This guy is the only video game character known to date that can scare me half to death with the exception of Sonic's drowning music. I’m not that old and I’m not that young, but this guy can scare me no matter what.
He was first introduced in Resident Evil 4 in the village. A certain action must happen in order to release the guy at the very first part where all the villagers comes after you (You have to go inside a two-story house and retrieve the shotgun to trigger a cutscene that has him activated as an enemy you must kill). This guy can take multiple hits from a shot gun, even up close. Of course, once he gets to you, you’re automatically dead. Who else can survive a chainsaw to the neck? I don’t think anyone so far. Yeah, he's easier to take down if you have different sorts of grenades, but I like a challenge where I have no throwing weapons and hardly got any ammo on me as well. THAT'S horror for you right there folks.
He’s a big, oversized scary piece of horror in brown overalls with a potato sack over his head wielding a chainsaw. I mean, he makes Leatherface look like a freaking joke! Sure, Leatherface has human skin over his face, but I can easily mistake that as a plastic mask rather than actual flesh... Well, unless I'm not close to him to actually smell the horrific odor that comes from it. But still, overalls!!!
Dr. Salvador wasn't the only big guy that was in this game. No, you had:
The Bella Sisters. They were also a threat in this game, having a sister pair wielding chainsaws coming after you at the same time, but they were really easy to take out. If memory serves me correctly, because I have not played the game in such a long time, you encounter them twice in the village area, where one of the encounters you can easily cheat your way to victory against them by heading up on this second story of a farm building and keep knocking down the ladder while also shooting them from above. And the second encounter is when you're jumping over gaps in this one area where all you can do is keep jumping back and forth while also standing right next to the ledge so it's kind of hard to have them jump over. They're really easy to take out if you have one in front of you while the other is off in some god forsaken realm of the unknown.
The Garrador. He's this blind monster with Vega-like claws coming after you after you somehow observe closely at this one statue in Salazar's castle. If you run, he comes after you, if you shoot, he comes after you. He uses his extremely sensational hearing to figure out where you're at. You also encounter this thing again when you pick up I think an hour glass in this other room where a very small cage comes dropping down, trapping you with the Garrador, and both doors are locked... while cultists are shooting flamed arrows at you. In order to defeat this guy, you have to somewhat distract him. The first encounter, you have to shoot the bells on both sides of the room. He'll come charging after those and he'll get stuck. There, this worm-like tentacles will come out and you have to shoot at that. The second encounter is a little tricky because of how much space you have in between him and you. If you can somehow get the doors unlocked, you're pretty much in the green zone in this area. Otherwise, you really have to be careful not to get hit when he just randomly starts swiping at the air when he thinks he's right next to you.
There are other mini-bosses in this game that I really don't feel like mentioning because they didn't bring enough challenge to me when I fought them. Yeah, they were tough to take down, but if I didn't find a challenge against them, they're not worthy in my post.
Dr. Salvador will always be the only character in video game history that scares me during every single encounter. I freak out so much when I have to fight against him in Mercenaries in the areas that you encounter him (because otherwise you're fighting against the Garrador). I freak out even more when I hear him at the very start of the arena... But sadly, they had to ruin my fun with him when he was replaced with his replacement in RE5... And what I mean is, THEY CENSORED OUT THE DECAPITATION!!! That's what I mean!!! (If you really thought I was that low... think again.) Apparently, some countries found that Leon's head decapitation was too graphic and horrifying that if Capcom were to sell RE5 in their country, they had to censor out a few things. They literally took my favorite death scene into a laughing stock come towards the next game.
And some people still ask me why I haven't really touched Resident Evil 5.
Shameful.
>'-'<
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