What Does Nintendo Have Against Leon S. Kennedy?

Near the end of this month, Resident Evil Requiem is coming to Switch 2 and other platforms. But in today’s Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase, we couldn’t help but notice that fan-favorite Leon S. Kennedy was done dirty in Requiem preview. If Nintendo thought people wouldn’t notice Leon wildly missing every shot, then it was greatly mistaken. Stormtroopers from the original Star Wars trilogy had better aim than Leon does in the video below.

Now, we can understand Grace Ashcroft missing every shot she took. She’s the inexperienced one. But Leon suddenly looks like he needs Resident Evil 4’s Ashley Graham to come back and save him, which would probably look a lot like this fan-made edit.

Nintendo may have nerfed Leon to keep the level of violence down in the Direct. Grace didn’t get any successful shots off either. But that doesn’t explain the crime against nature that Nintendo pulled with this Leon Amiibo design.

What happened to “hot uncle Leon,” Capcom?! He looks like he fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.

The weird thing about this very kid-friendly preview for Resident Evil Requiem is that Nintendo didn’t seem to have a problem with the mature aspects of Cyberpunk 2077 or The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. But somehow the mature superhero comedy Dispatch was heavily censored on Switch 2. Nintendo has denied any responsibility for that censorship, and Dispatch developer AdHoc has claimed its legally prohibited from explaining why the nudity and other adult aspects of the game were blurred.

No one wants that fate to befall Resident Evil Requiem when it hits on February 27. According to the ESRB, the game is still rated M for Mature across all consoles, even Switch 2.

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