Resident Evil 4: Castle completed. Somehow I managed to get through the worst room in the game without dying, though probably not playing on Professional difficulty helps.
Salazar's boss fight in the original is honestly pretty weaksauce, and that's me being generous. Less generously, it's braindead. Run into the right-hand corner, dump TMP rounds into the tentacle until it disappears, shoot the giant obvious eyeball with a rifle until Salazar's body appears, shoot Salazar with a magnum or rifle depending on what you have ammo for, repeat from removing the tentacle until the game tells you to stop. You shouldn't get hit at all, and you don't even really have to do any dodging, either the 'move to another part of the room' kind or the 'hit the flashing buttons quickly' kind. As much as I remember ranting about how difficult the remake's version is, that was mostly before I got used to the major changes it made, and overall I'd say they were greatly in its favor. However else you feel about other aspects and changes, I don't know how anyone can defend the original Salazar boss fight over the remake's.
The game is still really good overall, it's just this specific boss fight that's a lowlight. And for the record, I felt that way about it before the remake came out.
Anyway, onto the island, which amps up the action and somehow simultaneously the horror as well.
