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Resident Evil 4 (2023)

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You laugh, but these are actually incredibly useful in a minimum shots fired run, especially if you aren't farming random grenades (ain't nobody got time for that). You've probably seen many of these if you've watched my "Things you can do with 99 eggs" series, but they were merely curiosities then. Little did I know I would find a use for them later! I'm posting these because I've never seen anyone mention using eggs in a minimum shots fired run before for anything other than healing. The big problem with doing this run with no random pickups is that you have LITERALLY one spare hand grenade before U3. That is, you need every single accessible hand grenade up to that point just to progress in the game, but if you use the egg strat on the crow in 1-1 you'll have a precious, precious extra. You need to make up this lack of hand grenades with (primarily) incendiaries and you will have precious few of those to spare, also. Luckily, these egg strats will save you a number of flash grenades, and flashes can replace incendiaries in a number of spots. Plus it's ALWAYS nice to have some extra flashes in a run like this. NOTE: I didn't include the 5-2 wrecking ball room egg strat because that's already well known and I'd have to get through a lot of tough sections in the run to get there. Also, I just realized there's a flash grenade crow in 5-1 that can be egged and knifed, but I'm going to use the same excuse for not including that, too lol.

Here are the times to skip straight to the different strats:
- 0:00 Egg the 1-1 hand grenade crow (nets a grenade/saves a flash). You REALLY want to do this one.

- 0:42 Egg the tripwire at the end of 1-1 (you can lure a dynamite ganado to blow it up also, but it takes a bit of time)

- 1:00 Egg the flash grenade crow in 1-3 (it's generally easier to just run into the flock and knife it, but I included this because why not)

- 1:12 Egg Luis down the stairs until he enters "Leon, upstairs" mode (I absolutely love this Big_Balled_Bill cabin strat; I would normally use a flash to force Luis down the stairs and buy some time, but using 3 eggs will spare you a flash. Careful, Luis will kill you if you hit him with more than 3 eggs lol)

- 3:00 Egg the first jumper on the gondola ride (You can also egg the other guys, but it's harder and not as useful. When the first jumper lands, you'll be stunned and you're almost guaranteed to take a hit. This avoids that. You could use a flash grenade to knock the jumper off the ledge, but why do that when you could egg him? If you're wondering why the later ganados aren't doing follow up axe throws and why the final one doesn't spawn, that's a quirk of standing in the back corner)

- 4:00 Egg the mad truck driver at the end of 2-3 (saves a flash)

- 4:24 Egg the dragon zealot in 4-1 (saves a flash)

- 5:11 Egg the drill zealots in 4-1 (saves a flash)

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