A lot of this is REmake 4's core issues being made more severe in Professional. 1. Loose, heavy movement. 2. RNG stagger on basic enemies being a thing. 3. Enemies being able to cancel out of attacks into a grab. 4. Projectiles like dynamite being next to impossible to shoot out of the air most of the time (on controller anyway). 5. lack of a dedicated hard "wait" order for Ashley. 6. Your knife (and by extension, your main and only consistant defensive option) being tied to durability. 7. lack of I-frames leading to being stunlocked by multiple enemies. The knife parry window feels like it can't find a sweet spot in any of the difficulties either. On the lower difficulties the parry window feels way too generous, while it feels way too tight on professional.

Feels like it’s less about skill and more about how persistent you are in retrying over and over again hoping for decent RNG. They really gave us the speed runner experience

My biggest issue was constantly being comboed to death and having no s or super armor on almost anything, also having stupid small things like an enemy jumping down in front of you if you're too close stunning you or dynamite throwers having precision accuracy in chapter 2.

I probably failed the village section over 30 times. I eventually got past it and now I’m on the start of chapter 5. But I’ve legitimately been having stress dreams about this difficulty. Like I’ll save over 15 times or I’ll get to the very end and run out of time. I think that’s a sign I need to take a break from this game lol. Congratulations on getting S+, and to anyone else reading this I believe in you! Edit: I did it boys! S+ is mine!

I did the Chicago sweeper route. The one where you bolt through the village as fast as possible, do every spinel mission and then buy the exclusive ticket at the castle.

this makes my rage feel validated LMAO it's nice to know it wasn't only skill issue killing me the whole time in my pro run, sometimes though it absolutely was.

The ballroom is the most sadistic level. Novistadors can hit you through interaction and ladder climb, stun locking you to death.

Sometimes i think that the devs didn’t know if this challenge was possible or not, that they just kinda made it and assumed someone could probably do it

This game has an interesting way of messing with you. Sometimes, you’re doing amazing and flying through segments of the game with ease. Other times, you get your ass kicked and are stuck for 15-20 minutes on a part that should normally take 3.

Actually crazy how hard this basic ingame difficulty is! Original re4 prof is an absolute joke compared to this

Also if you're going for S+ and you die, DO NOT HIT CONTINUE! IT WILL ADD THE TIME YOU HAD WHEN YOU DIED, AFTER YOU SAVED AT THE TYPEWRITER! Always exit to the main screen and manually load.

I got all the achievements, the shit was brutal. This game will literally punish you if you’re doing well. An yes if you break the line of view I swear they teleport. If you work up a strategy the game will completely switch on you. Sometimes you have to rely on RNG.

Professional doesn't feel like a true difficult game mode. It's nothing but ARTIFICIAL difficulty, something that I absolutely hate. I JUST finished the playthrough to unlock the Chicago Typewriter and it's done so much mental pain and suffering to me. I'm now getting ready to unlock the cat ears for my "Road to Hand Cannon" series but my god I'm having to spend a good amount of time to mentally prepare for it. I don't know who programmed the Professional difficulty, but whoever did it needs to suffer an El Salvador attack.

I only just beat it on professional without aiming for the S+ (handcannon challenge), but jesus was it soul draining. I agree that this difficulty isn't the kind of "challenging" difficulty, but "bullshit" difficulty. Apart from bullet sponge and ultra aggressive enemies, my personal gripe was the perfect parry only, meaning that you cannot really rely on your knife anymore, cuz when there's 15 dudes chasing you cannot focus enough to parry that one single enemy. Oh, and the cabin fight, oh the cabin fight, may that shit be sent straight to hell.

I wouldn't have a huge problem with it, but the fact that it sends you back to your last save point after your death is just pure evil. The Krauser fight crossed my mind the very first time as I read the conditions and I just know that would be the end of me for sure even if I would make it that far. Honestly just doesn't sound very fun to redo a whole bunch of stuff all over. Also a useful info I've noticed, whenever I enter the house in the village at the beginning of the game and going up the stairs the enemy sets up a ladder in front of the window, and whenever I don't look in that direction as I go up, a lad always appear there, but when I do look at the window, it mostly doesn't appear, I think the game is setting up enemies for you where you don't have your sight.

This game's difficulty might be on par with Re8 Village of Shadows difficulty (except village didn't required s-ranks for the story results)

I feel your pain brother. I finished this challenge yesterday with 20 minutes to spare. Skipped the first garrador fight and the wrecking ball/sewer and I don't even feel bad about it cause at the end of the game I paid for my sins. At the start of chapter 13 I've started having my biggest ammo drought and it was a HUGE pain trying to rush through the enemies. Good luck to everyone who wants to do this PoS challenge 😅

There's no way I could beat this on a fresh new game and get an S+ rank, lol. I think maybe if the merchant sold ammo, but I struggled with ammo on hardcore.

My tips for those playing on Professional: - Ammunition is RNG based BUT you have higher odds of getting it when you are low. Don't worry about running out because as long as you kill an enemy or break a pot at low ammunition, you should get enough ammunition for the next encounter. - Flash Bangs and Grenades are useful for getting through some really tough rooms. You can use 2-3 Flashbangs in Water Hall before cranking the halo wheels in order to give yourself enough time to do so and run up the stairs. When you do, something cool happens. - Enemy Zones. Certain enemy groups won't pass certain points. When you pass these invisible lines, enemies will just turn around and go back to where they started. In the previously mentioned Water Hall, once you go up the big stairs to the water bridge area, all enemies below will just go back and leave you alone. Taking advantage of this is very helpful. - Go for Legshots, they're a little tougher to hit sometimes but knocking an enemy down on one knee usually means you don't have to worry about that enemy anymore if you're running past them. You can skip quite a few encounters just by running to the previously mentioned Enemy Zone barriers, and shooting a couple of enemies in the knee and running past is way more time and ammo efficient than killing every enemy you see. - Final tip, look up some skips on KZfaq. I'm not saying you NEED to do them for S+ but they definitely will help with most of them being legit ways to get through things (shooting the first cannon's weight on your way up to it, throwing a flashbang/grenade at the guy who pulls the bridge lever at the goat head, throwing a grenade through the castle walls gate to raise it from the inside, using combinations from other playthroughs like wheat pig baby or 11:04/7:00 on the clock doors). Most of them are as simple as knowing where things are before you approach them. Feel free to post more tips here for those who need help with their S+ Professional runs or just in general.

Stun lock and no s was the biggest issue I had with playing hardcore

I got stuck in a loop a couple times at the Castle Gate of Ashley getting hit by the catapults, me having to pick her up and then at the end of the animation, another one slams down right on top of me. It was a nightmare in hardcore. I haven't started on a fresh Professional save yet but damn, I'm gonna go nuts.

My Pro S+ play through was intense. Saves 1: ch4 before El Gigante. 2: ch 5 before wolf fight. 3: ch 6 4: ch 8 5: ch 9 6: ch 10 7: ch 11 8: ch 12 9-14: ch 13 Half asleep and save 5 times in a row. Had to do ch 13-15 in one go spreedrun tactics engaged. 15: ch 16 before Sadler. Weapons: Starter pistol: fully upgraded asap. (One-Two shots most enemies with special upgrade) Riot Shotgun: all dmg upgraded. Broken Butterfly: all dmg upgraded. Stingray: all dmg upgraded Bought rocket launchers to instant kill Ramon, Krowser, Sadler. Bonuses: Ashely armor The tail for melee dmg. Primal knife Then I found out about the Chicago sweeper strat and did it again with that. Now doing a vanilla run with cat ears to get the hand cannon. RE4 remake is so fun. I can’t believe I’ve S+ every difficulty. Working on getting all challenges and hand canon now. Good luck everybody

Im considering running it and I found your video in my research for planning it out. Your insights are valuable! Nice vid!

Dude you're a beast. Just watching you play I learned so much. Just wish I had more time off to play this game but life's been super busy lately.

Fair play to those who have completed hardcore + Professional but I found those difficulties rather tedious and unbalanced. I usually enjoy challenging myself in 3rd person shooters but something just felt off and slighted scripted about hardcore + Pro

these hard difficulties are destroying my already horrible mental health but this game is also the only thing keeping me sane

Man that bug room in the castle cost me a flawless run the other day. You literally cannot look away from them or they do that dash attack. Loving the game but damn it can be so unfair sometimes.

Thanks I needed this 🤝🏼

This explains why there's barely any S+ walkthroughs for this difficulty, everyone's strategy is just run past everything and hope for the best.

Enemies are wombo-comboing me like hell in this game. I‘s insane lol

Man you sound so sincere and happy, it was fun watching your vid. Keep it up

I had to give up on chapter 15 on professional because mike wouldn’t kill any of the enemies and I ran out of ammo. I’m frugal with my ammo and I lost my mind so many times on a few parts. I’m doing it with the Chicago sweeper route soon. Good luck to the rest of you doing this

Got mine a few days ago. I feel your pain man, can’t tell you how many times I got stun locked and died.

The no autosave is killing me rn. Not sure why I'm doing this to myself anymore lol

Totally agree those bugs can burn in the deepest part of hell.

This is also an issue I don't like in Devil May Cry 4 and 5, specifically Bloody Palace. The encounters in Bloody Palace can really feel hard and overwhelming in the higher levels, which is fine, but the thing I don't like is that there is a timer which essentially forces you to rush through levels.

"Maybe Leon can hurt her feelings" Wtf, that was hilarious 😂

good vid, hardest part for me was mostly the part where you have to fight off the mob in that house with Luis. I was stuck in that part for 2 hours..

My first playthrough was on hardcore and I finally beat it doing all the side quests and everything. It was really hard and there were tons of BS moments. I can't even imagine pro mode. It was very rewarding sure, but even on hardcore I was having moments were I would get hit as soon as I opened a door just like how you showed. I'm now going through on assisted to make money for the infinite launcher to prepare for a pro run. It'll be new game plus so I'm not worried, but I'm getting the impression that new game on pro is probably not even fun though. You can't even get consistent staggers for kicks on the higher difficulties, it's totally random. One enemy stuns in 2 headshots, some 3 or 4, or they'll just be a bullet sponge until they die. I don't like that about this game. Knee shot staggers suck too. There should be a little bit more consistency to it imo. That's really my only gripe about the combat is inconsistent staggers.

I struggled with Chapter 15, Hardcore. I cant imagine how hard it'll be to get the Professional mode completed lmao

Not only do they teleport behind you, the villager that grabs Leon also have magnet stuck to their hand. They literally suck Leon in with their grabs. It is tough to just run through them like the original.

I wish it was like the old version where you just had to beat it without all the conditions.

I'm not even gonna lie, I was going for a Hardcore S+ Run and made the mistake of not saving and got stuck in the Cabin Defense For Legitimately 4 hours. I'm not joking, I was really dying over and over for four hours straight because I kept managing to make to the last phase with nothing but a pistol and shotgun, but kept getting 1 tapped by the pig face guy since if you're not looking, he'll sprint towards you and cave your head like he was willing thors hammer. Never have I actually raged in a game before (I'm one of those quiet ragers lol) and was stubborn to take a break and call it a day 😅😂. I manged to beat it after what felt like 86 tries of trial and error. I know proffessional will have me quit gaming in general for a while but here's to succeeding lol

As a kid much like a lot of the people who loves re4 I played it so much hard-core was fun and challenging but professional just seems unfair. all around rng, enemies hitting through the 1.5 second animations Leon has to do for certain actions. Enemies hits stacking so you get instant killed when you get hit by 3 people at once. I'll keep trying but I don't feel the joy I felt when I played this game as a kid lol

As someone who did their first playthrough on hard-core I had the exact same issues minus the save one. It was just crazy how horrible the 15th chapter was. Ramon was also such a wall that I just had to sell my fully maxed TMP and buy an rpg 😂

I recommend following Neon Slice's guide to getting the infinite Chicago sweeper for S+. It helped me tremendously in getting it

People you're doing this the hard way, the answer ? Is in this mini guide IMPORTANT BEFORE YOU READ THERE ARE SPOILERS. -If you die, go back to the main menu and load your save, DO NOT PRESS CONTINUE OR LOAD GAME FROM THE DEAD SCREEN bc if an area takes you 20 mins then it's gonna be another 20 mins (40 to your final time) 1. Complete the game in any other difficulty first. 2. Second do an NG+ on proffesional. 3. Try to finish it with A rank. 4. Unlock the armor and specially the Chicago sweeper and maybe the gas mask or something else and equip it. 5. Start your professional new game. 6. Avoid all fights that you can, just run (the town and the one in second mission to get the crank medallion are examples). 7. do all the merchant request from the town EXCEPT the one from the mutant dog it's impossible also DO NOT SPEND A SINGLE SPINEL. 8. Try to save as much money as you can, upgrade the damage in the pistol and specially the shotgun but try to save some. 9. The first part (town) will be hell so save as much as you want, i recommend a max of 5 saves even 6 if you don't feel like you're skilled enough. 10. Get to the castle and do the first merchant request (the medallions). 11. Use the spinels to get the exclusive upgrade on the Chicago Sweeper, the rest of the game was fairly easy from that point. 12. Upgrade it's damage and you're good to go Notes and recomendations: - Try to avoid as much fights as you can in order to save ammo for the house, the chainsaw sisters and Mendez. - ONLY upgrade the chicago Sweeper's damage, the other stats max out when you use the exclusive upgrade. - I saved 5 times, 1 after the first town, 2 before del Lago, 3 before the giant, 4 by the sisters, 5 just before Mendez, after that i was a bit behind at saves so i did sometjing risky: The 3 statue pieces, the Ashley section (easy with the armor), the 2 garradors, the Verdugo, the mine carts and the tower without saving until i got to Salazar. - pickup every treasure that you can on the way, do it as fast as you could tho. - run through some parts like the town, second mission area, the maze and the initial, second and also the mission 15 part where there are tons of enemies of the island - use barrels, enemies with explosives and also every mob that do friendly damage - my saves where 15 and they were: Mission 1: after finishing the mission Mission 2: right next to the merchant Mission 3: by the merchant before you collect the gas can for the boat Mission 4: by the merchant after collecting the church insignia (key) Mission 5: by the merchant on the windmill just before the house survival part Mission 6: just before Mendez boss fight Mission 7: by the merchant in the place when you meet Salazar (also this is where i got the infinite Chicago Sweeper) Mission 8: at the end of the chapter Mission 9: by the 3 headed statue where the mercant is (after collecting the 3 heads, before the Ashley section) Mission 10: no save Mission 11: no save Mission 12: by the top of clock tower next to the merchant just before the Salazar boss fight. Mission 13: at the start of the chapter Mission 14: just before Krauser boss fight Mission 15: at the beginning where the merchant is Mission 16: before the Saddler boss fight and also after killing Saddler when the counter starts (died more bc of the stupid jet-ski) - I finished the game collecting roughly half of the treasures and skipping fights, it took me 4:46:31 and as you saw above 15 saves -the hardest parts for me where the town (mission 1), the house survival, the chainsaw sisters, mendez, dual garrador, the area before you take back Ashley (mission 15) and also 6 tries on the jet-ski (if you crash is instant death). Tips for bosses and areas: - in the town just run in circles when dr salvador (chainsaw guy) appears. -the sisters are easy if you bring them to the entrance of the area they de-aggro and start running back - Mendez, first phase keep on the second floor and try to shoot the eye in the back, also the stabs from the second floor do way more damage, second half save up flashbangs, otherwise when he throws flaming plancks run from side to side until he is dead - the first garrador if you already have the infinite Chicago just kill him otherwise if you don't, use the upgraded shotgun on his back, 4 to 6 shots and he's dead - The dual garradors ass cancer fight, kill all the guys surrounding them or try to kill one first, if they are line up you can block the path by shooting one of them so the other gets stunned when the one you shot start's doing random direction attacks - Verdugo, freeze him once and (by this time you must have the infinite Chicago) start shooting non-stop, open the gate when he flees, dodge his surprise attacks 2 to 3 times and freeze him a second time, after that keep your distance in the alley and shoot him until he dies, you will stunt-lock him and in case he doesn't stunt-locks, run in the opossite direcction and keep shooting him, that's how i killed him - Krauser, similary to the Verdugo, stunt-lock him with the infinite Chicago - by the time you reach Saddler, buy a rocket launcher (if you can't, sell every gun and healing item except the chicago Sweeper) and after you shot him once it goes to second phase, use the Chicago non-stop until ada tosses the special Rocket launcher and you're done -the Jet-ski, if you have 14 saves or more, save after killing saddler so you don't have to repeat the fight, otherwise just slow down by the time you reach the doors and the rest do it non stop (the doors at the beggining are the most difficult for me) And that people is how i made it S+ Rank on Professional.

Usually try and do everything in the first playthrough so if you do it on New game plus, you are pretty loaded and got a good understanding of the game, it makes it much easier. I did a new game plus Professional and a regular New game Professional. Whenever I do my regular professional run, I speed run it. You also have to know methods to take advantage of. Like saving the RPG for boss battles, shortcuts, what guns to get for certain situations etc... A lot these things help. About time you finish your first playthrough on Hardcore or Standard doing everything, a lot content is discovered by ppl that help aids runs.

I finished standard run at 30 hrs doing every possible trophy i can, finding every treasure plus the dlc treasures and every challenge. Thought the standard difficulty was okay wasnt hard really. But I’m doing my professional run and omg it’s fucking hard, more annoying than anything but the teleporting enemies is something i really noticed in higher difficulties. I’ll take a wide walk around enemies and by the time they’re outside the frame of the camera they teleport grabbing me from a decent gap between me and them. And Ashley is extremely aggravating, she just doesn’t want to listen i tell her to stay close and she just stops and doesn’t follow or does a 180 and runs right into a group of enemies just completely ruining the whole run.

As much as it felt great to overcome this S+ it is one of the worst balancing I've ever had to deal with, bullet sponge enemies, grabs with one shot combos and stunlocks on every random fucking thing, in OG RE4 you wouldn't get stunlocked and you'd be stunlocking enemies, here it's the opposite

Its brutal, it really is. I only did it because I had the sweeper and you can get the ticket to gets its infinite ammo upgrade by the start of the castle, but the village my god the village. Great job if you did it without the sweeper, I can't imagine.

The biggest issue with rank s+ is the save restriction. I love hard challanges, but this is what keeps me away from even try to beat it.

I'll definitely be going the work smart not hard route on this difficulty and using the sweeper and Ashley armor like others suggested. I don't mind challenge but when I see these enemies look like they just opened up a speed shoes monitor, it's like okay infinite ammo sounds a bit more fair play lmo xD.

Glaring *problems with balancing* that mostly become obvious on harder difficulties: - Enemies movement suffers from extreme rubberbanding. Easiest to notice on the earlier village levels when very far away from enemies that have detected you like when getting gas before Del Lago's fight. They will move like the flash in a very comical way. - Grabs are poorly executed. Sometimes crouching will work for 90% of the animation and you'll get clipped at the end of the lunge anyway. Grabs also have this magnetic property when they're about to connect that seems to skip the last few frames of the animation and teleport the enemy to you; most evident with the Colmillos' lunge (zombie dogs). - Controller aiming is not responsive enough to deal with certain enemies' movement like the Regeneradors' weakpoints which have an annoyingly strict hitbox on top of moving so fast. It may be a hitbox problem or just part of the awful overall RNG bullet spread weapons have. On PC with a mouse things are far more fair (especially shooting ranges) but the bullet spread still randomly sways your shots around. - Similar to rubberbanding, enemies' throw animations (molotovs, dynamite, hatchets etc) are cheaply "hooked" to the player regardless of how little physical sense it makes. There are numerous instances of enemies doing 180-no-scopes Hitman style and magentizing the weapon to Leon's head anyway. Overall, these issues are all fairly easy to patch so nothing huge is wrong with the game fundamentally. Just need to be voiced so the devs get the memo.

Water Room in the Castle is definitely a layer of hell on Pro in this game. Took me two days and countless deaths, both mine and Ashley’s lmao

I played Hard Core on my first playthrough. At the end of chapter 15, I was sick and tired and emotionally dead insight, but my reflexes were on point lol But the cutscenes meant nothing to me anymore, which, was unfortunate. Should've started this game on normal difficulty probably. But the game says: "If you played the original then you should play hardcore." Yeah, I beat it on the hardest difficulty in 2008, but that was fifteen years ago! I knew knowing the meta around the game would be really helpful on my first play-through, but still went with hardcore. Agh! ... I love and hit this game.

Glad I’m not the only one suffering. I’ve played the OG game more times than I can count. Did a playthough of the remake on standard, it was noticeably harder. Currently on my first Professional run… Chapter 13, 74 saves, and I’m at 17 and a half hours 😂 I’ve been beyond frustrated with certain sections and have had the hair pulling moments of rage when I died upon forgetting to save at a certain moment. Just about to start my first encounter with the Regenerators as of typing this 😬

I did it few days ago but good god I never went tryhard mode since my dark soul 3 level 1 run it was crazy but it felt so good doing it I'm glad it was this hard its difficult but it's not impossible

"Ashley is an independent woman. She doesn't need Leon to help her." (*cut to Ashley in armor getting carried off*) LOL!

This is absolutely absurd and uncalled for how hard this game is, RE4 is one of my favorite games of all time! I have a platinum trophy for every souls game, and had a blast doing it, how ever I’m at the right hand on hard core and at no point yet have I had any fun!

I just finished my run a couple of days ago. And omg was it was a fucking rage fest. Certain rooms are straight up bullshit. I finished the game in 5:15. I was so relieved. 😂😂. Good luck to everyone else who tries it. 💯

I completely agree with you. On everything. That run was a pain in the ass for so many reasons. Just did one today and ran it in 4 and a half hours. You eventually get used to it!

Enemies not staggering if they are scripted by the game to deal damage to you, projectiles magnetizing towards Leon (this is what makes dynamite valley an absolute MESS on professional), or enemies randomly becoming invincible for no other reason than to just create an artificial way to waste your resources. The game is definitely fun, but Capcom really needs to chill with the gimmicky mechanics they use to generate difficulty.

I made the mistake of doing this without the chicken hat, but I did have Ashley's armor, and got the unlimited ammo sweeper through spinels and an exclusive ticket right when it became available in chapter 7. Getting to chapter 7 was hell though. Specifically the savage mutt and the Villa with Luis. Ugh! It took 3 days for the whole run, and my playtime was 4:48. Nice work man!

Nice commentary man and congrats! I gave up at chapter 7 as I found saving Ashley too difficult and I also had limited Ammo.

This is easily the worst "controlling" RE game I've ever played. It feels like Leon is lugging around a f**king piano on his back, with the amount of time and will it takes to change direction. Did they put momentum over 9000 or what? The acceleration on the aiming, is absolutely, hysterically comical. I had to spend about 5 minutes just tweaking the god awful controls, to merely find the patience to play this thing. Even then, it was a struggle at times. Professional mode, I did finish it for the hand cannon, but that's as far as I'm willing to go. This game is bad in so many ways, and good in so many others. The bad, outweigh the good for me though. F--k this game.

THANK GOD for an actually difficult game, and a reason to complete said difficulty. Imagine not having Ashley's armor or accessories and bonus weapons.

Followed Neon Slice’s guide with the Infinite Chicago. Still so difficult and wanted to quit so many times. 😂

Dude you're making your life harder for no reason at all this is why it's good to look up information before you do these kinds of runs

the key to this is to never stay still. pick up as much as you can, don't skip on picking up things you know you can grab and should grab. also use contextual actions as much as you can to avoid being hit. ladders, melee, pushing carts etc. these make you briefly invincible and can help you. you need to beat 7 chapters per hour so you have enough time. don't try to rush too fast or else you will end up skipping over amma and health that is vital. save only when you are not confident that you can beat a boss or an enemy. and for god sake take breaks if not for your eyes then for your mental sanity.

I got the platinum trophy over the weekend and the Professional mode was definitely the most brutal part

I totally agree about chapter 15 and the bugs in this game. I absolutely can’t stand the bugs. I didn’t think they were this difficult in the OG RE4. This is rough, I just want the Chicago Sweeper and hand cannon already :(

Currently on my first hardcore run and I'm about to reach the ballroom 💀 It was already hell on standard.

It actually makes me pretty sad that professional is such a meme. It was my favorite difficulty to play on the original because while it was difficult, it was extremely fair and rewarded you for mastering the game mechanics. The remake just has so much RNG and artificial difficulty in comparison. Bullet sponge enemies, unreliable stuns, weird bullet spread mechanics on top of the crosshair shake. The fact that S+ requires a speedrun is also frustrating since, like the first one, you're still generally encouraged to play methodically and explore around hoovering up resources and treasure.

Me going for S+ is the definition of insanity ... Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result ....Maybe one day

Even that lake monster is difficult asf, you can instantly see how much more aggressive that damn thing is.

I got to say I REALLY hate they force you to do hit and run tactics when you are at high difficulty trying to get s+ I got my S+ hardcore in re2 remake by cutting every zombie's leg and make sure they dont get up, my brain just can't handle dodging everything while running all the time edit: just done it with chicken hat and typewriter and only 11 saves, still I wish it could be lesser hit and run

The biggest issue for me was the lack of Resource (S) drops, which is especially noticeable given how common Resource (L) is in the latter half of the game. Like holy shit, why is handgun ammo harder to craft versus rifle ammo?

Ah I get now why Capcom are charging for premium weapon unlock tickets 😂

The only place I trully lost my mind in pro was the cabin. I swear man, I spent almost 3 hours on that place. Then a ganado killed me just as the Ashley cutscene started, when the death animation ended I was still up, bugged inside the cabin and couldn't leave, until it faded to the end chapter screen. I literally only passed the cabin because of a bug. Other than that, professional difficulty was pretty manageble, at least ng with no bonus weapon run. I'll try S+ later, but with armor Ashley, Chicago and Primal knife. I already know doing pro S+ without bonus weapons is cancer, I don't need that stress in my life, thank you very much.

I recommend unlocking infinite Chicago by doing merchant challenges for the exclusive upgrade you’ll have it by chapter 7 and you will still get the s plus it will probably make your overall run time faster

For me I Hope there is a even Harder Mode as dlc ☝️

I did it, agrees with you for everything. The things that annoyed me the most (personnaly) were the parts where you had to avoid damaging your vehicle: Boat fight/cart with Louis/Jet ski at the end. Especialy the cart part, I hated the R9 without cross, lol.

I just finished the S+ professional run, but I must admit that if I didn't knew that it could be completed with extra weapons, I would had avoid it, still, you need to upgrade the Chicago to max for cheese run, so you still need to hang on the first 6 chapters, doing all the merchant request to obtain the upgrade ticket as soon as you get into chapter 7 to get infinite Chicago upgrade, but damn, the town section at the beginning and the section to obtain the eagle hexagon were a god damn pain in the ass, cant imagine the frustration on chapter 15 if I still got some damage at that chapter having the Chicago paired with the sniper. (4:11 hours run with the Chicago strat)

It should be noted that Professional S+ is literally one of the last things you should do in this game. So it should be a difficult objective and very hard to complete without a full mastery of the game and understanding of the systems. I'm currently at the point where I got the infinite ammo on the Chicago Sweeper in my run, and I have 2 hours left to finish the game. It's gonna be a rough run but I'm excited to try to do it.

That bug room is the worst

Finished sweeperless run yesterday and infinite ammo and all the rewards was not worth the amount of stress endured in this run absolutely nefarious how they give you all the best stuff after you suffer through this

This game will create a new generation of Speedrunners

I play Professional RE4 2005 by default, so seeing this insane jump in difficulty in the remake makes me super happy. I play RE3 inferno for fun lol

This new direction with gaming lately in general is just not at all productive and everyone's opinion of 'GOOD' game design is drastically changing due to the increasing popularity of games like Elden Ring and the Souls franchise. And its just really rough dude. I hate it. A game should be fairly designed as well as difficult instead of having to sacrifice one or the other. I'm so tired of games being compared to souls or people acting like Souls is the penultimate experience. I just want to enjoy games again. It's not even that I don't want to or couldn't get my skills up, it's that I don't want to have to struggle against random bullshit to enjoy a game. Skill issue or not, its not incouraging at all when youre playing a game on NORMAL and everything random causes you to die through almost no fault of your own. I wish games could just be enjoyable again without all this gatekeeping crap and shitty fanboys.

My favorite part of professional is when you climb a ladder and a ganado throws a dynamite. And as soon as you get out of your I frames and explodes before you can react lmaooo

Everything you said I was thinking today, especially about Ashley.

Re4 remake on professional is beyond toxic. You dont have resources and having time restraint was an issue for s+. I finished it but never again lol

and some guy do speed run in profesional an get s+ 🤣

They give you so much to get s+ it's not easy but it's very doable if you get into the groove

Final nemesis on re3 inferno mode…that broke me, even after I finished it, it haunts me

Nice video ^_^ Ashley is a menace without an armour. Just completed a Prpfessional NG run without any cosmetics and I can assure you - she is the biggest problem 😄 But if you will be in a mood - I advice you to try, its harder, bit you will need to learn optimal strats for enemies e.t.c Game has a lot of legit skips (not glitches), so time not so much of a problem as her. My time was: 1:55 - village, all quests, all treasures 4:05 - castle 5:20 - end Setup: Starting pistol upgraded with exclusive ticket First rifle, Riot gun, Butterfly, Tmp, all fully upgraded power. Bolt thrower is must have too, it allows you to complete some bosses way faster and safer I also spend time to fully complete first shooting range and get striker charm. I feel like you can even get all treasures in castle if you optimize enough

Can’t wait to see people do ng pro in 2 hours

i tried the professional and gave up at chapter 9. most of the times i went down after getting damaged i cant even open the inventory until leon gets up and be able start moving and i just die right there and/or when i have no health. im doing hardcore rn and it feels better.

My man never played Halo 2 LASO if he thinks this is unfair and unbalanced 😂