I have to give Perry credit, having to deal with contradictions from the very games you’re hired to adapt isn’t easy.

Mad respect to Perry for trying to keep that canon straight. These days hack writers wouldn't even put that much effort into it.

Snake is from the brighter alternate universe where J.K. Simmons wrote the Harry Potter books.

It’s always interesting to see novelizations versions of events vs the movie/game versions. Like in the Revenge of the Sith novelization, during the Sidious and Windu fight, all Anakin can see is the streaks of light their lightsabers are making since they are moving THAT fast. Obviously, that’s not possible with humans swinging glow sticks in a movie.

One thing about the Perry novels I like over Capcom canon is Jill being a former cat-burglar. In my head canon, after her father was caught, he told her to go straight but she initially refuses. She's caught during an attempt to work solo and Wesker offers her a position at STARS to avoid jail. Her background in Delta Force is either a cover story fabricated by Wesker or she did some boot-camp with Delta Force for training. At first she doesn't like being a cop but the two girls, her neighbors, she befriends only for them to die pushes her to embrace her role as a cop. At the Mansion, when Wesker reveals she was brought in just for extra combat data, she starts doubting herself as a cop, hence when Raccoon City starts to falls, she's torn between saving herself and wanting to save the people. Nikolai's antics convince her that she's meant to be a cop.

Videogame novels have always been such a fascinating concept to me because, I dunno, there's something funny about the idea that companies are like "remember that fun game you played on your console? Well, now you can READ it and without pictures!," especially when a lot of the people who play those games around the time the novels are published are all kids or teens and also because they tend to have stories and concepts that are different from the games that are usually overlooked because they're only in those books and people are more focused on the games, comics or movies. Like, the fact that there's a *PRIMAL RAGE* novel is just kind of amazing that it exists at all.

0:20 J K Simmons 😂

Perry DID get some recognition though which is cool, because I loved those books as a kid. The PDA that not!Wesker gets in 'Welcome to Raccoon City' is a direct reference to the same PDA that Jill is given by Trent in the first novel

videogame novel adaptations as a whole are a really funny concept to me... going from one media thats mostly audiovisual to one thats the extreme opposite of it. It's a noble attempt that honestly should be explored, explained and also discuss more often

I always remember loving how Perry treated the Jill Sandwich line, because not only is it recognized as a bad joke to try and lighten the mood, but IIRC it's also framed as him acting awkwardly because he's worried about how Wesker's threatening his family if he doesn't help with Umbrella's plans.

Perry did pretty well juggling the evolving canon, and I enjoyed most of her novels, though I wasn't a major fan of the 'Trent' character and how she tended to make each villain a 'control' freak even back in the day. For some characters it works, like Irons, she absolutely nailed the lunatic's character, but with Nicholai, he starts fine...then randomly goes nuts midway through the book. Her best work easily is Zero Hour I think as that novel fits so well with RE0's game while adding to it that it's downright seamless. After that is probably City of the Dead and the first half of Nemesis. The Umbrella Conspiracy has probably aged the worst due to all the continuity errors and you can tell she was still getting into her groove.

I want pictures of "He who shall not be named" on my desk pronto Parker!!

An S.D. Perry version of RE4 would go hard

Being a fan of these games as a kid but not being able to get a hold of or play the games for longer than an hour or so at a friend's, these novels really were my way of following the stories when I would read them at the library.

A more faithful adaption for an RE film series would have made the stories of RE1-6 for the big screen.

I'm so happy you made a video about these books. I think they're underrated and deserve more recognition. Especially City of the Dead, it's one of my favorites, and I read it every so often. I can tell Perry struggled with adapting, and she did well and her best. I wish we got more like CVX instead of just CV, and RE4 would have been awesome. I wouldn't have cared much for RE5 and RE6, other than the book focusing on Jake and Sherry, but I would have loved so much to read a book on RE7 and Village.

Have you considered doing a "Mortal Kombat Chronicles" but with Resident Evil? Or with another series you love? Unless you already have and I don't know about it

You're definitely ready for that Omni Man dlc. 😂

0:18 Lol JK Simmons nice

Loved reading these novels growing up, despite the contradictions. I think they’re still the best way to adapt a proper series of films, of course with fixing some of the inconsistencies. I would even be cool with them ending with an original story that finishes Trents arc.

Loved Perry’s attempts to keep things as grounded as possible and the characters monologue about their mortality. I think she would have had a really hard time with the post Umbrella era.

I've got the whole collection (not the two Japanese novels of course) and I've enjoyed. Regarding Trent, I have seen a few other reviews of this series kinda bash on the guy and how unneeded his existence was.

Loved these books coming up

J.K Simmons....nice.

"Don't listen to Pat" is advice to live by.

man it's weird hearing the best friends get brought up in 2023

Perry should've just done her own thing

I absolutely love these novels, they do so much to flesh out the game lore even if they ended up being rendered non canon

I wish she adapted up to Resi 6

oh you uploaded right when i woke up

I think its funny that the timeline of Alpha's going after Bravo is way more realistic. I have had arguments about the effed up timeline of adding Zero and the fact that no police force with any kind of competence would wait A WHOLE DAY after losing contact with a team before going to find out what happened to them.

I'm still waiting for your "which resident evil 2 events are canon??" vid. Love your content.

I honestly thought this was about Matthew Perry, the Friends guy who recently passed. I know he liked Fallout and it made me wonder if he had something to do with Resident Evil as well.

Got two of the Sd books plan to collect them all. I feel the books fills in the blank some what which I like

i had the first 3 books as a kid. Completely forgot about them

Better than the Hollywood movies, that's for sure.

STARSSSSS!!!!!

00:20 JK Simmons wrote the Harry Potter?

... J.K. Simmons?

0:21 Simmons? Not Rowling?

JK Simmons? 0:22?

Isn't this guy a Mortal Kombat nerd that I saw from Sonichaxd

the books the goat video games are great And the movies are ok

Oh man watch the super mario bros movie and fnaf movie both put fan service over good filmmaking in their adaptations

Obligatory @patstaresat reference..

I'm sorry bro but I only watch u for mortal Kombat