After 30 years of build-up, Resident Evil Requiem is here to close out an entire era of the beloved survival horror franchise.
If you haven’t reached the end of the game, I suggest you get out of here now, unless you want to be spoiled completely. I do not recommend that, because RE Requiem is awesome, and I think everyone should experience it themselves. But, alas, here we are.
There are obviously MASSIVE SPOILERS down below if you haven’t completed Resident Evil Requiem. Read everything at your own discretion. You have been warned. Stop reading now if you don’t want to know what happens at the end of the game.
Seriously. Stop reading unless you’re ready.
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Resident Evil Requiem – Destroy Elpis or Release Elpis
In the climax of RE Requiem’s events, Grace is left with the choice to either Destroy Elpis or Release Elpis into the world. If you have been picking up on the cues from the story revelations in the hours leading up to the event, it’s a simple choice.
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The important thing to note here is that the game will give you the chance to play and view the repercussions of both choices once the credits roll on your first try, which is great. But here’s what happens for both decisions.
What happens if you Destroy Elpis in Resident Evil Requiem?
If you Destroy Elpis, the ARK facility begins to self-destruct and collapse into itself. In the cutscene that plays next, Grace escapes with the help of Leon, but the increasingly sick hero is on his last legs thanks to the Raccoon City survivor sickness ailing him, and he cannot join her.
Looking down upon Zeno and Leon, Grace can only watch in horror as Zeno uses his massive hand cannon to blow Leon to smithereens. Yeah. It’s grisly. Grace then escapes before ARK is destroyed, leaving Leon (and presumably Zeno) to die in the wake.
Grace boards a helicopter, and the game comes to an end, and the credits roll. Congrats. This is the bad ending! It’s so bad, in fact, that I don’t understand why Capcom decided to make it an option.
What happens if you Release Elpis in Resident Evil Requiem?
If you choose to Release Elpis, as the game has been hinting you should do with the video interview with Umbrella founder Ozwell E. Spencer recorded by Alyssa Ashcroft, the real ending of RE Requiem begins.
The ever-eager Zeno, thinking that Elpis is a mega-virus that will enhance his Albert Wesker-like abilities, injects himself with it and quickly finds out the truth: Elpis is a powerful anti-viral. And so, he loses his powers and quickly finds out what it’s like to be human again as Victor Gideon shows up mid-mutation and literally takes his head off.
Grace then gives Elpis to Leon, curing him of his ailment, and bringing back the veteran ass-kicker in top form once more. Thus kicks off the game’s true final battle with the mutated Victor Gideon, and it’s revealed that the former Umbrella researcher is actually infected with the same virus as Resident Evil 3’s Nemesis. Yeah, that’s why he’s so persistent.
After winning the final battle, the real ending plays, and you can enjoy the trademark Resident Evil “holy shit, we survived” moments before the credits roll. But sit tight: there are some more scenes after the credits, too.
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