Shinji Mikami, the creator of the Resident Evil series had said in an interview for PS Magazine that "He won't play Resident Evil 5". The fact is quite curious since Mikami was behind every game of the saga, from Resident Evil (and RE Remake, of course) to Resident Evil 4, and he is responsible too of the spin-offs like RE Outbreaks and even Gun Survivors, which are not well known because of their "quality".

The reason is simple. Resident Evil 5 is the first game not developed under Mikami's supervision, so I think, for him, is like saw your own child being grown up by someone else. If he plays it, he will not enjoy the game like the rest of the fans because he will be too critic in some things that he would have make quite different.

The fact is that these declarations of Mikami can be misunderstood willingly by the own journalists, in a pretended war between two factions: Mikami and the fans that want a return back to the roots of survival horror, and Takeuchi and the fans that love Resident Evil 4 and his innovative gameplay. For me, that is absurd because Mikami was the creator of the RE4 gameplay too.