I bought a series X just to play this game. When I was playing it I was just in love with everything about it, but once I exited out of the honeymoon phase it all kinda just settled in. The gameplay is great but it doesn't carry the game enough for me, the open world is also cool but it has very little variety besides the forerunner levels which are few and far between. Master Chief is portrayed very well in this game, a far cry from halo 5. But there just aren't enough characters to really get me invested in the grand story and every character you do meet is either dead or dies in front of you. Past characters are no where to be seen (and are possibly dead but the game dose a terrible job of explaining what happend) and the evil ape is just a generic villain that pretends to be deep. Killing him gave me nowhere as near as much satisfaction as I did with Tarturus or any other villain. And the ending was just shit. It has good moments, heck it has very memorable moments, but unfortunately it just can't carry the game enough for me.

With the shit halo has been going through and the decline support for it. I'm kinda just done with it. The poorly executed story wasn't enough to keep me engaged and the multiplayer is a shitty battle pass shit show that requires 0% of my time. I won't be coming back to halo unless I hear that's it's good again.

Sorry if this review was all over the place it's midnight and I'm sleepy.