PSA: Second Halo Legends episode free, available today only

Will he also die at the end like Spike Siegel?

Boom, ruined.

I thought the same thing when I saw the first episode. He looked exactly like Spike Spiegel. Of course, they could have just been going for that spikey hair cliche in animes, but still...

The only good thing that came from watching this episode was the free Guilty Spark for my avatar. The art style hurt my eyes.

I was thinking Spike Spiegel the whole time.

I need to rant really bad SPOILERS AHEAD!




WHAT THE HELL BUNGIE?! so far all i have seen from these episodes is halo being turned into a piece of crap! forerunner architect is not ancient chinese buildings! so what if the story is in canon the buildings sure as hell aren't. this past episode was ridiculously terrible. and the characters are not covenant at all. elites have four jaws that separate when they talk, they don't have mouths like humans do. secondly why did the main antagonist for this episode have freaking samurai armor on? and when the arbiter is killing all the other elites and has to fight a hunter, the hunter is about the size of a phantom! hunters are not that big! WRONG AGAIN! the only thing these anime episodes want me to do is to stop liking halo. Microsoft needs to stop trying to market Halo and the xbox 360 over there because the audience is not that big over there deal with it! And the end fight between the arbiter and afro samurai (sarcasm, the elite just looks like a samurai with that ridiculous armor on) is them staring at each other for about ten seconds, then stabbing each other in the gut and they both die!

ok so there is my angry rant, it is just how i fell, i am not trying to attack anyone (besides bungie and Microsoft)

And only one day to view it..! So far I've spent 10 minutes trying to watch this damn crap, it's buffered 4 times and I've seen about 1 minute. The quality is so crap I feel like I'm watching some CD from that Panasonic console 15 years back..!

We should be paid to put up with this and watch this crap!!

So yea... it was really bad... wasn't really a Halo feel to it. I mean... it was like a bad samurai movie, the art was neat though. Really nice sumi-e style.

wow, could they find a more antiquated model to release the show? Each episode is available for only one day? Are they going to start showing it at specific time soon?? Give me a break!

So, I didn't watch the first. Did Cortana become...Porntana?

Does anyone have a link to it being hosted on the intarwebs like last time? I'm at work for the rest of the day & don't have a chance to watch it.

"I need to rant really bad SPOILERS AHEAD!




WHAT THE HELL BUNGIE?! so far all i have seen from these episodes is halo being turned into a piece of crap! forerunner architect is not ancient chinese buildings! so what if the story is in canon the buildings sure as hell aren't. this past episode was ridiculously terrible. and the characters are not covenant at all. elites have four jaws that separate when they talk, they don't have mouths like humans do. secondly why did the main antagonist for this episode have freaking samurai armor on? and when the arbiter is killing all the other elites and has to fight a hunter, the hunter is about the size of a phantom! hunters are not that big! WRONG AGAIN! the only thing these anime episodes want me to do is to stop liking halo. Microsoft needs to stop trying to market Halo and the xbox 360 over there because the audience is not that big over there deal with it! And the end fight between the arbiter and afro samurai (sarcasm, the elite just looks like a samurai with that ridiculous armor on) is them staring at each other for about ten seconds, then stabbing each other in the gut and they both die!

ok so there is my angry rant, it is just how i fell, i am not trying to attack anyone (besides bungie and Microsoft)"




WHAT HE SAID. I understand that these people are respected japanese animation artists, but this isn't supposed to be Earth or something that they created. This is an American IP with an already established look to it. Forerunner structures are not japanese pagodas, and Elites should not be wearing samurai armor. The first episode (The Babysitter) turned the ODSTs into simpering babies, if the main character is any sort of example. Ridiculous.

The Elites have the split mouths, and here they go drawing them like they have a single mouth in parts, but then a split one in others. The Hunter looked like Godzilla, and where was its bond brother? Made no sense.

Thanks for the reminder!!

wow what the heck, halo is gonna suck if 343 keeps going down this path.

I actually enjoy these little vingette episodes. I don't believe they need to adhere strictly to the canon and it's interesting to see someone else's interpretation of the halo universe. These just seem to add more to the expanding lore for Halo and gives us something else to consider.

Joystiq should delete any spoilers as they post. ruining it for people. I didn't click the post for that very reason..

Though I am wondering why the disc in my drive started spinning when I was exiting waypoint. even when I was on the dash. ejecting didn't work either (as in it wouldn't eject).. so I turned off the 360, then back on to play Dragon Age

The art style kills me.

The heavy Japanese influences are a bother, the dialog is a little cheesy, and the art style is hit-or-miss, however, I did really enjoy the somewhat illogical uber-fights between the Arbiter and those droves of Covenant.

Overall, though, I preferred the 'Babysitter' to this one, and at this point I'm just hoping that the proceeding episodes don't feature as much Japanese influences--they really stick out.

So far so good in my opinion. The art style grew on me by the end of the short and I started to appreciate what the studio was going for. Its definitely will not be enjoyed by the Saturday morining cartoon crowd or even the generic Pixar crowd as well.

As for the Japanese influences, maybe I missed something but these are all Anime. The Studios are Japanese so if you have a problem with Anime, I am sure Halo Legends probably will not be your content of choice.

I have read the Halo books and this did not seem to go to far from the farm. I thought the script, dialog, animation etc were all top notch. At first I was leaned back in my chair watching the short but by the end I was leaned forward very interested in what I was watching.

Probably one of the things I will like about Halo Legends the most and this is going by the two pieces I have seen so far is that MS did let the studios go hog wild so no two episode will be the same in concept, animation or vision. Each will have their own unique view which probably will not appeal to a lot of western viewers but still be quality work that will get devoted fans for each one. For the Duel, at the end of the short, I became a fan of the art style and like to see it worked on and improved.

i loved animatrix and im equally enjoying halo legends.