"A Happy ending would have felt like a betrayal to the franchise"
Uh huh...Except nearly every game has a happy ending. Jill and Chris fly off into the sunset. Claire and Leon escape Raccoon City and save a child. Jill defeats Nemesis and vows to take down Umbrella. The fuck you mean "Betrayal of the franchise." The entire symbolism and philosophy of Resident Evil is that man CAN overcome the horrors. Christ in heaven are these people made in a lab ran by those incompetent, idiotic "Umbrella Scientists" from Cregger's dumbfuck movie??