A GameStop itemizing for Resident Evil Requiem has said that the sport’s Deluxe Version will embrace costumes for a shock second character — and no, it is not who you would possibly suppose.
Over the previous yr, the web has been ready for Capcom to verify that Resident Evil hero Leon S. Kennedy is in Resident Evil Requiem as a second playable character. There have been rumors, there have been AI picture leaks, and there have been more and more cryptic teases from Capcom itself.
And it is in opposition to this backdrop that followers have been left shocked, as GameStop’s Resident Evil Requiem Deluxe Version itemizing has gone dwell and talked about unique content material for… Rosemary Winters.
Rosmary Winters?! The daughter of Resident Evil 7 and Village protagonist Ethan Winters, Rosemary initially seems within the latter sport as a child, although has a starring position in that sport’s Shadows of Rose enlargement, set sooner or later when she is a teenager.
Her inclusion right here, if GameStop’s listing is certainly to be believed, is a big curveball for Resident Evil followers — as Requiem has up to now been pitched as an entry that ties the sequence again to its roots in Raccoon Metropolis. Certainly, Capcom has even stated that it needed the sport to tie up older plot threads (such has what occurred to Umbrella) fairly than concentrate on characters from newer video games. However maybe it sees Rosemary as a possibility to shut off these, too.
GameSpot appears to have by chance simply posted extra Deluxe Version content material for Resident Evil Requiem, which incorporates some spoilers, together with Mercenaries Mode, Grace having a “FBI Visor” mechanic, & two deliberate story DLC for RE9. pic.twitter.com/7HoZbqTUzp
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GameStop’s itemizing states the Deluxe Version consists of a “‘Morphic Visor’ beauty filter for Rose’s visor” and the “Shadow Walker’ costume pack: 3 unique outfits for Rosemary Winters.” There’s additionally point out of two extra story scenarious and a “main” Mercenaries mode replace, included in an enlargement move. None of this content material is formally introduced.
The itemizing has come as such a shock to followers that there’s some skepticism over its legitimacy — even because it sits on the web site of GameStop, one of many world’s greatest online game retailers. Fan hypothesis has run the gamut right here — that the retailer has been hacked, or the entry up to date by a rogue worker simply to look at followers react as they’re now doing. Or, alternatively, it is actual — and an accident, and even yet one more canny piece of selling from the chain.
And as for Leon? Effectively, there is definitely no check in GameStop’s itemizing. What does this imply for his inclusion? Effectively, if GameStop’s itemizing is correct, merely that he is not a a part of the Deluxe Version content material.
No matter’s occurring, all eyes will probably be on Resident Evil Requiem’s look at The Sport Awards later this week, the place Capcom is predicted to tease followers with extra on the sport, now simply a few months from launch. Will we see Leon? Will we see Rose? IGN will probably be reporting dwell — and within the meantime, we have contacted GameStop for remark.
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