During your time playing Resident Evil 4 you will meet some iconic characters as well as some rather strange charaters. There is a total of 16 important characters as well as others that are not so important and also the bosses that you will have to defeat.
Mentioned above in the characters section bosses play a massive part in why Resident Evil 4 is rated as one of the best games ever, this could be because you are scared that you don't have enough resources to defeat that boss or it can scary you by a jumpscare or anyway that you aren't expecting it to. There is also a boss in the game the makes it easier if you only use a melee weapon to defeat it but many people would not think to do that when they can use a gun instead
The goal of the game is to rescue a character called Ashley Graham who is the president's daughter and who has been captered by the evil villagers, You play as Leon who in the previous game escaped Racoon City and got promoted to this job because the president thinks that his one of the only people that will be able to find Ashley and bring her back.
The weapon located below is my favourite because it can just kill anything in the way, the only one big problem with this gun is that it runs out of bullets quickly. This weapon is what many people use when playing this game due to it being one of the best if you upgrade it enough and when it gets to the high upgrades you can then use it to kill bosses really fast as long as you have enough bullets to do so.

In Resident Evil 4 a lot of the main characters are very likable and they are liked in the fanbase for example Leon is one of the most requested characters to make a return in a future game which is most likely going to have in the upcoming years also people want to know more about Ada Wong because her real name isn't actually Ada Wong as we have not been told her name and we probably won't find out her name ever as it keeps her mysterious persona which I think suits her. One character that is rated as more annoying than anything is Ashley because lots of people claim that she goes out of her way to get killed and when your protecting her i don't struggle that much you just got to watch her so that she does not get grabbed and taken resulting in a game over but even when she does get grabbed it only requires one shot from any weapon to knock the enemy over
This is one of the buildings that you will see during the capter 1-1 and you can see that it is a cabin and this sets an unsettling feel as when you go there it is completely empty, normally when you see a cabin you can see people having a good time together but when you enter the cabin as Leon you almost get killed by this villager with an axe which starts the first battle of the game.
Graham (president)
Ashley Graham (president's daughter)
Ingrid Hannigan
Leon Scott Kennedy
Jack Krauser
Bitores Mendez
Merchant
Mike
Rodrigo
Osmund Saddler
Salazar
Ramon Salazar
Luis Sera
Spanish Cops
Albert Wesker
Ada Wong