Chapter 1-1 (Resident Evil 4)

Approaching Pueblo
Snipe the crows in front of you if you want, then examine them for some items. Head for the small house on your left. On the left side of the house, you'll see a wagon thing with a crate on it. Hold your L1 button to get your knife out, then press the X button to swing the knife, which will break the crate. It might drop an item, or it might not. Either way, enter the house through the front now.

Head to the back of the house to chat with the villager. Once you get control of Leon again, use your R1 button to aim for the enemy's head, then press the X button to fire your handgun. You almost always have to hit enemies at least twice in the head to kill them. After the enemy's been dealt with, check him for equipment, then head up the stairs in the back of the house. Grab the ammo from the table, then jump out the window.

Deal with the three enemies down here, then grab their equipment. Head for the next shack thing behind where the truck used to be. Grab all of the items from inside and save your game using the typewriter.

You'll encounter a wolf trapped in a bear trap along the path. Free him, he does not attack you. Freeing him will also give explanation of it's appearence in a later battle.

Continue down the trail. You can pick off some more crows here if you'd like. Grab the Red Herb from the bush to the right of the Pueblo sign, then continue. Stay on the path, since there are traps in the shrubs. Be especially careful not to walk into the tripwires between the trees, since they'll blast you. When you make it past the tripwires, another enemy will attack you. Deal with him, then head up the hill to continue your way down the path.

When you approach the next cabin, two more enemies will appear. Take care of both of them, then enter the cabin to collect all of the items inside. Head down the path to cross the rope bridge next. There's an enemy waiting inside the cabin on the left, so don't just blindly run in there. Take care of him, then grab the items. Open the gate at the end of the path when you're done.

Pueblo
Head into the town, taking a look with your binoculars if you want. You can try to sneak around the village without being seen, but it won't help you - there's no way you can leave until the villagers notice you, at which time you'll be forced to fight them off. There's no set method you have to use to accomplish this, but there are a few things you should keep in mind:

1) Trying to leave the village will result in an angry villager armed with a chainsaw attacking you.  While this might seem like a bad thing, you'll get a Ruby from him if you kill him.

2) Entering the large house with the fence in front of it will also result in an attack by a chainsaw villager.  This one will drop 10,000 pesetas when you kill him.  Even better yet - there's a shotgun on the wall on the second floor of the house, which will make the battle much easier.

If you'd like to make as much money and collect as many items as possible, you should first run through the village to get the attention of the villagers, then attempt to exit the village through the gate past the tower. Once the first chainsaw guy and the rest of the villagers are chasing you, enter the house with the fence in front of it to make the second chainsaw guy appear.

A cutscene will occur when you enter the house. After it's over, make Leon shove the large shelf in front of the window to delay the villagers, then raid the house. Your first stop should be the second floor, so run up the stairs and grab the shotgun from the wall at the top. Smash the glass on the shelf to find a very helpful hand grenade, then grab the pesetas from the nearby table as well as the shotgun shells from the bed.

Run back down the stairs now, then run past the large table and smash the barrels underneath the stairs to find some items (and don't forget the hand gun bullets on the shelf). Get in the far back corner behind the table to prepare for the upcoming fight. The villagers will eventually break through the window and door, so be prepared to stop them from reaching you.

The best way to do this is to aim for the legs of the first group to make them fall down, then toss a hand grenade over there when a large enough group of them are there. Hopefully you can get the chainsaw guys with the grenades too, but if not, you'll need to knock them down with the shotgun. Make absolutely sure you kill the chainsaw guys first if you want to get their treasures, since the battle will end after a while and any enemies that aren't dead yet will just vanish.

If you find yourself having trouble fighting off such a large hoard inside the house, you can always avoid entering it and making the chainsaw men appear. You won't get as much booty after the fight, but it should be considerably easier for you. Instead of fighting from that house, simply enter a different structure and use the same strategy. The house across from the large one is particularly good, since you can get in the bedroom and defend the single door.

After the battle, make sure to scour the village for items (refer to the picture for item locations). Once you're sure you've collected all the items you can, head through the gate near the tower.

Farm
There's a typewriter in the hut on the left, so use it immediately. There are only a few villagers here, so don't worry too much about causing a scene. Next to the shack the typewriter is in, you'll see a well, and there's a necklace dangling above it. Shoot the poll holding the wooden slab up, then shoot the necklace where it's hanging from the wood to knock it down. (If you fail to shoot the stick first, the necklace will fall into the water, causing a significant reduction in its sale price.) Grab the necklace, then turn around to deal with the villagers that will attack you for making noise.

There are items scattered throughout the farm, so start scouring the area. Don't miss the grenade in a barrel behind one of the shacks, and don't miss the "beerstein" item (you need to jump out the window in the hayloft, then fall to the lower level on the right side of the walkway to reach the crate where the beerstein is).

You'll also want to take the blue poster attached to a tree near the entrance. Take the poster, then use your map to track down the seven blue jewels in the farm area. Shoot them all, then save at the typewriter and exit the area through the next gate.

Boobytraps
Start to run down the hill, and some villagers will have an interesting surprise for you. Start jamming your X button as fast as possible, and when the notice pops up on the screen, jam those buttons (either R1+L1 or X+Square) to dodge the rock.

Head through the tunnel at the bottom of the hill, shooting the two shiny spots in the ceiling to get two Spinels. At the end of the tunnel, you'll see another red sign with skulls attached to it. That means there are traps in the area. In this instance, the traps are bear traps, tripwires, and villagers armed with dynamite.

Pick off the villager standing in the open first, then pick off the one inside the house in front of you. Look at the ground and shoot the bear traps to set them off, then set off the tripwire inside the small shed. Deal with the villager on the far side of that shed, then deal with the explosive-throwing villager inside the house on that end.

Enter the first house through the window in the back, then take all of the items you can find in it. Jump back out through the window, then shoot the nest in the tree between the two houses to collect a Red Catseye. There's a crate on the right side of the large house, so go grab its contents, then kick the locked door to get inside the large house. (You can use your knife or a bullet to break the lock instantly if you'd prefer.)

Grab the ammo from the table and the money from the cabinet, then save your game. Enter the small hallway, stand back, and shoot one of the explosives. Shoot one of the explosives in the next room too, then grab the money from the table and the Green Herb from the cabinet. Push the bookshelf away from the next doorway, then enter the next area and open the cabinet.