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Resident Evil Requiem<\/em> is busting records with series-high sales and glowing reviews, and now the director of 1998’s iconic Resident Evil 2 <\/em>has a request for Capcom. In a post on X following the March 10 announcement of upcoming Requiem <\/em>DLC, Hideki Kamiya jokingly asked the Requiem <\/em>team to offer a “not scary mode” in a future content update.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Instead of fleeing the frenzied undead in the creepiest medical facility on Earth, Kamiya imagines a kinder, gentler version of Requiem<\/em>, “where the zombies get all cute, the blood splatters turn into cherry blossom petals, the music becomes this upbeat, feel-good kind of tune, and you can just purely enjoy the puzzles and battles in a fun mood,” he wrote. “I wanna play it, but it’s so scary that I can’t sleep alone at night anymore, so I just can’t bring myself to play… Think about how people like that feel…”<\/p>\n As the director of the original Resident Evil 2<\/em>, 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. <\/em>demo in another X post: “Man, I wanna play it again… It was so fun… But it’s too scary to play alone…”<\/p>\n Nearly a year after that, in September 2025, he half-seriously pondered a project of his own like P.T. \u2014 <\/em>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…”<\/p>\n In Kamiya’s defense, he’s not wrong about the scares in Resident Evil Requiem<\/em>. 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<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n