I would rather have them focus on gameplay, characters, atmosphere, ect. per iteration, then to be extremely precise on threading an overarching plot needle. I mean modern gaming is showing lots of promise with diverse mechanics and gameplay but I noticed Resident Evil seems to be struggling to achieve some new breakthrough in survival horror concepts.
It’s been doing fine in all of those. Where it har lacked, always, has been story and character development.
Interesting you say should say that. People have been speculating about Natalia's involvement for a while now, especially after the one model posted about being in the game and looked like a dead ringer for an older Natalia. I found the Maggie Robertson stuff very odd, too. Especially how she's dressed like Alex.Since some of you desperately want something else to talk about (you know who you are, lol), I have a theory. I touched on this earlier in my first trailer analysis, but upon closer inspection, it might actually have some weight.
That hallway woman towards the end of the trailer might seriously be Natalex. My first clue was the outfit when she’s walking down the hall, or should I say outfits.
Notice she’s wearing a sweater over a white outfit. The white outfit is very Alex and wearing a sweater over it is very Natalia. Am I the only one seeing a two in one kinda foreshadowing?
Also, the outfit Maggie Robertson wore during the promo at SGF where she teases a big reveal for later on in the show (that turned out to be the RE9 trailer) is (almost?) the same white outfit adult Alex wore in Rev2.
Is that some kind of a hint? Capcom’s been known to foreshadow big mic drop reveals, they also had the RPD in a type writer document in the teaser promo and low and behold, RE9 takes us back to the Raccoon City ruins and the destroyed RPD was heavily featured in the trailer. They also did this with RE5’s marketing, they showed Jill’s grave in the first trailer and shadow dropped the test tube woman in the 2nd’s closing that turned out to be Jill to the shock of nobody since they’d never kill a beloved character offscreen. I knew it was Jill, anybody with half a brain knew it.
Of course, enough time will have to have passed for Natalia to be an adult in flesh for this theory to hold water and, well, I’d say it has. Natalia was 10 during Rev2’s first chapter in 2011. We know now Requiem takes place in 2028, so she’d be 27 by the game’s time, not to mention it fits in perfectly with all the Connections stuff going on in the background. There might actually be more big revelations than the trailers have let on to this point, no pun intended.
It's clear confirmation from the director himself that the story has characters that were involved with Raccoon City, Outbreak, and so on. That implies much more than just Alyssa. Also worth noting that his own personal translator didn't repeat any of this and of course, the interview was pulled.
Hopefully, they’ll be connecting those games of the past with the games of the recent past as well. They’ve played coy by giving the Mold storyline only peripheral and tenuous connections to the overarching Umbrella storyline, and while RE4 was able to justify itself with that due to the involvement of 3 major characters of the past, this technically being the third game of the new era of the series, it should be linking the newly spun threads together, especially with whole sense of Going Back being the prevalent theme.
There's nothing general or inexact about it. He says the story involves characters, as in more than one, from Raccoon City as well as the Outbreak games, and so on. You gotta be the only person who can hear something like that and assume he's talking about just one character when he clearly made a distinction between Raccoon City and the Outbreak games. The only speculation one can make is who these returning characters are, but his statement couldn't be any clearer.