Details on Resident Evil Requiem’s upcoming minigame have begun to emerge, as Capcom has teased a mode that goes all in on action. The only catch here? You’ll need to have beaten the game first before you can access it, Capcom says. If you haven’t played Requiem yet and were planning to grab it purely for the action segments, now might be a good time to start working your way through the campaign.
“It’s a minigame, and it’s based on the battles in the main game,” game director Koshi Nakanishi said to Japanese site Denfaminicogamer (via Google translation). “For those who have cleared the main story and are thinking, ‘I still haven’t had enough fun’, I think you’ll be able to enjoy this and go ‘Whoa!’, so sharpen your tomahawk and wait.”
Producer Masato Kumazawa confirmed that the minigame will be unlocked after the campaign is completed for the first time. Requiem’s two-protagonist approach was split between the game’s traditional survival-horror gameplay that emphasized stealth and cunning, while the survival-action sections with Leon S. Kennedy draw from recent games like the remake of Resident Evil 4. In the first few hours of Requiem, Leon’s sections are brief in comparison to Grace Ashcroft’s missions, but once the veteran agent returns to Raccoon City, his style of gameplay dominates the second half of the game.
So how long does Resident Evil Requiem take to beat? If you speedrun your way through it, expect to finish the campaign in around 11-14 hours. Beyond the minigame, a new story DLC will also be released for the game at an undetermined time. Previously, Capcom had updated Resident Evil Requiem with a photo mode, allowing fans to snap pics of Grace and Leon in all manner of poses while they battled bioweapons.
Resident Evil Requiem has been a huge hit for Capcom, selling over 7 million copies since its February launch. It’s now one of the best-selling Resident Evil games in the franchise, and sales from it helped contribute to a bumper month in consumer spending for March.