The interesting aspect on this is that the character skin appears to be in the Resident Evil 2 files, and players can use those assets for Leon’s “Noir” costume. The first mod, and merely cosmetic, is that someone made Resident Evil 7‘s version of Chris Redfield playable as a character. In that way, it’s a double-edged sword, as fans get (sometimes) great fan-service experiences that a company would never dare try on the other hand (or edge) is the possibility of the developers losing control of a creation they fully intended to update, or getting distracted by what the players say they want instead of focusing on the original plan– which, don’t get me wrong, is not always a bad thing. Others become so enormous (or so practical) that its hard to separate the vanilla game from the mods, and before long its been downloaded and used by a vast majority of players, fundamentally changing things from what the developers and designers intended. Sometimes it remains a quaint addition, only for those who are dedicated to trying every iteration of the game possible. Like most games with a large audience, there are people in that audience that like to alter game mechanics, aesthetics or even just cosmetics.
Resident Evil 2 PC mods keep coming, and they are changing the game in unique and sometimes expected ways.