Is Ashley A Big Problem For Anyone Else?

[Pegasis-Vera (She/They)]

Hi, so I am coming from the original, I've beaten it more times than I could ever count, pro mode, Separate Ways, even Assignment Ada and Mercenaries are under my belt so this game's general structure and gameplay is FAR from new to me. And you know what? I absolutely love this version! At times. You see, I have some issues with the way Ashley behaves in this version and was wondering if anyone was bothered by the same things, and oddly, they happen to be a lot of the same gripes I have with the VR version of the original too. Ashley seems inconsistent, never really listening to what I want her to do, you can't tell her to sit in one spot which means she is ALWAYS with you when she's with you, she constantly gets me caught by enemies, constantly gets in the way of my bullets, and worst of all, her shiny new "Incapacitated" state and "Help" state where she's being dragged away. I don't know, the one hit thing with infinite health so all you gotta do is pick her up and you're good to go sounds great, right? I thought so, but admittedly that was a mistake. Whenever she gets hit, I noticed enemies absolutely swarm her to kill her as fast as they can, so it's virtually impossible to save her at that point unless there's only one momster which is a RARE occasion I might add. The other issue being that she sits there instead if the original where she actually stays with you. In terms of her being dragged away, enemies LOVE going around a wall that goes in circles and sprinting and feeling little pain from getting shot which would be fine if it weren't for the new feature of this annoying state, after like 30 seconds, regardless of if she's near a door or anywhere they can take her away, and Leon can still see her, about to stab the Ganado grabbing her, she still gets taken through a door and failing the game. I don't know, that bothers me, personally, and there's a HUUUUUGE discrepancy between deaths when I'm alone, and deaths when I have her. I average surviving first try without her, but with her, my death count on average is 5 which is absurd.

[thorin.hannahs]

Yeah I have cursed her many times throughout my play through so far. I think it has more to do with Ganado making successful saves on their "feel no pain" rolls. You have to put 3-4 rounds in them to get them to stop unless it is a shotgun. Waste disposal was a pain for this reason.

[Fry]

came here for this, im doing professional speed run and in the castle she is the biggest POS on the planet. what a drainer

[Glenarn]

I had 1 death my entire playthrough and it was when we run away from from Chief Mendez and one of the axe wielding Ganados at the start threw the axe and it hit Ashley and knocked her down, I went to pick her up and got punched by him and he picked up Ashley and got a forced cutscene where he just walks away.

I can already see that section being annoying for speedruns if they get a lucky hit on her.

[Fry]

Originally posted by Glenarn:

I can already see that section being annoying for speedruns if they get a lucky hit on her.

yep feeling it rn

[Sm Izumi]

I had no problems until i did my NG+ on Pro.

Damn Big Bearded Boi keep catching her so fast, instant game over... it's really bad.

[Legalize Cocaine ||||]

No problem at all

[Alfred Kodani]

Ashley falls behind when you tell her to keep close, and runs toward enemies when you tell her to stay back. It's not designed very well.

[Dżuma]

she's not that bad but i think original ashley was smarter
she had whole health bar, here she dies after two hits
also in the original you could command her to wait, here you can tell here to stay in closet but i remember only two closet in my playthrought

[Dżuma]

worst part was that big cheese chase

[belangf]

Not too bad, except for a few parts like the catapults. Mostly I find it annoying that she sounds out of breath for 5 minutes each time we jog 10 seconds.

[Sm Izumi]

Originally posted by belangf:

Not too bad, except for a few parts like the catapults. Mostly I find it annoying that she sounds out of breath for 5 minutes each time we jog 10 seconds.

When you put it in Japanese, she sounds like a porn actress doing weird stuff, it's very distracting.