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Posted by: GanonSmash
(no particular order)
The Best
Prototype - awesome action, nothing more. Simple: giant suit of armor blows up Covenant, then itself. Accomplished what it set out to do.
The Duel - Cool art style, interesting story about the early Covenant. Although the "comic relief" grunt was rediculous, and should have been cut.
Babysitter - This one wasn't really anything special, but it was cool to see the interaction between ODSTs and a Spartan. Even though Dutch looked ridiculous, and nothing like in the game. Oh, and it introduced us to our first real taste of the Precursors.
The Package - An alright story, neat action, nothing too amazing. I didn't lik the introdction and immediate killing of two more throwaway Spartans, but whatever, I can live with that, I guess.
The Worst
Origins - This one came off feeling really cheap to me; It was nice to (sort of) see the Forerunners, but was it really necessary to rip most of the two episodes' imagery directly from Bungie's unused concept art? Come up with your own ideas, guys. And Cortana going crazy is just a lame excuse for the fact that half of the scenes in Origins 2 make absolutely no sense, and are nothing like any events that actually happened. This isn't artistic interpretation anymore, it's making -blam!- up and then coming up with a quick hand-wave to justify it's existence. By now you should be getting the impression that I really don't like Origins 2.
Homecoming - Interesting concept, execution falls flat. Lame characters, and some very strange decisions. Why number Ralph 303, for instance? It makes no sense to confuse people more than they already are regarding the Spartan II program. Why make Master Chief show up in the end? Just for the sake of making it hard to pin down a date? Oh, and the artist in charge of drawing this can't draw Mjolnir armor. Both Daisy and John looked awful in their armor.
Odd One Out - I get that it's meant to be a parody of Japanese animation tropes, or something. It just wasn't funny. I would've preferred another meaningful, canon based story instead. How about some Spartan III action?
That just about sums up my feelings. Overall, I'd say it's not a bad package, but it feels half-finished, like the fact-checkers and editors needed to take a final pass at it, but 343 didn't have time, and just shipped it anyway. A better written and animated, and more original set of stories would make an excellent follow up.
I agree almost completely with all you said. Great start of something that could be quite awesome, 343 definitely needs to be more involved with making sure everything is accurate and that creative license doesn't go too far. If there were more I would certainly watch them.
I completely agree with you about Origins II, Cortana would not be that uninformed about events while being stuck in High Charity, and she would most certainly not be going rampant yet, and she still has a couple more years before reaching the time when AIs start to think themselves to death.
Yeah, Ralph does not make any sense at all, his odd numbering can kind of be easily explained, but it still doesn't make any sense considering the existing numbers we have and how none go past the one hundreds. Not to mention that Pelican seemed rather weak, it'd take a hell of a lot more Fuel Rod blasts than that to take it out.
Very accurate description of the Prototype, I only liked it because of the awesome "let's blow stuff up because we can".
I loved the Grunt in the Duel, I nearly died laughing from it, and it felt kinda like the gameplay where the Grunts make such random and stupid comments.