RE2 director jokes Leon should star in a Stardew Valley–style life sim

Resident Evil Requiem has been one of 2026's best-selling and best-reviewed games, and its return of Leon S. Kennedy has prompted the series' director to suggest the character might deserve a gentler turn. In a post on X, Hideki Kamiya told a fan who asked about a "continuation of the two grown-up characters" that he'd like to give Leon a softer experience: "If I made it, it'd turn into a game where retired Leon goes fishing in the countryside, forages for wild veggies, bakes bread, walks the dog, tends a home garden, drives 50 km to the general store for supplies, invites old buddies over for a barbecue, fixes the neighbor grandma's oven at her request, sells homemade lemonade at the local festival...

but that'd be cool, right...?" Kamiya said in the post, via machine translation.

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