This is the season of the spooky online game remake—Alan Wake received remastered, Konami is engaged on Silent Hill 2, and Capcom is making ready a Resident Evil 4 remake, amongst many different issues. But you received’t discover Resident Evil Code: Veronica within the latter developer’s excellent pile of initiatives, at the least not but.

This revelation comes from a brand new interview Resident Evil 4 producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi gave to gaming website Noisy Pixel. When requested about the opportunity of a refreshed Code: Veronica, Hirabayashi mentioned that he’s at present targeted on the Resident Evil 4 remake challenge However, he did go away the door open to a doable future remake, saying that, “[if the] opportunity comes, maybe.”

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The authentic Resident Evil from 1996 received a critically acclaimed remake in 2002, 1998’s Resident Evil 2 was remade in 2019 (additionally to nice success), and 1999’s Resident Evil 3 received an identical 2020 revamp. Here we’re immediately with Resident Evil 4 on the horizon, however no Code: Veronica in sight. Fans aren’t shocked.

Resident Evil Code: Veronica, forgotten however nonetheless canon, first got here out in 2000 for Sega’s Dreamcast, and Kotaku staffer Zack Zwiezen notes that “for some fans of the series, this is the real sequel to Resident Evil 2.”

The basic survival horror journey splits gamers’ time between Claire Redfield, caught on a jail island, and her brother Chris, who’s looking for her. The Dreamcast sport was bewitching and ghostly, with loads of stately grey halls, checkerboard flooring, and good brick-red blood spatter. In 2000, IGN gushed in a assessment that the “game’s outstanding visuals combine with the series’ trademark music and audio to create a scene so lively, so frightening, that getting sucked into this nightmare is easier than ever before.”

It was a powerful sport, however received labeled as a spin-off due to “political reasons between Capcom and the console manufacturing company,” sport designer Shinji Mikami mentioned in a 2020 interview with YouTube channel Archipel. “Personally, I wanted it to be a numbered title,” he mentioned.

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And so do loads of followers, a few of whom are at present devoting themselves to making a Code: Veronica remake themselves. It has no set launch date but.

Until Hirabayashi’s alternative comes knocking, followers’ ardour must be sufficient to maintain Code: Veronica.