Resident Evil Code: Veronica is one of the few older games in the series that doesn’t really hold up well by modern standards, especially when it comes to some of the more dated dialogue. In a Q&A session with the Resident Evil Veronica development team, the topic of Alfred Ashford was brought up, along with the infamous line, “Alfred! You cross-dressing freak!”
This information comes by way of IGN, which also pointed out that the “cross-dressing freak” line was actually a deviation from the original Japanese script, which simply translates to: “Alfred! This is your doing!”
Resident Evil Veronica producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi acknowledged the line and first stated that nothing is set in stone just yet, especially as the game is still in development. However, the team’s “intention and goal with the remake is to deliver a horror experience and also explore those characters deeper and look into even more dimensionality for them as well.”
To do this, the team will examine the internal and external motivations for these characters. “And so as we do that, the points that we pay special attention to is who they are as a person, what is driving them internally and externally?” Hirabayashi says, “Those are the points that we consider when trying to tackle these characters. Each Resident Evil title, of course, they’re all horror games, but they all also have their own specific subgenre or a specific way of exploring a different aspect of horror. For us, we consider Code Veronica’s certain aspect here is that it also delves into a darker or scarier side of the human mind and heart.”
When they’ve figured out a character’s motivation and drive, then they can go on to think about how this will be portrayed in the game. Hirabayashi ends off by saying: “Going back to some of the themes that Veronica deals with, there’s a lot of emotion. So love, expression, and then what happens when maybe love is taken too far. So those are core things that we’re looking at, and that’s the important part to us, and then the next step is figuring out how to portray that.”
Resident Evil Veronica will be released for PC and consoles in 2027.
