Before You Start

Jill Valentine — Escape from Raccoon City

This guide covers the full main route of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis — one continuous campaign, Jill for almost all of it with a short switch to Carlos during the hospital. Nemesis shows up far more often than the Tyrant did in RE2, sometimes on a script and sometimes at random; most encounters can be skipped by dodging, but beating him drops unique weapon parts every time.

Difficulty:

Hard

Key Points

Inventory: 8 slots (10 with the Pouch)
Playable: Jill throughout, plus a short Carlos section at the hospital
Main Threat: Nemesis — scripted and random ambushes, always relentless
Core Mechanics: Emergency dodge and gunpowder crafting

Recommendations

This route assumes Hard mode, not Easy.
Use the handgun on lone zombies and walk past hordes; dodge instead of fighting whenever you can.
Craft gunpowder constantly — A alone makes handgun rounds, and build toward C and CC for the freezing rounds (Clock Tower) and acid rounds (factory) that Nemesis is weak to.
Herbs: heal only on a red bar or when poisoned, and mix green+red or green+blue. Avoid triple-green, red on its own, and First Aid Sprays if you care about your rank.
For an A or B rank: finish in roughly under three hours, save as rarely as you can, and never heal with a spray, red herb, or triple-green.
Pick up files in the correct order across the whole run to unlock Jill's Diary — the guide flags each one where it matters.
On the live-decision prompts, choose before the screen turns red and the game picks the default for you.

Jill Valentine — Escape from Raccoon City

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