Resident Evil Requiem director Akifumi Nakanishi has confirmed that Leon and Grace's playtime will be "almost equally" split, and that the pair play so differently that it's like having "two games".
Throughout all of 2025, one of the worst-kept secrets in the gaming industry has been that Leon Kennedy is a playable protagonist in Resident Evil Requiem. Capcom has tried its best to keep us all guessing about whether Leon would actually be in the game or not, but it's been very hard for all of us to play along and pretend.
That pretending finally came to an end yesterday at The Game Awards, when a new trailer for Requiem confirmed once and for all that Leon is indeed the second playable character of the game. Now that it's out in the open, Requiem's director has shared some details about what to expect from Leon and what makes him so different from Grace.
As pointed out by IGN, Automaton recently had the chance to sit down with Resident Evil Requiem director Akifumi Nakanishi, who is a lot happier to talk about Leon now that he's actually confirmed to be in the game. Nakanishi confirmed to Automaton that Leon and...
