There are a lot of surface level questions posed by the prospect of a 9th Resident Evil game: will it be 1st or 3rd person? Will its setting mark a return to urban civilisation ala Racoon City, or will it be a continuation of isolated rural environments? Genre-wise, will it lean more into action-heavy territory, or plunge headfirst into psychological horror abysses?
This last question is especially prescient as the developer have largely favoured one or the other for Resident Evil titles. They’re either stately, shuffling horrors stuffed with tension or games stuff with full throttle action and bombast. The developer never seem to be able to land on a formula which successfully marries both… that is, until Resident Evil Village.
