The Resident Evil 4 headless statue puzzle blocks your way through the Great Hall, preventing you from progressing further into the castle. You have to collect three golden animal heads – a lion, a snake and a goat – that have been removed from the chimera for some reason to keep a door locked. Unfortunately, the three Resident Evil 4 Remake heads are scattered throughout the rooms branching off from the Great Hall, so you’ll have to do quite a bit of research (and fighting) to add them to the statue. Below we’ve explained exactly how to obtain all three animal heads to easily complete the Resident Evil 4 headless statue puzzle in the Great Hall during Chapter 9.
Resident Evil 4 Grand Hall Headless Puzzle Guide
You’ll need to get a snake head from the dining room, a lion head from the armory, and a goat head from the gallery to complete Resident Evil 4’s headless statue puzzle. You don’t have to collect them in this order either. Placing all three heads will open the nearby door to the right of the statue, allowing you to proceed.
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To get the snake head, go through the door to the left of the chimera statue in the Great Hall – which is north on the map. This leads to the dining room and you should immediately see the golden snake head behind bars in a large chest.
To lower the bars and collect the snake head, you must solve a puzzle involving the chairs at the dining table and the two painted portraits at the end of the room. We have a separate puzzle guide for the Resident Evil 4 dining room that explains the puzzles in depth. solution, but in short: you must match the seating arrangements depicted in the portraits. Once you’ve placed Leon and Ashely in the right spots, the bars will lower so you can grab the golden snake head and place it on the headless statue from Resident Evil 4.
Resident evil 4 lion head location
To get the lion head for the headless statue, you need to go to the armory:
Enter the armory through the north door on the top floor of the Great Hall. Go up the nearby stairs and then go through the north door. Follow the hallway all the way to get to the Armory, but you can also collect a small Resident Evil 4 key along the way.
Drop down into the armory and grab the lion head from the statue. Too easy, you might say.
Defeat all the animated suits of armor. The Knight armor can only be damaged by shooting the Plagas parasite where the neck of the armor is. Make sure they don’t get too close, as their sword attacks also do a lot of damage.
Help Ashley downstairs and open the exit door together. As you walk down the corridor leading back to the Great Hall, make sure to retrieve the cube-shaped device from the chest, which is needed to unlock the Resident Evil 4 square key boxes in the castle.
Now that you’re back in the Great Hall, you can place the lion’s head on the headless chimera and then take the goat’s head.
Resident Evil 4 goat head location
To retrieve the goat head for the decapitated Resident Evil 4 statue, you’ll need to use the upper level of the Great Hall again, this time to enter the Gallery.
Enter the Gallery through the south door on the top floor of the Great Hall. Go up the nearby stairs and through the south door to reach the Gallery.
Start by crossing the Gallery Bridge to trigger the next combat encounter. You can see that the goat’s head is attached to another statue at the end of this bridge, but as you walk past it, many fanatics flood into the room and lower the bridge.
Pull the lever on the top level to raise the bridge. Use the ladder on the west side of the Gallery to reach the upper level, then run along the balcony and throw the lever. Keep in mind that fanatics will constantly try to attack Leon and kidnap Ashley, so you need to kill a lot of enemies and act quickly. There will also be a red fanatic that will mutate the regular fanatics, and those are flashbangs Real effective against these enemies.
Go up the north stairs to reach the bridge and cross it to get the goat head. Once you’ve collected the head, head back the way you came to the Great Hall.
With the goat head in hand, place it on the headless statue in the Great Hall to complete the chimera and open the door on the right. However, not everything goes smoothly and now you have to solve the Resident Evil 4 clock puzzle.
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