I find it extremely odd that people dismiss Paris Hotel as non-canon on the grounds that it conflicts with the Halo 2 level it portrays, yet most people would consider The Flood canon, despite it conflicting with the entirety of Halo: Combat Evolved. Why one, but not the other? Is it because The Flood happens to contain a depiction of what being infected by the Flood is like?
Not sure what you mean. The Flood is a novelization of CE. It doesn’t conflict with the game canon at all as far as I know. It just adds extra context to the game by providing the ODST perspective and the Covenant perspective during the events of CE.
Paris Hotel on the other hand takes place during the events of the H2 levels Outskirts and Metropolis, which would mean the Chief was in two places at once. That makes Paris Hotel non-canon.
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> Not sure what you mean. The Flood is a novelization of CE. It doesn’t conflict with the game canon at all as far as I know. It just adds extra context to the game by providing the ODST perspective and the Covenant perspective during the events of CE.
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> Paris Hotel on the other hand takes place during the events of the H2 levels Outskirts and Metropolis, which would mean the Chief was in two places at once. That makes Paris Hotel non-canon.
Well, The Flood claims that there was a Shade Turret in that elevator where Zuka supposedly made his final stand. There is no such turret in the actual game, and the elevator is never dropped by Cortana, as it is in the book.
The Flood also claims that, in the security station of the Silent Cartographer, there were a bunch of Grunts, and one of the Hunters got shot in the back by said Grunts, and was killed. In the game, there’s just two Hunters, and nothing else.
A handful of creative errors that largely still adhere to the events of game/canon can be excused far more easily than the primary character being in a different place than what is in the game.
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> > Not sure what you mean. The Flood is a novelization of CE. It doesn’t conflict with the game canon at all as far as I know. It just adds extra context to the game by providing the ODST perspective and the Covenant perspective during the events of CE.
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> > Paris Hotel on the other hand takes place during the events of the H2 levels Outskirts and Metropolis, which would mean the Chief was in two places at once. That makes Paris Hotel non-canon.
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> Well, The Flood claims that there was a Shade Turret in that elevator where Zuka supposedly made his final stand. There is no such turret in the actual game, and the elevator is never dropped by Cortana, as it is in the book.
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> The Flood also claims that, in the security station of the Silent Cartographer, there were a bunch of Grunts, and one of the Hunters got shot in the back by said Grunts, and was killed. In the game, there’s just two Hunters, and nothing else.
Those are just game play decisions, and are all fairly minor. I wouldn’t recommend comparing game play to canon. Like in First Strike, the Chief barely survived his encounter with a Brute on the Unyielding Heirophant. If you try to compare that to H3’s game play where you take on several Brutes at once on many occasions, then you could claim H3 isn’t canon either.
As ManiacalSpark stated above, these are easily justifiable compared to having the Chief be in two places at once.