Resident Evil 7: 10 Facts, Secrets & Easter Eggs You Totally Missed

5. Raccoon City Is Still Canon

For the longest time it appeared as though RE7 may simply be a one-off; a new attempt to breathe life into the series under the proviso that if its first-person setup didn't work, or feel particularly worthwhile, Capcom could back out again.

Alas, in the game, there are many confirmations that RE7 is just as much a part of the mythology as every other main instalment, as the above article on the "nightmare of Raccoon City" proves.

There's even the added fact that as 'the Raccoon City incident' from RE2 was in 1998 and this magazine cites '16 years' later as when this piece was written (in 2014), it matches up to timeframe of when RE7 protagonist Ethan's wife went missing, being the game is set in 2017.

Don't worry if that wasn't clear, it'll all make sense after you finish the story...