Did you even play RE5 to Village or you are one of those groupies that can't see wrong?
I've played all the games and I know them well, thank you.
They hired an American writer for 7, he got the great idea of Blue Umbrella, Chris working for them temporarily.
First of all, Richard Pearsey wasn't hired to write the plot. He was hired to adapt a script that was already written by the Japanese. This includes dialogues and such that they seem more natural to a Western audience. This is what Kawata himself explained, calling it a "culturalization process", as well as the reason why Pearsey is mentioned in the credits as a narrative consultant.
The main writer was Morimasa Sato, and he also directed Resident Evil Village.
Secondly, "Blue Umbrella" was Shinji Mikami's idea, and he established it in Biohazard 4. When he left the company, this storyline continued to be developed by Yasuhiro Seto in the Chronicles series and Umbrella Corps, which he wrote too.
To the amazing writing of Village, so many things are shoehorned, like Chris conveniently being the bad guy and then learning he is just stupid and he made a bad choice not explaining anything to Ethan.
Chris didn't work
for Umbrella, he worked
with Umbrella because the alliance's jurisdiction is limited in the US, which was explained even in Resident Evil 5.
The UN Council banned Umbrella from having its own mercenaries, but instead an agency was established where BSAA staff are transferred for military operations.
And after the events in Louisiana, the company became a sponsor of the BSAA, so the soldiers at the end of Village are equipped with Umbrella's things and carry Wesker guns. Not to mention it's a freaking B.O.W.
Chris changed his personality between 7-Vendetta-Village.
Keeping people in the dark out of a sense of protection has
always been part of Chris' character. This is literally the reason why Claire got into a couple of incidents. And before that, it annoyed her that he didn't tell her everything.
Chris had different voices and faces, but never a character.
Then we have Umbrella Corps and Heavenly manga hinting at the Umbrella Corps and the possibility of Wesker being alive to be ignored in 7 and 8.
Umbrella Corps literally tells about the illegal corps of the company from 7 and Village, lol. Just because so far the developers have chosen to build up the storyline while they focus on something else does not mean that they are ignoring something.
7 and 8 highlights are just scenes torturing the main character and getting off with that, it feels like they put you on another subgenre of obscure horror. I never felt RE1-RE6 made me feel I was into a sadomasochistic game. 7 and 8 are terrible takes from western horror and trying to appeal to a casual market.
This is irrelevant to continuity.
The old games and their gaidens had a high degree of violence, where we were shown death scenes with all the details no worse than in Italian films.
Only after that, the series became censored to the point where the characters no longer lose their heads from the chainsaw even. The camera is just trying to hide it.
So BIO7 for me was nothing less than a return to form in this regard.
