Resident Evil Village Crafting System Hinted At By Capcom

Resident Evil Village, coming in 2021 toPS5,Xbox Series X, andPC, actually has a crafting mechanic. We learned this at the CapcomTGS 2020stream, during theResident Evil VillageGuest Talk on September 27. Where comedian and singerEiko Kanogot to be the first person to playBiohazard Village. Sadly, we didn’t get to see the gameplay screen for ourselves, and only heard the game’s English dubbing and sounds, along with Eiko Kano’s impressions.

In particular, Eiko Kano mentioned that when defeated, enemies inResident Evil Villagedrop not only money like inRE4, but also materials, that can seemingly be used in a crafting mechanic. (Thanks to Game Watch for pointing it out). Kano was playing the very beginning of the game, and stated you suddenly get attacked by a monster. Kano got multiple game overs, and mentionedREVIIIcan feel pretty hard from the start, with many monsters attacking at the same time. However, while he’s aResident Evilspecialist and regularly streams horror games on theEiko Go YouTube channel, Eiko Kano himself said he’s “not good at games at all”. So you shouldn’t give too much credit to that detail regarding difficulty.

There also seem to be enemies that move in different ways than all monsters inResident Evil VII. Kano also mentioned it’s peculiar how the game is set in winter, with snow in the village, and yet some enemies are naked. Moreover, it looks like protagonist Ethan Winters has few weapons or ammunition at disposal and can instead use his surroundings. Like pushing down furniture on enemies to attack or block them. Comedian Yoshiyuki Hirai, who was also on stream and watched theResident Evil Villagegameplay, jokingly said “it’s basicallyHome Alone”.

If you’d like to watch Eiko Kano playingResident Evil Village,not the game itself, it’s starting the 2:06:02 timestamp for around 13 minutes:

Still at TGS 2020,Producer Tsuyoshi Kanda heavily hintedResident Evil Villagemight launch onPS4andXbox Oneas well. Capcom also officially announcedNetflix projectResident Evil: Infinite Darkness.On a slightly related note, Sega alsoofficially confirmedtheYakuzamovie.