It is so the end, man. The end is nigh. Returning to the ruins of Raccoon City is franchise end level stuff or very much a part of that chapter.
How do you know it’s the end? Going back to Raccoon City is a gimmick, not any kind of indication that they’re wrapping up, especially when the focus is on a brand new character.
About 5, it was only ever an ending for the Wesker stuff
We didn’t know that at the time. Wesker’s story
was the RE story at that point in the series, and since it revealed Umbrella’s beginnings, Wesker’s true plans, and put the world at higher risk than it had ever been prior, then killed off the main villain, with the original heroes alive and flying off into the sunrise, with the only remaining known organization that had access to the biohazard substances being destroyed by the end as well,
that felt more like an ending than this does.
and 6 was never looked at as an ending at all, that.
Really? The one remaining mystery regarding Ada was revealed, we finally saw what happened to Sherry, Wesker’s son is revealed and is now making up for family mistakes, no Progenitor virus variant has really been a threat after that in the chronological timeline because of his blood providing vaccines for every Progenitor variant (Vendetta and Dead Island notwithstanding), and the original government conspiracy that helped fund Umbrella’s BOW research being revealed and destroyed, and the whole world essentially being caught up in a biohazard war, that felt more like an ending than this does.
Village literally left it wide open for Chris to deal with the BSAA lol
Before that ending scene, man. Prior to that, especially with the revelation that this game’s events were all caused by Spencer’s mentor, and is where the Umbrella insignia really came from, meaning that
this was the true start of it all, until the game ended on that whole thing of the BSAA and realizing the Connections story wasn’t resolved yet either, it was feeling more like an end than this trailer makes this game feel.