After baiting us a couple of times and being far more coy than they needed to be, Capcom finally put us all out of our misery during Summer Game Fest by announcing Resident Evil Requiem, the ninth mainline installment in the series. Before the show, it had been claimed by reputable Capcom insider Dusk Golem that Resident Evil Requiem would star Leon Kennedy, but the game's first trailer suggested anything but.
Instead, the reveal trailer seemed to focus on a character called Grace Ashcroft, who is the daughter of Resident Evil Outbreak star Alyssa Ashcroft. It even has a mysterious man in a chair - who we can assume will be a villain of some kind - claiming that Grace Ashcroft is "the one that I've been searching for" and the "special one".
Despite all of this, Dusk Golem is still pretty adamant that Leon Kennedy is considered the main character of Resident Evil Requiem, and that we will play as him "far more" than Grace Ashcroft. They also claim that Leon is actually in the Resident Evil Requiem trailer, though it's not entirely obvious, and that the game's focus on Leon will become more apparent in future marketing.
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