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Key Points:
- Resident Evil: Requiem, the ninth mainline installment, contrasts two gameplay styles through its protagonists: Grace Ashcroft's slow-paced, puzzle-solving sequences evoke early series entries, while Leon Kennedy's sections amplify the action-oriented style popularized by Resident Evil 4.
- Grace's chapters take place in the Rhodes Hill Chronic Care Center, a setting reminiscent of classic Resident Evil locations, featuring complex puzzles, backtracking, and a tense atmosphere enhanced by first-person perspective and intense sound design.
- The game reintroduces survival horror elements such as scarce ammo, limited saves via ink ribbons on Classic difficulty, and the return of reviving zombies akin to Crimson Heads, adding strategic depth and heightened tension to exploration.
- While the first
