/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4249520
>There's also the fact that the original RE4 turned into DMC, meaning they were far past the proof of concept stage.
Unlike the fog version of RE4, there's plenty of concept art and story detail that has been revealed about the DMC build of RE4 through interviews and statements from the developers and concept art from a few Devil May Cry books (such as pic related).

>You haven't provided any evidence as to why it would be a proof of concept outside of 'I think it is'.
For one thing, Yasuhisa Kawamura said as much about the Hookman version.
http://projectumbrella.net/articles/Yasuhisa-Kawamura-Interview-Project-Umbrella
>Hookman was merely an experiment and there was no true back-story.

>I wanted to make biohazard 4 scarier and suggested using a particular scene from the film "The Lost Souls", where the main character (played by Winona Ryder), while washing her hands in a bathroom, suddenly finds herself in a derelict building with a killer on the loose. An arranged version of this idea eventually turned into Hookman.

>The idea went through several iterations as Mr. Sugimura and I carefully refined this world (which, I have to say, was very romantic).

>Leon infiltrates the castle of Oswell E. Spencer seeking the truth, while inside a laboratory located deep within, a young girl wakes up. Accompanied by a B.O.W. dog, the two start to make their way up the castle... Unfortunately, there were many obstacles that needed to be overcome and the cost of development was deemed too expensive.

>In the end, what ended up becoming biohazard 4 was the best idea out of all of them.

He seems to imply the idea never went beyond what was shown to the public and the story never made it pass the proposal stages.