Horror elements? Can’t argue with you there. There’s definitely horror elements there. But survival horror, which is the house that the fuckin series built, was gone.
the only tension in resident evil 4 is managing Ashley or early on with the chainsaw shit. Other than that, there’s no fear of running out of ammo. You can just buy shit from the merchant. You don’t have to cautiously enter rooms because of what may lie ahead because enemies more or less announced themselves with all the talking…and more often than not, they run towards you. They took out the survival horror aspect of Resident Evil until 7 and quickly transformed the series, starting from 4 and on into action movie games with zombies