{"id":2123204,"date":"2026-09-01T19:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2123204"},"modified":"2026-09-01T19:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:01:12","slug":"resident-evil-2-director-hideki-kamiya-says-capcom-has-grown-numb-to-how-scary-new-re-games-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2123204","title":{"rendered":"Resident Evil 2 Director Hideki Kamiya Says Capcom Has Grown ‘Numb’ to How Scary New RE Games Are"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hideki Kamiya has confirmed that he was \u201cnot joking\u201d when he begged Capcom to make a less-scary version of Resident Evil Requiem for the faint of heart, even arguing that the company has become “numb” to how frightening the newer games have gotten.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In March 2026, Clovers Inc. \u2014 Kamiya\u2019s newest game development studio \u2014 uploaded a video showing the team playing Resident Evil Requiem<\/u><\/a>. Kamiya stood off to the side as one of his employees got to a cutscene near the beginning of the game, where he complained that, \u201cI’ve been saying for forever, they should make a ‘non-scary’ mode.\u201d<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

He said as much in a tweet<\/u><\/a> around that same time, suggesting an alternate mode where \u201cthe zombies get all cute, the blood splatters turn into cherry blossom petals, the music becomes this upbeat, feel-good kind of tune, and you can just purely enjoy the puzzles and battles in a fun mood.\u201d<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re all playing Resident Evil Requiem!
Kamiya\u2014who hates horror games\u2014is doing his usual grumbling \ud83e\udd2d\ud83c\udf40 pic.twitter.com\/ocbW8tsnDR<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 CLOVERS Inc. (@CLOVERS_en) March 10, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kamiya doubled down on this request in an August interview with Video Games Chronicle<\/u><\/a>, saying he was \u201c100% serious\u201d about it and even claimed that Capcom is going too far with how scary its Resident Evil games have gotten lately.<\/p>\n

\u201cNowadays, with how photorealistic and high-fidelity video games have gotten, the amount of crazy, horrifying things that people are able to put on the screen is absolutely insane, and I think anybody who\u2019s on the Resident Evil teams at Capcom, at this point, they must all be completely numb to how scary the thing they\u2019re making is,\u201d he told the outlet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not a joke; I\u2019m being one hundred percent serious when I say that I wish they would make it so that their games can also be enjoyed by people like me, who can\u2019t handle scary games at all.\u201d<\/p>\n