Resident Evil Producer Says ‘Possibly’ To A Code: Veronica Remake

That is the season of the spooky online game remake—Alan Wake obtained remastered, Konami is engaged on Silent Hill 2, and Capcom is getting ready a Resident Evil 4 remake, amongst many different issues. However you gained’t discover Resident Evil Code: Veronica within the latter developer’s excellent pile of tasks, at the least not but.

This revelation comes from a brand new interview Resident Evil 4 producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi gave to gaming website Noisy Pixel. When requested about the potential for a refreshed Code: Veronica, Hirabayashi mentioned that he’s at present targeted on the Resident Evil 4 remake challenge Nevertheless, he did go away the door open to a potential future remake, saying that, “[if the] alternative comes, possibly.”

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The unique Resident Evil from 1996 obtained a critically acclaimed remake in 2002, 1998’s Resident Evil 2 was remade in 2019 (additionally to nice success), and 1999’s Resident Evil 3 obtained an identical 2020 revamp. Right here we’re at present with Resident Evil 4 on the horizon, however no Code: Veronica in sight. Followers are usually not stunned.

Resident Evil Code: Veronica, forgotten however nonetheless canon, first got here out in 2000 for Sega’s Dreamcast, and Kotaku staffer Zack Zwiezen notes that “for some followers of the sequence, that is the actual sequel to Resident Evil 2.”

The basic survival horror journey splits gamers’ time between Claire Redfield, caught on a jail island, and her brother Chris, who’s looking for her. The Dreamcast sport was bewitching and ghostly, with loads of stately grey halls, checkerboard flooring, and good brick-red blood spatter. In 2000, IGN gushed in a overview that the “sport’s excellent visuals mix with the sequence’ trademark music and audio to create a scene so full of life, so scary, that getting sucked into this nightmare is less complicated than ever earlier than.”

It was a formidable sport, however obtained labeled as a spin-off due to “political causes between Capcom and the console manufacturing firm,” sport designer Shinji Mikami mentioned in a 2020 interview with YouTube channel Archipel. “Personally, I wished it to be a numbered title,” he mentioned.

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And so do loads of followers, a few of whom are at present devoting themselves to making a Code: Veronica remake themselves. It has no set launch date but.

Till Hirabayashi’s alternative comes knocking, followers’ ardour must be sufficient to maintain Code: Veronica.