Capcom Cut 'Phantom' Chapter 2 From Resident Evil Requiem During Development

In the long tradition of creative works shaped as much by what is removed as what remains, Capcom's Resident Evil Requiem arrived carrying the quiet absence of an entire chapter—excised early in development before players ever knew to miss it. Director Koshi Nakanishi has spoken openly about this subtraction, framing it not as failure but as craft: the understanding that a finished work serves its audience better when creators are willing to sacrifice their own ideas for the integrity of the whole. It is a tension as old as storytelling itself—the gap between what an artist imagines and what a