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Resident Evil 9: Requiem's director explains how in one crucial way, it is the "most extreme" title in the series yet

"We've had our different look at the series, and now going back to normal feels like a fresh new take."

I was fine with that - but beneath the preview in which I gleefully articulated how the machinations of Nakanishi's team had made me screech an expletive so loud it was heard by a colleague rooms away, one commenter sums up the potential pitfall of redeploying this design, asking: 'This again?' In the demo, she wakes up in a side room of the Rhodes Hill Civic Care Center - a hospital connected to Racoon City, the classic series location we catch glimpses of in the trailers. Fan input has resulted in this path: a new-but-familiar protagonist, a return to beloved locations thirty years on, and a flick switch that takes you between the two distinct perspectives of modern Resident Evil - third or first-person, the choice is yours.

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