Capcom has spent the better part of 2025 swatting away Resident Evil Requiem rumours, stressing again and again that Leon Kennedy isn't in the game. Director Kōshi Nakanishi claims that building a horror experience around him would be too "difficult", and all those leaks? Totally, absolutely, unequivocally fake. He isn't in the game!
Nobody is buying it.
Leakers like Dusk Golem have remained steadfast in their assertion that Leon is in Requiem, claiming that we've seen footage from his POV, and even producer Masato Kumazawa is pouring kerosene on the fire.
Requiem is told from the perspective of Grace Ashcroft, daughter of Alyssa Ashcroft, one of the playable characters in the co-operative PS2 game Resident Evil Outbreak. So, when Well Played got the chance to quiz Kumazawa on the new game, it had to ask - will anyone else from the cult classic spin-off be making an appearance?
There will be characters that have been involved in the Raccoon City incident.
"I would say that yes, there are going to be some characters from the past series to come in, but don't over-expect or hype it," Kumazawa said. "We can't promise you anything about that, but the...
