It definitely sounds like the disappointing sales of REmake were the leading factor to make RE 4 a action game. But for the first time, in Resident Evil 4, I told the team that fun gameplay is the most important thing.'
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With Resident Evil 1, 2, and 3, and all the rest of the series before Resident Evil 4, I was always saying to the staff, 'Scare the player is the number one thing. Mikami then wraps up the interview by talking about fun again: The Hook-Man build may have still transitioned to over shoulder but perhaps we would not have gotten the final product that we ended up with. My personal opinion is that had REmake launched on PS 2 we would not have had a prettier game but the sales figures would've been significantly higher. Resident Evil 4 would have been a more scary, horror-focused game if the remake sold well. Because of the reaction to the Resident Evil remake, I decided to work more action into Resident Evil 4. Maybe there weren't many people to accept that. The Resident Evil remake is actually one of my favorites of the series too. However, further into the interview the topic of REmake sales comes to light: With Resident Evil 4, I intended to make more of an action game - 5 and 6 were outside of my responsibility, of course - but with Resident Evil 2 and 3, that wasn't necessarily the intention I started with. I think they just want to make their games more fun, and if they’re reaching more and more in that direction, they’re naturally going to go toward more action. I don’t think it’s specifically because developers want to appeal to a wider audience. One thing that I’ve been observing… I’ve been looking at the survival horror genre for a long time. Mikami on action titles bringing a funner experience than Survival Horror: Let's take a look at an Sep 2013 interview with IGN and Shinji Mikami to see what he has to say. We know the sales of REmake on Gamecube had some degree of impact on this project. It's no surprise to hear Kawamura talking about development costs being too high.
It was an invaluable experience as a game designer. The experience I gained from this helps keep me going even to this day. When I saw the quality of the finished product, I realized what an amazingly skilled person Shinji Mikami is. Mikami intervened, and ended up enjoying the finished biohazard 4 game as just a fan.
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Shibata, who was the director at the time, was very talented, but I felt that he was unable to exercise his full potential because my lack of skill was holding him back. While I felt that I put in much effort, refining the idea to the best of my abilities, my mentor Mr. Kawamura on his feelings of his version being scrapped: In the end, what ended up becoming biohazard 4 was the best idea out of all of them." Unfortunately, there were many obstacles that needed to be overcome and the cost of development was deemed too expensive. dog, the two start to make their way up the castle. Spencer seeking the truth, while inside a laboratory located deep within, a young girl wakes up. Sugimura and I carefully refined this world (which, I have to say, was very romantic). The idea went through several iterations as Mr. An arranged version of this idea eventually turned into Hookman. "I wanted to make biohazard 4 scarier and suggested using a particular scene from the film "The Lost Souls", where the main character (played by Winona Ryder), while washing her hands in a bathroom, suddenly finds herself in a derelict building with a killer on the loose. Hookman was merely an experiment and there was no true back-story. Kawamura on the outline of the scenario and how much of his version was completed before being scrapped: Yasuhisa Kawamura, he wrote the "Hookman" version.
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