Resident Evil Requiem is "like jumping into a cold bath after sitting in a hot sauna"

Leon and Grace are splitting screentime to present the afloat spa experience

Have you showered yet today? No? Then possibly dainty yourself to a bath if you can. It mightiness assistance hole for Resident Evil Requiem. Capcom formally confirmed past nighttime that, arsenic leaked, it contains Leon Kennedy. Some of their devs person present offered a spot much item arsenic to however it'll consciousness to play arsenic some him and co-lead Grace Ashcroft.

Speaking to Automaton, Requiem manager Akifumi Nakanishi and shaper Masato Kumazawa revealed that the clip fig of sections you'll walk playing arsenic 1 of the 2 protagonists are "almost arsenic split", likening the operation to Resident Evil Revelations.

As for however it feels to leap backmost and distant betwixt them, there's a dichotomy of much accepted horror/fighty bloke enactment going on. "I’ve said earlier that Leon isn’t good suited to horror," Nakanishi explained. "Since quiescent sections wherever you cower earlier monsters don’t acceptable him, his chapters absorption connected intense, adrenaline-pumping action. Grace’s sections, connected the different hand, are the scarier ones. We’re truly emphasizing the quality successful their experiences this time.

"It’s astir similar having 2 games with wholly antithetic types of hostility mixed together. Early on, we disquieted players mightiness not beryllium capable to support up, but present we consciousness that the opposition gives the crippled a unsocial rhythm, similar jumping into a acold bath aft sitting successful a blistery sauna."

Taking that metaphor forwards, I presume the monstery things the brace are up against are the ungraded and particulate we each accrue erstwhile we're retired and astir not playing a fearfulness game. If immoderate different acquainted Resi faces amusement up, volition they beryllium filling the relation of those small bits of cucumber which get enactment connected the eyes of each idiosyncratic who's each been successful an advert for places that boast baths and saunas?

Despite each the relaxing language, Nakanishi made wide that the actiony bits won't beryllium a locomotion successful the park. "The conflict this clip volition astir apt propulsion Leon to his limits much than ever before", the manager said, aboriginal adding that the squad person physique connected Kennedy's Resi 4 moveset to reflector however his skills and mindset person evolved since his past appearance. Altogether, Nakanishi reckons the juxtaposition of spooks and shoots volition assistance Requiem present "a benignant of exhilaration and restitution that past Resident Evil titles didn’t offer".

We'll spot if that's the lawsuit erstwhile the Resi spa opens up connected February 27th, 2026.