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Thursday, 3 November 2011

"Halo: A Fistful Of Arrows" Review

by Alex Hill


4/5


Over the course of a year, a man going by the username "Leviathan" has been digitally painting a short fan-comic. It's called "A Fistful Of Arrows". His goal was to shed some light on the fate of a character the source material could not be bothered to care for. In the process, he has explored in unblinking detail why these characters and situations could have been something great. He took characters who were largely forgettable, and found out why they should have mattered. He wrote dialogue and events for the same characters from a multi-million dollar corporate turd, and did so with sometimes shocking precision.

One man on his own time did a better job with the same material, than people who were paid over the course of four years. Levi Hoffmeier paints circles around Bungie and Microsoft Studios. He rummaged through the hollowed-out carcass of a truly wretched game, and fashioned it into something valuable.


Wednesday, 2 March 2011

Halo Reach: Appendum

The following is a list of thoughts I had surrounding Halo: Reach, and its developer. Mostly stuff I felt did not belong in the review proper. Little things. Big things. Most of them are needlessly stupid problems that would have been inexcusably easy to fix or remove, but which for some reason no one working at Bungie could be bothered to.