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Resident Evil 3 Nemesis retcon is new hint at Resident Evil 4 remake


Nemesis’ new parasite power directly connects to Resident Evil 4 (Pic: Capcom)

Changes made to the Resident Evil 3 remake could be further proof that Capcom are working on a Resident Evil 4 remake.

The remake of Resident Evil 3 made a lot of changes to the original game, both in terms of gameplay and story, some controversial and some not.

But it turns out one of these changes was done to serve as foreshadowing for the events of Resident Evil 4 and connect the two games’ stories, which may further confirm the previously reported Resident Evil 4 remake.

This comes from a recent interview on the PlayStation Blog, where Capcom talks about how it updated recurring monster Nemesis for the game, as well as how it built a playable version of it for the multiplayer mode Resident Evil Resistance.

While Nemesis’ appearance remains mostly unchanged from the original game, Capcom explained the lore behind his creation, revealing that the Nemesis project’s goal was to artificially create the Plaga parasite, which first appear in Resident Evil 4.

Not only that, but Nemesis can now infect other zombies with parasites, called NE-α, something he couldn’t do in the original.

These infected zombies are very similar to enemies from Resident Evil 4 (Pic: Capcom)

From a gameplay perspective, this was done to help differentiate Nemesis from Resident Evil 2’s Mr X, but it also serves as another connection to Resident Evil 4.

‘We inevitably decided on this final ability due to the presence of Ganado in Resident Evil 4,’ says Capcom, ‘Ganado are humanoid enemies that are created through being infected with the Plagas parasite, the original basis for NE-α.

‘When the Plagas activates, it spawns from the neck of its host in the form of a tentacle. NE-α was created to imitate this parasitic quality. We wanted NE-α infected enemies to be visually similar to the Plagas-infected Ganados as a means for fans to piece together how Nemesis fits within the whole Resident Evil franchise.’

This all sounds like a tacit admission that the Resident Evil 4 remake is real and suggests that Resident Evil 4’s story could undergo some minor changes of its own, to update the series’ lore.

Resident Evil 3 is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

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