Halo is a Western game franchise about a supersoldier who single-handedly beats up a highly religious and genocidal alien alliance. Also, there are weird floating rings that can kill everything.

Halo has a very pleasing aesthetic to me, though I can’t easily articulate exactly what it is about Halo that I find so nice. Though this applies up to Halo Reach and doesn’t really apply past it that much (with notable exceptions like Halo Legends).

I know the comparison will be strange, but I think it gives me a similar feeling to Tolkien's Legendarium. That might just be because I’m thinking about the Legendarium a lot though.

I played the PC version specifically to play the campaign and, after finishing it once, I think I finished it at least one other time. Though never on the hardest difficulties.

Gameplay is pretty good in all the Halo games, so I won’t comment much on that front.

The story at this point in time is alright. I don’t remember any particular issues with the story. Maybe the big one (though this isn’t the fault of this game) is that Sgt. Johnson survives past this game, somehow.

This is among the few games where I actually finished the campaign. And it was pretty good.

What I especially liked about ODST is that you’re quite fragile, which means you’ve gotta think about how to approach situations (at least a little bit).

This is the other game that I actually played the campaign for. And the campaign I quite like.

I prefer playing this game the most out of all of them due to the presence of firefight (1) and because of sprint being an ability (2).

I also think that this is where the Halo aesthetic looks best. It still looks like Halo, just with a bit more detail. And not quite as cartoony as the other games. Honestly, I think the franchise should return to the look of this game.

Before I ever played the games…I ended up watching this. And multiple times too, so you can tell I quite like it.

This can technically be considered the first anime I ever watched too, though I actually think Pokemon holds that title.

Halo Legends is an anthology series and, as a result, each ‘episode’ differs quite a bit. I think my favorite is Homecoming, though Origins Parts 1 & 2 are probably the best (and they’re my second-favorite). Homecoming actually has a few lore issues, though all the ‘episodes’ seem to have problems in that department.

I remembered that I once thought that Halo’s worldbuilding actually depicted a fairly accurate version of the future (setting aside all of humanity existing in one single state).

This doesn’t show up often because most of the series is presented to us thru a pure military perspective, with the UNSC operating with only one language and a clearly American aesthetic.^A) But there are flashes that suggest the universe is more multicultural and multilingual than it appears at first.
Most of Reach is Hungarian for example. Though that’s the only major example I can think of.

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