Resident Evil 7 was officially announced during Sony's E3 press conference, but so much of the sequel is clouded in mystery. But that's the strategy. I sat down with the game's producer Masachika Kawata and director Koushi Nakanishi to learn as much as I possibly could about the next instalment in the seminal horror series.
Title aside, it's possible to play Resident Evil 7 and not realise it's the latest entry in the long-running horror series. But Resident Evil 7 isn't a reboot, either. Confused?
Here's how Masachika Kawata, the game's producer, explained it to me:
"It’s the next title in the numbered series, so obviously it’s part of the Resident Evil universe, and overall canon, so to speak. It’s not a separate thing, but we have intentionally made it so that maybe when you first play it you’ll almost think: how could this possibly be related to the rest of Resident Evil? But it is. It is an extension of the series so far. It’s not a reboot. It’s the next main game."
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Title aside, it's possible to play Resident Evil 7 and not realise it's the latest entry in the long-running horror series. But Resident Evil 7 isn't a reboot, either. Confused?
Here's how Masachika Kawata, the game's producer, explained it to me:
"It’s the next title in the numbered series, so obviously it’s part of the Resident Evil universe, and overall canon, so to speak. It’s not a separate thing, but we have intentionally made it so that maybe when you first play it you’ll almost think: how could this possibly be related to the rest of Resident Evil? But it is. It is an extension of the series so far. It’s not a reboot. It’s the next main game."
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