At the 2025 Tokyo Game Show, Capcom put a Switch 2 and Resident Evil: Requiem in my hands, and honestly it felt like they were just showing off how well they know how to nail the Resident Evil formula at this point.
The first thing that ran through my head was how it would run on a Switch 2, and I was pleasantly surprised. I’m not a guy that can tell you the exact number of frames per second a game is running just by looking at it, but I didn’t notice any drops during my gameplay. Exploration, fleeing the monster, and cutscenes all ran as smoothly as I would expect from one of the more powerful consoles, and it looked decent on the small screen.
Literal Dark Souls, But I’m Using “Literal” Correctly
It was, perhaps intentionally, quite dark. You know the screen that many games have, wh