Goob

Good

Great game, ending is lackluster.

You cannot progress through levels in local COOP. We went through about 15 levels only to realize that none of the levels spawned the currency to unlock further levels. In local COOP, map animations are completely missing which results in invisible hazards acting like invisible respawn barriers making some of the long maps unbearably tedious. The game allows for Remote Play Together, but again it's limited by how many maps you've unlocked in Solo (the functioning part of the game), so if you want to progress through the game with friends, you'll have to grind through solo THEN play with friends, which is stupid.

Is it a good game? Yeah. Should you play it? Probably, better with friends. Is it actually Halo Reach? Almost. If you aren't familiar with the game, you won't notice, but if you are coming for the exact same experience that Reach gave you almost a decade ago, you'll notice the difference, and it can be kind of off putting.

Expanding on the statement of "Is it actually Halo Reach", the premise of that question is kind of iffy, because if the game plays like Reach, it looks like Reach, and it sounds like Reach, then it's Halo Reach. But despite hitting all those key milestones for the port, the game reminds you that it's just that, a port. It's missing the finesse that was poured everywhere on the original game, and I'm not sure if it's just me being a sour dude who just wants the old Reach or if the game is actually missing a level of detail.

I enjoy the campaign but when I drop out, I'm met with this horrible menu interface, which seems so backwards when the Reach menu worked fine originally. I'll play multiplayer but the menus are still ♥♥♥♥ and I'll miss all the old loading screens with the cosmetics that were originally bought with credits are now some grind incentive (not that they weren't before, but the season points (?) aren't very rewarding or intuitive) and kind of foreboding calling it seasons. Halo Reach itself is just a subsection of this entity called MCC, and is just some sub-menu for 5 other games that don't even exist yet. It's like I want to just play Reach, and this game is constantly reminding me that I'm playing some port.

I feel like I'm nitpicking, because the game is fun, and it reminds me of when I used to play Halo Reach so long ago, but it is not the same, and maybe it's my fault for expecting that specific thing. So I dunno.

Do whatever you want, I dunno. It's your money. 7/10 will play with friends, found my old xbox friends too, which is cool.

Pretty fun. Pacing yourself with the content is pretty important right now, as rushing through and doing everything can leave you burned out really quickly, especially given how far the updates are spaced out.