Capcom says that they don’t all the time need to revisit Resident Evil characters

Capcom’s Resident Evil Requiem seems 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’ll characteristic Leon Kennedy. IGN spoke with Resident Evil: Reiquem director, Koshi Nakanishi and producer Masato Kumazama, who instructed them that whereas they don’t need to wipe the slate clear with recent 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 after they create new video games within the collection. The duo stated that this was “a part of the motivation” to introduce Grace in Resident Evil Requiem.

“Though we don’t have agency plans for the longer term storylines of later titles within the collection, I nonetheless assume 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 by way of the collection lore and historical past. However on the identical time I don’t need to all the time have to only return to the nicely of present characters to create new video games, which was a part of the motivation to introduce Grace.”

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