#Nemesis

RE3 Nemesis Wasn't Survival Horror: Mikami Understood This First

Resident Evil 4's paradigm shift in 2005 became gaming history's founding myth. Except Shinji Mikami had already transformed the franchise six years earlier. Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, released in 1999, isn't a failed survival horror game—it's an action game disguised as survival horror, and this distinction reframes two decades of Capcom history.