...but why? Fans shat on Capcom massively when they recast him for DR4
Reminds me of how the Onimusha 1 remaster on Steam has a completely redone soundtrack and has some (but not all!) of the Japanese VAs recast, once again showing that contracts are a fuck and that you can't trust companies to maintain their back catalogue even when they're trying to
A lot of them slowly dropped the campy nature of parodying romero zombies as well as getting a bit too serious with the plot (love the initial game though having CIA backed Contras creating a zombie virus due to having to make more ground beef for burgers).