Today’s game was Halo Reach. I had finally hoped to finish it up today with my friend, but i miscounted how many levels were left. Hopefully tomorrow should be the day and I will have finally played Master Chief Collection through in it’s entirety on Legendary. Though, i plan to go back through Halo CE on Legendary because according to the service record in game i did not beat it (which i assume is due to mew having anti-cheat off due to an error with Proton).

Playing through Reach, i can definitely see why it’s so beloved. While trying to avoid story spoilers (even though it’s an old game), there was one section where you get to fly a Pelican (big helicopter like things) with a fiery hellscape of a city as the backdrop that progressively gets worse. It made for such a cool moment that was fun to playthrough:

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I like that it actually let us fly the things too instead of just making it an on Rails shooter. It helped make it feel unique in my opinion, especially since in two earlier levels you were just a passenger.

Story wise (now possibly story spoilers), i’m really enjoying how much grittier it feels. Knowing how it ends really makes me wish i didn’t know, because i think that ending would be far more enjoyable without knowing it.

And, i know i say this for almost every game i play, but it looks gorgeous too. The city landscape of the level especially is really well done in my opinion, and i felt like Reach executed it well in the one level as opposed to ODST’s open world thing (don’t get me wrong though, i really loved ODST). I like how it has you backtrack to the first level at near the end. It’s such a fun thing to do to havbe you go back only to get to go deeper too. And the audio logs are really well hidden and fun to find. There not as fun as the Skulls in my opinion, but they’re still a lot of fun.