One crafty player has recently taken to social media to share a reliable way of skipping the Mendez boss fight in theResident Evil 4remake. Their method of circumventing this creepy mid-game boss emerged around the time anotherResident Evil 4remake player discovered a surprisingly easy way to kill Salazar.
TheResident Evil 4remake has been a massive success, with Capcom reporting theResident Evil 4remake sold tremendously wellduring its launch period. The game received widespread acclaim for modernizing the original experience with minimal compromise, not least because of its varied gallery of iconic bosses.
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How to Skip the Mendez Fight in Resident Evil 4
But not all of those big bads need to be fought, as most recently underlined by a newly surfaced method of avoiding the Mendez encounter in theResident Evil 4remake. The technique was discovered by Chinese speedrunner Truekep and involves reloading the game while looking through a rifle scope on the barn stairs leading up to the fight until Leon clips through the walls and can exit the location. Upon doing so, the player will even encounter a non-aggressive Mendez on the other side of the building, still waiting for a fight that will never trigger.
Given the nature of this discovery, the Mendez skip definitely wasn’t intended as a valid method of tackling the boss. That doesn’t make it any less valuable for speedrunners, just inherently different from something like theResident Evil 4remake village fight skip, which was plausibly intentional by the developers.
The recently surfacedtrick for skipping theResident Evil 4"goat head" sectionsits somewhere in between those two discoveries; it doesn’t rely on glitches and was possibly intentional, but requires expert timing and is thus much more challenging to pull off than the village fight skip. Either way, this growing number of ways to breeze through some of the remake’s time-consuming set pieces is bound to add up to some impressive speedruns in the near future.
Some players have, naturally, already started postingResident Evil 4speedruns online, but most of the world’s largest communities for speedrunners will only start accepting run submissions around mid-April. Once that happens, it will be easier to judge just how doable it is to breeze through the remake, on the whole. For context, the world record for a New Game run through the originalResident Evil 4for PC currently stands at just over an hour and 19 minutes.
Resident Evil 4is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.
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