Sony isn’t any stranger to buddying up with celebrities to promote consoles, what with its current partnership with Travis Scott. This time the corporate faucets tennis star Naomi Osaka to assist promote the PlayStation 5. It’s a pleasing advert that does it is job of serving to promote the upcoming console, however the actual deal with is getting a shocking have a look at Resident Evil Village gameplay.
The video sits down with the likable Osaka as she discusses her historical past with video games, her favorites like Overwatch and Apex Legends, and the way games assist her relieve stress throughout tennis competitions. After swinging round Harlem in Spider-Man: Miles Morales for a bit, she switches over to the highly-anticipated Resident Evil Village.
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We see clips of her exploring the titular snowy village, together with leaping down shanty home rooftops. The clip even exhibits off one of many werewolf-like enemies stalking Osaka. Seeing it in motion, the game undoubtedly seems to be like a fusion of Resident Evil 7’s design with Resident Evil 4’s aesthetic. Thankfully, the video does a superb job of slicing away from the bounce scares in order to not completely spoil them. Of course, if you wish to go into Resident Evil Village utterly blind, you most likely shouldn’t watch this. Still, whereas it isn’t the deepest have a look at the game (which should not shock anybody) it is greater than you’d most likely count on from an advert like this.
Resident Evil Village is the eighth mainline entry within the sequence, choosing up a couple of years after the occasions of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. Players as soon as once more management Ethan Winters, and the game options the return of Chris Redfield. Village provides a thematic departure for the sequence by centering on witchcraft and folklore somewhat than zombies and bioweapons; so far as we are able to inform not less than. The game is slated to reach on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S (and maybe last-gen consoles) in 2021.
