i know that a lot of people say that the halo 5 story is garbage and that 343 has done a very bad job at it, some people say its a terrible story, or that 343 killed it. lots of people say that the story is mediocre, or some say its alright or good. but to me i think it’s 100% flawless and nothing could be better. I wanna say why i think this and why you should give 343 more credit for the best halo story I have seen. in this thing I’m talking about story alone, not game play, not mechanics, just flat out story. (FYI I am a long time halo fan, played the games, read the books, and i loved what Bungie and 343 have done, and the campaigns are the whole reason why i play halo).
let’s start with how short the campaign was, the campaign lasted from October 23rd- October 28th, people say that was dumb cause how short the days were and how little time you spend on the planets. but personally i think it was fine. on Meridian Osiris had to hunted Blue team down cause they went AWOL, after they saw them and Blue team escaped with the Guardian Osiris had no point in staying that long so they left, and all of meridian took place on October 25th. Then came with Sangheilos which took place on October 27th (Blue team got to Genesis on October 26th) and with Osiris they had to get on a guardian cause that was the only way to get to blue team and that was the only guardian they could find, so with the help of the arbiter, they got on the guardian, destroyed Jul 'mdama’s covenant and got to genesis. then when they got there on October 28th they found blue team, blue team was kidnapped by Cortana then Osiris had to rescue them in one day. point being it would have been stupid if they were on the planets to long.
now moving on to blue team, people say Fred, Kelly and Linda didn’t do anything in the story. to me that’s not true. they had john’s back the whole time, letting him know that no matter what they be by his side, and that’s because they’re family. they grew up together in the spartan II program. trained together fought together, how could they not be closer. they could have left chief on his own at anytime but they didn’t they stay with him and helped along the way with Cortana and everything.
i know a whole bunch of people have stated all of Osiris is very bad and they’re the worst people to add to halo, i think they are a tremendous addition to the halo universe. lets go from all the characters and then individually. people stated how the characters are completely random and have no back story, well they don’t, Locke was in the terminals in halo 2 anniversary and was in halo nightfall, buck was in halo 3 ODST and in reach, Vale was in the halo book hunters in the dark and Tanaka was in some of the escalation comics. people say they’re like bots with no feeling but they do. they’ve had conversations about many things and pretty funny ones. Locke- brilliant leader and will do anything to get the done and look after anyone under his command. Buck- if you played halo 3 ODST then you know about buck, Vale- smart spartan who is a shares a deep interest in Sangheili culture. tanaka- a spartan who’s had a deep emotional scar from the glassing of her home world Minab.
the arbiter, he’s back, and extremely awesome. he’s led his people away from the Covenant and sworn to destroy and covenant remnants left. and he still thinks of the chief as his friend. that in my opinion is enough said.
cortana coming back is a little weird but I’m glad she’s back. and especially that she’s a villain. it makes a whole new thing to resolve and it makes the chief probably making his hardest decision ever. whether to side with the UNSC to fight back against the created and Master Chief ending up killing Cortana for good this time, or trying ever in his power to save Cortana and risk everything, which may come in to the false advertising about Chief being a traitor.
and one more thing i think halo 5 is the gateway to something we never seen on any other halo game. i believe halo is leading to the most exciting something morew awesome then ever for the reclaimer saga.
i may have missed some stuff but i just wanted to say how much i think halo 5’s story is awesome and i hope you agree with me now or after reading this. if you have any questions feel free to ask.
