While Resident Evil Requiem lets you freely choose between a third-person and first-person perspective when playing as Leon Kennedy and Grace Ashcroft, the default settings have Leon’s sections in third person and Grace’s in first person. In a post-launch interview with Denfaminicogamer, director Koshi Nakanishi and producer Masato Kumazawa reveal that the majority of players didn’t deviate from the preset perspectives.
According to Nakanishi, figures dated one month after Requiem’s release reveal that around 90% of players chose to play in third person for their first playthrough of Leon’s action-oriented sections. Grace’s horror-focused sections were more divided, with 60% sticking with the default first-person settings and 40% switching to third person.
It was also discovered that perspective preferences differed depending on the region and platform of the game. Players in Japan and the rest of Asia, for instance, are more likely to play the game in third person. Similarly, PC players are more liable to play in first person.
While still incomplete, the current results are similar to data collected during Resident Evil Requiem’s show floor demo. Based on the demos, the developers discovered that player POV preferences might have to do with their gaming history, with Western players growing up on FPS games like Doom and Asian (specifically Japanese) players being raised on third-person RPGs like Dragon Quest. While this does not apply to everyone, it is certainly an important factor to consider when it comes to the Resident Evil franchise.
Resident Evil Requiem is available for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and Windows (Steam).
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Honestly only posting because when the author literally used the most FPS style JRPG of all of early video game Japan, the combat is literally Earthbound except Enix made it. Please go write about something you either care about more or are more educated on because you aren’t showing either of those here lol
After playing RE7 and RE8 3rd person just doesn’t feel good to may anymore. It takes the amazing atmosphere away and removes the great feeling of exploring and immersion for me so I played through the entire game is 1st person
Stating a player’s preference when a default is already set and advised by the game is a bit disingenuous
Resident Evil is, was and should always be 3rd person…
First person is a spin-off or just a fun extra for VR. The genius of R.E. was never the visionary creepiness, but the idea of what “could” be…. Just saying
Even with grace i prefer 3rd person
I prefer third with grace because she seems to move sluggishly in first and first with Leon because it feels more fluid. I’ve played in every possible combination and that’s the perspectives that just felt right to me overall.
First person for both of them are way better
I only play grace 3rd person when I felt she graduated and was ready to kick butt
People don’t play it in third person to make the scary stuff seem less intense. We play it in third person because that’s how Resident Evil is played
I didn’t still thought it could have been scarier lol. I lik the first person it enhances the game, always wanted them to do it.
Third person looks better but for scares I’ll always prefer 1st person, not being able to see around a corner just because I rotated my camera, not seeing things coming by limiting the players Field of View, can make the game much more scary since you literally cannot see the enemies until they are right in front of you