I’m part confused and part angry at the legendary ending.
I’m confused because I’m unsure if this event takes place after the ending of Halo Infinite’s campaign, or if this event is something that happened before( and possibly got interrupted, probably due to the UNSC arrival at Zeta Halo).
I’m angry because if this actually is after the Halo Infinite campaign, then that means that they killed off Cortana in a meaningless way and let this dude survive. That makes me so mad.
Either kill off both, or kill off neither. Not one or the other.
I don’t care if he’s supposed to be some big badass dude, his plot armour is bs and everyone knows it. Plot armour is reserved for protagonists, not an antagonist.
If it turns out that Atriox survived and Cortana didn’t I will find myself in a position where I will automatically dislike this (probable) DLC story. I really dislike when storywriters make decisions like these.
If you’re going to give a character an off-screen death in an attempted assassination, then kill both of them. Period.
I get it, people luv Atriox because he’s some cool dude from Halo Wars, but people also love Cortana. Why does she deserve to just get removed from the plot for no particular reason, but he gets to stay around?
It hasn’t been fulfilled in the slightest. They just left out a massive portion of the story between Halo 5 and Halo Infinite and then killed her off in a short cutscene.
There’s nothing fulfilling about her story at all.
So you want to be told everything that happened, instead of inferring it?
Listen, that isn’t how storytelling always works. Literary illiteracy drives me nuts, but nothing is really missing from Infinite’s story. You have questions? You want answers?
Good. Stay tuned. People have gotten WAY too used to stories giving them ALL the answers, ALL the information, holding their hands and telling them absolutely everything. We learned what Cortana was doing, how she did it, why she did it, but there’s plenty more we don’t know. Like, how did Atriox get a leg up on Guardians? How did everything happen the way it did?
We don’t know yet. Right now, we are not supposed to, as the audience and Master Chief, know. People wanna’ play as Master Chief real badly but when we experience the story the same way he did, whoa, suddenly that’s too much.
EDIT: I am saying that we know as much as he knows and that’s on purpose.
Right now, we are not supposed to, as the audience and Master Chief, know. People wanna’ play as Master Chief real badly but when we experience the story the same way he did, whoa, suddenly that’s too much.
Right, so the stuff from the pilot’s perspective at the start is definitely from Master Chief’s own experience? That’s a weak excuse defending lazy writing.
They should have included what happened to Cortana as at least a cutscene, because guess what? Master Chief wasn’t just crying in some corner, HE WAS SEARCHING FOR HER.
He was fighting the wars Cortana and the Created started, he was there when The Weapon was created.
Again, you’re just excusing lazy writing because they couldn’t make an additional cutscene explaining everything that led up to the events in Halo Infinite.
They probably decided that they wanted to tell a new story and completely threw the old stuff in the trashcan and included a few mediocre references to the previous events.
They were lazy and impatient.
343 kill cortana, turn her evil, then kill her off screen and even replace her by another version of herself. Never a loved character have been so mistreated !
Well, I suspect it is going to be personal between the Chief and Atriox. They had the Chief respect Escharum. But he’s going to go full Demon on Atriox. Him goading the player about Cortanas death is probably going to factor into that.
There’s still an outside possibility the Weapon might be Cortana. She did say that “He needs her” and did seem to be in a self loathing spiral. Why not make herself this character. This sweet and innocent AI who’d never hurt anyone. Whose odd deletion routine included finding a suitable bomb shelter, only activating a few seconds before Cortana blew herself up to delete all memories of her meeting Cortana and left her for Chief to find.
Failing that. Time travel. If that’s on the table Chief could try to undo things by getting Cortana back.
If Atriox was sent back in time, perhaps Cortana was sent forwards in time?
But yes, as presented it’s very far from the story I wanted and it does feel more like 343 apologising for Halo 5 than anything else. I am not sure I’d be much more sold on the drama with the Weapon than Isabel or Serena. The Weapon is just another AI. Cortana was a big deal because you had been on ten plus years of adventures together and another ten trying to save her. If the Weapon is her without that, then how does that make her the better companion exactly? Shouldn’t the bond be more important than whether she’s got the right qualities and ticks all the boxes on the app? Like in Halo 4 there’s a reason the Chief angrily denies he’ll be paired with another AI.