The creator of this installment reflects on the evolution of the survival horror genre and breaks a spear in favor of the Dreamcast video game.
Resident Evil Code: Veronica is one of the most claimed games in the Capcom series. Released in 2000 as an initial exclusive to SEGA Dreamcast, the title was released as a result of the work of Production Studio 4, a spin-off of the Osaka company with Shinji Mikami in production to give color and shape to the sequels to Dino Crisis and this new Resident Evil, which at one point was conceived as Resident Evil 3 initially. Mikami himself has now reflected on the impact that both titles have left in the history of the medium.
Shinji Mikami talks about Resident Evil 3: “The company asked us to make a numbered game”
According to the documentary “Shinji Mikami | The Birth of the Game Survival Horror ”by Archipel, Mikami, who is now finishing Ghostwire: Tokyo in Tango Gameworks after The Evil Within, unceremoniously explains what those conversations were like in the late nineties, in a context marked by the unusual success of Resident Evil 2 in both sales and critics.
“The company asked us to make a numbered game,” he says of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, which would hit the market in 1999 for PlayStation. “So we had to change everything to satisfy a greater number of players; it was somewhat complicated. In the end, it became a numbered title in the Resident Evil series, but the quality suffered a bit in the end … However, on the other hand, Resident Evil Code: Veronica, which is not a numbered game, is a game that deserved be a numbered installment, but it was not due to political decisions of Capcom and the manufacturer of the console ”, that is, SEGA, since it was an exclusive game for the catalog of the promising Dreamcast.
While Resident Evil 3: Nemesis was intervened on the creative plane in order to attract the attention of the great masses, closer to the action than Resident Evil 2 was, a year later that Resident Evil Code: Veronica would arrive, closer to the wake started from the first two episodes, but separated from the numbered line for reasons that did not depend on the development team, but on business guidelines.
After Resident Evil 2: Remake in 2019 and Resident Evil 3 Remake in 2020, fans are now wondering what will be the next title to have a new installment in the form of a remake, if the fourth or this Code Veronica. The only certainty is that Resident Evil 8 Village is coming soon to PS5 and Xbox Series X | S.
Source | Achipel (minute 20:20)
