Resident Evil Requiem's blood buckets are making me hungry

The phrase “buckets of blood” usually describes slasher movies and horror games, evoking over-the-top gore. Resident Evil Requiem takes that literally: throughout the game, and especially in the Rhodes Hill Care Center as Grace, you encounter numerous pails of vibrant red viscera spangled with disconcerting mystery lumps.

In the East Wing’s Blood Lab, where the snakeskin-clad Victor Gideon has been up to disturbing hijinks, you find the Blood Collector. Grace can use it to craft handy items such as handgun ammo and injectors that stop corpses from mutating, but to do so you need the fresh-squeezed infected juice lying about the facility.

It’s still a hospital—admittedly one with a fully stocked bar and a roulette table—but a medical facility nonetheless. After Leon’s arrival, staff and patients became infected a short time before you step into Grace’s boots; it’s odd to see wastebasket-sized, open containers of blood and organs left around, without lids, posing an apparent contagion risk and doing little for morale.

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