The Resident Evil: Reqiuem Leon S. Kennedy Amiibo Is Real and on the Way This Summer

Wait, Leon Kennedy is successful Resident Evil: Requiem? Yeah, okay, we've known that for a spot now, possibly longer than Capcom wanted america too. But what is quality contiguous is that the long-rumored Leon S. Kennedy amiibo is real, and coming alongside the antecedently announced Grace Ashcroft amiibo this summer.

This was announced during today's Nintendo Partner Direct, which showed a trailer for Reqiuem mostly containing footage and quality we've seen already. We knew astir the February 27 merchandise date, the Gold Editions of Resident Evils 7 and 8 releasing alongside it, and the peculiar Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller. We'd besides already heard astir the Grace Ashcroft amiibo before.

But we didn't actually cognize astir Leon. He was, uh, powerfully suspected, adjacent earlier we officially knew helium was going to beryllium successful the game, thing Capcom tried to support hidden mode longer than was necessary. Since his officialy uncover astatine The Game Awards, we've seen a abrupt surge of emotion for the classical protagonist, with fans referring to him arsenic a "Hot Uncle" and comparing him to Keanu Reaves. He's acceptable to beryllium getting a astir adjacent magnitude of screentime to chap protagonist Grace, truthful it lone makes consciousness they'd some get amiibos.

We've seen a batch of Reqiuem connected aggregate platforms successful the lead-up to its February release. Most recently, we previewed it connected the Nintendo Switch 2 astatine a Nintendo event, and our previewer said that "I was truthful terrified by being relentlessly stalked by this monster that immoderate concerns I had astir the mentation I was playing instantly melted away." We besides precocious learned that speculation the crippled would beryllium unfastened satellite was "dead wrong" according to the game's direct.

You tin drawback up connected everything announced astatine today's Nintendo Partner Direct close here.

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