A fan-made guide to Resident Evil: Requiem, written in Seoul. RE fan since RE2 (1998). Six RE9 playthroughs and counting. Strong opinions on boss design, charm meta, and where Capcom got Vivien wrong.
Seoul. Resident Evil since RE2 came to Korea in 1998. Six clears of RE9 across PS5 and PC: Standard, Hardcore, Insanity, Insanity NG+, and two specialty runs (knife-only, no-heal). Writes every page on this site.
I bought RE9 on launch day, February 27, 2026. By March I had cleared it twice. By April I had a notebook full of frame data, boss patterns, safe codes that the official strategy guide got wrong, and arguments I wanted to have with other fans.
The notebook turned into a Naver Café thread. The thread got long. People started messaging asking me to expand it. So I bought a cheap.it.com domain, taught myself enough HTML to make it not embarrassing, and started writing.
That's the whole origin story. There's no editorial team. No partner network. No sponsorship. Just me, the game, the patch notes when they drop, and time after my day job.
I'll be direct about where this site beats the big ones and where it loses to them.
Where this site is better: Long-form opinion. Frame-data verification on specific boss windows. Korean community context that English-language wikis miss. Honest takes on which charms are overrated. Cross-game references to RE2 and RE7 that a single-game guide writer wouldn't catch.
Where the big sites win: Picture density. Video walkthroughs. SEO machine. Update frequency on minor news. If you want a wall of screenshots and a 20-minute YouTube embed, Game8 wins. If you want one person's tested opinion in writing, this is the better spot.
Right.
RE2 (1998, PlayStation, imported because Korean release lagged). RE3, RE Code Veronica, REmake on GameCube, RE4 on PS2, RE5 co-op runs, RE6 reluctantly, Revelations on 3DS, RE7 in VR which broke me, RE2 Remake which was my favorite remaster of the decade, RE3 Remake which I think is underrated, Village which I think is overrated, RE4 Remake which I think is correctly rated, and now RE9.
That's roughly 28 years of paying attention to a single franchise. Long enough to spot patterns. Long enough to call out when Capcom recycles boss design (Vivien Stage 1 is recycled — I have receipts).
I won't fake authority. If I haven't verified a claim, the page says so. If I'm guessing about a charm interaction, I say I'm guessing.
I won't republish other guides. Every page here was written from notes after my own playthrough. If two guides on different sites are word-for-word identical and one of them is mine, I copied them — and I've never done that.
I won't fill space with AI fluff. You will not see phrases like "comprehensive guide" or "let's dive into" on this site, because I edit them out. If you spot one, please email me and I'll fix it.
I won't pretend to be neutral. Reviews are subjective. Tier lists are subjective. The Vivien Stage 2 hitbox is objectively lazy, but my read on the Wrenwood Wraith being underrated is just my opinion. I'll mark which is which.
Every guide page is dated. The date you see at the top of each guide is the last time I personally re-read and verified it.
When Capcom patches the game, I re-test affected guides within 72 hours. If a guide can't be verified after a patch (because I'm sick, traveling, or just behind), the page gets a banner saying "this may be outdated post-v1.0X."
Every difficulty claim is tested on actual hardware. Most of my runs are on PS5 Pro. NG+ Insanity tests are on Steam (PC) because save scumming is faster for verifying specific drop tables.
I do not run ads on guide pages for cheats, exploits, or anything that violates Capcom's terms. The site has Google AdSense (display ads) — that's it.
If I make a mistake, I correct it. The correction stays in the changelog at the bottom of each affected guide. I don't silently edit history.
Roughly half the traffic to this site comes from Korea, which makes sense because half the content is Korean. The Korean RE community is small but loud, and a lot of the best community insight comes from Naver Café and DCInside threads that English wikis don't read. I try to surface that context in both languages.
If you have a Korean RE forum link you want me to look at, email it. If you spot a translation mistake on the Korean pages, please tell me — I write the Korean versions myself, and I miss things.
Email is the only channel: contact@re9guide.it.com. I read everything. Reply time varies from same-day to a week, depending on how the day job is going.
What I want to hear about: factual corrections (you found a wrong safe code, wrong frame number, wrong charm effect), Korean translation issues, disagreements on tier list rankings (I'll engage), Capcom patch notes I missed.
What I'm less helpful with: emulation, piracy, save editing, accounts, store purchases, refunds, copyright complaints about official media I quoted (use the contact form linked at the bottom for those).
This site runs on display ads (Google AdSense). It does not have affiliate links to game stores. It does not take sponsorship from Capcom or any other company. I am not paid by anyone to write any review or guide here.
If ads become enough of a nuisance that readers complain about them, I will tell the ad network to reduce density before I let the site become unusable. I'd rather earn nothing and have a site I'm proud of than make money and run an SEO mill.
I'm working through the long tail of guides: every weapon profile (17 of them), every boss strategy (10), every Mr. Raccoon location (25), and chapter-by-chapter walkthroughs. The frequently-requested ones come first.
After RE9's last DLC drops (expected late 2026), I'll consolidate into a "complete edition" version of the major guides and freeze the site. New games get new sites; this one will stay live as a reference.
That's it. If you read this far, thanks for caring. Now go finish Vivien Stage 2 — there's a parry window at frame 23 that nobody talks about.
// last revised: June 2026