Resident Evil: Requiem Trailer Shows Fresh Look at Grace Ashcroft's Backstory, But Where's Leon?

Tonight's Gamescom Opening Night Live broadcast has fixed america a caller look astatine Resident Evil: Requiem protagonist Grace Ashcroft, but nary motion of fan-favorite Leon S. Kennedy.

As expected, today's amusement brought with it a deeper dive into Capcom's hotly-anticipated upcoming endurance fearfulness (which is besides playable present astatine Gamescom). Footage erstwhile again showed the game's caller prima Grace Ashcroft successful action, though fans were near wondering astir Leon's whereabouts.

Following a telephone telephone from chartless voice, Grace Ashcroft and her ma Alyssa effort to flight from the edifice successful which they had been staying, arsenic the powerfulness is chopped and the brace are attacked. We already cognize what happens next, arsenic Grace is seen investigating the edifice years later, arsenic an FBI analyst.

Capcom antecedently promised that Requiem volition diagnostic a instrumentality to the series' "overarching narrative" begun 30 years ago, aft much caller games specified arsenic Resident Evil 7 and Resident Evil Village focused connected events acceptable elsewhere, with less connections to past titles. Already, fans had noted the instrumentality of Raccoon City and references to the shadowy Umbrella Corporation, portion hoping for more, including a archetypal sighting of Leon.

"We ever thought astir making Leon the protagonist," Requiem manager Koshi Nakanishi antecedently said, "but making a fearfulness crippled based astir him is difficult. He wouldn't leap astatine a bucket falling. No 1 wants to spot Leon frightened by each small thing. So he's really rather a atrocious lucifer for horror."

Many fans took this remark to mean that Leon was inactive successful the crippled somewhere, apt successful sequences that offered much action-orientated gameplay, arsenic portion stating the quality wouldn't beryllium suitable for fearfulness sections, Nakanishi notably stopped abbreviated of ruling the quality retired altogether.

There's plentifulness of clip inactive until Resident Evil Requiem yet launches, connected February 27, 2026.

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