Requiem’ Will Refocus On the Sequence’ Previous

After the sequence explored new, undead ground within the final two foremost video games, Resident Evil: Requiem goes again to narrative threads from the franchise’s previous.

In a current PlayStation Blog interview, producer Masato Kumazawa talked about Requiem’s timing as a sport for the sequence’ thirtieth anniversary. The place Ethan Winters’ two video games “explored [the series’] broader world, Capcom wished to “return to a narrative that continues the overarching narrative rooted in Raccoon Metropolis and the key machinations of the Umbrella Company.” Discounting the remakes of older video games, each have been absent from the sequence for fairly a while—town was overrun with contaminated again in Resident Evil 2 and three and subsequently bombed, which led to Umbrella going bankrupt after it was discovered responsible for town’s destruction.

Resident Evil: Requiem is returns to town almost 30 years later and facilities on Grace Ashcroft, daughter of Raccoon Metropolis survivor (and Resident Evil: Outbreak protagonist) Alyssa. Kumazawa mentioned the workforce wished a protagonist with private ties to town, which led them to the Ashcrofts. Alyssa has been lifeless for years, however Grace remains to be affected by the loss, and Kumazawa teased the sport’s subtitle can be becoming in additional methods than one.

“[It’s] a requiem for Grace, and a requiem for the entire individuals who had been caught up within the Raccoon Metropolis incident, to call however just some examples,” he mentioned. “However when you full the sport, I imagine you’ll discover much more ranges of which means for the subtitle.”

Another excuse Grace is getting the highlight? Requiem is extra horror-focused, and Capcom wished somebody who was relatable and a scaredy cat. In a video that includes the sport’s inventive leads, director Koshi Nakanishi admitted they thought of making RE2 protagonist Leon the lead of this sport, however pivoted as a result of he’s “fairly a foul match for horror. He wouldn’t bounce at one thing like a bucket falling. Nobody needs to see Leon scared by each little factor.”

That hasn’t stopped followers from speculating that Capcom’s bluffing and he’ll be in Resident Evil: Requiem in some capability, given the journey again to Raccoon Metropolis. We’ll discover out when (or possibly even earlier than) the sport releases February 27, 2026 for PlayStation 5, PC, and Xbox Sequence X|S.

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