The director of Resident Evil Requiem has shared some insights into gamers’ preferences on digital camera viewpoints.
The sport was launched in February and, like many big-budget video games lately, makes taking part in knowledge out there to the developer to allow them to research participant behaviour and decision-making.
In a latest interview with Japanese publication Denfaminico Gamer, Resident Evil Requiem director Koshi Nakanishi shed some mild into these analytics, particularly close to the digital camera viewpoint chosen by gamers.
By default, the sport recommends that the sections that includes protagonist Grace – that are typically extra tense – ought to be performed in a first-person perspective, whereas the extra action-focused sections with Leon ought to be performed in third-person. Gamers have the choice to vary this if they like, nonetheless.
In line with Nakanishi, the overwhelming majority of gamers – round 90% – select to play Leon’s sections in third-person as advisable. This can be as a result of Leon has historically appeared in Resident Evil video games (2, 4, 6) which had been performed with that viewpoint.
In relation to Grace’s chapters, nonetheless, solely round 60% of gamers select the advisable first-person viewpoint, with round 40% switching to third-person for these sections too.
Nakanishi additionally notes that “there are clear variations on this knowledge relying on the platform and area”, stating that gamers in Japan and Asia usually tend to play in third-person, whereas the proportion of PC gamers who selected first-person was larger than on different codecs.
Final 12 months Nakanishi revealed that Requiem was set to present gamers a selection between first-person and third-person viewpoints as a result of gamers discovered the first-person view in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard too scary.
“Wanting again at Resident Evil 7’s first individual perspective, I carried out that as a option to make it extra immersive and extra scary than ever earlier than, which I believe most media and gamers agreed it was an extremely scary sport, however it was presumably too scary,” he previous GamesRadar in August 2025.
“I believe some individuals couldn’t deal with it, and both couldn’t end or didn’t even begin it. And that’s one thing that I look again on considering that, you understand, I wish to guarantee that individuals can take pleasure in this sport.
“So if you happen to began the sport off in first individual perspective, and also you’re discovering it’s an excessive amount of, then third individual is nearly a option to step barely again from that stage of horror and make it barely simpler to cope with by having the character on display screen as a type of avatar of your self.”
Resident Evil Requiem has bought greater than 7 million copies in its first two months, and is at present the joint highest rated sport of the 12 months, with each it and Pokémon Pokopia sitting on Metacritic scores of 89.
