Capcom’s Resident Evil Requiem appears to be shaping as much as be one thing particular. We’ve seen loads of footage of the sport now and the hearsay which has been doing to rounds since its reveal is that it’s going to characteristic Leon Kennedy. IGN spoke with Resident Evil: Reiquem director, Koshi Nakanishi and producer Masato Kumazama, who informed them that whereas they don’t need to wipe the slate clear with contemporary new characters in each new entry and so they additionally don’t need to return to the present pool of characters within the long-running franchise once they create new video games within the sequence. The duo mentioned that this was “a part of the motivation” to introduce Grace in Resident Evil Requiem.
“Though we don’t have agency plans for the long run storylines of later titles within the sequence, I nonetheless suppose passing the torch might be going a bit too far, as a result of we’re not simply going to wipe the slate clear fully when it comes to the sequence lore and historical past. However on the identical time I don’t need to all the time have to only return to the effectively of current characters to create new video games, which was a part of the motivation to introduce Grace.”
