>>725137909
Turning RE4 into DMC1 was a stroke of genius
>Alchemy zombies become demons
>Oswald Spencer became Sparda and Mundus
>Spencer's BOW experiments became Dante and Vergil
>Tyrant became Nelo Angelo

When you read the DMC artbook interviews its crazy how much of DMC1 was already there as a RE4 prototype. The fact that Mikami saw the game, said it didn't fit RE, but that it could be a cool new IP really shows how smart he was

>>723648579
>and Dante was supposed to be Leon
Dante was gonna be Tony Redgrave, An English nanomachine infused mercenary who's secretly one of the Twin sons of Umbrellas co-founder the Earl Oswell Spencer.
It's only when that game became DMC, is when Leon became the main character.