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I still find this revision to be very reliable. As I've mentioned earlier, the DMC writers have shown concern over consistency between the novels and the games, which they wouldn't need to bother with if they were not canonical. On top of that, there are plenty of references to the novels in the games. Other people have already mentioned the DMC2 novel specifically, but even the DMC1 novel, which has the most debatable canonicity due to inconsistencies, has in-game evidence. In the games, his guns are ingraved with "For Tony Redgrave" on the side, an alias which he only ever used in the DMC1 novel. One of the trailers for DMC5 also confirms that the new character, Nico, is Nell Goldstein's granddaughter (Nell only ever appeared in the DMC1 novel). Mix that with the entire episode of the animated series that's all about his Tony Redgrave alias, and it's quite clear that the novels are meant to be canon. In fact, the comparison made to the Dark Souls comics are so unbelievably dubious compared to the rest of the evidence so far that I would be more inclined to believe Kamiya's tweets over that comparison for evidence. Mix the canonicity of the DMC2 novel where he fought Void Mundus with the barely even remotely contested Nightmare feat (Where the best counter argument I've found boils down to "it doesn't feel real"), and we now have multiple examples of at least Universal feats.