Leon Could Be 70 and Still Be a Great Character, Resident Evil Director Says

Capcom wants players to cognize that aged property won't support Leon Kennedy retired of games acceptable aft Resident Evil Requiem due to the fact that he'll astir apt "still beryllium a large character" adjacent "when he's 70."

Fans were already disquieted that the 50-year-old endurance fearfulness leader whitethorn beryllium getting excessively bushed to amusement up for caller entries successful the bid earlier his inclusion successful the caller crippled was revealed precocious past year. Following the events of Resident Evil Requiem, it's harmless to accidental Leon was inactive successful bully capable signifier to chopped done much mutated villains, but Capcom has said that it's not acrophobic to bring him backmost for adjacent much missions successful the future.

Game manager Koshi Nakanishi touched connected the publisher's emotion for Leon during an all-encompassing interrogation with Eurogamer today. When speaking astir whether oregon not Resident Evil could usage a caller circular of caller characters, helium said the squad doesn't consciousness immoderate unit to instrumentality to a circumstantial timeline.

"It's not a formed robust regularisation that whenever we travel up with a caller crippled and we determine to merchandise it here, that we person to precisely property everyone up to lucifer it oregon thing similar that," Nakanishi said. He added that Capcom doesn't "feel the request to regenerate [its astir recognisable faces] with younger characters... we don't truly deliberation of it successful those terms."

Still, the question of Leon's age, specifically, has remained a accordant talking constituent surrounding the motorboat of Resident Evil Requiem earlier this year. While Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, Ada Wong, and others mostly instrumentality to the sidelines, Leon returned for the latest introduction with a much weathered look than before. Nakanishi said helium enjoyed however Capcom approached an older mentation of the Resident Evil 2 protagonist, and adjacent took things a measurement further by saying that fans could spot him instrumentality 20 years aboriginal successful the timeline.

"I mean, I deliberation Leon is truly appealing successful his existent form," helium continued. "And who knows, we could bring him backmost erstwhile he's 70, and I'm definite he'll inactive beryllium a large character."

Elsewhere successful the interview, Resident Evil Requiem shaper Masato Kumazawa touched connected the effect to the caller DLSS 5 AI controversy. For much connected Resident Evil Requiem, you tin work our 9/10 review.

"Like the effect of an experimentation conducted successful an underground Umbrella Corporation lab, Resident Evil Requiem successfully splices 2 abstracted strains of endurance fearfulness unneurotic into the 1 highly infectious caller mutation," we said erstwhile it launched for PC, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S successful February.

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