RotatoBear
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You’re completely correct. The majority of RE writing up to 2005 was handled by a company called Flagship. 2, Survivor, CV, Zero and Dead Aim were all handled by them, alongside a series of audio dramas about Raccoon City’s downfall between 1 and 2.
They were originally attached to RE4 too, as was RE3’s writer Yasuhira Kawamura. This is why the various cancelled prototypes of 4 were actually going to feature some closure to the games set before; Leon, working for the same Anti-Umbrella group as Bruce in Dead Aim, would raid Spencer’s castle while it was simultaneously attacked by HCF. This would likely not only give a more direct resolution to Umbrella, but also to the unnamed ‘Organization’ that Wesker, Ada and the HCF were working for at the time.
Due to developmental troubles, this version was abandoned and RE4 went through several more iterations before Mikami was brought in to direct and write a story much more divorced from its predecessors.
Because of these troubles Resident Evil essentially skipped the end of Umbrella’s story and moved straight on to the aftermath. There were some decent attempts to retroactively fill in the blanks by the Chronicles series: Umbrella Chronicles shows the direct roles of Chris, Jill and Wesker in the fall of Umbrella, while Darkside Chronicles depicts Leon’s involvement with the Anti-Umbrella organisation.
Flagship disbanded in 2007, and almost all of the writers who were still attempting to maintain some continuity after them (particularly Shotaro Suga and Haruo Murata) have left or in some cases died.
Post-Revelations 2 we now only have old RE writing staff in some directorial positions while a suspicious amount of Western names take over the ‘Script/Scenario’ credits: Yasuhiro Seto, who directed the Chronicles games and wrote for Revelations 2 and its manga follow-up Heavenly Island, is most recently credited as director for the RE3 Remake, while the actual writing of the remake is handled by Brian Gray (who coincidentally did localisation for Revelations 2 - where he made massive changes to Claire’s character sometimes just so he could force in a reference from a previous game).
WTF ?
