Now that I've completed Resident Evil Requiem, I put myself through the usual ordeal of reviewing every piece of Resident Evil lore, contradictory though it often is. In this renewed interest in Capcom's long-standing franchise, I began to wonder who a potential Resident Evil 10 should feature in the main role and came to realize that it's actually a rather difficult problem to solve.
Though a very recognizable survival horror franchise at heart, Resident Evil is thoroughly narrative-driven, introducing and building up characters and environments that embedded themselves into the collective consciousness of gaming culture, no matter if you played the games or not. In fact, it is so heavily reliant on good stories that having bad characters in a Resident Evil game would completely break the mood, even more so than leaning into action over horror.
