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Next Resident Evil Game Could Be Set in a Surprising Location
Resident Evil could be following Silent Hill F to Japan for a future title.
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Resident Evil Requiem just came out a few months ago but one of the game’s producers is already dropping hints on where future titles could be set.
Japan could be the home of a future resident evil game
Setting has always been important in the Resident Evil franchise, but it’s arguably become even more important post-Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, as its surprising introduction of a first-person perspective offered a new level of immersion the series hadn’t seen yet at the time. As such, the game’s setting needed to envelop players, and Biohazard‘s dark and damp Louisiana swamp house location enthralled players through the first half of the game. 2021’s Resident Evil Village took an even more wild swing and brought fans to a wintry Romanian village complete with a decadent castle filled with monsters and horrors never before seen in a Resident Evil experience.
This most recent mainline entry, Resident Evil Requiem, didn’t entirely focus on a single setting but rather hopped around to different places, like the rainy city streets of Wrenwood, a remote care center, and, finally, the gray, desolate ruins of post-nuke........