Resident Evil 2 director demands ‘not scary’ version of Requiem

As the director of the original Resident Evil 2, Kamiya’s no stranger to scares. This is, after all, the game that introduced nightmarish enemies like Lickers and Mr. X to the series. Despite his survival-horror pedigree, it’s not the first time Kamiya has expressed his squeamishness about frightening games. Back in October 2024, he said something similar about Hideo Kojima’s iconic P.T. demo in another X post: “Man, I wanna play it again… It was so fun… But it’s too scary to play alone…”

Nearly a year after that, in September 2025, he half-seriously pondered a project of his own like P.T. — with some caveats. “If P.T.’s revival is impossible, Kojima-san should just make another game in the same style,” he wrote. “If Kojima-san won’t do it, maybe I should try… though I’m not a fan of horror so it wouldn’t be horror… and I don’t even have any ideas anyway…”

In Kamiya’s defense, he’s not wrong about the scares in Resident Evil Requiem. There are all sorts of terrifying things in this game, including literal buckets of blood and guts, minivan-sized arachnids, and a massive thresher used to mulch hordes of infected into slurry. I suspect Kamiya will be waiting a very long while to get truly a gore-free version of Requiem, but in the meantime he might consider downloading the Shrek mod, which transforms the titanic toddler Chunk into a smiling yet lethal version of the Scottish ogre.