Resident Evil 2 Director Hideki Kamiya Calls for a 'Non-Scary Mode' So He Can Enjoy Requiem's Puzzles and Combat Without the 'Scary Stuff'

Hideki Kamiya, the legendary manager down fan-favorite games similar Devil May Cry and Bayonetta, is calling for a "non-scary mode" for Resident Evil Requiem.

The manager — who besides directed the archetypal Resident Evil 2, by the way! — has been filmed talking to his squad arsenic they ticker a workfellow walk a small prime clip with Leon S. Kennedy successful the latest Resident Evil game.

In the little video uploaded to his caller studio's Twitter/X account, we spot a dev playing Requiem, surrounded by colleagues, including Kamiya. "I've been saying for forever, they should marque a 'non-scary' mode," Kamiya says, to which idiosyncratic replies: "That would wholly decision the conception of the game, though…"

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Kamiya—who hates fearfulness games—is doing his accustomed grumbling 🤭🍀 pic.twitter.com/ocbW8tsnDR

"Look, I conscionable privation to bask the puzzles!" helium added. "The puzzles and the combat. I don't request the scary stuff…"

It was, successful fact, Kamiya's Resident Evil 2 that gave america rookie bull Leon successful the archetypal place; the fictional bull was conscionable 21 years aged erstwhile the events of the 2nd crippled took place. Now, 28 years later, Leon is back, and some helium and Kamiya are successful their fifties now.

Which is wherefore it's peculiarly amusing to perceive Kamiya say: "Leon's nary outpouring chickenhearted anymore, is he?" When the country burst into laughter, helium laughed with them, admitting, "Guess that goes for some of us. People who unrecorded successful solid houses…"

Yesterday, Requiem manager Koshi Nakanishi confirmed plans to motorboat a large communicative enlargement for the game, pursuing different additions planned implicit the coming months. In a video connection to fans posted connected societal media this week, Nakanishi erstwhile again thanked players for Requiem's immense occurrence truthful far, which has resulted successful 5 cardinal copies already sold arsenic of past week and banal issues for carnal copies.

But Capcom present has overmuch much successful store for the game, excessively — including that communicative expansion, the summation of a "mini game" successful May, and the upcoming accomplishment of a photograph mode.

If you're inactive negotating Requiem's scarier moments, IGN's Resident Evil: Requiem usher volition assistance you each measurement of the mode done RE9. Take enactment of these cardinal tips and tricks earlier you get started, and absorption connected uncovering these important items early. Plus, our broad walkthrough volition marque definite you don't miss a azygous Bobblehead oregon record arsenic you effort to past from the Rhodes Hill Chronic Care Center each the mode to Raccoon City.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.