Capcom goes all-out to advertise Resident Evil Requiem on the Swap 2 forward of its launch on twenty seventh February 2026, together with providing up a restricted version Professional Controller and a Grace Ashcroft amiibo determine.
In talking with Press Begin Australia, producer Masato Kumazawa shared extra particulars on the sport’s improvement, and it seems that the crew “tried actually arduous” to implement the Swap 2’s mouse controls into Requiem, however finally determined in opposition to it when it turned obvious that mouse controls “confused and convoluted the gameplay”:
“Really, we tried actually arduous to implement mouse controls for Nintendo Swap 2. Once we did put it in, it confused and convoluted the gameplay and have become too difficult. So truly, we’re utilizing gyro as a substitute.”
In case you ask us, that is music to our ears. When it comes to providing choices, sure, it is a disgrace Capcom could not fairly make mouse controls work, however we’re large followers of gyro aiming, so you may guess we’ll be making use of this within the last sport. Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 6 each included gyro controls for the Swap, however curiously, Capcom opted to exclude it from Resident Evil 4.
Kumazawa-san additionally mentions that Requiem nonetheless comprises “remaining parts” from when it was initially conceived as an internet multiplayer sport six years again. He states that this model was enjoyable to play, however “the horror half was very delicate”, so a call was made to revert it again to a single-player expertise – smart transfer, certainly.
To doubtlessly assuage fears that Resident Evil could be veering again into the motion style following Resident Evil Village, Kumazawa-san additionally states that the event crew “wished to deal with the horror and horror be the principle half” in Requiem. That is to not say, nevertheless, that there will not be at the very least some motion, as he states that “by placing within the motion, and ensuring the participant isn’t eager about the horror, the subsequent horror half will scare extra successfully than continuous scares”.
Followers have lengthy speculated that Resident Evil veteran Leon Kennedy could crop up in Requiem as a second playable character. Capcom has remained tight-lipped on the concept, however it will actually add extra weight to the truth that gamers can be revisiting Raccoon Metropolis and the decimated R.P.D station.
