Instead all we get it is a corridor from the mendez boss fight straight to the castle gates, yes we go from a shitty shack in the woods to the main gate of the castle, the level design is so inferior it's unreal
Glad you mention this. In the demo of REmake4 Leon jumps out of the window of the house he first visits falling in its backyard, an area cleaned up perhaps for wood storing purposes, with a nice path leading to a bridge; however, there are no doors nor stairs to access the interior of house from that place, and no walkable ways around the building to reach the main gate either. It doesn't make any sense, they built a stone bridge to reach the back of a house with no way to get inside, they made a path with a whole bridge to reach a dead end, and other than jumping out the window there's no way from the house to go out to that backyard, so the enemies can't reach Leon. It doesn't make sense and makes the game feel like an ill paced patchwork where the player gets a massive respite and is denied the opportunity to be threatened and fight right after seeing Leon feel distressed in a cutscene.
Meanwhile, in the original, Leon jumps out the window to fall in front of the façade he entered through, and a path previously blocked has been cleared thanks to a truck moving away. As he has his back to the door, a couple of enemies pop out of it (they previously had gotten inside to kill him, forcing him to jump in the first place) pressing the player into either run or fight. It makes sense, and it creates an interesting game moment that is built up on a brief cutscene continuing the action with player control.
The decline in level design is massive, there was no reason whatsoever to make this retarded change other than to wilfully deteriorate the quality of the game, because they could still appeal to complete morons who couldn't even handle the mainstream original product without being this idiotic. It's not even the enemies not following Leon but the sheer stupidity of the way the space has been designed that is most insulting.