narrative truth and reconciliation
“You and I are brothers in many ways, not least in that we faced the Didact before, and face him now, and perhaps ever after. This is combat eternal, enmity unslaked.” The Didact did not die at the end of Halo 4. The Didact did not die during the events of Halo: Escalation. Contrary to the […]
Read More What Happened to The Didact AFTER Halo 4 (and How He Might Return)“They say that they want to help, but they only say it to themselves. Don’t we have a say in our salvation?” I’ve never been much of a fan of Halo: Reach. At the end of 2016, when the game went backwards compatible on the Xbox One, I reinstalled it for what I thought would be […]
Read More Remembering Halo: Reach – Why I Love ‘The Assembly’“If the Covenant hadn’t attacked, she would just be getting out of school. Maybe meeting up with Victor to do homework and talk about his holo-film.The normal world felt like a dream, fragmented and half-forgotten.” One day, life is normal. You go to school, to work, or you have a day in and spend the […]
Read More Halo: Battle Born – On Lost Childhood and the Value of YA LiteratureIt’s been more than three years now since Halo 5: Guardians released, something I have just celebrated with my own creative response to the game – The Five Untold Stories of Halo 5. We’ve had a difficult relationship, Halo 5 and I, where its story is concerned, as many of us do… I found myself looking back […]
Read More Truth and Reconciliation – My Journey with Halo 5Here we are, at the fifth and final story of this little project. This has been a really fun exercise in mixing various critiques I’ve made of Halo 5 over the last three years with more creative expression, writing scenes I’d have loved to see and expanding on some of the ideas found throughout the campaign and […]
Read More The Five Untold Stories of Halo 5 – In Loving Memory of Squad Leader BibjamAnd so we come to the penultimate instalment of The Five Untold Stories of Halo 5. This is something I’ve had in-mind for three years now, a ‘resolution’ of sorts to the conflict between Catherine Halsey and Sarah Palmer that unfortunately didn’t get the best showing in the concluding issues of Halo: Escalation. At the end […]
Read More The Five Untold Stories of Halo 5 – Halsey’s ChoiceAnd we’re back! I decided to delay the posting of this article for a week because I wanted to share my experiences in the US where I visited 343, Microsoft, and Bungie – in case you missed it, you can read about here. But now it’s back to the schedule of weekly instalments of The […]
Read More The Five Untold Stories of Halo 5 – Heretic, Hero