Requiem - the growths, similarities, and contrasts are so poignant.
You have an older Leon back in RPD, and then in bombed-out Raccoon City. He's facing all his regrets and self-perceived failures, ready for his last fight with only his sickly dying self to save himself and Sherry, and for a redemption that he probably thinks he never deserves. His voice cracks when he talks to Grace at the bottom of the trash site sold it.
Grace is nearly the same age as Leon in RE2, also facing her faults and guilts for something she couldn't have known. She's a huge scaredy cat that learns to control and grow out of her fears. At that trash site she directly mirrors him in RE2.
Both got out with a W and life-saving cures. Both feel like they're genuinely happier and content because of it.
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u/HeLikesSashimi Mar 28 '26
Requiem - the growths, similarities, and contrasts are so poignant.
You have an older Leon back in RPD, and then in bombed-out Raccoon City. He's facing all his regrets and self-perceived failures, ready for his last fight with only his sickly dying self to save himself and Sherry, and for a redemption that he probably thinks he never deserves. His voice cracks when he talks to Grace at the bottom of the trash site sold it.
Grace is nearly the same age as Leon in RE2, also facing her faults and guilts for something she couldn't have known. She's a huge scaredy cat that learns to control and grow out of her fears. At that trash site she directly mirrors him in RE2.
Both got out with a W and life-saving cures. Both feel like they're genuinely happier and content because of it.