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@caplag.bsky.socialWhat was Requiem but Capcom's statement as the future of the franchise? Nothing but nostalgia, like selling a dead artist's best hits album repackaged over and over again, at a near yearly rate. And it didn't have to be this way.
Show PostSince 2019, we've been inundated with remakes and this overwhelming need to tie everything back into a greater mythology. Good remakes, to be sure (one of them's even great! And the other is RE3R!), but their insistence on rewriting the past, smoothing out the camp...
Show Post... and strangeness and rough edges of the 90s in favour of cinematic pretensions? It's a tragedy. It's encasing the series in a smooth, amber, prison; polished to a mirror shine but incapable of moving forwards in any meaningful direction. Perfect, pristine, stasis.
Show PostI’d like to see a shift to Japanese-style game dev instead of the one studio per IP at one game a year. When western devs go back to the drawing board, 3/4 of the staff are sitting around. Same as a game gets closer to release. Japanese studios have other projects that always need support.
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