Ben Lindbergh

Yeah, it feels like 30 years in, we have cracked this code, Veronica.

We have figured this thing out.

We have refined Resident Evil.

We have identified what people like about it, though really different strains of the series, right?

So there's the more classic survival horror, slow-paced, deliberate tank controls era Resident Evil.

There's the more action-oriented Resident Evil.

Resident Evil, and different players have different preferences.

But Requiem essentially says, why not both?

We will just bring you both of those things.

And as we've been alluded to, there are two playable protagonists, one new, one old.

So of course, there is Leon Kennedy, co-star of RE2, protagonist of RE4, franchise icon of

looking better than ever in his 50s, aging fantastically, just distinguished, weathering, wrinkling, but just aging as well as one could hope.

And then you have a new character, Grace Ashcroft, who is the daughter of a character from Resident Evil Outbreak, a game that probably not that many people really remember.

But that gives you a good entry point to the series, if you're like me.

And you haven't been playing Resident Evil games for 30 years.

And this is directed by Koshin Akinishi, who also directed Resident Evil 7 Biohazard.

So you can certainly see that style of gameplay in here.

But it's old and new.

Characters, gameplay melded in what does feel like a perfectly balanced way, as you were saying, Matt, because it's just two completely different play styles.

that compliment each other.