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Crap, I got so caught up in New Years Decade, Assassin’s Creed II, Tropico 3 and whatnot that I completely forgot about this Halo Legends episode. Well, on the bright side, streaming it online gives me the chance to get some omgpics! So there’s something to make up for it, right?

Also, believe it or not, I’ve been anticipating this episode in particular. Why? I’ll explain 2 paragraphs below.

IN THE DARK REACHES OF SPACE!

After the events of Halo 3 (wherein (*ahem* Spoiler alert!(?)) the Master Chief and Cortana end up lost in deep space in a half-destroyed warship), Cortana finds herself with nothing better to do than to contemplate her virtual navel (and perhaps the Master Chief’s cryogenetically-frozen navel, as well). She claims that upon her creation, it took her 2 hours to absorb the data pertaining to all of human history, knowledge, and understanding. Well, thanks for being such a cocky cunt, Cortana. Maybe you should take up being a schoolteacher… Actually holy shit that should totally happen. A.I. teachers? No, not that! Cortana in a teacher’s–

I mean … Anyway, so this is when the flashbacks begin. Oh boy, the flashback of all flashbacks. The flashback that retells the entire Halo timeline, from 100,000 BC to 2553 AD. Not that this is a bad thing, as this episode can be compared to The Animatrix’s The Second Renaissance, and everybody knows that was the best short of the Animatrix anthology. But then again, most people watching these should already know the history, so you would think they make up for it in pretty cinematics and finally showing us a glimpse of what really happened back then, of Forerunner civilization, right? Right, so I won’t bother with a synopsis as there isn’t much to say. As I mentioned before, I’ll make it up to you with what everyone loves: Pretty pictures!

Cortana proves she was behind it all by showing us her All-Seeing Eye...

100,000 years ago, the Forerunners ruled the galaxy.
Until a bunch of extragalactic space zombies knocked on their door and, ahem, flooded their worlds and colonies.
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Oh, god dammit, Microsoft, stop changing which Saturdays you’re going to air these episodes on. I nearly missed it again, but it’s clearly their bad this time. As a “plus” (if you could call it that), the entire episode was uploaded, rather than part 2 only, which makes me reviewing this harder. Oh well, time to deliver.

… Pun intended.

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Incredibly shocking news to many, but no, I’m not going blind and the Anime category is there on purpose.

Microsoft is indeed making a Halo anime DVD for release early next year, recruiting five Japanese animation studios: Production I.G., Toei Animation, BONES, Casio Entertainment, and Studio 4°C. It’s being made in the same vein as the Animatrix, or Batman: Gotham Knight.

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All right, as promised, I’ve forsaken sleep and offline activities to watch the E3 conference live at 1 PM. In any case, I will type this as I see it, so please note that this will be mostly free-written and it may come off as very, very informal (or maybe even wrong). But who cares about formality, we’re not doing an essay here. We’re here to find out about our games, yo. Ladies and gentlemen, I present you… (continue reading…)