Halo Legends

[Cagerrin]

'pon further consideration, I have decided to consider this a parody of samurai movies, rather than canon to the Halo universe.

[=sw=warlord]

I'm beginning to think this is MS's way of bringing the Asian (gaming) community into Halo. Seeing as how they're not so much into FPSes to begin with, what better way to spark their interest than with silly anime!

Frankie already said it was to get the asian gaming community into Halo.

[Kornman00]

No wonder I can't stand it

I wonder what the avg Asian gamer (located in Asia, not Asian-american) thinks of this

[Heathen]

i just lost my virginity watching that

lost mine watching my grandma make a pie.

[Kornman00]

lost mine watching my grandma make a pie.

Wait ...

WTF ?

Serious ?

Ugh

[legionaire45]

Terrible watercolor post processing
Stiff/bad animations
Female elite just looked...bad...snake + protoss = that thing.
Gigantic hunters (and the explanations behind them) don't make sense
Samurai elite armor at the end didn't fit in at all. They could have at least made it look something like arbiter/elite armor.

They're focusing so much on turning this into anime that they are completely missing that they are trying to make something that fits into the Halo universe, not mixing and matching parts of their culture with some Halo stuff. The thing that should stand out in these shorts is what they add to the Halo universe, not the fact that they've thrown a crappy post-processing effect on top of their "meh" worthy 3D animation and called it anime. The only thing this really added to the Halo universe was the bit regarding the reason that the position of arbiter is regarded as shameful. Everything else was just typical Bushido/misplaced Japanese culture or things we already know.

The first was definitely better than this one. Hopefully the rest will be better.

[L0d3x]

I found the underlying story ok (but no more than that). The art and animations on the other hand don't feel like Halo at all, imo. Too much chinese architecture and stuff.

Also, a guy with a plasma sword against a metal sword, hmmmmmm.

Oh and no elite can take out an entire Covenant battle force, not even the Arbiter, by himself.

[=sw=warlord]

Oh and no elite can take out an entire Covenant battle force, not even the Arbiter, by himself.

Halowars.

[Good_Apollo]

I thought it was decent. I liked the first one better and I absolutely hated the 'female' elite. The rest makes pretty decent sense in a canon perspective. The Elites have a pretty Samurai-esque culture and the use of metal swords as ceremonial seems to make sense as stuff like plasma weaponry was granted to them by the Prophets was it not? The giant Hunter was whatevs...never seem them in that form but doesn't mean they weren't ever created bigger afterall it's just a bunch of worms, they can make anything.

The artstyle was unique and I enjoyed it, but the long random pauses were stupid and broke the momentum. Any other quirks were just anime mainstays and were expected really.

[itszutak]

I got the limited edition of the Halo 3 game, which came with a little book describing the different Covenant races.

Somehow, when they said Elites lived in a Feudal society, I figured they meant Medieval Europe feudal, not Japanese feudal. Then again, the honor guard armor in H2 should have been a bit of a tip-off.

I dunno. I can't stand bad voice acting, so I watched the episode muted-- and even though I don't like how they completely screwed up elite mouths, I'm kind of okay with it, as long as I imagine it as some sort of retractable lower jaw (which would also solve the mystery as to how elite eat with a hole in their mouths).

Some day I'll go back and watch it with sound. Not today.