So we are forced to watch it, just to make sense of what’s going on in the game. So why in the world would you make it so crappy. Halo ce had better graphics, then this lump of crap.
Well it is intended to be comic style, but I kinda agree. Personally I hate animations, comic style, and anime
Here’s my pitch. I am a long time lore fan of the series, have read ALL the novels to date, and was looking forward to this extremely well. Imagine my surprise when the comic style animation was great, but the ‘retelling’ of this classic story is full of absolute steaming crap! I don’t have the time, or want to waste the effort in explaining every single detail. I will however harp on two specifically. 1: The MJOLNIR Mk.IV helmets, and 2: the fight scene with John just after the augmentations.
1: Aside from Johns helmet being the basic model, WHY did Linda Fred, and one other Spartan in the group background have their GEN 2 helmets! I know, ‘wanting to keep the newer fans from being confused’, but seriously?! WTF?! The third Spartan I mentioned a moment ago also has been seen wearing Orbital style helmet. WHY?! Geez… I miss my continuity.
2: In the original novel Fall of Reach, John was able to kill TWO of those ODSTs, with a single punch… ONE PUNCH after his augmentations. But in this, it takes several blows, almost as if he hadn’t just gone through life threatening surgery to give him the strength of a demi-god. In the animatic he even goes so far as to break one of the ODSTs arm, when in reality he should’ve ripped it clean off! But no… more retconning. The worse part is I don’t know who to blame! Is it either 343i’s direction or was it an artistic change on Sequences part? Who knows, but those are just my two points.
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> Here’s my pitch. I am a long time lore fan of the series, have read ALL the novels to date, and was looking forward to this extremely well. Imagine my surprise when the comic style animation was great, but the ‘retelling’ of this classic story is full of absolute steaming crap! I don’t have the time, or want to waste the effort in explaining every single detail. I will however harp on two specifically. 1: The MJOLNIR Mk.IV helmets, and 2: the fight scene with John just after the augmentations.
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> 1: Aside from Johns helmet being the basic model, WHY did Linda Fred, and one other Spartan in the group background have their GEN 2 helmets! I know, ‘wanting to keep the newer fans from being confused’, but seriously?! WTF?! The third Spartan I mentioned a moment ago also has been seen wearing Orbital style helmet. WHY?! Geez… I miss my continuity.
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> 2: In the original novel Fall of Reach, John was able to kill TWO of those ODSTs, with a single punch… ONE PUNCH after his augmentations. But in this, it takes several blows, almost as if he hadn’t just gone through life threatening surgery to give him the strength of a demi-god. In the animatic he even goes so far as to break one of the ODSTs arm, when in reality he should’ve ripped it clean off! But no… more retconning. The worse part is I don’t know who to blame! Is it either 343i’s direction or was it an artistic change on Sequences part? Who knows, but those are just my two points.
Yeah, I don’t know.
Here. Halo Canon goes in full depth into the whole fall of reach in his review. Explaining the whole thing.
Halo: The Fall of Reach Animated - Review
Basically I watch it for his critiques.
But if you just want his review score.
For fans new to Halo series as a whole and wanting to know the Origins of Blue Team. - 8/10
For old fans that are in the know of lore. - 4/10