Resident Evil 8: Every Plot Detail You Need To Know
2. Someone Has Tried To Escape The Castle Before
In Resident Evil: Village, players will once again take on the role of Ethan Winters as he searches for daughter to free her from the clutches of a vampiric matriarch. In the Maiden demo, however, players don’t play as Ethan. Rather, they play as an unnamed character seeking to escape the castle. And (spoilers) it doesn’t end well for them.
Not playing as the protagonist in a Resident Evil demo is nothing new. In Beginning Hour, the teaser demo released for RE7, we explored part of the Baker homestead as doomed cameraman Clancy. Like Maiden, the demo gave us a tantalising taste of the game’s atmosphere and a sneak-peak of the location we’d be exploring. Crucially, though, Beginning Hour gave players some useful background information that tied back into the main game.
It is entirely possible, then, that Maiden has just given us some useful history about Village’s events prior to Ethan’s arrival. The biggest lingering questions being who our doomed character was and who was the mysterious stranger who aided in their escape.
We know the maiden didn’t make it out the castle's doors, but did whoever wrote that handy note survive to see daylight?