of them sold separately. Anyway, once your done with this area head back to the stairs where we asked Ashley to stay. Go and grab Ashley, then check the area under the stairs and you will find another merchant here, its a good time to stock up on item since we're about to enter another boss fight in a very little time, also if you did the dress thing I told you about, you can sell it now for a good amount of cash. Once your done with the merchant, save at the typewriter located near him and its time to proceed further. Before proceeding however check the area for some ammo too, once your done with that head in the direction opposite of the one we took before and head down this path. Reload your weapons before any suspicious scene start or its too late for that already lol. During the scene you should keep your fingers on the game pad as the game will suddenly ask you to dodge one of the chief's wild blows during the scene, once that is done its time for the actual boss fight to begin. BOSS FIGHT : BITORES MENDEZ --------------------------- Now before anything I would like to say that if you failed to dodge the initial blow from the chief then its game over for you automatically but if you survived that thing then the boss fight will begin now, Bitores will change into a big tyrant'ish slow moving but hard hitting thing, only that it doesnt look that much like a tyrant anymore. Once your in control you should first take out the handgun since thats what we're going to use during the first form of this boss fight since its slow and the easier part of this fight. Looking around the house you'll note that there are 2 ladders going up to the second floor, one is on the southern side of the area and one is on the northern side of the area, if you wish to, you can climb up the southern ladder first and take any items that are on the second floor and jump to the first floor again from the other side, keep your eye out for any possible ammunition laying around the surrounding area. Now the first form of the boss isnt that hard to dodge either since most of its attacks are very slow and require you to be next to it but since its a slow moving boss you will have no trouble running away from it. You can circle around it and pop a few into his ass while he's turning to get you, or if your on the second floor of the place then he'll extend his arm and try to smack you down from there, a little dangerous but you can run fast enough to dodge his attacks up there too. Its easier to defeat the first form if you go up the southern ladder and wait for it to come near you then run to the northern end then shoot a couple of bullets into it before it reaches your area, and repeat the process all over again. Like I said before, the first form isnt that hard and you dont need to use any thing else but your handgun for this one. Okey now its the second part of this fight thats a little more harder then the first one (duh). After you deal enough damage to the boss it will rip half of its torso apart and you will have to fight the upper half of Mendez hopping around on his arms. Right, sounds easy but im afraid its harder then the first form since he hops around faster this time you won't have as much time as before to fire a couple of shots into him, for this end of the fight if you happen to have plenty of TMP ammo or shotgun shells either will work fine, the TMP will deal quick but small damage and the shotgun is slow but good amount of damage. As soon as he starts hopping around, its much easier to finish this boss fight from the first floor this time around, unlike before the boss has no long range attacks so it has to be very close to you in order to attack you, so the perfect strategy for this fight is to run in opposite directions of the house, like run to the north end of the house and quick turn around, fire a couple of shots into the boss and when he hops uncomfertably close to you, run to the other end of the house, quick turn and shoot some more. Repeat this process and eventually Mendez will die out, and he leaves a key item behind and about 30 k peseta's. --------- As soon as the boss fight is over, take the fallen gold and the item that the boss dropped, its the false eye, we can now go to a previously un searched area. Before exiting the house however, check around for any more items or ammo that we might have missed before, once you've searched the entire area, exit and reunite with Ashley. Make your way back to the place where the merchant was standing and save your game at the local typewriter if your feeling like it, once your done, take the stairs back up and take the gondola back to other end of the area, luckily you won't have to do the fight thing all over again. Once your on the other end of the ride, head forward and check the door again, that was locked and we couldn't open it before. Now we can open it using the false eye that our good friend Mendez dropped. So use it and enter. Once through the door you will come out in a narrow pathway, continue down this path and you will run into three more ganodos so take them out quickly, a little forward you'll see something coming towards you, its a friggin truck. Quickly take out the rifle and take aim at the driver and pop one into his head, or take out any fast gun and aim at the engine of the truck and fire at it until it goes ablaze, if you manage to do either, the truck will swerve and come to a halt, take this time to loot the initial ganodo's that you killed and make a dash for the other end since there will be some more ganodo's coming out of the back of the truck in a few seconds. Eventually you will come close to a castle and you will see a little scene and that will be the end of this chapter of the game. _ __ _ _ ___ _ _ __| | ___ / _| __| |_ __ _ _ __| |_ ___ _ _ / -_) ' \/ _` | / _ \ _| / _| ' \/ _` | '_ \ _/ -_) '_| \___|_||_\__,_| \___/_| \__|_||_\__,_| .__/\__\___|_| ___ |_| |_ ) / / /___| CHAPTER 3-1 =========== Right off the bat you will see the merchant in a hut and that should be indication enough that this next coming part of the game isnt an easy one, so its time for us to get serious as well. Before chatting with the merchant check the surrounding area's for some more crates that you can smash for items inside, one of them has a snake inside it so be mindful of that, also around the area you'll find a chest which has 5 grand peseta's inside it. Take all of these items and head to the merchant and start talking. The merchant has many new toys for you to play with and since your well endowed in peseta's after fighting the mendez guy, you can take a risk or two here too if you wish, but if you want my opinion sell the rifle and purchase the semi auto rifle in place of it, also sell the shotgun and buy the riot gun in place for that and sell your handgun and purchase the black tail in place of that, thats all the weapon trading we're gonna be doing for now. If you want to, you can also buy an atache case for your stuff from this guy too, and also you can purchase a treasure map for the castle Once your done with this area its time to move further on, so take the door leading into the big spooky castle while wondering why is the castle area always supposed to be spooky. Why can't there be a fun type castle area. One thing you should know about the castle area before pressing on is that there are no villagers in here, instead you will come face to face with the cult members of the church, they are more harder to kill then villagers and often they will be packing impressive weaponry which can deal lethal damage in seconds, so be prepared. Move a little forward and you will have a little scene, once your in control of Leon once again tell Ashley to stay where she is at that time and move a little forward attracting the monks. You can take them out with the handgun while they're coming down or use the sniper rifle to take them out from a distance. For the coming area make sure first that Ashley is still standing where you left her and not following you since she can easily get killed here. Move a little forwrad and you'll notice catapault fire coming down from the heavens, no actually its some monks who want to kill you. Its not that hard to dodge the fires as you can easily run past them to avoid the blast, head forwrad and quickly climb the spiral staircase in front of you. If you want to fancy yourself another spinel check the fountain where the first fire hit. Once you got it, start dashing to where the original monks were and head into one of the rooms which has a big cannon inside it. This is a safe spot for the time being so call Ashley over here. Dont worry about her since the monks won't attack her if she's alone. Its Leon they want to kill so badly. When Ashley is with Leon once again, tell her to wait besides the cannon again, once Ashley is safe and sound, head back out and go through the courtyard again, turn towards the west side and quickly dash under the little path here, you will be able to spot that red robed monk from here and an explosive barrel thats not so far from him can also be spotted. You now have to shoot this barrel and once you do that the entire catapault thing will go kaboom. Do the same thing for the other catapaults that are firing at you. Now once that is done, take the stairs up but immediately head back down the same stairs, no im not an idiot, once you run up the stairs a set of monks will come in from the entrance of this area and will head straight for where you stored Ashley just a little while ago but since you turned back quickly you will be able to safely take them out before they are anywhere near Ashley. If you want to save some ammo then run along the monks when they're going across the courtyard and they'll probably be caught by a catapault fire or two. Now that Ashley is safe once again, take the stairs up and we have to take out the remaining catapaults here, if you have the rifle with you then its a definite plus point, the catapaults have barrels next to them which you need to shoot in order to dispose of them. When all is done there will probably be 2 final catapaults left near the exit of this area, one of them will have a barrel next to it so that one is easily diposed of, the other one however is a little tricky since there's no barrel, you'll have to take out the person operating the catapault. To do that you need to quickly head to the eastern area and take out the guy from behind the shelter like area and hopefully hit him quickly enough. Rifle should be your gun here. If you want to proceed further then take note of the crank and use it, and keep turning it by pressing the A button until the cannon finally rises, use the cannon to blast a fire and the exit will emerge for you to err.. exit. Before exiting you can find a gold bangle on the southern side of this place. Go through the opened path now and take the red door inside. You will now come into a cramped area of the castle, you will find a box of handgun ammo on top of the table here, take the platinum sword from the plate on the wall, then you should tell Ashley to stay right next to this area, while you proceed further, take the stairs up and trick the cultists into coming down behind you and take them out while they're on the stairs. That wasn't so hard. Once you've killed these three monks, head back down and bring Ashley back up with you, but as soon as your up turn around and start shooting at the monks who are approaching behind you as soon as you can, this ambush is a little hard to get through. The best thing to use here is the shotgun but be aware of popping their heads off since these monks are also equipped with dangerous Los plagas like the villagers were, once you have taken all these out look down the stairs and you will spot the red monk standing there waiting for you, we'll just play it safe and its much easier to take him out from here using the sniper rifle and some good head shots. Once the red monk is dead, head to the plate on the second floor area and take the gold sword from here, replace it with the platinum sword and put the gold sword in the place of the platinum one, and the door ahead shall unlock. Take the money that the red guy drops since its a lot. Once your through with this area proceed further and you will have another scene and you will meet up with good old Luis once again, after the scene is over head a little back to the gate we just came here from and tell Ashley to stand here for the time being. Afterwards, proceed further and check the far door, you will have to fight another group of monks here now so use the exit of the door area to your advantage and blast the monks with shotgun shells as they come through the door one by one, there's some Los plagas monks here too so be aware of them. Take care of the crossbow firing monk as well, then head back and get Ashley to come with you, let us proceed further. In the next area you'll come across some more monks who are in armor of sorts, but it isnt that hard to break and a good close ranged shotgun shell is enough to break their armor, after that kill them like your normal everyday monks, when the monks are done for proceed further through the room here. Inside the next room check the item box and you will find the CASTLE GATE KEY inside it, take it and as soon as you do that you will be attacked by on coming monks, if you time it right you can set the explosive barrel off by shooting at it when some of