Resident Evil Village DLC Winters Expansion tests the story of Rose! I was too scared of the enemy's attack, so I asked the development team [TGS2022]

Download content for resident evil village to be released on October 28, 2022 Winters Expansion , and set version Biohazard Village Gold Edition. GAMESpark has tried a new scenario * added in this content through Tokyo game show 2022.

In this article, we will deliver an interview with the impression that focuses on Third Person View and Shadow of Rose with the impression. We asked the producer Macao Canada and the director Benito Hiroshima .

――Please tell us more about the Third Person Mode included in Winters Expansion. Playing from a third-person perspective will change the game genre significantly, but what were you strongly conscious at the time of development?

Hiroshima: Actually, I didn't think I should do it at first. After all, the genre was changed drastically, and development was required. In the previous work Resident Evil 7 Resident Evil, we adopted the first person view to reach out to Survival Horror, but the customer who said I am a little... because the operation has changed significantly from the previous series work. I heard the voice. resident evil village has adopted a similar system, but I heard that I wanted to play with a third-person view like Resident Evil Re: 2 and Resident Evil Re: 3, so this time I will try it. I made it to do it.

Canada: You'll also see the whole body other than the playable character's hand created for the first person view. And Village had many players, and had a lot of guards, squatting, and stage gimmicks. Anyway, there were many unique animations, so I'm focusing on directing and fun when playing there. I was thinking to enhance the same quality as the RE series, so it took a lot of time. When I was told, I'll do it again!

――Is it up to that! It was a considerable amount of work.

Canada: But I spent that much time, so I think it's worth playing again for those who have already played the main story. I wonder if I can return to Village with a very fresh feeling.

--I see. The Resident Evil series is also attractive to play with a time attack, and many people play repeatedly, but it is still a mode that changes the way to accept it greatly.

Canada: That's right. You can look around the surroundings compared to the First Person view, so the way you feel or where the objects are, the way you feel. I think that the way of thinking about the time attack player to think, Where do you go next?

――In Village, it was a lot of characters anyway, but please tell me if there is a highlight in the third person view, especially.

Hiroshima: Gun action is one of the highlights.

Canada: I would like you to see not only the gun action but also the counterattack motion when you are bitten. In particular, the scene where you were moving crazy and moving was quite new! If you look at it objectively, your impression will change dramatically.

--I see. From the first-person viewpoint and the third-person perspective, the immersion in the character seems to be different.

Canada: In terms of how it feels, TPS may be stronger because your character is on the screen.

Hiroshima: Since you will see your alter ego from behind, I think that how to be attacked and how to go will be different.

――By the way, can you see Ethan's face in the third person view? In my previous work, I felt a strong commitment to I will never show my face.

Canada: Ethan's Face has been adjusted so hard that you can't see it. Ethan, the main character of 7, is player alter ego, so I try not to show my face as much as possible, and of course I think in the Village in this third person view.

Hiroshima: Even if you try to go around your face by operating the camera, you will turn your back and change the angle.

Canada: Maybe you may be thoroughly verified by those who are playing the game (laughs). We also adjusted it very carefully.

――In the Shadow of Rose trials, you were able to experience a part of the nightmare worldview. The modeling of Niche, the objects and the enemy, Face Eater, are particularly impressive. The sound I heard was eerie and stranger.

Canada: Nightmare-like spiritual world is a keyword, so I was conscious of horror expressions like dreams I see when I'm getting high fever. This depends on the person.

Hiroshima: I was conscious of Face Eater's voice, not a zombie-like voice, but a more special sound. It is a strange sound that does not exist in the real world, which is unique to creatures that do not exist in the real world. You designed it with the idea that the real creatures will not have such a vocal cord.

――The damage description of Rose, which takes a face-to-face attack, was very shocking. Naturally, that attack does not exist in the real world, and you can stir your imagination in an unpleasant direction. I was afraid to just think, How much pain is for Rose...?

Canada: I'm glad if you can say that (laughs).

Hiroshima: It's the best praise for the creator. It was the point we had been considering from the time of choosing a screenshot to be released to you. I wondered how to show the scene that was attacked by Face Eater at the first time... but the development team told me, This is the scary attraction in this work! (Laughs). 。 First, we decided to make it small.

――By maybe, even if you like horror, you may feel that this is too scary! I felt that much fear.

Canada: Even in the story of the test range, we have a lot of horror production unique to the spiritual world. Please look forward to!

――In the Shadow of Rose, it is said that the story is drawn 16 years after the main story, but will the blank period during that time tell you in another content or work?

Canada: It's undecided for now. This work is set to that era to draw Rose's growth, and it is the same world view as the main part. However, it is only one of the content of Winters Expansion and chose this time axis as an end of the story.

Hiroshima: It's just the last episode of the time series of Village. It was after the release of Village that we started making Winters Expansion, but the concept had been working on a while ago. That was what I focused on Chris at the time of planning. But I wanted to focus on Rose rather than creating a story that he did. It is an experience that is the opposite of Donpachi, in which a weak woman overcomes the difficulty while combining tools. Many users were impressed by the story of the main story, so I wanted to respond to that voice.

――Finally, please give a message for fans who are waiting for the release of Integers Expansion and Gold Edition.

Canada: We've been waiting for a year, but you can buy three volume content at a low price, so please take it!

Hiroshima: Winters Expansion and resident evil village Gold Edition are very affordable, so thank you! In addition, the world of Village is spreading to the horizontal axis, and the Nintendo Switch and Mac version will be released in the future. If you have never played, please try to play if you have the opportunity. Of course, the PS VR2 version is also under development. I hope you can feel the amazing world more than you imagined.

--Thank you for today.

resident evil village is on sale for PC (Steam)/PS4/PS5/Xbox One/Xbox Series X | S/STADIA. Biohazard Village Gold Edition, which includes DLC Winters Expansion and DLC and the main part, will be released on October 28.