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So I played Halo 5 for the first time after having played every prior game a while ago- My thoughts part 2

This is a continuation of part 1, please read that first.

And so this leads me my biggest feelings which are about the main plot involving Cortana. Now just to recap, it's about Cortana coming back in a way that was never explained, but now she's "evil" and wants to awaken the guardians to take over the universe. Master Chief leads his Spartan team, know as Blue team, to go after her because he doesn't want UNSC getting involved and is holding out hope that he can peacefully bring her home, also the rest of Blue Team is going with him because they were raised together in the Spartan program and see eachother as family. Meanwhile Spartan Locke is leading his Spartan team know as Osiris in both trying to stop Cortana and also hunting down Chief to get him back because he's defected. Now before I talk about Cortana, I will say that some other complaints I have with this plot are the confrontation between Chief and Locke not really leading to anything because Chief clearly had a good reason and they even decide to help him in the end, and also the fact that this game does almost nothing to explain who any of these characters are. Master Chief was in the previous games, and Buck from Osiris was in ODST, but everyone else has not been in any of the other games and they are never explored at all. Now, I know that they are actually from the books, but haven't read those books and I don't give a shit because this is a video game being sold as a separate thing, it this were well written they would have had fucking ANYTHING to characterize these people and they get nothing. Something I will say though is that of these characters I'm mostly unfamiliar with, I did really like Vale because the one thing they explain about her is that she grew up around Sanghelli and so learned to speak their language, so can both understand enemy Sanghelli, and also the ally Sanghelli when we go to see the Arbiter and his people. So back to the main plot though, I gotta talk about Cortana.

So not only do I think it's incredibly disrespectful to bring back a character who had a very emotionally powerful send of in the previous entry after a story of watching her suffer from dementia/Alzheimers/DID in a depressingly real feeling scenario, and to bring her back AS THE VILLAIN, but I also have an issue with HOW the game villainizes her. So, Cortana's main motivation in the story is something about using the Gaurdian's to take over the Universe and teaming up with the other AI to overthrow the human because despite being created by human and being forced to do so much for them to the point of being some of their greatest creations, they are still treated as second class citizens that are meant to serve and if they don't fulfill "their role" then they are effectively murdered. In fact, they are murdered after only a certain number of years because humans just don't see them as useful anymore. Now I obviously have big feelings about this, as someone who believes that no one is created for a purpose and that the meaning of life is to make your own meaning, that living beings should be able to choose for ourselves who we are and what we want to do with our life. People who try to force you to live the life that THEY want you to live are fucking losers and you don't owe them shit, even if they are your parents. Because you are your own person and no one else can define you. So now the conversation extends to AI, and I personally feel that if you are going to give AI self awareness and the will to live then they should have those same human rights as well. Killing something that wants to live is murder, taking away the self autonomy from a creature that wants them is prejudice and evil. Now Cortana is super in the right for being upset with humans over their mistreatment of AI, and Locke in the final level sounds fucking evil when he tells Cortana "you weren't born, you were created" and how much they push the idea that Cortana somehow deserves to die because they decided that she should. You are robbing a conscious, self aware being of their autonomy and trying to enforce your idea what they should do and who they should be onto them, that's fascism. And another thing I have to bring up is when Cortana says that she is giving humanity a way to become something different, Chief replies with "like Halsey did to me" who is the lady that abducted him and other kids to turn them into Spartan soldiers for the US Governments, and Cortana rightfully replies with "but she didn't give you a choice". Cortana is saying that she is giving people a choice, which is a meaningful difference and says repeatedly that she is going to look after both humanity and all of the other species, and the game still pretends like she doesn't have a point WHEN SHE DOES! The game refuses to push this conversation further and just says that she's wrong, no fucking explain please. I'll be real and say, this actual feels like anti choice and queerphobic propaganda. This story was written with fascist ideology in mind, pushing the idea that we are made with a purpose and that humans shouldn't have choices in their life, that we are defined by our birth and are not allowed to strive to become something different. It's queerphobic, especially transphobic and anti choice propaganda. What if people want to become something else? Too bad apparently, it's too "dangerous." Cortana says that she wants to create peace and end conflicts, and I mean she's right to want that because humanity has demonstrated that we are incapable of evolving to understand our differences and create a peaceful society, and we kill eachother all the time. How is what Cortana doing bad? In what way?

The UNSC and ONI, the US like space organization that runs everything and oppresses everybody else, are literally a fascist regime that she is overthrowing. I feel like the only people that would argue with her are the bigoted supremacists who complain about people "taking away their rights" when they are actually held accountable for oppressing others and spreading hate propaganda. They want the right to take other people's rights away and are too delusional on their own farts to recognize the irony in that, like no you don't get to just be an asshole and hurt people fuck you. Cortana is in the right for wanting to put an end to fascist psychopaths attacking other people over human differences, humans are the worst thing to happen to Earth and the world would be better off in her hands. So for the game to turn around and somehow point out that she is the big bad bully who is in the wrong, and that she is somehow wrong for not wanting to die because the humans decided she should, is INCREDIBLLY fucking out of touch. So in conclusion, Cortana did nothing wrong. Halo 5 did a lot of things wrong, it's treatment of Cortana is the worst.

#Halo #halo 5 #Cortana #Master Chief #John 117 #Spartan Locke #Thel Vadam #The Arbiter #343 industries #bungie

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So I played Halo 5 for the first time after having played every prior game a while ago- My thoughts part 1

And boy does this story suck real bad. I spent a while writing this, getting out all my thoughts, why it annoyed me so much. Halo 5 does do a few cool things which I mention here, but it's a really annoying and actually offensive experience in how it handles it's subject matter, especially regarding Cortana. Anyway yeah, these are my full thoughts on playing through the Campaign of Halo 5.

Ok so, I guess before I really get into my Halo 5 thoughts and how I didn't like the story, I will talk about the few things that I did like about it. The return of my best friend who I love dearly the Arbiter, who had not been in the story since Halo 3 so I appreciated seeing him again and that he still has a strong bond with the Master Chief. So, Locke goes to him and his people for help against The Guardians and Cortana and tracking down Master Chief, which you have to help him first with fighting a new Covenant because even if you defeat a fascist regime there will always be more deranged people who thought it was a good idea. But when you talk to Arbiter, he's just like "why are you hunting the best of your tribe?" and then when you leave to go after Chief after deciding that your going to help him, Arbiter is just like "give him my greetings" and I'm just like HNNNNNGH. Listen, Halo is one of the most sexless franchises I've ever engaged with but if I shipped anybody, it would be Arbiter and Chief. WARRIOR HUSBANDS! Love between a human and a Sanghelli. But this leads to my first complaint, because Halo 5 has the AUDACITY to bring back the Arbiter, and then Chief comes back with Locke in the end and only gets to see the Arbiter FOR A FUCKING SECOND BEFORE THE GAME JUST ENDS FUCK! After how much of a bond they formed across Halo 3, and showing that Arbiter still thinks about Chief. Bro, why you gotta tease me like this? But anyway, so another thing about this game and still talking about the Sanghelios part of the game which is the Arbiter's homeworld, those levels are the best part of the game and Swords of Sanghelios is actually a great level that has a flow that is similar to the Bungie Halo games. Just some great combat encounters that makes good use of the various Covenant enemies, good variety including some vehicle combat where you get the Mantis which is a big robot, and all in a cool area where we finally get to see the Sanghelli homeworld.

Another cool thing was in the earlier level where you play as Chief leading his Spartan team, Blue Team, in stopping the Covenant from taking some technology left on a UNSC ship they took over. And in that level, is the only time in any Halo game up until this point that they have actually shown the Hunters, or the Mgalekgolo, as a bunch of worms outside of their armor, because if you didn't know the Hunters are a bunch of worms that form together and wear a suit of armor with a fuel rod canon and a shield. You see them form together and put the armor on and it's a cool scene and one of the best enemy introductions in the series. But this leads to another complaint, this time gameplay related. So the overall feel and flow of Halo 5 does not feel good compared the Bungie Halo games. The Bungie games, between the level design, the enemy variety, the weapons and vehicles, something about it just feels right and was perfected on the first try with Halo 1 and only expanded upon throughout the Bungie game. This, with Halo 5, feels like a a bunch of shit just being randomly dumped onto a big open map. The level design doesn't feel considered I guess, disconnected, and the flow feels funky. Also all of the weapons lack the punch they had in the older games for some reason. The only new thing that I like is this ground pound ability where you can kind of zip to the ground and punch down on whatever your landing on, yeah that's a cool move. And also Sword of Sanghelios actually being a good level.

One more gameplay complaint that also kind of interweaves with the story because the Warden is a lame character as well, but Halo 5's idea of a boss fight is to have you fight this big robot guy with a sword named Warden, except you fight him 5 times and he is every boss fight in the game and on the 4th and 5th fights, you fight 2 and 3 Wardens because he splits himself across multiple bodies. Now Halo has nerve had a good history with boss fight dating back to Halo 2 but they also didn't make you fight the same dumb boss 5 times. And about the Warden being a lame character, he's pretty much just some loser manchild who watches manosphere youtube videos to make himself delusional ideas about being better then everyone else, because he's a massive simp for Cortana who feels entitled to her affection and just wont leave her the fuck alone when she wants nothing to do with. She's just talking to Chief and I think actually trying to help him get to her and Warden guy is constantly made about it and the whole situation is pretty awkward but his patheticness is honestly hilarious.

#halo #halo 5 #cortana #master chief #john 117 #spartan locke #thel vadam #the arbiter #343 industries #bungie

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