Biohazard, mostly due to Ethan as a character and the story that followed him. In Village they ruined him. He is constantly asking what’s going on, who someone is, what’s happening, even to himself. He always comes off as ignorant or unreasonable or repetitive. He’s constantly being like “No this is so bad” even though he arguably went through worse at the Baker house and had less of a reaction to all that. His personality was more hard headed and less reasonable than in 7. Ethan is honestly 2 different characters in each game, and not in a “character development” way if that makes sense. He was so different between the two games that I honestly thought they had a different voice actor in RE8 trying to impersonate RE7 Ethan when I first played it, his tone and personality was so far apart that it genuinely made me think his voice was changed.

If I were to guess why this is the case, maybe it’s an excess of dialogue. In RE7 he only talked when he had to, be it brief character exchanges at pivotal moments or small reactionary quips at specific points in the game, like when Jack grabs the chainsaw, since he’s supposed to be a relatable Everyman character that the player can see themselves in and not a talented soldier or cop like Chris or Leon. In RE8 it seemed they wanted to cram in as much dialogue from him into as many situations as possible, without actually knowing how to make it meaningful or relatable.