- Resident Evil Requiem director Koshi Nakanishi has defined why the sport gives each a third-person and first-person mode
- Nakanishi says Resident Evil 7 could have been “too scary” for some gamers, so a third-person possibility was added to Requiem partly for that reason
- He additionally hopes the choice will provide a extra satisfying expertise for individuals who “both could not end or did not even begin” Resident Evil 7
Resident Evil Requiem has a third-person mode for gamers who could not deal with first-person in Resident Evil 7, in keeping with sport director Koshi Nakanishi.
In an interview with GamesRadar at Gamescom 2025, Nakanishi acknowledged that his beforehand directed sport, Resident Evil 7, may need been too scary and determined to supply two choices within the upcoming entry to permit for a extra satisfying expertise.
“Wanting again at Resident Evil 7‘s first individual perspective, I carried out that as a option to make it extra immersive and extra scary than ever earlier than, which I believe most you understand media and gamers agreed it was an extremely scary sport, nevertheless it was presumably too scary,” Nakanishi stated.
“I believe some folks could not deal with it, and both could not end or did not even begin it. And that is one thing that I look again on considering that, you understand, I need to be sure that folks can take pleasure in this sport.”
“So for those who began the sport off in first individual perspective, and also you’re discovering it is an excessive amount of, then third individual is sort of a option to step barely again from that degree of horror and make it barely simpler to cope with by having the character on display screen as a type of avatar of your self,” he defined.
Resident Evil Requiem is ready to launch on February 27, 2026, for PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X, Xbox Collection S, and PC.