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>>7712380
I think that's Sugimura's influence, as soon as he became involved with the RE series things progressively became more and more "out there".
Prior to being involved with RE, he used to write a lot of Super Sentai stuff along with other japanese TV and anime.

Code Veronica brought the wackiness on heavy and every game he wrote afterwards seemingly just kept up the wackiness; those being Gun Survivor, Dead Aim, and RE0.

Even RE2 gets it more outlandish aspects from Sugimura's ideas. He made Chief Irons from a regular police chief to a secret serial killer, Ada Wong from an Umbrella scientist to a secret agent, and also suggested turning the mansion from a realistic building to something more like the Spencer Mansion.
It seems like he was even the one that got the ball rolling in scrapping RE 1.5 due to finding the too realistic.
http://shmuplations.com/residentevil2/