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| The Fall of Reach vs. Halo: Reach *SP* | |
| Posted By: PhysshBone <kbpearce@hotmail.com> | Date: 9/18/10 9:45 p.m. |
In Response To: One More Thing (Hawaiian Pig) I'm not sure where I should post these thoughts, especially in this honeymoon time over Reach. But this thread seems to be for the underwhelmed. When Bungie announced the game Halo: Reach, I was pretty excited about the idea of seeing the fall of Reach depicted in a Halo game. But, when I saw the teaser trailer, I was worried. You see, I've read all the Halo books. And the comics. And watched Halo Legends. (Uber-nerd) And what I have noticed, is that as more and more non-game fictions gets involved, it is a lot harder to reconcile the various events in the various media with a single, Halo canon. We have been told, that Bungie has some kind of "Halo Bible" sitting around, in which all the backstory is laid out so that new fiction and new games will all fit into the overall story arch. And here we have the first true test: how are the events of the battle of Reach depicted in the book as opposed to the game. The event in the teaser trailer that worried me was Carter's transmission that "there are Spartans on the ground." And then it turns out that these are Spartan-III's. According to the book Ghosts of Onyx, which is basically about the Spartan-III program, that program was so secret that no one outisde of a very few high ranking ONI officers even know that it exists. On a planet outside of UNSC space. Secret and expendeble. And now we learn that not only are they traipsing all over Reach, but that everyone seems to know about the Spartan-III program and Noble team, excpet Dr. Halsey. Wow, for a genius, she seems kind of dense. And if I'm saying that about the originator of the Spartan program, we have cause to worry. But that is the smallest of the plot problems that occur with the release of Halo: Reach. The biggest of them all, is actually the final missions of the game. We have to collect Cortana and deliver he to the Pillar of Autumn as she gets ready for the mission that may just end the war. What is that mission? Guess you'll have to read the book. But here's the problem. Accoriding to the book Fall of Reach, Captain Keyes did not board the Pillar of Autumn while it was on the planet, but rather when it was in orbit. He took a shuttle and did a tour of the outside of the ship before he docked and was given a tour of the ship by one of his bridge officers. Then we learn that Cortana is already on the ship, and so are all of the Spartans. No one has to deliver Cortano to the PoA, and no Master Chief in stasis in a cut scene. After everything is set, the PoA and its merry crew start heading out-system on its very important mission. But as they are about to enter slipspace, they receive a priority transmission. The Covenant has arrived. Egad! Keyes and co. have to scrub the mission and head back to defend Reach. What a shock! How did they get here? Wait a minute...according to the game, Keyes just barely survived a firefight with the Covenant back on the planet. He and the PoA barely escaped the Covenant by the skin of their teeth. So he shouldn't be surprised. Everything else up to this point, I can almost force into the canon. Covenant scouts arriving ahead of the main invasion fleet. Even Jorge's appearance with the Spartan-III Noble team can be explained by a line from Halsey's diary from the Limited/Legendary edition (she lied to all the other Spartans). But I cannot reconcile the ending of the game with the story from the novel. They're not slighlty different, they are completely divergent, as if from alternate realities. Halsey's diary is a great read. If you didn't get it, borrow it from someone. The ironic thing about the diary is that it ties into the novel Fall of Reach so well. References to the Keyes loop. Who Miranda Keyes' mother is. All that. And yet the game itself is so completely divergent. (am I repeating myself?) Sorry about the vent, and maybe I'm wrong about the whole thing. Maybe someone can help explain it all to me so that it makes sense. But I kind of doubt it.
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