It's also why you ask for important details when you're adapting a game into a book, or you'll wind up making a character a clone when the people didn't plan on that.
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.
Also Palpatine makes the case against the Jedi attempting to assassinate him all the more credible as he offers a recording which has him be framed as a confused, desperate old man who had done nothing wrong (even citing the fact that his being a Sith isn’t illegal) and cuts it off right before the fight starts. Also his hammy scream has an explanation in the book as it was an ability that stunned a few of the Jedi Masters.
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 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 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
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.
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.
@@The4thSnake Only for said President’s name to be contradicted by RE5 through some contrived means that would confuse me to no end, because the devs of the different RE games were all secretly competing for who could tiger knee the Perry verse continuity the hardest (zero won easily)
@@The4thSnakeFor some reason I'm imagining her putting a lot more focus on the backstory of Los Iluminados, like she saw the end credits of the game and got inspired by seeing the Ganados going from a prosper village to... well, Las Plagas. Maybe as the prologue or something?
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
I really like the Perry novels and were my introduction to the RE franchise. Honestly I think they need more love as they are certainly more faithful than the movies are.
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.
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.
I have to give Perry credit, having to deal with contradictions from the very games you’re hired to adapt isn’t easy.
It's also why you ask for important details when you're adapting a game into a book, or you'll wind up making a character a clone when the people didn't plan on that.
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.
Some Gendi Clone Wars stuff.
Also Palpatine makes the case against the Jedi attempting to assassinate him all the more credible as he offers a recording which has him be framed as a confused, desperate old man who had done nothing wrong (even citing the fact that his being a Sith isn’t illegal) and cuts it off right before the fight starts. Also his hammy scream has an explanation in the book as it was an ability that stunned a few of the Jedi Masters.
@@thomasraines1396 cool.
Snake is from the brighter alternate universe where J.K. Simmons wrote the Harry Potter books.
"Hoffman, run down to the patent office and market the name 'Harry Potter'. I want a quarter every time someone says it!"
“Tomorrow morning, Harry Potter page one with a decent picture this time!”
If only that was the tiemline we lived in
"Now answer my question. Were you Swishing or were you Flicking?!"
Prag
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 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 still remember novelizations for the old 8 bit NES games I read:
- Metal Gear
- Castlevania
- Wizards and Warriors
Mad respect to Perry for trying to keep that canon straight. These days hack writers wouldn't even put that much effort into it.
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.
0:20 J K Simmons 😂
Both the writer of Harry Potter and the editor in chief at the Daily Bugle. 😆
Not a lot of people know HP started as a newspaper serial.
"Don't listen to Pat" is advice to live by.
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
I want pictures of "He who shall not be named" on my desk pronto Parker!!
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.
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.
An S.D. Perry version of RE4 would go hard
Lots of Ashley focus, plus Krauser. A whole original history between Leon and Krauser, Ashely and her dad, the president having a name.
@@The4thSnake Only for said President’s name to be contradicted by RE5 through some contrived means that would confuse me to no end, because the devs of the different RE games were all secretly competing for who could tiger knee the Perry verse continuity the hardest (zero won easily)
@@The4thSnakeFor some reason I'm imagining her putting a lot more focus on the backstory of Los Iluminados, like she saw the end credits of the game and got inspired by seeing the Ganados going from a prosper village to... well, Las Plagas.
Maybe as the prologue or something?
@@DarkOverlord96 She did draw on Resident Evil: The Novel, so I can see her getting info on the Japanese side material for 4.
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 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.
*edit for clarity* The timeline is way better in Perry's novel.
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.
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.
Loved these books coming up
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.
You're definitely ready for that Omni Man dlc. 😂
I'm still waiting for your "which resident evil 2 events are canon??" vid. Love your content.
With the original, it's just whichever route is canon. For the remake, all we know is that Leon met Marvin.
@@The4thSnakeyeah, but watching you break the different paths down on whether they work in retrospect is always so fun.
A more faithful adaption for an RE film series would have made the stories of RE1-6 for the big screen.
man it's weird hearing the best friends get brought up in 2023
oh you uploaded right when i woke up
Good morning.
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
I've written like 6 or 7 shorts of RE. "RE-Enter the Survival Horror".
@@The4thSnake Is it on DeviantArt?
0:18 Lol JK Simmons nice
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 really like the Perry novels and were my introduction to the RE franchise. Honestly I think they need more love as they are certainly more faithful than the movies are.
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.
Trent is the epitome of ORIGINAL CHARACTER DONUT STEEL.
J.K Simmons....nice.
Perry should've just done her own thing
Better than the Hollywood movies, that's for sure.
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.
I wish she adapted up to Resi 6
i had the first 3 books as a kid. Completely forgot about them
Got two of the Sd books plan to collect them all. I feel the books fills in the blank some what which I like
0:21 Simmons? Not Rowling?
00:20 JK Simmons wrote the Harry Potter?
the books the goat
video games are great
And the movies are ok
STARSSSSS!!!!!
JK Simmons? 0:22?
... J.K. Simmons?
Obligatory @patstaresat reference..
Isn't this guy a Mortal Kombat nerd that I saw from Sonichaxd
RUclipsrs can talk about more than one franchise, you know.
@@The4thSnake I know you from Sonichaxd :D
Oh man watch the super mario bros movie and fnaf movie both put fan service over good filmmaking in their adaptations
I'm sorry bro but I only watch u for mortal Kombat
How dare you
OK, what does this have to do with literally anything?