Can You Beat RESIDENT EVIL 4 With Only Explosives?

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Resident Evil 4 is a classic, and is getting a remake next year! So with that in mind, I figured we'd round out spooky month with an Explosives Only run. It was easier and harder than I expected.
Can you beat Resident Evil 4 with only explosives? Guess it's time to find out.
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[@b-bejaranogarridoeric3655]

As someone who lives in Spain i couldn't stop myself from laughing when i heard limón speaking spanish

[@capperbuns]

Limón 🤝 Limão.

[@brandonforrester9729]

I'm afraid I don't know Spanish so could you educate me as to what he said

[@b-bejaranogarridoeric3655]

@@brandonforrester9729 Mostly he just repeated things or made small puns

[@brandonforrester9729]

@@b-bejaranogarridoeric3655 sounds about right

[@autodidacticartisan]

​@@brandonforrester9729 at the beginning of the video when he met the first Ganado he said "do you kiss your mother with that mouth? shit."

[@DruCart]

Lemon's casual Spanish, joke or real, was quite intimidating coming out of nowhere. Amazing video!

[@mrw3951]

I watch all the videos at double speed so I for sure thought it was Italian near the end. I pictured the hand gesture and everything.

[@raynzen7773]

He said "you kiss your mother with that mouth? Shit"

[@moistloaf3854]

@@mrw3951 why do you watch at double speed?

[@A.B.O.R.C]

@@moistloaf3854 duh he's Speedrunning the video

[@A.B.O.R.C]

Don't you Speedrun all of lemons vids

[@toangreenlow2229]

The game has a cool difficulty setting. Enemies will have slightly more or less HP depending on how you've been doing, and the more ammo you have, the less ammo will drop. This also includes weapon types you have. If you don't have a rifle, rifle ammo will NEVER drop randomly. So you might have gotten more grenades if you had no guns at all

[@corneliusarmstrong5018]

Exactly what I was gonna say, he should have sold off his gun(s)

[@lmack3024]

@@corneliusarmstrong5018 Weren't you watching? He did sell off his rifle and shotgun

[@followeroftheprince]

Didn't he sell rifle ammo, even though he never bought a rifle? So that means he got ammo even though he didn't have the gun. I think he even sold shotgun ammo after already having sold the shotgun, meaning he got more ammo for a weapon he doesn't own Edit: Correction, I realize ammo sometimes is pre-spawned onto the world with nothing random going on, I just realized that

[@cactusmann5542]

There are fixed drops I tihnk for riffle ammo in some places. Usually always one near the first merchant encounter, I think a couple at the castle. Maybe one or two briefcases in the base....

[@provalone]

the trick to making the run easy is not having a handgun at all. no handgun means that you wind up with mine-thrower ammo for days once you hit the castle, and unless you are shooting near the burde.... I mean Ashley, you can solve problems with reckless abandon. just make sure to pick up a gun for the few times you need to shoot her restraints off.

[@samwill7259]

With all these grenades hanging around, Leon would have OWNED this town if he'd just thought to pack a potato gun. Instant RPG, just add compressed air!

[@stingerjohnny9951]

Shh shh, we don’t use the “p” word around here 🥔

[@SkoomaGodDovahkiin666]

I sincerely hope some Capcom devs come by this comment and add a tricked out potato gun to the Remake.

[@jakekebschull3730]

Military industrial complex: "contact us, we just want to talk"

[@ihatethatyoutubedisplaysyo8106]

@@stingerjohnny9951 Pack?

[@TCantwell]

I mean, RPG stands for Rocket propeled granade, so you not far off.

[@sethwood6501]

"Ashley handled the cranking while I handled the choking" is an S tier joke.

[@mitchellconner6928]

A couple tips from someone who has played this game way too much to anyone who wants to try this challenge themselves. 1: flashbangs will instantly kill any exposed parasites, such as the ones that pop out of enemy heads and the spider things in the mines. 2: You can shoot dynamite in enemy hands to detonate them. 3: don't buy the capacity upgrade for the mine thrower until it's low on ammo since capacity upgrades also refill the clip. 4: Keep an eye out for hanging oil lamps (mostly in the castle), they can be shot down and act as incendiary grenades. 5: During the Saddler fight, a special rocket launcher is given to you after enough damage is dealt, so you can start the fight with your regular one to instantly get the second, making a much easier fight. 6: You can knife bear traps to save ammo, but that's not really an issue in this run. 7: Replay on new game plus with the infinite launcher for a much more cathartic experience.

[@RedhoodJT]

The Krauser fight at the end is my favorite especially due to the fact he takes like double damage from the knife because game logic lmao.

[@coltonwilkie241]

It's a respect thing. If I wanted to have a knife fight I would definitely allow myself to take more damage if my opponent uses a knife. Just common decency really.

[@rodrigodelemos9048]

Not double, it's like 20 times as much (equal to a max upgrade broken butterfly I believe)

[@walrider115]

"Word of advice: Try using a knife next time. Works better for close quarters." -Leon to Ada

[@yeffaros8419]

Clearly we now need a RE5 explosives only with the Firebomb Goddess herself.

[@ashchain-thelonelycat1879]

My favorite thing about the bug room with the nest is if you shoot it enough, it falls off the ceiling and explodes and gives you a lot of treasures

[@TheBacklogs]

Huh. I learned something new today.

[@spooch3257]

15:11 Jarl Balgruuf isn't fooling anybody

[@heavystalin2419]

But he IS ballin'

[@ezequielroccasalvo2362]

"Luis is dead not deaf" best joke ever, still lmao, thanks great video.

[@blunderingfool]

That's a quip I think, jokes have punchlines.

[@maxdean9205]

I swear if in the remake Leon can't just dive out a window then spin kick a random person with the force to blow their head off I'm gonna be mad.

[@genocidaltriumph4771]

bro have u seen the gameplay? he can! it's awesome.

[@SinHurr]

He can parry a chainsaw with a knife so, I mean, that's pretty fuckin' cool too.

[@CErra310]

The rocket launcher in the castle is the only time you can carry 2 RLs at once. The merchant doesn't sell one if you have one in your inventory already, but if you buy one, the RL in the gallery doesn't disappear. You can do the same thing with the Punisher handgun by shooting the blue medals. Buy the normal punisher, then fetch the freebie, and you have two.

[@ThePadfam]

7:52 "Aand before ya know it we're injected with the plot" 💀💀

[@markgallagher1790]

This series definitely needs a playlist of its own

[@mx7_l2]

Man, lemon playing games other than souls games is such a breath of fresh still his content is second to none. Love the vids man keep it up

[@semajniomet981]

Indeed. I hope he does XCOM: EW (Enemy Within) with only non-primary weapons soon. This means only pistols, grenades, rockets, and melee as offensive options. Rather limiting, if you ask me.

[@TheBacklogs]

Does the Explosives Only run not count?

[@semajniomet981]

I guess it does count... though I imagine that a non-primary weapons run would probably be easier... and thus less un-fun. Another FUN XCOM: EW challenge run would be the unaimed run. The rules are simple: you may not directly aim at an enemy other than with overwatch. Free-aiming a rocket or grenade does not count as directly aiming at a target. ... Actually, that's already covered by the Explosives only run as well. Sorry to have bothered you. Also, thanks for responding to my comment Lemon!

[@Davion197]

18:32 - Not shooting enemies off in this scene is a crime. Ashley does a cute little fist pump gesture when getting a kill. Truly a cursed run without this.

[@TheBacklogs]

It's okay. She fistpumped the whole way down when we replayed that section on the 2nd channel haha

[@Davion197]

@@TheBacklogs Nice!!

[@darknessbobulus]

The chainsaw man scares me so bad as a kid that I couldn't play for months. I felt so accomplished when I came back and beat it One of my best childhood memories.

[@absolsama]

Heyy lemon its absol time to blow up som zombis

[@thesuperintendent8610]

What

[@paperclip6377]

Are you ok?

[@John_Conner_]

It's absol time to edit that a bit

[@absolsama]

@@John_Conner_ no

[@John_Conner_]

Fair enough consider it dropped 😅

[@nicklilley8601]

“Come on Ashley let’s go, I’m-“ “My father?!” “What? No, I’m Leon” Why did that make me laugh as much as it did lmao

[@mikoajciemiega8018]

You know that admitting that you are afraid of deep dark water and everything hiding there is just asking for your audience to never stop asking you to play subnautica

[@Forgotten_A.I.]

I just realized this dude has a but if dead pools humor. When the big guy in the black trench coat grabbed him 10:19 he Said "you have such firm hands, you should moisturise". That is perfect Deadpool humor. He then mixes in dad jokes, puns, and community jokes an I love it.

[@purplehaze2358]

5:46 I'm just sitting here wondering, "who the hell would put a grenade there?".

[@billywillaims293]

I get the feeling Lemon didn't know that all the birds in this game are loot pinatas. Just throw a flashbang, and on casual runs I've been drowning in grenades.

[@crispx19]

3:22 Nice comeback. No me esperaba eso 💀 buen toque amigo!

[@synonymdave]

What did he say? My spanish is at the level of a spanish toddler.

[@keithdye80]

Yea what was it

[@Heshla_Biea]

@@synonymdave I wasn't expecting this. Good touch friend.

[@spartan2867]

@@synonymdave also he closed a door and said "Busy!"

[@spartan2867]

@@synonymdave at 11:00 he says "I can only talk a little spanish"

[@WolfHreda]

I loved the day I found out that Flash Grenades kill birds and Las Plagas parasites. So handy.

[@rainydaysatyr]

He died so many times in the water room that the game didn't even spawn in the scythe guys. Poor Lemon.

[@neino36]

Aren't bullets just a highly directional explosive with proportionally large shrapnel?

[@briggy4359]

Lol, this is very true

[@DanteYewToob]

By that logic, next time I get a sunburn I’m telling people I took some minor explosive damage… lol When I ride my motorcycle to the store “I rode an explosion here.”

[@charnor2727]

@@DanteYewToob sun burn is radiation damage

[@fernando47180]

I believe ballistic projectiles are not considered shrapnel... or maybe they are. I'm not sure what the difference is between shrapnel and fragmentation

[@steelbear2063]

Bullets don't explode. They shatter a lot of times, yeah, but they don't explode. Just like glass doesn't explode

[@knavesquill9198]

"...and letting Ashley handle cranking while I handle choking..." Phrasing.

[@daddysnake5250]

i love the idea of Leon being so over outbreaks that he just decided to run through it while chucking grenades because he can't be bothered to care.

[@theretrodj907]

A Tye Taylor challenge video and a Backlogs challenge video the same day?? This Wednesday is gonna be goooood

[@aquilomancer]

With the recent ymfah vid too, its been a good time

[@borntobebroken]

my g's

[@kpDiDDy]

Yooo I just came here from watching the Tye Taylor vid 🤩

[@SuperRedraptor]

It is Wednesday my dude

[@theAshesofDecember1]

I feel like you could’ve still been within bounds of play by shooting axes out of the air and triggering dynamite while still in throwers hands.

[@yosoydave8521]

even using the knife if u fell like shooting brakes the rules

[@danhill3302]

He failed when he used bullets to trigger traps

[@Spookybluelights]

You and Leon are basically the same person, I love it.

[@cs_calzone]

I should really binge all lemons new videos, I miss quality challenge run videos

[@archbishopofthecrusades9579]

Tye Taylor is good if you want more raunchy humor. He does some quality runs too.

[@lauracollins2371]

Gamers weekend has really good dark souls challenge runs!

[@sos-pl8pf]

Doom Wolf is good too

[@alecerickson6677]

I’ve been craving Resident Evil content, perfect timing lemon

[@jacksmith3148]

No, Lemon! It's 2AM, I can't stay up and watch thi- RE4? Well, I guess I can spare 40 minutes of sleep anyway. I was probably just gonna waste it with dreams and stuff anyway.

[@moortu]

You have deadpool like humor. which is perfect

[@Dracophile7]

Next game: Dead Island Plenty of molotovs, plenty of bombs. Should be interesting

[@GobPalRosieVT]

The "My stained glass!" BROKE me lmao

[@niftynack1747]

The real challenge was the pun competition with Leon 😂 Will be interesting to see how many of his cheesy lines make it back into the Remake!

[@Luckyshoo]

All of them If they know what they're doing 🧐

[@Gamer3427]

Sadly the answer is too few of them, from what I've seen.

[@JoaoVictor-rg5ix]

Fewer. 😢😢😢

[@JoaoVictor-rg5ix]

Fewer of them. 😢😢😢😢 But i actually preffer his char in the remake. It has a LOT of continuity with Re 2 remake.

[@jinn8465]

That bit at 7:37 was fucking brilliant, lmao.

[@DanielWayota]

Ah, yes, the spanish people with mexican accent. Such a classic. Fun fact, the game's currency it's called Pesetas, the old spanish currency

[@phillipk4196]

at this point lemon needs an intervention with all these firebombs/firebomb adjacent runs!

[@a.seecharan6139]

Hell, it's bout time -tychus finlay

[@OniXY666]

" let Ashley handle cranking, as I handle choking....". I can't help but giggle

[@dtczyk8976]

So for the mine launcher because it gets so few ammo pick ups, the strategy is to use the capacity upgrade to refill it. So use the first 5, upgrade to 7 ext.

[@immortalonidragon]

I was actually curious if the mine thrower would've counted, happy to know that, yes, it does.

[@bubbyguppy]

My dude I love when you branch out from soulslikes. I came to your channel for it but I've grown to love the random stuff you pull out, xcom shivs only being a favorite of mine. I hope you don't ever feel pigeonholed into one genre

[@jaidenknight1160]

This was a pleasure to watch. I thoroughly enjoyed the gameplay and humor. I wish you the best in making more videos.

[@23pedrex23]

it's to late to tell you, but upgrading the ammo capacity of the mine launcher refill its ammo. So you could use all ammo before upgrading it

[@Sol.170]

My favorite part about these videos is “hey its lemon welcome to the backlogs” it just feel like im chillin with my homie or something makes me feel good 👏🏾

[@Jobbb854]

Honestly, you’re like really underrated you’re like my new favorite KZbinr I found your Contin yesterday and I love it you’re just really cool so she’s making content because a lot of people love it

[@sponge9553]

i would definitely be up for more RE4 challenges this is one of my favorite games

[@anaroniak]

omg what a blessing! I love your runs and I love this game! ✨️

[@ericmerrill9808]

Yo lemon! It’s fantastic to see you play one of my favorite games ever! As always I love your art and fun way you go about things. Keep up the amazing and entertaining work! Sincerely a Subscriber.

[@macncheeks5372]

This man sounds exactly like my Spanish teacher and clearly speaks fluently. Which scares me. Senor.

[@Salgood01]

Seeing Lemon immediately buy the capacity upgrades immediately instead of waiting to buy it after using up the current stock for free ammo.

[@AJ-W]

I have never been more excited to watch Lemon play a game. RE4 is pure nostalgia straight to the veins. I cannot wait for RE4 Remastered!

[@AzureKite]

Just picked this game back up, and you randomly post a video on it! That was a very funny coincidence. Always glad to see your content pop up on my feed.

[@WrenDog]

good run, good vid! and props for the Katana ZERO music in there at the cabin segment, I see you.

[@B--yg6vv]

Great video as always, I don't really knew this souls game existed but it seems fun to me :)

[@perryborn2777]

I think this video might have had some of your best quips from any video Very enjoyable, thanks Lemon

[@TheDarkanianRebellion]

Lemon getting extra respect just for playing this game from me huge fan of his dark souls playthroughs but this one most people ignore in a way love the content and will enjoy it as always

[@sirswifty4640]

Love your runs man, keep'em coming!

[@Countryshorty13]

Lemon, you've done it again. Thanks for the amazing work

[@Thenewbagman]

It doesnt matter how many years pass. i will always find hilarious that english speakers usually translates Monster of the lake like "delago" Literally the spanish translation its "monster of the lake or monster from the lake. Monster from the lake Monstruo del lago= "Delago monster"

[@Crayons317]

Haven't watched as I am at work but have a like and a comment. Keep up the good content!

[@kaigeboyett8236]

love the videos

[@matthiasweaver7810]

0/10 didn't replace the sound effect in the intro with "STAAAAAAAARS" Love your content mate, thanks for the quality gimmicks.

[@doobertonprowsa6285]

Heck yeah. The videos I never knew I wanted from the man I never knew I needed

[@JackWendigo1234]

Fun fact, Krauser will die after a few knife attacks in his final form.

[@RedDotGecko]

i found your channel about 2 weeks ago and i have watched about all your vids by now :D pls gib more darksouls ^^

[@alecschmidt1735]

best halloween / spooky time game … thanks for doing this one!

[@chaoticdetectivepeach]

"I have my own obsessions I have to battle with every day, any guesses what?" Me: Videogame Kleptomania

[@BastiaanBuellingAbadeonGaming]

Lemon : " A room full of lava, blablabla, shoot the chains"... me : " shoot the chains? wtf?!" I have played this game on gamecube, wii ps2 and PS4 and never knew you could shoot the chains... thanks Lemon :)

[@JoaoVictor-rg5ix]

Damm dude. You were living underneath a Rock. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@firestuka8850]

The VR version of Re4 was beyond amazing. Challenge runs in VR?

[@icedog55puck74]

your videos are always good keep up the good work.

[@hmsquared8603]

Lemon suddenly bursting into Spanish is my new favorite thing. Great video as always, sir!

[@toddclawson3619]

One of my favorite games. This is what got me into Resident Evil and horror games in general. Although I prefer the more action-horror games than say ones like outlast where you have to hide and run a lot. I just prefer to be able to kill all the monsters.

[@Otonio_Bruno]

3:22 "¿Besas a tu madre con esa boca?" OMG Died laughing at this.

[@LordofIsleofTritone]

That was so cool, and yeah I was concerned about the bulldozer trucks section when I saw this, cool to see the mine gun works

[@grfrjiglstan]

This game is just so good. Every single room is a new setpiece.

[@snake4342001]

Watched Dagon last night and Man did I get Resident Evil 4 deja vu. I mean even the background Spanish phrases is there ❤

[@bryanvillegasv.93]

The Backlogs: perfect. complete the game with only explosives Game: congratulations on completing the game, you have unlocked the infinite bazooka The Backlogs: seriously, f***. that would have been useful to me before completing the game

[@noahcharles2571]

Leon bomber is my favorite way to play! However there are no explosive pistols

[@rhysofsneezingdragon1758]

quick turn around from this challenge and the last

[@Your_Highlord]

As someone who broke their thumbs, mind and sanity trying to 100% this game on Professional... this was fucking great. RE4 was the first ever "Mature" game I ever played by myself, and I still love it to this day, and am very happy it's getting the Remaster treatment. Lemon, you do good work, now I'd like to see you beat RE5 with only Explosives. You'll like this one, you'll have a Grenade Launcher with several flavors of death!

[@PANCAKEMINEZZ]

To this day I still can't unheard the voice of Saddler also just being the same guy who voices Jarl Balgruuf in Skyrim.

[@mielkee4235]

It’s awesome when lemon uploads

[@ilanflame]

a backlogs on a Wensday, you made my week a little bit better

[@HE13272326]

"Only Explosives" *Proceeds to shoot the blue medals with the pistol*

[@JoshuaOdionson]

Lemon! Time for Sexy Party Leon!

[@NvFongyy]

Boggart in the cupboard reference was fire, I feel like it went over a lot of heads

[@ThatGuyOrby]

For those wondering the Rocket Launcher is technically well within the rules because the model belongs to the RPG family. Which quite literally stands for Rocket Propelled Grenade.

[@KhorneBrzrkr]

No it doesn’t. That’s a backronym invented to make sense of the Cyrillic acronym. The actual ancronym stands for shoulder-mounted anti-tank munition.

[@ThatGuyOrby]

@@KhorneBrzrkr incorrect the original Russian term "Ruchnoy Protivotankoviy Granatomyot" stands for "Handheld Anti-tank Grenade Launcher" translated and simplified into English to keep the original acronym you get Rocket Propelled Grenade. Either way (direct translation or simplification), still contains the word grenade and is valid by the name of the challenge run.

[@KhorneBrzrkr]

@@ThatGuyOrby ...which is *drum roll* NOT "Rocket propelled grenade". I don't see the words "rocket" or "propelled" anywhere there. Do you? And it wouldn't matter if the acronym spelled out "grenade propelled by a rocket" because then you'd STILL be wrong because that would make the acronym GPR.

[@ThatGuyOrby]

@@KhorneBrzrkr Why the hell is this so important to you exactly? You're just being a dick and using a whole lot of words to say absolutely nothing of value. You're literally just arguing semantics at this point and it's ridiculous. The RPG series of Rocket Launchers fire a rocket propelled projectile that's not debatable that's literally how they fire at all in the first place, the projectile is identified as a grenade by the original Russian, it is a Rocket Propelled Grenade. Go find another hill to die on. Whatever your argument is supposed to be is completely irrelevant as it holds no technical ground. Did you even realize the point of the damn comment? The whole point of the comment is that the Rocket Launcher by definition is allowed by the rules no matter what translation you use and you're out here just getting pissed about an acronym.

[@scrungobeepis5443]

I’m pretty sure it’s just “Really Powerful Gun”, it packs a big punch and is a gun (Note the trigger)

[@josealigueri1570]

Hi man, i love your videos you always make me laugh, 😁 plus the challenge runs are always great to watch, si quieres aprender más español yo te puedo ayudar

[@dreamguest3597]

God your videos are so good to eat to. Since I found your channel, I only eat when you upload

[@Knytewish]

The Kirby theme at the end with the chopper really made me smile.

[@Jermanaut]

After being attacked by endless amounts of chickens in zelda games; I didn't question the logic behind Lemon's theory of them murdering the townsfolk.

[@swagwolfgang]

Honestly if you were to collect grenades and not use them you would have enough to fill the entire case by the end of the game😂

[@anonecki]

What's crazy is that I finished my first playthrough of RE4 around the exact time this video went up