At this level, it actually looks like Resident Evil Requiem director Koshi Nakanishi is simply trolling us about Leon Kennedy not being in the game in any respect.
Regardless of Leon having been closely rumored to be in Resident Evil 9 to a point, he was utterly absent from the game’s reveal trailer. As a substitute, the trailer introduces FBI agent Grace Ashcroft, daughter of Resident Evil Outbreak hero Alyssa Ashcroft, who Nakanishi has stated is “the new important character.”
Naturally, that has finished very little to quell the refrain of Resi followers insistent that the subsequent installment will allow them to play as their favourite Raccoon Metropolis copper, their optimism largely buoyed by rumors from famous leaker Nightfall Golem claiming there are no less than two playable characters in the game and that Leon is in truth “the important character.”
Nonetheless, in Capcom’s new Creator’s Message video on Resident Evil Requiem, Nakanishi as soon as once more strongly suggests Leon is not in the game, going so far as to name the bonafide horror icon a bad match for the style.
“We at all times thought of making Leon the protagonist, however making a horror game based mostly round him is tough,” Nakanishi says. “He would not bounce at one thing like a bucket falling. Nobody desires to see Leon scared by each little factor. So he’s really fairly a bad match for horror.”
This is bait. I can see it in Nakanishi’s eyes. Resident Evil Requiem is launching a month earlier than the sequence’ thirtieth anniversary; what higher method to pay homage to its roots than to convey again the authentic protagonist? And the give attention to the RPD? Get outta right here.
I do not doubt that Grace will play a vital function in the story, and she very nicely might be the important protagonist, however I am extra satisfied than ever that Leon’s coming again.
The truth is, now that I am totally overthinking this, I will be stunned if he would not come again as a playable character, purely as a result of Capcom is doing a lot to hide and now seemingly tease his look. It would be fairly anticlimactic for all of those shenanigans to culminate in a non-playable look.
For what it is price, I checked in on Nightfall Golem after watching this new video and he still maintains, “I am 100% Leon is the protagonist nonetheless.” And to be truthful, Nakanishi would not explicitly say Leon will not be in the game, or even that he will not be the important character! It would not be terribly uncommon for a game creator to outright lie in service of a good shock reveal, nevertheless it appears Nakanishi desires to keep up his good title if and when Leon is revealed.
We’ll discover out when Resident Evil Requiem launches on February 27 for PS5, Xbox Sequence X, and PC. Or, presumably earlier than that, as a result of leaks and all.
Resident Evil Requiem’s demo tops the sequence’ scariest moments with what may be the most upsetting monster Capcom’s ever devised, and as a horror child I am afraid of how a lot I need to play it
