Resident Evil Series May Finally Set Future Game in Japan, Producer Says

The Resident Evil bid whitethorn acceptable a aboriginal installment successful Japan — a mounting nary mainline crippled has visited to date.

While nary caller crippled successful Japan has yet been confirmed, Resident Evil Requiem shaper Masato Kumazawa has discussed the anticipation of a caller rubric exploring the series' homeland successful a caller interview, sparking discussions among fans astir what specified a crippled mightiness look like.

Speaking to Japanese outlet Futaman, successful remarks translated by IGN, Kumazawa said that a Japan-set Resident Evil crippled had been thought about. "I deliberation that each Japanese Resident Evil instrumentality has decidedly thought astir a Japan setting, and I’ve besides considered it myself," Kumaza said. "As the bid is chiefly developed by unit successful Japan, I deliberation everyone connected the dev squad has astir apt thought astir it. Even though Japan hasn’t appeared arsenic a mounting for the games yet, I deliberation it mightiness astatine immoderate constituent successful the future."

While the Resident Evil bid has chiefly been acceptable successful the US, it has besides explored fictional places successful different parts of the world, specified arsenic Resident Evil Village’s Eastern European mounting and Resident Evil 5’s arguable foray into West Africa. However, we person ne'er seen Umbrella Corp’s interaction connected Japan.

Silent Hill f transported Konami’s iconic fearfulness bid to 1960s Japan past year, kicking disconnected immoderate discussions connected Reddit and different forums arsenic to wherefore Japan’s different large endurance fearfulness franchise hadn’t gone for a Japan mounting yet. Although determination has been immoderate enthusiasm for a Resident Evil acceptable successful Japan among Japanese-speaking commenters, galore anticipation that specified a crippled would steer distant from a accepted colony setting, which has already been done by galore different Japanese fearfulness games specified arsenic Silent Hill f, Fatal Frame and Siren.

On the flip side, immoderate fans person pointed retired that Japan has imaginable arsenic a setting, considering each the tiny islands that could animate in-game locations for a microorganism outbreak.

Reacting to Kumazawa’s comment, immoderate Japanese fans pointed retired that Capcom’s endurance fearfulness franchise has had a Japanese main quality before, but successful a spin-off lone released successful Japan.

Takeru Tominaga is the protagonist of the authoritative Resident Evil manga Biohazard Heavenly Island. He’s the adjunct manager of Idol Survival, a world TV amusement featuring bikini-clad models connected a Caribbean land that conscionable truthful happens to beryllium the erstwhile tract of an Umbrella Corp laboratory (what could perchance spell wrong?). Soon, helium and the remaining contestants and unit are warring a precise antithetic conflict against the zombifying T-virus. "Even if it’s hard for them to marque a Resident Evil acceptable successful Japan, a Japanese protagonist mightiness beryllium possible," mused a idiosyncratic connected X. The games besides person a fewer Japanese oregon fractional Japanese characters including Resident Evil Outbreak’s Yoko Suzuki and, of course, Jill Valentine.

Kumazawa besides assured fans that, contempt its final-sounding title, Resident Evil Requiem would by nary means beryllium an extremity to the series. Although Resident Evil Requiem does wrapper up oregon wage tribute to immoderate of Resident Evil’s iconic elements ("It’s a Requiem for Leon’s battles against bioterrorism, and a requiem for the past Raccoon City incident"), Kumazawa added that "There are inactive galore things we'd similar to do, specified arsenic telling the stories of characters that didn’t look successful Requiem.”

He besides says aboriginal Resident Evil games volition "preserve the halfway elements of the series" and enactment existent to established characters and settings, portion experimenting with antithetic ideas. "Players volition get bored if we conscionable support making the aforesaid benignant of games, truthful we'd similar to proceed taking connected caller challenges." He gives Village's Megamycete conception and Requiem’s POV switching arsenic examples of caller ideas the dev squad has tried retired to support the bid fresh.

As for what's adjacent for Capcom’s endurance fearfulness series, Kumazawa hopes fans are looking guardant to the upcoming Resident Evil Requiem communicative expansion. Meanwhile, Resident Evil is getting a caller movie acceptable successful Raccoon City, which volition deed theaters this September.

Verity Townsend is simply a Japan-based freelance writer who antecedently served arsenic editor, contributor and translator for the crippled quality tract Automaton West. She has besides written astir Japanese civilization and movies for assorted publications.