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+====== Halo ======
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+**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.
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+===== Review =====
+==== In General ====
+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 [[lb:legendarium]]. That might just be because I'm thinking about the Legendarium a lot though.
+==== Halo: Combat Evolved ====
+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.
+==== Halo 3: ODST ====
+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).
+==== Halo Reach ====
+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.
+==== Halo Legends ====
+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.
+===== Speculah & Analysis =====
+==== Depiction of the Future? ====
+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.((:fn:>Which makes a lot of sense if we consider that the American military is currently the most technologically advanced, most professional and the //largest//. It makes complete sense that a future supra-national military entity would derive or be heavily inspired by the Americans.)) 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.
+===== Trivilinks =====
+  * [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/976730/Halo_The_Master_Chief_Collection/|Steam Page]]