While the intent behind the Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 Remake is likely rooted in a desire to leverage our nostalgia for the PS1 era of Resident Evil as much as it is anything else, it's difficult to look at these games and not see them as tests for future creative endeavours. If Resident Evil 8: Village is indeed a folk horror experience infused with occult leanings, a return to the type of locations and systems that helped inscribe Resident Evil 4 as legend, and an evolution of the mechanics that recently propelled the series through its most impressive transformation in over a decade, then Capcom could be in a good position to get the series looking forward again after a few years of being fascinated with the past. The Resident Evil 8 details seeping through the cracks are fascinating, both in isolation and within the wider context of the time that they are arriving.
