User blog comment:DipsonDP/Canonicity of the 2 first games/@comment-32133824-20180814150029

MD is completely compatibile with the original; they even chose the worst HR ending (and inexplicable if you played Jensen as a pacifist) to base MD on so that they could get there. I think we have to consider HR's suicide ending and MD as leading directly to DX1, with the other endings being reboots into other realities that Eidos will not explore.