Resident Evil Requiem delivered on the multiple-protagonist promise I've always wanted from Silent Hill

Resident Evil Requiem delivered on the multiple-protagonist promise I’ve always wanted from Silent Hill | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these Resident Evil Grace’s actor in Resident Evil Requiem says that Capcom ‘wanted to go back to the horror Resident Evil games’ Resident Evil Should you destroy or release Elpis in Resident Evil Requiem? 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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter It always seemed odd that Harry Mason was such a badass. The protagonist of the original Silent Hill was a novelist searching for his missing daughter, and yet over the course of the game he managed to accrue a handgun, a shotgun, a rifle, and multiple melee weapons, which he confidently used to defeat a giant caterpillar, a split-headed lizard, Mothra, and also God.Meanwhile, badass cop Cybil Bennett was just kind of there. Silent Hill implies that she’s off having her own awful adventure at the same time, but we only see glimpses of it. Apparently the original plan was to have two playable characters. When you played Harry you’d get a version of Silent Hill that was puzzle-focused, and when you played Cybil you’d see a more action-oriented version of the game.That explains why there are some objects you can interact with only to have Harry say he can’t use them right now, and why this untrained author became such a proficient boss-killer. Cuts during development meant the two protagonists were folded into one. You may like Resident Evil Requiem review: A jack of all trades 13 years after the disappointment of Resident Evil 6, Capcom is finally fusing survival horror and all-out action again—and this time I think it worked Can Resident Evil Requiem finally make good on Resident Evil 6’s best and most botched idea? Later Silent Hill games toyed with similar ideas. Multiple protagonists were considered for Silent Hill 2, though in the end all we got was the chance to briefly play Maria in the Born from a Wish scenario. It’s a lot more work to animate and voice playable characters than non-playable ones, and the Silent Hill series has often been forced to do its best with shoestring budgets.It took a Capcom surviva