Resident Evil 4 is privileged to be on the very short list of 'Games That Changed Everything'™, so naturally Capcom had a lot riding on this remake. Amazingly, they actually pulled it off, and the remake builds on the experience of the original and even improves on it in some respects, if you can believe that. By its very nature, however, a remake can never really be called innovative, and for all its improvements over the original there's nothing truly new to see here. Here's an extra sentence containing the words 'critique', 'analysis', 'review' and 'video essay', to appease the SEO pantheon.

All footage was recorded (and played) by me.
Resident Evil 4 (2005)
Resident Evil 4 (2023)
Resident Evil
Sweet Home

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
2:31 - From Survival to Action Horror
5:41 - The Art of the Tradeoff
12:49 - Consistency and Variety
16:30 - The Resource Problem
20:41 - Ch-Ch-Changes
27:37 - Typical Remake Rant