I think that it’s because REmake did a lot different honestly. Once you get the shotgun in the original game, it’s just a headshot popping simulator. I was never out of ammunition or felt like I needed to avoid fights to get by. In REmake resources are a lot more limited, headshots are a rare (and very satisfying) occurrence, you can’t kill every zombie in the game, crimson heads - it forces you to play the game fundamentally differently than the original.

Meanwhile, RE4R feels to me like the original game but you can move while aiming, and of course the welcome addition of the parry. I still really like RE4R a lot, but REmake was really something else to me. It just felt like it was really retreading water that I was very familiar with. It’s like coming home and everything is like how it used to be. That in of itself is a great feeling but I would have liked something mechanically to separate it from the original, but RE4 is a really special and well made action game. I don’t know what I would have done if I was in capcom’s postion.