The Surprisingly Good Resident Evil Novelisation

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Did you know that there’s not just 1, but 7 Resident Evil novels? Today, I’m talking about Resident Evil The Umbrella Conspiracy, S.D. Perry’s official 1998 novelisation of the first Resident Evil game. I go through some of the history of game novelisations, talk about why I find them so fascinating, and go through the many changes between the game and the paperback version.
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Sources:
S.D. Perry 2015 interview with EpisodicContent - episodiccontentmag.com/2015/0...
S.D. Perry 2016 interview with Project Umbrella - www.projectumbrella.net/sd-pe...
Music:
Resident Evil (2002) OST - Main Hall
Resident Evil PSX OST - The Guardhouse
Resident Evil PSX OST - Second Floor Mansion
Resident Evil PSX OST - Save Room
Resident Evil 2 PSX OST - The First Floor
Resident Evil 2 PSX OST - Ada’s Theme
Resident Evil PSX OST - First Floor Mansion
Resident Evil 2 PSX OST - The Library
Resident Evil PSX OST - Wesker’s Theme
Resident Evil PSX OST - Completed Picture Puzzle
Resident Evil PSX OST - Laboratory Third Floor
Resident Evil Code Veronica OST - A Moment of Relief
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:47 - History (Who is S.D. Perry?)
07:15 - The Umbrella Conspiracy
15:32 - The Mansion
28:57 - In Summary
32:23 - Outro
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@eliasb22 8 ай бұрын

Would love to see you cover the others, mate. I absolutely adore this book series. SD Perry is a talented writer with a keen sense of character, tone, and voice. Agreed on her love showing up in the novelizations, and despite how cool and collected Wesker portrays himself on the surface in the games, having some POV chapters with his inner monologue actually does somewhat accurately portray how folks with antisocial personality disorder think and view others. They’re often quite petty and fragile, with easily wounded egos. Great job.

@l0stndamned 4 ай бұрын

I remember reading these when I was first becoming more of an avid reader. Perry's enthusiasm for the franchise was very much evident in the writing and I feel that was mostly to the benefit of the story. I think this version of Wesker works as it shows the sort of person who could develop into the villain he is in later games. The sense of entitlement and superiority was always there but smaller-scale less focussed than it would be later on. Also my fave take on Rebecca. My head-cannon is that Trent is functionally the player. One oddly good game-novel adaption was the FPS Fire Warrior (a 40K tie-in). The game itself was rather flawed but the novel had some fun human-through-alien-eyes moments.

@coolcadaver49 Жыл бұрын

Can't belive how few views this has. Cool topic! No idea the whole "Jill learning lockpicking from her master thief father" detail was from the book adaptation. I actually think the Wesker characterization is well done, considering the author had no idea what a flanderized meme he would eventually become.

@The_Rage_Kage 5 ай бұрын

Wesker is so much creepier in the Code Veronica novel. He basically asks Chris if is sister is hot and then talks about the "hardon" he currently has. Its so fucking jarring and weird.

@victorcampudoni2682 Ай бұрын

The rumor is that Capcoms new resident evil movie is based on the SD Perry's novel... however, the other rumor is that it's based on RE7

@matheusmeneguccidepaiva8073 Жыл бұрын

I love the first act to the first book, their lives, the rpd, their friendship, the news articles. But as soon as they get to the mansion it just gets closer and closer to the "walkthrough" type of adaptation you mention. "Chris walks into a zombie and kills it, Jill solves an incredibly boring puzzle". On top of that, the author reveals wesker is the villain just too soon. It's not like we don't know he's the villain, but I really wanted to see how they'd make a mystery out of it. About the other books, the original stories are specially unninsteresting, with all villains being megalomaniacal and psychotic (wich is a trend with the villains in all books, like wesker and, if I remember well, nicholai). The adaptation of RE3 is great when it shows the umbrella mercenaries mission. Couldn't finish Code Veronica because I was tired of psychotic villains, which is a shame since Alfred is actually crazy in the game. Never got to RE zero.

@august2771 4 күн бұрын

Rebecca is funnily enough also one of my favorite resident evil characters.

@RealGothGirlHours Жыл бұрын

Great video! Had no idea this existed.

@Kirabetas 8 ай бұрын

As someone who has read and currently owns all 7 books, It's always been interesting to me how much emphasis S.D. Perry put on Rebecca Chambers, given how quickly she's pushed to the side in canon (with the perfectly reasonable excuse that she's working as a biologist to help fight against the variety of diseases and variants Umbrella's ilk pumped out). It does make Caliban Cove and Underworld feel very odd, as their stories are far more out there. It is disappointing that the right to make the books was pulled away from her. She admitted that she'd have loved to continue the 'Perryverse,' but it wasn't in the cards. My guess is with how heavily the books differed from the canon as time moved on, along with Resident Evil: Zero Hour being released only months before Resident Evil 4 (10/26/04 and 01/11/05 respectively) and the fact that Capcom gave Perry very little to work with, they saw no reason to continue allowing her to write what was essentially licensed fan fiction. Very good, polished licensed fan fiction using whatever she could at the time to piece together a coherent story from the tangled holiday lights that is Resident Evil canon (with my favorite line coming from Nemesis when Carlos questions Jill as to why items where hidden in such arbitrary puzzles), but fan fiction nonetheless.

@blakeharris58 7 ай бұрын

Regarding Resident Evil lore, I wish most of all that the Perry novels had been used as outlines for the movies.

@JakeSibley-ql9sq 4 ай бұрын

Was 14 when I ran across then instantly fell in love and begged my parents when going to books amillon or Barnes and nobles to get all that I could. The rest later enjoyed them on KZfaq audio adoptions

@stephentaylor3437 Ай бұрын

For the life of me I don't understand why the movies aren't based on these novels...

@ogeidnomar4601 Жыл бұрын

What do you think about the movie novelizations?

@Styxswimmer Ай бұрын

1. Umbrella conspiracy: 8/10 2. Caliban cove: 4/10 3. City of the dead: 9/10 4. Underworld: 2/10 5. Nemesis: 8.5/10 6. Code Veronica: 7/10 7. Zero Hour: 7.5/10 All the books based off video games are really good. The books not based on games and have original stories are not as good. I really wish they would have her continue and do books on RE 4, 5, 7, 8 and also the revelations games. Skip 6. It's a bad game and would be too long and too complex to write considering the number of stories and interwoven narrative.