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‘Please’ Delves Into More Retro-Styled Horror Goodness
If you’ve been paying attention, folks like Puppet Horror have been making noise with their throwback games that are purposely styled to echo 90s survival horror classics. In this case, Somewhat is continuing that trend with their upcoming game, Please.
The game, which can be completed in seven minutes, is to the point and purposely vague in its description: In an alternate timeline where we won the war, you are the repair person. You fix things. You keep things running. You do what you’re told. We asked you so nicely.
Despite the short length, the game definitely has the creep factor thanks to its vagueness. You wake up in a building, presumably an apartment building, where strange noises are heard behind the other residents’ doors. Every day you head down to the basement where the aforementioned machine resides. You repair some boxes, or flip some switches. It only gets stranger from there.
If you want to check it out (and you should), hit up Somewhat’s itch.io page, where you can download the game, and toss a few bucks the creator’s way.
Thanks for the heads up, Alpha Beta Gamer.
Capcom was to the point during Summer Game Fest and the reveal of the long-rumoured Resident Evil Veronica remake. But the trailer didn’t exactly reveal details about the remake. Luckily, IGN was able to pick the brain of the remake’s producer, Yoshiaki Hirabayashi, for a bit more info.
In the Q&A session with the producer, despite stating that he wasn’t going to get into too many details, Hirabayashi confirmed that Veronica will be a third-person game, and not the first-person perspective that we saw during the trailer. Furthermore, the team behind this remake is the same team that handled the Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 4 remakes.
“So if you looked at the past remakes that this team has created, you can probably sense a certain mindset that we have when we make a game, and that mindset includes preserving those iconic and key aspects of the title,” said Hirabayashi. “So again, if you look at our work, you can probably get kind of a good sense of what kind of approach we’re taking here, and maybe you can imagine what that might look like for this remake.”
As for how “evolved” Claire will be in the remake (as opposed to the original game) after her experiences in the RE2 remake, Hirabayashi says that the team is taking a realistic approach. “Veronica takes place about three months after the events of Resident Evil 2 [when Claire is a university student]. So let’s just think about how that progression or how much change happened in about three months. So again, three months is not a lot of time. Of course, she has had training from her brother, and of course, she survived the incident in Raccoon City, so she’s not going to be the exact same character. But the portrayal of her and her style is going to be in alignment with that timeline and that history that we’re looking at for Veronica.”
Oh, and as for the title change from Code: Veronica? In a separate Q&A with Eurogamer, Hirabayashi stated that the team wanted a name more in line with other games in the series.
“[If you] think about the recent entries that we’ve had in the Resident Evil franchise, our titles are made from a very clear and impactful naming system; usually it’s just ‘Resident Evil’ and a clear or simple single word in alignment with that. When we were deciding the title of this remake, we wanted to select one word that was most representative of the game and we thought that ‘Veronica’ was the title that did that the best.”
Resident Evil Veronica is currently slated for a 2027 release on PC via Steam, PlayStation 5, the Xbox Series, and the Nintendo Switch 2.