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How to Save Emily

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RE9 How to Save Emily

This is a guide on how to save Emily in Resident Evil Requiem (RE9). Read on to learn how to make Emily survive the main events of RE9.

How to Save Emily

Water Treatment Plant Scene Doesn't Affect Emily's Ending

Shoot Emily

In the Water Treatment Plant, you'll be forced into the a quick event where you have to shoot Emily. There's nothing you can do in this situation, but don't worry; shooting Emily or not doesn't affect Emily's ending.

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At ARK: Choose to Release Elpis

Warning: Ending spoilers ahead.

What Does the Creator Desire

To actually save Emily, you have to choose to Release Elpis during the final decision as Grace in the ARK. Releasing Elpis leads to a boss fight that you'll have to power through, but also to the discovery that Elpis is a cure and, consequently, Emily's survival.

Destroying Elpis leads to Leon's on-screen death and both Emily's and Sherry Birkin's presumed deaths off-screen due to the cure also being lost.

Does Leon Die?

Releasing Elpis leads to Grace adopting Emily

The Good Ending

After releasing Elpis and surviving the boss fight, Leon reveals to Grace that Emily could be alive because he didn't any vital organs. The final scene of this ending also shows Emily being rescued from Rhodes Hill. The post-credits scene reveals that Grace adopted Emily, just as the story revealed that Alyssa adopted Grace when she was a baby, bringing the story arc full circle.

How to Get the Good Ending

Is Saving Emily Canon?

Yes, Emily Surviving is Canon

Releasing Elpis is considered the Good Ending and the canon ending due to it being the ending that leads to a trophy / achievement for game completion and because choosing to Destroy Elpis will lead to a prompt that allows you to reload back to the point of the pivotal choice.

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