Capcom has said that Resident Evil Requiem is being designed in such a method as to let these new to the franchise nonetheless have enjoyable and perceive the story. Nevertheless, the title will even characteristic Easter eggs and references to different titles, which signifies that long-time followers of the sequence could have a lot extra to stay up for. In an interview with VGC, producer Masato Kumazawa spoke in regards to the significance of hanging a steadiness relating to having Easter eggs within the recreation and having or not it’s a pure expertise.
“We predict it’s vital to steadiness the additional enjoyable that you simply get from nostalgic Easter Eggs and hints and lore connections if you happen to’re a sequence fan, versus not making a recreation alienating to gamers who aren’t caught up,” defined Kumazawa. “I don’t need folks to really feel they should do their homework to completely respect this recreation.”
Nevertheless, relating to truly taking part in the sport, he famous that newcomers to the franchise will nonetheless be “in a position to perceive and luxuriate in it 100%,” whereas long-time followers will get extra out of the references and different lore connections, letting them “take pleasure in it 150%” because of the additional stage of element.
“So whereas we’re probably not going into precisely how a lot and what you’ll see of Raccoon Metropolis all through the complete recreation, I feel that if you happen to don’t know something about it, you’re simply going to play this as a horror recreation set in a ruined metropolis, and also you’ll have the ability to perceive and luxuriate in it 100%,” he stated.
“If you happen to’re a fan and also you see all of the connections and the lore hyperlinks and the background hints and stuff, I feel you’ll take pleasure in it 150%, and it’ll offer you that further stage of element, however we don’t need to make it in order that you need to know in regards to the incident and perceive the connection between that timeline with the intention to perceive the sport.”
These sorts of issues possible begin changing into frequent for studios which were engaged on long-running franchises with no reboots and loads of continuity between their video games. For the sake of context, the unique Resident Evil got here out all the way in which again in 1996 on the PlayStation. Since then, the title has continued the identical story threads, and the characters have usually returned. For instance, one of many protagonists of the unique Resident Evil – Chris Redfield – was final seen in 2021’s Resident Evil Village, which is the latest recreation within the timeline to this point.
Given how a lot of the general Resident Evil plot tends to revolve round insane plot twists and shadowy conspiracies by shady megacorporations, the sequence has historically had fairly a bit occurring in its background lore for gamers to maintain a monitor of. In actual fact, even new protagonist in Resident Evil Requiem, Grace Ashcroft, is the daughter of one of many protagonists from PS2-era spin-offs Resident Evil Outbreak and its sequel, Outbreak: File 2.
Within the meantime, Resident Evil Requiem is coming to PC, PS5, Xbox Collection X/S and Nintendo Swap 2 on February 27, 2026.
