Here’s a question: what is Resident Evil? For some, weaned on the series’ earliest entries, it’s campy survival horror – staccato gunplay punctuating smothering scares; for others, who joined the series with Resident Evil 4 and beyond, it’s perhaps closer to action. And there’s still a third group, who, since Resident Evil 7 redefined the series yet again, might be expecting something like horror in its purest form. 30 years on, Resident Evil is a series with so many identities, so many histories, that trying to resolve them all is a problem Capcom has struggled with time and again. But with Resident Evil Requiem, it feels like it’s finally found a way to address that tension: don’t fight it, embrace it all.
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