- RoboChocobo
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- Exalted Mythic Member
If you don't got it, you want it. If you got it, you want more of it. Of course if you don't know what it is, it's hard to get any in the first place.
Game Canon trumps book canon because one is a piece of primary content while the other is auxiliary material.
It's sadly the same system Lucas uses to control the nightmare that is the Star Wars EU. Some books trump others, which are trumped by LucasArts games, which are Trumped by LucasFilm TV shows, which are Trumped by LucasFilm films.
It's all a food chain. Thus Halo games are higher up on the food chain than the books and are ultimately all that can be relied upon for future Halo products by 343 industries. If any secondary product contradicts or gets in the way of a primary product it no longer "counts". Sort of like how they could pretend the Spirit of Fire is lost in space forever if they don't want to bring it up again, or could pretend Halo Wars never happened at all.
Halo: Reach and the Diary actively undermines or rewrites events from multiple secondary sources and thus given its status as a primary source it overrides the rest.
tl;dr: No matter how good some of the books may be, you're ultimately reading fan-fiction because MS/ 343 don't really give a damn. All that kind of stuff has an expiration date stamped: Whenever Inconvenient.