Resident Evil Requiem Leak Hints at Leon Kennedy’s Return and New Design

Resident Evil Requiem is breaking new with protagonist Grace ashcroft, an FBI Investigator, but it is also returning to the series’ roots by revising a deleict city decades after the fateful t-virus outbreak. While Re9‘s director confirmed chris redfield is sitting this entry out, the door is still for leon kennedy’s return, and a new leak seems to the rumors of his appeaarans in Requieem.

Originally Leaked On 4chan, A Supposed, Confidential Resident Evil Requiem DOCUMUM WAS THEN SHARED BY REDDIT User Anchovykingwith a translation provided by Birkin92 in the comments. It appears to be a sales pitch of sorts, potentially a team with Capcom vying for a roles in Resident Evil Requiem‘S DEVELOPMENT OR A DOCUMUM Used in an Internal Presentation. The Most Interesting Part of the Leak, Though, Is What May Be Leon Kennedy’s New Appearance in Re9: The Iconic Character is Shown with Gray Hair, an Agged Face, and an Eye Patch.

Click here to see the al The alledly Leaked Re9 Document, Hosted on Imgur.

Re9 Leak Shows Leon Kennedy’s Potential New Design

Leon’s LAST MAINLINE APPEARANCE WAS Resident Evil 6

In the Leaked Document, Leon’s Face Appears Below Images of Potential Enemies Found In Requieem -A Two-Headed, Quadrupedal Creature, and a zombie in a raccoon police uniform. It should be made clear that tan if this leaked document is legitimate, IT DOES NOT GUARANANT Leon’s Involvement in Resident Evil Requiem. The series’ ninth mainline installment has ben kept under fairly tight wraps, and Previous Developer comments have even suggestted that leon doesn’t fit into the game’s vision.

Leon’s Return has been long rumored nononeheless. The Star of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 4 Hasn’t HAD A Mainline Game Appeaance Since The Universally Panned Resident Evil 6. Leon’s Potential New Look is also a dramatic shift for the Moody Agent. The EYE Patch is Giving Metal gear solid 5‘S Big Boss, Another Aging Rendarion of an Iconic Gaming Character. He ALSO appears to have a short beard, control to the hym appearing more grizzled than his USUAL Clean-Shaven Depiction.

Requiem May Be Leon’s Long Awaited Return to Raccoon City

BACK TO WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

All the pieces have not yet fallen into place regarding Re9‘S Premise (and they likes unly the game releasses in february), but it is Clear that at the least part of the game return to the ruins of Raccoon City. If Leon Does Make an appearans in Requieem, He will potentially step back into the place where HIS Journey Began. Leon entered the series as a raccoon City Police officer, thrust into the t-virus outbreak that eventually led to the City’s destruction.

Resident Evil 2 Taks Place Concurrently with Its Release in 1998, with Requieem Set Roughly 30 Years Late, Sometime Around 2028. This Disparity Wouuld Explain’s Supposed Design Change, with his Hay Hair and Wrinkled Face. Unil he’s officious revealed, though, don’t count on leon being in Resident Evil Requiem;

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