{"id":57177,"date":"2023-04-20T21:25:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T20:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/pc\/the-resident-evil-4-remake-totally-failed-ashley-graham\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T21:25:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T20:25:57","slug":"the-resident-evil-4-remake-totally-failed-ashley-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/?p=57177","title":{"rendered":"The Resident Evil 4 Remake Totally Failed Ashley Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\u201cLeon! Heeeelp<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2005, Ashley Graham, preening president\u2019s daughter and your game companion throughout most of Resident Evil 4<\/em>, was best known for this booming, blubbering outcry, and second best known for the moving-car-flashes of white underwear some fans have dubiously obsessed over for nearly two decades. The supposedly more socially conscious 2023 Resident Evil 4<\/em> remake reduces the frequency of Ashley\u2019s cry time<\/span> and tosses her a skort for protection<\/span>, but, outside of a few scattered scenes, doesn\u2019t add anything to make her into more of a person. Without her ridiculously sexist former qualities\u2014victim and sex object\u2014Ashley is more ghost than woman.<\/p>\n

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The remake is otherwise masterful<\/span>, so I was disappointed when I came to that conclusion. But it kept shouting at me while I played.<\/p>\n

Ashley is preoccupied by Leon the entire time she trails him, only speaking to issue him a heads-up (\u201cLeon! Watch out!), or stutter assent when he commands her to do something (\u201cO-ok\u201d). When he stops moving, she stops, too, to heave from all the jogging. She gets caught in bear traps (\u201cLeon!\u201d), gets lifted off by parasitic cult members (\u201cLeon, help!\u201d), and can\u2019t stand to see Leon hurt (\u201cLeon, no!\u201d).<\/p>\n

Even Ashley\u2019s expectedly corny<\/span> quips, which, for other characters, are stilted but real opportunities for personality, revolve around Leon (\u201cHey, Leon, there\u2019s some armor. Bet you could use it like a bulletproof vest\u201d). Whenever asked about herself, if she\u2019s hurt, she demurs (\u201cI\u2019m OK, I guess\u201d).<\/p>\n

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The longer I spend with her, the less I feel that I know who she is.<\/p>\n

This problem might not have bothered 2005 RE4<\/em> players as much; they were satisfied to accept Ashley as the cardboard caricature she was intended to be, a shrill<\/span>, incapable girl except for when she\u2019s impishly berating the player for peeking up her skirt. (\u201cHey! What are you looking at?\u201d she\u2019d say in the original game<\/span>. \u201cOh! You pervert!\u201d)<\/p>\n

An early fansite\u2019s interview with 2005 Ashley\u2019s voice actress Carolyn Lawrence gleefully mentions these upskirts<\/span>, calling it \u201cthe fun question,\u201d and asking if recording Ashley\u2019s upskirt reaction seemed \u201codd to you?\u201d<\/p>\n