Resident Evil 8 (or Resident Evil Village) is coming, but we don’t yet know too much about the new addition to the beloved franchise. What we do know is that it’ll focus on characters introduced in RE 7, namely, the protagonist Ethan.
In a new interview with Famitsu which was transcribed by Twitter user Alex Aniel [via Gamespot], producers Tsuyoshi Kanda and Pete Fabiano answered some questions about RE 8 and its place in the timeline.
According to the duo, the story will bring Ethan’s tale to “a close.” They clarified that “Village is the sequel to Resident Evil 7 Biohazard, and serves as the conclusion to its story.”
They added: “Look closely at the trailer; you can see the connections between Ethan’s current situation and what happened in RE7. If you haven’t played RE7, please do so!”
Other tidbits revealed stated that the game has been in development for over three years, and is around 60% complete.
Though confirmed details are still thin on the ground, that hasn’t stopped leaks from coming thick and fast.
Known RE leaker AestheticGamer correctly leaked a number of now-proven facts about Resident Evil 8, and they’re now claiming that the game will be the further departure from the beloved series to date.
Taking to Twitter to chat about the game, AestheticGamer shared: “[It] depends how you look at it, but I would say yes, yes it is [a bigger departure than RE 7]. For one thing despite the first-person, southern aesthetic of RE7, RE7 is very, very clearly a RE game, like it purposefully follows RE1’s structure a lot of the time. It’s also relatively self-contained.”
They went on to claim that though RE 8 is mechanically similar to 7, it’ll be “more daring,” blurring the lines of the series “not in a way to please everyone.”
“I recommend keeping an open mind with RE8, it is in many ways the biggest departure the series will take to date, but it got to where it is because it’s excellent,” they teased. “They’re taking a few risks with RE8, more than people know at this point, but they believe they have something truly special here, and I suspect it’ll be regarded by many down the line as a stellar Resident Evil game.”
Resident Evil Village is expected to launch in 2021.
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