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RE4 Guide

Survival and economy

Herbs

  • Green — medium healing · combinable up to ×3
  • Green + Red — full heal (save these for emergencies)
  • Yellow — raises MAX health: never use it alone or sell it; always add it to a mix
  • Routine: Green+Yellow for minor heals, Green+Red+Yellow when it counts

Eggs and critters

  • White < Brown < Gold (heals to full, 1 slot) — keep a couple in reserve
  • Chickens lay if you wait; leaving and returning resets the flock
  • Cut snakes drop eggs; in crates, they bite
  • Crows: pesetas, Spinels and sometimes grenades — or a Frag into the group of 15 at the complex (1-3)

Grenades

  • Frag — crowds and bosses; essential in the Garrador cage and the finale
  • Incendiary — Colmillos, slow groups, and ×3 splits Mendez apart
  • Flash — stuns almost everything (Gigantes included) and instantly kills Plagas

Ashley

  • Wait before hot zones · Follow me to advance
  • Hide her in containers/lockers during every big fight
  • If she's carried off to an exit: game over — kidnappers are the top priority
  • "Catch" when she jumps from a height

Shooting gallery

  • Several stalls throughout the game (the last one in 5-3)
  • Prizes: 24 collectible pins and pesetas for completed sets
  • Good aim practice, zero risk

Switch version

  • Based on the Wii port (full PS2 content): Separate Ways, Assignment Ada and Mercenaries included
  • No motion controls
  • Modern-port stats: Red9 exclusive at 6.5 (it was 5.0 on GameCube) — your version is the generous one

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