- Tupolev
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- Honorable Member
I've actually grown to like The Library. It's a very intimidating level to enter, but once you sink into it, it's quite mesmerizing.
It's also not really all that difficult, people. Here's a tip: Don't fight the Flood as if they were Covenant. Think of it more as a combination of dancing and "Doom".
In any case, though, it remains intense and upbeat. Full of action which, despite the repeated terrain, actually maintains a modest degree of variety due to the different ways in which fights are directionally and compositionally stage.
And while it's perhaps a little dark and low-contrast on many screens, it's also kind of beautiful in its own weird way. Its style is very much in-tune with the overall mood.
Cortana on the other hand, not so much. High flood damage and low flood health in Halo 3 means the best way to fight them is to hide somewhere and kill them instantly one-by-one as they get close. It's lethargic and not particularly satisfying.
And unlike The Library, it's stylistically poorly executed insofar as what it should do. What Cortana really needs, artistically, is a good view from an "outdoors" High Charity platform. Compare and contrast, see how things have changed, juxtapose it with Halo 2. Right now, it's just a big gooey mess that's hard to associate with anything aside from the obscured and limiting glimpses you get of various areas. Reminding us better of what the Covenant once was, right after destroying them, would have been a good touch. Ah, the level is full of missed opportunities.