Resident Evil Veronica Producer Says Capcom Will Adjust the Story to Fit Series' Timeline

Resident Evil’s wide timeline tin beryllium a small hard to travel depending upon your introduction constituent to the series. But shaper Yoshiaki Hirabayashi has emphasized that, with Resident Evil Veronica, Capcom is reworking the communicative to marque definite its spot successful the chronology is clear, portion ensuring the remake keeps what fans loved astir the original.

Japanese quality outlet Famitsu reported connected a caller Summer Games Fest property league with Hirabayashi connected the Resident Evil – Code: Veronica remake, owed retired successful 2027.

The archetypal Code: Veronica was released 27 years ago, and determination person been galore Resi games released since then. Story-wise, Hirabayashi noted that for the Veronica remake Capcom has been taking into relationship plotlines successful different games that link backmost to events successful Veronica.

In the past decade, the Resident Evil franchise has gained adjacent much communicative and lore with RE7, RE8: Village, and RE9 (plus the RE2, RE3, and RE4 remakes). “With Resident Evil Veronica, we are readying to restructure the communicative truthful that players tin intelligibly consciousness however each of these titles are portion of 1 cohesive series,” explained Hirabayashi.

Asked if Resident Evil Veronica volition instrumentality to the root worldly portion implementing bold changes similar the Resident Evil 2 remake, Hirabayashi said “yes,” broadly-speaking. However, remainder assured that this doesn’t mean alteration for the involvement of change. "What's astir important for the dev squad astatine Capcom is putting the players’ memories first, and past rebuilding the crippled connected apical of that,” said Hirabayashi. This echoes Requiem shaper Kumazawa’s caller comments that 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.

While Resident Evil 4 catches up with what happens to Leon S. Kennedy aft the ending of Resident Evil 2, Veronica covers Claire Redfield’s continuing efforts to find her member Chris. “We chose to remake Code: Veronica adjacent aft Resident Evil 4 due to the fact that we privation players to acquisition Claire’s arsenic important (post RE2) story.”

With respect to the Code: Veronica remake, Hirabayashi went connected to reassure fans that the devs are alert of the beardown fan-following the archetypal has, saying: "The dev squad understands that the archetypal Code: Veronica is connected par with the numbered titles.” Hirabayashi besides confirmed that the squad moving connected the Code: Veronica remake is the aforesaid that made the Resident Evil 2 and 4 remakes (Resident Evil 3 Remake and Requiem were made by antithetic teams).

Apparently enactment connected Resident Evil Veronica kicked disconnected arsenic soon arsenic Capcom finished the RE4 remake. Like the original, Resident Evil Veronica volition beryllium a third-person endurance horror, centered connected Claire trying to past Rockfort Island’s T-virus outbreak, truthful assets absorption volition beryllium key.

To signifier Resident Evil Veronica, Hirabayashi explained that the squad is combining their respect for the archetypal Code: Veronica with subordinate feedback. However, this is not conscionable caller subordinate comments but subordinate feedback from the full bid up to Requiem. Hirabayashi added that the squad has adjacent been digging up comments stretching backmost to erstwhile Code: Veronica primitively released successful 2000 to get a consciousness for “what gamers enjoyed astir it backmost then.”

Resident Evil Code: Veronica debuted connected the Dreamcast successful 2000, with an updated mentation Code: Veronica X making its mode to the PS2 the pursuing year. Hirabayashi noted that portion you don’t request to play the archetypal Code: Veronica to bask the remake, “I deliberation you volition bask it adjacent much if you are acquainted with the stories of different games successful the Resident Evil series. So I highly urge playing immoderate past titles that you haven’t played yet.” Time to excavation into the backlog...

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.