Resident Evil 4 remake speedrunners are setting incredible records

Resident Evil 4 remake speedruns are already off to a strong start, despite the horror game being less than a month old. One speedrunner, YouTuber spicee, recently set the record for completing the game’s hardest difficulty mode in under two hours, clocking in at 1:58:47 – and they’re just getting started (thanks, GamesRadar).

Some runs have shaved nearly 10 seconds off that time, but they weren’t specifically completed on Professional difficulty.

Spicee uploaded a video of their final run on YouTube, and unlike some runs, this category lets you use glitches. Spicee takes advantage of several bugs and shortcuts – though no mods and no Moushley – many of which involve changing framerates at the right time, but the most important strategy is just treating it like a survival game instead of an action game.

Spicee avoids almost every enemy, taking on only those you can’t avoid or ones who drop certain items. That’s particularly handy considering enemies on Professional difficulty take significantly more effort to defeat.

Of course, an encyclopedic understanding of Resident Evil 4’s maps, enemy behavior, and tips for quickly defeating bosses goes a long way in making the run smoother as well.

Impressive as spicee’s run is, they say there’s much more room for improvement and optimization, so expect even faster, more creative runs in the future.

Resident Evil 4 remake released at the end of March and smashed Capcom’s sales records and the series’ record of concurrent players on Steam.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF