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Gall posted...

As for Halo, that was a surprisingly non-noble death for poor Kat. I haven't gotten much out of watching this game, but I do like the soundtrack. I knew about the series' use of chorus but I'd never heard it in action, and it works to make things feel epic even when they're not.

lol yeah, I can't play this game without thinking of Yahtzee's joke that the cast are engaged in a "who can have the noblest death" competition, and I agree that Kat has the weakest entry so far. Agreed on the music - before I ever played any of these games, I loved the Halo main theme. I would definitely describe this as a gameplay oriented game and I imagine just watching it would be pretty lame, though that said it's one of my least-favorite games of the project so far even with the gameplay.

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The package is a mission that gives you lots of nice things. After the very first shootout, which is only grunts although they have turrets and vehicles, you find a "Scorpion" tank lying around, and the next long segment of the level is a joyride where you blow up everything in sight with its mighty cannon. It's an easy but simultaneously unforgiving section, because there's no way to repair the Scorpion and if you fail, it will be just as damaged when you reload from a checkpoint as it was when you saved. The covenant deploy some heavier weapons that can break down its armor, so it is possible to screw up a bit in one section and leave yourself driving a burning tank only held together by crossed fingers. It's possible to leave the tank and walk, but the level is definitely designed around it and fighting your way past all the vehicles and armored, long-range turrets on foot would be a royal pain. I died quite a few times on the last stretch of this section, because my tank had so little health going in. I basically had to memorize the positions of all the threats and blow them up three seconds before I could see them.

Once you get back to Sword base you have to ditch the Scorpion to fit through the doors, but the game gives you something else as replacement: your boys. Having four invincible NPCs by your side does a lot to simplify the coming battles. The highlight of the map is the big battle at the end where you defend Jorge's hard-assed... loved one while she does some science. There are four turrets around the map that you can periodically reactivate and you have access to a large arsenal of human weapons with a lot of ammo for each, which makes the fight about as open-ended as it can be with this game's mechanics. I personally stuck with the Assault Rifle and DMR, which has become my preferred weapon loadout for just about any situation. Shooting the shield guys in the hands to stun them and following up with a quick headshot is more efficient than overloading their shields, and repeated headshots do enough for the elites, and I just like the Assault Rifle as a nice general purpose weapon. The trickiest part of this large battle is dealing with the enemy Ghosts, since you don't really have the firepower to take out vehicles, and there are so many enemies around that it's hard to get close enough to chuck grenades at them.

The whole mission to destroy Sword Base turned out to be a false pretense just to get the Nobles there - we're picking up, not dropping off. It turns out that the dig team was researching buried technology from an ancient alien civilization, and now the Noble team is tasked with transporting the results of that research - Cortana - away from this doomed planet. As a matter of fact, she takes a liking to Noble Six specifically (I guess she has a thing for video game protagonists,) and he gets to carry her around on his lower back for the rest of the game. Everyone takes off to find the nearest way off-planet, but the sniper Jun splits from the squad to escort the scientist lady and the commander sacrifices himself to pull away some Covenant airships that attack the team in transit (the ship crashes and burns with him in it, making for the fastest possible trip to Valhalla,) leaving Noble six alone with Emile, better known as the guy with the skull helmet. This dynamic duo are the only hope of getting Cortana to the Pillar of Autumn.


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I'm playing every game from GotD 2020! Games Completed: 9/129
Currently Playing: Halo: Reach