๐Ÿ’ฅ ๋ ˆ์ง€๋˜ํŠธ ์ด๋ธ” 9 ์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต ์„ ์ •์—์„œ ์ „ํ†ต๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ฐ์„ ๊ท ํ˜•์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๐Ÿ’ฅ

Ethan Winters์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ณต๊ฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต์ด Resident Evil 9์— ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋˜๋ฉด ์ด๋“์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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Resident Evil 9 with a Regular Protagonist Has a Big Problem

๐Ÿ‘พ Itโ€™s time to brace ourselves for the next terrifying installment in the Resident Evil franchise: Resident Evil 9! But with the conclusion of Ethan Wintersโ€™ story in Resident Evil Village, the choice of protagonist for the upcoming game poses a challenge for Capcom. Should they stick with a familiar face, like Chris Redfield or Leon Kennedy, or introduce a new character who can capture the relatable everyman persona that made Ethan so compelling? Letโ€™s dive into the murky depths of this precarious decision and explore the possibilities! ๐ŸงŸโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐ŸงŸโ€โ™€๏ธ

๐ŸŒŸ Legacy Characters vs.ย Relatable Newcomers ๐ŸŒŸ

Resident Evil 9 finds itself at a crossroads in terms of its protagonist. ๐Ÿ“(For an interesting list of powerful bosses in Resident Evil games, check out this link: 18 Powerful Bosses in Resident Evil Games) Should Capcom stick to the familiar faces that have become icons in the franchise, or should they take a risk and introduce a new character who can capture the essence of Ethan Wintersโ€™ relatable vulnerability? Itโ€™s a tough decision to make with its own set of narrative challenges.

๐ŸงŸโ€โ™‚๏ธ In the past, Resident Evil games shifted away from their horror roots, focusing more on larger-than-life heroes who seemed invincible. These protagonists, while iconic, never truly made us feel the palpable fear and tension that true horror requires. But then came Ethan Winters, an ordinary guy who sacrificed a bit of charm for relatability. With Ethan, the series regained its chilling atmosphere, as players experienced vulnerability and intimate terror. Ethanโ€™s personal connection to the conflicts he faced made the horror all the more effective.

๐Ÿชœ A Grounded Protagonist: A Hard Sell ๐Ÿชœ

Resident Evil 9 needs to strike a delicate balance. While a protagonist like Ethan Winters offers effective storytelling, grounding a new character may prove to be a tough sell. Unlike Ethan, who had a very specific background that justified his involvement in the seriesโ€™ events, an average person wouldnโ€™t have a compelling reason to embark on a zombie-killing adventure. After all, exploring dangerous biohazards and evil corporations isnโ€™t exactly a common career choice for the majority of us!

๐Ÿ’ก Silent Hill succeeded with average protagonists because its horror was primarily psychological. However, Resident Evil often features large-scale conflicts that go beyond the capabilities of a single person. So, itโ€™s essential to find a way to justify the involvement of a relatable everyman in the next installment.

๐Ÿ”ฉ The Needle Must Be Threaded: The Power of the Everyman ๐Ÿ”ฉ

While it might be tempting to rely on the established legacy heroes of Resident Evil to lead the way, Capcom shouldnโ€™t overlook the strengths of an everyman protagonist. Ethan Winters breathed new life into the series, offering a tale that was personal, emotionally resonant, and utterly terrifying. The battles against larger-than-life villains pale in comparison to the psychological horror of Ethan being attacked by his infected wife or fearing for the safety of his child. The relatability and vulnerability Ethan brought to the table must be recaptured in Resident Evil 9.

โš ๏ธ Although Resident Evil Village leaned more towards action-packed moments, it appears that the franchise is shifting towards psychological horror in its mainline titles. This transition raises the question of how Resident Evil 9 can merge the seriesโ€™ two identitiesโ€”action and horrorโ€”and present a vulnerable and personal side of a character who logically fits into the narrative.

๐Ÿ“ฃ So, dear Resident Evil fans, what do you think? Should Capcom introduce a new character as the protagonist of Resident Evil 9, or should they stick with a familiar face? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below, and letโ€™s discuss the terrifying possibilities that lie ahead! ๐Ÿ’€


๐Ÿ” References:18 Powerful Bosses in Resident Evil Games – Get ready for some truly epic boss battles in the Resident Evil franchise!


๐Ÿ“ฃReader Q&A

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๐Ÿค” Q: Resident Evil 9 ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ ๋˜๋Š” ์„ค์ •์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํžŒํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? A: ํ˜„์žฌ ์‹œ์ ์—์„œ Resident Evil 9 ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ์™€ ์„ค์ •์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์„ธ๋ถ€ ์‚ฌํ•ญ์€ ๋ถ€์กฑํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Capcom์€ ํŒฌ๋“ค์ด ์–ด๋– ํ•œ ํžŒํŠธ๋‚˜ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์„ ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ตœ๊ทผ ๊ฒŒ์ž„์—์„œ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ๊ณตํฌ๋กœ์˜ ์ „ํ™˜์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๋ฉด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” Resident Evil 9๊ฐ€ ๋” ์–ด๋‘ก๊ณ  ๋” unsettlingํ•œ ์ฃผ์ œ๋ฅผ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿค” Q: Resident Evil 9์—์„œ ์ด์ „ Resident Evil ๊ฒŒ์ž„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ด€์„ฑ์ด๋‚˜ ์ฐธ์กฐ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? A: ํŠน์ • ์—ฐ๊ด€์„ฑ์ด๋‚˜ ์ฐธ์กฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณต์‹ ์ •๋ณด๋Š” ์—†์ง€๋งŒ, Resident Evil 9๊ฐ€ ์‹œ๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ ์ด์ „ ๊ฒŒ์ž„์„ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋†€๋ผ์›Œํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„์•ผํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Capcom์€ ์ถฉ์„ฑ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ํŒฌ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์žฌ๋ฐŒ๋Š” ์ด์Šคํ„ฐ ์—๊ทธ์™€ ์‹œ๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ์˜ ํ’๋ถ€ํ•œ ์ „์Šน๊ณผ์˜ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ๊ฐ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋‚ญ๋งŒ์ ์ธ ์ถ”์–ต์„ ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜์žˆ๋Š” ์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ง„ ๋ณด์„์„ ์ฐพ์•„๋ณด์„ธ์š”!

๐Ÿค” Q: Resident Evil 9 ์ถœ์‹œ ์ผ์ •์€ ์–ธ์ œ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋‚˜์š”? A: Resident Evil 9 ์ถœ์‹œ์ผ์€ ์•„์ง ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ์ž„๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ด ์ œ์ž‘์— ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ Capcom์€ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์–ด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ๋งˆ๋˜๊ณ  ๋–จ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋ณด์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ดํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ๋‹ต๋ณ€์„ ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ์— ๋ฌถ์ด๊ณ  ๊ณจ๊ฒฉ์ด ๋‚˜์˜ค๋ฉฐ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€๋น„ํ•˜์„ธ์š” – ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

๐Ÿค” Q: Resident Evil 9์— ๋ฐ๋ชจ๋‚˜ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์•ก์„ธ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? A: Capcom์€ ๋ฐ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์ถœ์‹œํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฒŒ์ž„์˜ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์•ก์„ธ์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์—ญ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Resident Evil 9์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํŠน์ • ๋‚ด์šฉ์ด ๊ณต์œ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์ง€๋งŒ, Capcom์ด ๊ฒŒ์ž„์˜ ๊ณต์‹ ์ถœ์‹œ ์ „์— ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ฌ ๊ณตํฌ์˜ ๋ง›์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ํฌ๋งํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณต์‹ ๋ฐœํ‘œ์™€ Resident Evil ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•˜์—ฌ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ์†Œ์‹์ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค!


๐ŸŒŸ์ด ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ํ† ๋ก ์„ ์ฆ๊ธฐ์…จ๋‚˜์š”? ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•จ๊ป˜ Resident Evil 9์˜ ์‹ ๋น„์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ํ’€์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”! ๐ŸŒŸ

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