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Resident Evil: Revelations currently has two games. In the first one, you play primarily as Chris and Jill, letting you experience the horror through the eyes of the iconic protagonists who started the franchise. Then, in Revelations 2, you play as Claire and Moira with sections that feature Barry and Natalia. Since these games are set between mainline entries, they might reference a main game, but they’re not connected in ways where you need to have knowledge of those titles before you can enjoy them.
Resident Evil Is Sleeping on Its Best Spin-Off
Revelations tends to have the horror and action hybrid that you experience in RE4, but the format for how the game works is different from the main games. These are episodic games, and that means that there are clean opportunities to switch you from one set of characters to another, telling the story through multiple perspectives in order to give you the full picture.
I don’t have strong feelings for or against games using the episodic style, but I think that it worked for RE: Revelations 2, in particular. This style also gives players a clear point where they can stop and return to play another day, which is often needed when you consider that marathon gaming isn’t an option for a lot of players, regardless of the game or franchise.
Revelations Games Let More Characters Appear
At this point, it’s becoming clear that the Revelations games are the only time that some characters are going to be brought back to the franchise, so I hope that pattern would continue if there was a Resident Evil: Revelations 3. It’s because of the Revelations games that we got to see Jill, Claire, and Barry all make a return in Resident Evil games aren’t remakes, alongside a variety of new characters. By keeping the Revelations games not directly connected to the mainline series, there are more opportunities to bring these characters back into the fray without having to find ways to create reasons for their presence.
