Today Dusk Golem revealed a large amount of new content for “Resident Evil Village”. This includes system changes, additional modes, storyline planning and other content.
Dusk first highlighted some of the system content that was previously officially mentioned but not detailed. The game’s combat system adds a lot of action elements, as shown in the previous demo, such as Ethan can run while shooting, you can use the knife to block and then quickly switch weapons to counterattack.
But likewise, the enemy has become more intelligent and powerful, the behavior pattern is also dynamic change, the same monster in alone and in groups have different ways of attack.
Some of the enemies can not be killed directly, need environmental kill or specific items.In addition to adding a certain element of sneaking, you can avoid some unnecessary trouble, you can also choose to escape after encountering the enemy, the choice is up to the player.
This time the world is more open than most of the previous titles.
Ethan is not the only controllable character in this game, other controllable characters will have a different play style from Ethan.
This game will be more challenging than the RE7, the combat system is different from the RE:2, the enemy’s reaction system is different than the RE:2 gore system, it’s more like Resident Evil 4’s reactionary system.
Dusk also revealed that “Resident Evil Village” has an additional mode, not involving story content, like a Re7’s DLC “Ethan must die” 2.0-esque mode for Village. In this mode, the location of enemies and items will become random, will significantly increase the difficulty of the game.
About the story-line, Dusk says, RE7, RE8, RE9’s story-line is determined from the very beginning, the story-line of the three titles are linked together, so there will be more ambush, implied elements in the trilogy than the previous titles.
At the same time Dusk also said due to focus and ambiguity, Some story content of Resident Evil 7 may got cut. according to RE7 and RE8’s story-line are connected, He suspected that the story of Evelyn in the RE7 is not finished.
Dusk also talked about how Capcom will choose the perspective they feel works best, so the next titles will probably still take the first-person perspective.
After all, it is not official news, so there may be differences.
