The discharge of the Resident Evil 4 remake is simply across the nook, and Capcom got here up with a quite… sudden strategy to promote it.
If there’s one factor that’s most likely troublesome to affiliate with Resident Evil is anime, particularly cute, healthful vintage-style anime. That is precisely what you are going to see immediately within the trailer, which is structured just like the condensed model of an anime episode.
Titled “Leon and the Mysterious Village” it is really animated by Nippon Animation. If you happen to’re an old-school anime fan, you most likely did not want me to let you know that, because the model is unmistakable.
The trailer is certainly named “Masterpiece Theater,” which is a homage to “World Masterpiece Theater,” a subgenre of anime primarily based on classical books, principally that includes western protagonists. They have been extremely popular between the seventies and the nineties.
Amongst these Nippon Animation (and its earlier incarnation Zuiyo Eizo) produced classics like Heidi, Lady of the Alps, A Canine of Flanders (which seems to be the direct inspiration for this trailer), Marco, 3000 Leagues in Seek for Mom, Rascal the Raccoon, Anne of Inexperienced Gables, Story of the Alps: My Annette, Katri, Lady of the Meadows, and lots of extra. By the way, Hayao Miyazaki labored as an animator in a few of them.
You’ll be able to take a look at the trailer under. Fortunately, the Asian arm of Capcom was variety sufficient to supply a model with English subtitles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lppo5cNxrhk
Resident Evil 4 is approaching March 24, 2023, for PS5, PS4, Xbox Collection X|S, and PC. Its “Chainsaw Demo” is already obtainable if you need one thing undoubtedly grittier than the trailer you noticed immediately.
If you would like to know extra, you’ll be able to learn our evaluate of the sport, which is unquestionably as enthusiastic as you count on. Capcom has one other winner in its arms.
By the way, I discussed that this type of commercial is shocking, however that is solely true if you have not seen the hilarious puppet present trailers Capcom launched in Japan for Resident Evil Village.