The mold. Blue Umbrella. Chris Redfield. Ethan and Mia Winters. The Baker family. Doppelgangers. Vampires. Werewolves. Dragons. A guy who can control metal using his mind. The telepathic little girl whos actually an old woman. Living dolls. A Jigsaw-style serial killer. Insect people. First-person. Third-person. DLC. Online modes. Gold editions. Between RE7 and RE8, the fictional world of the mainline Resident Evil games has become more bloated and indecipherable than ever before. You might admire the imagination and creative liberty here, Capcoms willing to run with even the most tangential ideas, but the series that solidified survival horror as a genre has lost its identity. Ignoring crude nostalgia, theres a reason so many people like Resident Evil 2 Remake: its simple and its grounded. Resident Evil 9, or rather Requiem, seems more contained than Village, the nadir of the series, but there are early warning signs in that first trailer. Continue reading Resident Evil Requiem looks a lot better than Village, but I still have doubtsMORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best horror games, Best survival games, Best zombie games