Former Resident Evil lead Hideki Kamiya says anybody who spoils the story of Resident Evil Requiem early deserves to die “a thousand deaths”.
Kamiya – additionally identified for such collection as Bayonetta, Okami and Viewtiful Joe – began his profession as a system planner on the unique 1996 Resident Evil, earlier than directing Resident Evil 2 and designing Resident Evil 0.
Final week Capcom requested gamers to not watch or share gameplay footage of Resident Evil Requiem circulating on-line, noting that it was conscious of gamers spoiling main plot factors on video websites and in boards resembling Reddit.
Retweeting Capcom’s message on the weekend, Kamiya shared his personal reminiscences of Resident Evil 2 being spoiled earlier than launch, and said that anybody spoiling sport storylines deserve extreme punishment.
“I bear in mind again on Biohazard 2 [Resident Evil 2], I’m fairly certain its late-game twist was utterly spoiled by some weekly photograph journal too,” Kamiya wrote (by way of machine translation).
“For the sake of your individual egocentric satisfaction, you trample on the sentiments of gamers eagerly awaiting the sport, and the creators who poured their hearts into making it.
“It’s a despicable act that destroys everybody’s happiness – you should die a thousand deaths. Could you be cursed by no means to play video games once more.”
Resident Evil Requiem is ready for launch on Friday, February 27, however bodily copies have already been noticed out within the wild since final week.
Kamiya based new studio Clovers in 2023, after 17 years at PlatinumGames. He’s now working alongside Capcom once more, with Clovers at present engaged on a brand new sport within the Okami collection.
“On the small scale we’re at proper now, making this subsequent Okami sport is all that we are able to deal with,” Kamiya advised VGC in an interview final yr, “however as we scale up and grow to be larger, hopefully that would imply probably engaged on the subsequent Okami sport, or a brand new IP with one other writer, or one other Capcom IP. Any of these potentialities would make us very glad.”
VGC wrote in a current Resident Evil Requiem preview: “The addition of Leon will virtually actually guarantee loads of fight, one thing Grace’s presence is designed to negate the necessity for. The consequence could also be a sport that’s stealthy in some areas and shooty in others – a probably satisfying mixture of types, but in addition a possible jack of all trades and grasp of none.”
