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  • From Peter Jackson to Halo Infinite – A Rumination on the Prometheans December 6, 2019
  • Neil Davidge & Kazuma Jinnouchi – The Unsung Heroes of Halo 4 November 6, 2019
  • Halo Infinite – Everything We Learned From Outpost Discovery October 14, 2019
  • I Interviewed Cassandra Rose Clarke! – A Primer for Halo: Meridian Divide October 5, 2019
  • What Happened to The Didact AFTER Halo 4 (and How He Might Return) August 9, 2019
  • The Huragok Master Plan to Fire Halo (Yes, Really…) July 1, 2019
  • (Re)Discover Hope – Analysing Halo Infinite’s Opening June 15, 2019
  • Halo: New Blood – Why 343 Was Right to Kill The Rookie June 1, 2019
  • Remembering Halo: Reach – Why I Love ‘The Assembly’ May 12, 2019
  • Understanding Halo 4… WITHOUT the Books April 15, 2019

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The Huragok Master Plan to Fire Halo (Yes, Really…)

Few entities in Halo live quite as miserably as the Huragok do. Shunned by their creators, enslaved by the Covenant, tortured and experimented on by the Banished… they just can’t seem to catch a break. However, in recent years, you may not be aware that these seemingly unassuming victims had an unexpected plan they hoped to […]

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The Reclaimer Saga and the San’Shyuum

Here’s a suitably obscure but important lore topic to kick off my first post of 2015. The San’Shyuum, better known to the wider audience as ‘the Prophets’, are one of the most important parts of the Halo story in ways that I don’t think we even fully understand yet. From their ancient alliance with humanity […]

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Halo 4, Level-by-Level Analysis – Composer

And so, we reach the beginning of the final act of Halo 4’s story. This is where the characters hit their lowest point, where all seems lost for our protagonists and their goals. At the end of the previous mission, just as it seemed like they were about to succeed, John and Cortana failed to […]

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Halo 4, Level-by-Level Analysis – Shutdown

I can give you over forty thousand reasons why I know this game is awesome. I know it because the story’s thematic resonance is disproportionate to its suggested size, I know it because its character arcs are more emotional than that of the common shooter. But for all that, I’ll never actually know just how […]

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Halo 4, Level-by-Level Analysis – Reclaimer

So here we are, at the half-way point of this little project. So far, we’ve covered what has primarily been the build-up in the narrative, the setting of the stage for that point in the plot where the stakes get raised higher than ever and the direction of the story becomes clear. Reclaimer is that […]

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Halo 4, Level-by-Level Analysis – Infinity

Onto act two of Halo 4’s story which serves as the rising action in the plot, introducing us to and developing a series of critical thematic elements surrounding humanity, our history, and setting the stage for the rest of the Reclaimer Saga by continuing to build on the concept of the Mantle which is, as […]

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Halo 4, Level-by-Level Analysis – Forerunner

Onto the third mission of the campaign, titled Forerunner. This marks the end of the first of Halo 4’s three acts in the story,  the set-up where we’re introduced to the characters, their relationships, the world they live in, the disruption of the status quo, and so on. The end of the first act typically […]

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