13:03 Can we talk about how excited Fernando was to follow Chief into battle, compared to how scared he was at the start of the game? Amazing character growth.
He witnessed the Master Chief just do it again, seeing is believing. Chief went into a banished stronghold and fought the best the banished had to offer to rescue him.
I think it kinda shows the hope he inspires in others, as his relationship helps fernando grow as a person and become even happier because he doesnt feel helpless anymore
Personally I like this ending. because I honestly didn't want to fight Cortana. I love how she understood her mistakes and redeemed herself for it. Honestly made me tear up.
@@spidercrafter3088 at the end of the day she sacrificed herself, doesn’t really matter what she did in the past or what she deserves, same kinda situation with darth Vader
@@spidercrafter3088 She is like guilty spark, driven mad, and that SOB came back in 3 after you destroyed him in CE. I thought Mass Effect 3 had poor writing resulting in a dismal failure ending, here comes 343 with Halo infinite, hold my beer, gonna milk this cow like gears of war
I loved this game. I know a lot of people don’t like the humanizing of chief, but I love it. Cortanas last goodbye just hits hard, even if there are some blanks
Which is funny because if you look at Bungie interviews their original intent was for the player to put themselves in chiefs shoes and believe they were the ones plugging in cortana or saying badass one liners with Johnson, that’s why people don’t like it. Still the ❄️’s nowadays want chief to be some father figure or something
@Michael Kiely His a soldier fighting in the great culture war, the sjw's vs the anti-sjw's a true battle of legends. I suggest you just sit back and watch them tear each other apart.
@@renzmanzano4010 I’m just here for a good halo game. I liked infinite so I’m not complaining. The thing about sjw and Anti Sjw is they both don’t know how to have fun.
“This isn’t an end, it’s a chance to make amends to rectify mistakes and it starts here” beautifully said and it feels like it’s 343 admitted they were wrong and apologized promising to bring it back. I loved this game and I’m excited for the future.
I love the final goodbye with cortana I wish they kinda put flash backs of what they did in the past games as she said her goodbyes but i can’t complain it really shows cherish what you got and there’s no I in team
There’s going to be dlcs to fill in the small gaps we don’t understand fully, they gave us an idea of what exactly happened and i’m happy they did that it keeps the viewer and the lore community as a whole curious, interested and keep us theorizing
@@loganmoody5866 aw look guys a bungie keyboard warrior ur only saying this cause it’s 343 this storyline is great u probabably just skimmed through it and missed out on huge details not to mention we’re only in part 1 of the story so respectfully just leave the halo community if you really hate it that much
Y’know, the moment they said atriox was dead, me and my friend were like, “nah, I don’t believe that, this dude probably gonna show up at the very end.”
@@trooperodst6880 tbh I’m very happy. He’s a pretty sweet character and I think this was a bit of a joke at them killing halo 4’s big bad jul at the beginning of halo 5 as well permanently
The whole game has Redemption and Making Amends as a huge theme in many ways. You got Chief trying to make up for his failures. You got Fernando making up for his lack of fight by building up a newfound courage. And there's even an arc of Chief making amends to The Weapon after trying to delete her. Even the antagonists are trying to reform a broken ring.
Fighting through Sentinels and Banished, hearing all the whispers from Cortana and the memory echos, hit so damn hard. Hearing Keyes and the mention of Lord Hood was also pretty cool. But her goodbye, even after hearing it a second time, felt more real this time. I was fighting through the last mission and constantly having to put my controller down every time I heard previous lines of Cortana's dialogue. The nostalgia was just too much. I thoroughly enjoyed this game and can't wait for the story expansions.
One thing I love is the almost daughter father dynamic that the weapon and chief have. The weapon was brought into a crazy world that chief lives and had to learn how he works and how all this happens. She really grows even with her child like personality. And I feel like the ending was Cortana almost recognizing that she would be a better version of her. Saying that they had to learn from her as she walked away for the final time. Truly gone forever. Almost like the weapon is Cortana's daughter too. Her successor as she passes the torch to her. It was a really beautiful moment for both Cortana owning up to her mistakes and chief realizing that he does have to protect this child, the weapon with everything he has to make sure that she doesn't go rogue like Cortana. Beautiful emotion. And just a masterpiece, truly among the original trilogy in terms of story.
The Weapon isn't even really a true copy either: if that were the case, she would've been copied directly from Cortana herself. She's her own AI created by Halsey replicating the process that had originally created Cortana. THAT'S why she needed those cryobins in Shadows of Reach: they must've contained Halsey's remaining cloned brains from creating Cortana. She would've needed that in order to create the Weapon.
One detail I love is how Chief calls Esparza "Soldier". It lets you see how much he's grown. From a scared engineer that stole a pelican to a pilot, the reason Master chief was able to take down the banished.
He allowed it, I agree with that. But he's such a warrior due to his upbringing in the spartan 2 program he doesn't know how to show affection yet 😅 but he's almost there
it makes it even more interesting when you notice how the weapon and pilot are both rather jovial compared to him , which may or may not affect him down the line
@@conner4385 She never refers to herself as the Endless. I had the idea that it's just the flood. She wants everything the forerunners didn't. So I assume she wants to bring the flood back.
Chief - "you get to choose your name" The Weapon - "You sure?" Chief "Yes" The weapon - "Then I think I have the perfect one" The weapon - "Siri" Chief "RED FLAG!"
14:03 the very first time I played this and heard the halo 2 theme play, I was blown away with goosebumps and was filled with excitement knowing damn well that things are gonna get a whole lot more interesting! 🔥
Going through the stages of grief right now and I'm still in denial of Cortana's death. To grow up with her for 20 years and have her say goodbye just like that... It's gonna ba hard to replay the original trilogy, knowing what becomes of her.
Can’t believe no one is pointing out how Echo-216 hugs Chief in a reverse way of Johnson and the Elite in the CE Legendary ending. He puts his hand on his ass then moves it up to his back.
Fun fact about the name Esparza: his name is very similar to 2 peculiar spanish words/names: Esparta and Esperanza, both meaning Sparta and Hope respectively. Idk who thought of his name but that dude deserves a raise.
I just finished this story. Wow I had insane chills and a bit teary eyed from that cortana scene. I loved the weapon and chief’s chemistry as the story went. The gameplay with the missions was also amazing. And the open world aspect added so much I love it.
@@fotisthomos5939 probably back before the firing of the rings. If you look at the Legendary ending it will display the date and it was actually pretty far in the past where the Forerunners are still alive. You'll also get more context, but I'm excited to see how this goes
There something that confirms he went back in time? Im under the impression he went foward. A small thing backing this up would be chief jumping into that portal, ending up on the other side of the ring *3 days* later. If he really went back in time this story's gonna go off the rails real quick. I could buy the endless skipping thru time, it'd explain how they can "survive" a halo, but not outright time travel 🤣
@@mfspectacular that actually makes sense, as the harbinger “teleports” she’s just skipping time and the endless surviving the rings by skipping time. Going back in time is always bad news as it creates paradoxes and anything can go which usually don’t which doesn’t make sense in most cases. But maybe the endless are capable of going back in time since the isodidact says time cannot be allowed to be something they can control, which may imply going back and forth in time. I don’t mind if the time skips aren’t like years
Oh how i Love Halo. This for me was what Halo 5 should've been. It answered all my questions about Cortana and showed Chiefs emotional side. 100% loved it. Bring on story dlc please. I see Halo 7 is not coming anytime soon. So please more story dlc.
I was 5 when halo came out, and it was my first game ever. So sad to see cortana go ): big part of my childhood was playing halo and seeing chief and cortana together
This is perfect ending, story is so good damn, just finished the game and i love the story. Final good bye to cortana and chief got new child to protect included new friend pilot. This story is so good AF damn
@@fusingentree3928 Absolutely not, just because Cortana is “good” again doesn’t mean they fixed it. What, all of the sudden she’s just learned from her mistakes. Okay bud
@@skinfluithero4885 They did, she was always nice to John and like John said death changes us. Cortana already pased AI life because AI live 7 years cortana lived 8 and now its finaly gone. Story is so good and amazing
I somehow feel like I’ve played Halo 7. The story was great and well put together but it just felt like we’ve missed much of the story(yes its explained in-game via the logs and short videos). Halo 4 and 5 had its flaws but in my opinion the story was quite good, also they ended 5 with a cliffhanger of being the biggest enemy for the universe etc, and now starting in 6, Cortana is already dead,just felt like that book closed to quick for me. Just wish we could have played from 5 onwards. Nevertheless, well done to the team, it feels like a great game, well put together with amazing gameplay and a well put together story, just feels like 7 to me 😄
No, id rather not know anything more about 5 or expand on that dogshit game and its "story". Its a soft reboot that seperates itself from 5 and I'll take it.
I understand why they did that. People were so harsh on them for making Cortana evil (I didn’t like it like most people) 343 probably wanted to skip that whole part as soon as possible. That’s why they didn’t make a game where you had to fight an evil Cortana and gave her a ‘warm’ goodbye in Infinite. Good decision imo.
This game was clearly a way to reset the story in a better direction. Halo 4 actually had a good story, Halo 5's story was trash. 343 definitely recognized that 5 put the story in a bad spot and decided in Infinite to tie up (some) of the loose ends from 5. Leaves some questions open though--maybe these were answered by books and comics. First question is: where did the guardians go? Second question is: what happened to all of the AI? Third question is: So, what about the prometheans, are they just not going to be a faction anymore? Also, this wasn't clear to me, though maybe it was to others, why would Atriox want control of the ring? I get that it has secrets but did he want to fire it? I thought that would kill all life? I caveat this by saying I haven't been into the Halo lore for several years since adulting took over.
I think Atriox wanted to have the most powerful weapon ever known in his power but when Cortana destroyed his planet, it probably became even more about life actually. A lot of Brutes in the game talk about how much they miss their home planet. The only way to get their home planet back is to time travel. That is exactly what the Endless are capable of.
Halo is the ultimate Superweapon, and Zeta Halo has the Endless who have an odd connection to time. Atriox could use them to restore his home and then use the Halo to basically point a gun at the head of the universe.
Zeta Halo is special in more ways than one. One of these ways is that it is the last ring from the original 12 ring array . These Rings were larger (30km in diameter) and could not only fire omnidirectionally but also in a beam pattern(point and shoot) So with Zeta one could choose what to kill. And that is the least interesting thing about this ring. It has a much deeper history
That last 'Get Ready' keeps giving me goosebumps every time I watch this. No matter how many times I have played the campaign, I'll never skip this. Well done 343... perfectly perfect.
I've been rewatching the last echo of Cortana countless of times and it still hits hard. So hard that no matter how many times I come back to re-watch it, no matter how many times I can't stop watching it. It still bring me to tears that this is the last time we'll see Cortana even though may acted as the villainy from Halo 5 and in Infinite in how she destroyed the UNSC and also the universe. But also the A.I who stood with Master Chief from the start. Like what she said "Perfectly suited. Perfectly matched. Perfectly perfect.
Lol nah the story is pretty dumb. So is that dialogue. I can imagine in the writing room... "Perfectly suited... What else means the same thing? Matched? Okay kool... What else? Gee uhhh... Perfectly uhhhhhh perfect I guess? Sure write it in lol. Also lame to hear chief say crap he said from halo 2 like "I need a weapon" and "finish this fight". Fight is never finished is it? Of course not. Gotta wallet rape with the dlc lol.
At 6:01, when she goes, there is "something else here", you can hear the terror in her voice. It is amazing voice acting, and genuine terror that there is something else here that she cannot tackle. And right after, "Something's helping me...". There is apprehension, but genuine relief as well. And we find out in the legendary ending, what was helping her. This is an iconic moment.
If only we got the answers to the Ending hinting Offensive Bias, it sucks how only now that ai gets introduced into the games despite how significant its importance was in the story
@@I_dcd Have to wonder, what what Offensive's plan here, sending Chief a few weeks forward in time? He's a Contender, so it'd be very weird if he had missed at all due to time dilation.
Locke deserved better. The fans didn’t what him to get a second chance though cuz they got insecure and afraid he was gonna replace Chief so they bullied him out of the franchise.
This ending gives me ideas for plausible expansion campaign. This almost resembles Halo wars 2. This first one where you play as a marine protecting a base. The other is where you play atreox who is dealing with a small flood outbreak. As I said before, infant seems to mirror Halo wars 2.
Bringing back Cortana at all, let alone making her a villain, was a mistake. Halo 4’s send off for her was beautiful. What they did in this game was try to course correct, and fix those mistakes. *Edit: While I understand this game comes across as a little weird, and rushed at times due to the course correction, I'm hopeful that in the long run it gets the story back on track. Though I still want them to follow up on stuff like the Flood, the Forerunners, and our boy the Didact. 343 cannot just let such an interesting villain's story end in a damn tie-in comic.
Yeah the next Halo is gonna be primarily Flood, it has to be. Zeta Halo is like known for it’s flood infestation. Mendicant Bias and the Primordial are plotting their return, and Atriox might help out with that.
Did anyone else have the most annoying time taking out the final chieftain? was looping the room for ages chewing through all sorts of weapons before he finally died - heroic
@@GuyAfro3000 I fought him on legendary; it actually wasn’t too bad tbh, but that was after countless hours on other bosses and stress lmfao. The first half is difficult because he shoots at you, but when he switches to his grav hammer it honestly makes it easier. All I did was swing back and forth on each side with the grapple in the main room and just shot him from a distance. Did it in my 3rd try lol nah the two brute chieftains after you destroy the AAs took forever for me to kill. I kept getting blasted by the one with the cannon from a distance and then the other on the chopper would just snipe me with it lmfao.
I just finished this last night on Legendary. This ending brought such a flood of nostalgia to me, thinking back to all the years of me playing Halo and following the story since the CE days. Cortana’s final speech really hit me hard 😭😭😭😭
We all know chief was crying behind that mask because I know I would. Fighting together against covenants, floods, brutes, forerunners… since 2001. Them feels!
Cannot wait to finally smash Atriox’s face in… It was a very emotional campaign for me. Cortana wasn’t just am AI to me, to Chief. She was our friend… without her none of what we have accomplished playing as Master Chief would be possible. Nor without the Chief of course. I started this campaign with Halo Combat Evolved on PC. I was only a kid, maybe 12 or 13. I am 29 now. She meant a lot. Seeing go was hard. But sacrafices must be made for the greater good of humanity. John understood that very well.
I got my start with the PC port of Halo CE, too. Nothing quite hits as hard as watching her die in 4, but her goodbye here was a worthwhile sendoff to the last traces of her character, and it does a beautiful job of passing the torch to the Weapon.
One detail I really love: Earlier on, you see the cutscene of Halsey saying Cortana chose her own name. At the end here, you see Chief telling The Weapon she gets to choose her own name.
people saying she looks like kahn maykr from doom eternal, but can do a bit research that she was teased in halo 5. The mural paintings in the Enemy Lines mission.
Folk say it for different reasons (specifically, her way of talking, fighting, platforming area the fight is going on in, even her death (minus the yellow sphere inside her chest exploding in the air & some entity yelling "noooo!") And the next thing main character does is similar (both GTFO))
@@WhatIsLove170 haven't really bothered to play Halo 5 that much, so I can't tell you for sure. There are videos about it though (but again, doesn't change that the boss fight felt... All too familiar)
The one thing I want to know is... what happened to the guardians? Did the weapon sent a signal to make them self destruct. Is the created still active?
The whole purpose of Halo Infinite’s wonderful story teaches us that everyone makes mistakes, and later on, we learn from them and make better choices.
@@deaconthe3rd Probably angered at how easily his army accepted him as dead. But honestly I feel like he’s going to come back and take charge of the Banished again and end up taking control of the rings defenses. (Hopefully not prometheans)
It hits us all hard cause we all grew up NEEDING a cortana in our life and it just hurts to see she sacrificed herself for him we’re all master chief in our story I didn’t expect this ending at all and it made me cry 😭
I got one more idea of an extra level. It's actually set up as campaign forge. The master Chief captured and reprogrammed a special monitor. It is placed at a special human controlled outpost. It's mission is to set up the base for a plausable attack from the banished or so forth. There would even be a place where you choose the attacking enemy. From the banished, to the flood, the eternals, or invent your own faction. Like chief master (evil master Chief counterpart) leader of the csnu. Zombie Spartans (from the infection games). King Forkey, leader of the living forklifts. Or giant living dolls. Or gun shooting blocks (that you can change their shape in forge).
@@Rschont11 they plan on continuing the campaign with paid DLC instead of making sequels. So we could see the Spirit of Fire and red team in the future.
I think people are forgetting this game is getting campaign expansions for like the next ten years. Not to say they will be coming out frequently but it’s certainly not the end of this story
Esparza is the character you once met and never wanna lose in future games ! I’m surprised he hugged him 😂 I almost thought he was gonna grab his ass 😂
Personally speaking, I'm ok with this ending, Halo CE had something similar, with the ending being sort of like a "that's it?" moment. But as chief said "I think we're just getting started" and I can't fucking wait!
Yeah, I swear the hates gotta be people who haven’t even finished yet. It wasn’t perfect, but it was pretty good. Making a story as good as halo 2 isn’t as easy as pressing a button
With Epitaph revealing that Cortana had the Logic Plague from her time with the Gravemind, and that the Didact helped her overcome it and redeem herself, this is such a better ending.
13:03 Can we talk about how excited Fernando was to follow Chief into battle, compared to how scared he was at the start of the game? Amazing character growth.
He witnessed the Master Chief just do it again, seeing is believing. Chief went into a banished stronghold and fought the best the banished had to offer to rescue him.
It's beautiful
@@HughMyron372 remember how Halo 3 was all about believing?? Fernando Believed
Chief > Family
I think it kinda shows the hope he inspires in others, as his relationship helps fernando grow as a person and become even happier because he doesnt feel helpless anymore
Personally I like this ending. because I honestly didn't want to fight Cortana. I love how she understood her mistakes and redeemed herself for it. Honestly made me tear up.
yeah lets pretend that kill count don't exist
@@spidercrafter3088 at the end of the day she sacrificed herself, doesn’t really matter what she did in the past or what she deserves, same kinda situation with darth Vader
@@spidercrafter3088 She is like guilty spark, driven mad, and that SOB came back in 3 after you destroyed him in CE. I thought Mass Effect 3 had poor writing resulting in a dismal failure ending, here comes 343 with Halo infinite, hold my beer, gonna milk this cow like gears of war
@@Maples01 halo infinite was great
@@RTembers41 Bet you love Disney's star wars too!
I loved this game. I know a lot of people don’t like the humanizing of chief, but I love it. Cortanas last goodbye just hits hard, even if there are some blanks
Which is funny because if you look at Bungie interviews their original intent was for the player to put themselves in chiefs shoes and believe they were the ones plugging in cortana or saying badass one liners with Johnson, that’s why people don’t like it. Still the ❄️’s nowadays want chief to be some father figure or something
@Michael Kiely His a soldier fighting in the great culture war, the sjw's vs the anti-sjw's a true battle of legends. I suggest you just sit back and watch them tear each other apart.
@@cujo1882 wtf you talking about?💀
@@renzmanzano4010 I’m just here for a good halo game. I liked infinite so I’m not complaining. The thing about sjw and Anti Sjw is they both don’t know how to have fun.
The humanizing of chief is one of the best things this game has.
“This isn’t an end, it’s a chance to make amends to rectify mistakes and it starts here” beautifully said and it feels like it’s 343 admitted they were wrong and apologized promising to bring it back. I loved this game and I’m excited for the future.
*COUGH* brian reed *COUGH COUGH*
Honestly, this feels like a wonderful continuation of Halo 4 while still acknowledging the good parts of 5
@@RetrovexOfficial ? What's he gotta do with this?
@@FEDERAL.BREAD.INCORPORATED if it wasnt for his terrible writing they wouldnt have to be rectifying any mistakes xd
@@RetrovexOfficial That's fair. Though, I did like halo 5s campaign. Not so much the story but the brainless run and gun aspects.
Beginning of the game “I need a weapon”
End of the game “Finish the fight”
This game had so many homages to Halo 2 it’s great.
and "The Last Spartan" OST vibes...
Infinite's version gave back so many memories...
It’s called nostalgia feeding. Making you believe this crap is connected to original story
Halo 2 is the greatest Halo ever made imo
@@flipyapd2321definitely
I envy that pilot so much hugging Master chief
I'd hug master chief too for being a badass
and the fact that master chief didn't know how to react made this more wholesome.
You can even see chief opens his arms for the hug and then hesitates to embrace it. He's human side showed a little :(
I want a chief hug 🥺🤗
12:47
People are talking about how sad it was to say goodbye to Cortana, yet no one's mentioning how she casually glassed Sydney and blew up a planet.
Yeah man I’m in Sydney, don’t glass Sydney Cortana… Glass Perth or Melbourne 😂
And killed a ton of UNSC personnel, directly and indirectly (including probably Buck and the rest of Alpha Nine, Locke, etc)
Well it WAS just the Brute homeworld so...🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
@@Xxbeto22547xX Locke is mentioned to be somewhere else in the Audio Logs. Blue Team too
@@WarGrowlmon18 brutes aren’t all bad, a planets a planet. Still really fucked. You can see even chief was shocked
I love the final goodbye with cortana I wish they kinda put flash backs of what they did in the past games as she said her goodbyes but i can’t complain it really shows cherish what you got and there’s no I in team
Same man
There’s going to be dlcs to fill in the small gaps we don’t understand fully, they gave us an idea of what exactly happened and i’m happy they did that it keeps the viewer and the lore community as a whole curious, interested and keep us theorizing
Same man if they had put flash backs I would have cried more but this is a sad love story yet very enfuring
Are you kidding me? This is the worst storyline ever still lmao
@@loganmoody5866 aw look guys a bungie keyboard warrior ur only saying this cause it’s 343 this storyline is great u probabably just skimmed through it and missed out on huge details not to mention we’re only in part 1 of the story so respectfully just leave the halo community if you really hate it that much
Y’know, the moment they said atriox was dead, me and my friend were like, “nah, I don’t believe that, this dude probably gonna show up at the very end.”
That sob is still alive?
@@trooperodst6880 He's the dude at the very end of this video
@@trooperodst6880 tbh I’m very happy. He’s a pretty sweet character and I think this was a bit of a joke at them killing halo 4’s big bad jul at the beginning of halo 5 as well permanently
@@keeleyhoekbut doesn’t he look different tho?
@@CHAINSAWMAN13333 he doesn't have his face paint anymore but still the same guy
I loves that little detail behind John's helmet, when echo talks turns green, when the weapon talks turns blue
Even in game when I picked up a turret I noticed they included that detail. Then again the game cutscenes run throw in game.
Who's joh
Yeah I noticed that too the first time I've picked up a heavy weapon
@@bxsdyycajun129 oh god
Im glad someone noticed
Atriox is a fucking madlad. He survived so many things even from an explosion.
Yet Diadact fell off a bridge at the end of Halo 4 and never resurfaced.
@@517Spidy sad times, he could've been more instead of being offed in comics
@@Flatter_Sine I wasn’t even aware he was brought back in comics always assumed he was meant to die from falling off that light bridge.
@@517SpidyThank God Atriox didn't end up like him
@@Flatter_Sine yeah Halo 4 was the last I played
Who else felt like cortana's speech was also a nod to halo 5 campaign being a mistake, and how infinite is correcting it.
for both of those choice are a mistake
There were some moments in the campaign where it felt like a 4th wall break or something like that.
@@xghostx9715
yeah
The whole game has Redemption and Making Amends as a huge theme in many ways. You got Chief trying to make up for his failures. You got Fernando making up for his lack of fight by building up a newfound courage. And there's even an arc of Chief making amends to The Weapon after trying to delete her. Even the antagonists are trying to reform a broken ring.
Cortana was talking to us, well actually...343 talking to us.
Fighting through Sentinels and Banished, hearing all the whispers from Cortana and the memory echos, hit so damn hard. Hearing Keyes and the mention of Lord Hood was also pretty cool. But her goodbye, even after hearing it a second time, felt more real this time.
I was fighting through the last mission and constantly having to put my controller down every time I heard previous lines of Cortana's dialogue. The nostalgia was just too much. I thoroughly enjoyed this game and can't wait for the story expansions.
I wasn't that into it but ight.
@@theslavemotivator3571 one size doesn’t fit all! Curious as to why you wanted to share your disagreement on their comment?
It’s not that deep
@@kingwarden8888 not for you! It’s good to remember that other people feel differently than you. And that is okay :)
@@theslavemotivator3571 fr tho
Biggest gripe- she called him Master Chief and not John in her final message
yeah 343 should make up for it by adding in a 30-minute sexy time scene with The Weapon and Master Chief- it’s only fair!
@@DrunkGnu No.
@@CommunityFan
I’ll settle for you.
@@CommunityFan Bend over, you will do the trick
It's her calling back to when they first met. That's why she says it instead. "I chose well Master Chief".
Cortana's goodbye. It's everything. It's a message to Chief. It's a message to us.
not really . shes still on everyones laptop muted .
@@keon200 I love your sense of humor hahahha
Hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣
Sorry but no it ruined it. You can't have Halo with out cortana or masterchief
@@swspartanhwk well weapon about to name herself Cortana sooo technically she back
This was a legitimately tough fight on Heroic. To those who beat it on Legendary, I salute you.
Took me a couple tries
Legendary was no joke. Alot of frustration and wtf was that moments lol
I just beat it on heroic, the bosses were so hard😩
I raged a few times, I beaten all the games on legendary but I don't think I'm quite ready to take this game on legendary yet 😂
I just finished it on Legendary. Believe me, it was legendary hahah it took me an entire hour the last boss.
One thing I love is the almost daughter father dynamic that the weapon and chief have. The weapon was brought into a crazy world that chief lives and had to learn how he works and how all this happens. She really grows even with her child like personality. And I feel like the ending was Cortana almost recognizing that she would be a better version of her. Saying that they had to learn from her as she walked away for the final time. Truly gone forever. Almost like the weapon is Cortana's daughter too. Her successor as she passes the torch to her. It was a really beautiful moment for both Cortana owning up to her mistakes and chief realizing that he does have to protect this child, the weapon with everything he has to make sure that she doesn't go rogue like Cortana. Beautiful emotion. And just a masterpiece, truly among the original trilogy in terms of story.
If only this statement were actually true.. lol.
The Weapon isn't even really a true copy either: if that were the case, she would've been copied directly from Cortana herself. She's her own AI created by Halsey replicating the process that had originally created Cortana. THAT'S why she needed those cryobins in Shadows of Reach: they must've contained Halsey's remaining cloned brains from creating Cortana. She would've needed that in order to create the Weapon.
...And then you woke up....
One detail I love is how Chief calls Esparza "Soldier". It lets you see how much he's grown. From a scared engineer that stole a pelican to a pilot, the reason Master chief was able to take down the banished.
im glad the pilot survived the whole story
Yeah... the first pilot to have survived a game :D...
@@rogueninja4719 lol ye
@@rogueninja4719 And what makes it funny, he isn't even a soldier lol
Are pilots not technically soldiers??
@@Red_MOON187 He's not a pilot, he's an engineer, well a civillian volunteer to be precise, he even stole that pelican
I mean atriox wasnt wrong. His face was indeed the last thing we saw
Brilliant point.
Stop saying that, the last time some character said that he ended dead, I mean the Arbiter from HW
@@HwangInhoBooNam Thel Vadam ain't dead.
@@MCJohn-117 I said the Arbiter from Halo Wars, not from Halo 3
@@HwangInhoBooNam Okay but the current arbiter is Thel, so no point discussing the previous ones is there?
Bro the fact chief nearly hugged him back.. he raised his arms to allow the hug.
He allowed it, I agree with that. But he's such a warrior due to his upbringing in the spartan 2 program he doesn't know how to show affection yet 😅 but he's almost there
@@FierceLegendZ I think if Chief were to hug him, the poor guy would become red paste...
it makes it even more interesting when you notice how the weapon and pilot are both rather jovial compared to him , which may or may not affect him down the line
2:42 That line was delivered so well.
Ah lordie! She finna kick my ass!
If im correct
She is possibly a precursor
@@Skulldude-yj9kg She's a endless.
Which seems to be a whole new species, seeing how she has a very insect like biology.
@@conner4385 oh okay
@@conner4385 She never refers to herself as the Endless. I had the idea that it's just the flood. She wants everything the forerunners didn't. So I assume she wants to bring the flood back.
Chief - "you get to choose your name"
The Weapon - "You sure?"
Chief "Yes"
The weapon - "Then I think I have the perfect one"
The weapon - "Siri"
Chief "RED FLAG!"
Bruh.
This ain’t it bro
SAMUEL 034
Siri, top legend
I'm thinking a good name would be "Echo", given how she and the Chief were with Fernando a.k.a. Echo-216, and she's a copy (or echo) of Cortana.
14:03 the very first time I played this and heard the halo 2 theme play, I was blown away with goosebumps and was filled with excitement knowing damn well that things are gonna get a whole lot more interesting! 🔥
I was not expecting that last song (when they're about to take off), they haven't used that since Halo 2.
As soon as I heard it I literally freaked out and got chills
It put a big fuckin smile on my face when I heard it again :')
Going through the stages of grief right now and I'm still in denial of Cortana's death. To grow up with her for 20 years and have her say goodbye just like that... It's gonna ba hard to replay the original trilogy, knowing what becomes of her.
i can already see the tears that would be forming in John's eyes behind that helmet
Can’t believe no one is pointing out how Echo-216 hugs Chief in a reverse way of Johnson and the Elite in the CE Legendary ending. He puts his hand on his ass then moves it up to his back.
HAHAHA
The legacy of the butt grab continues.
I was searching for this comment lol
Fun fact about the name Esparza: his name is very similar to 2 peculiar spanish words/names: Esparta and Esperanza, both meaning Sparta and Hope respectively. Idk who thought of his name but that dude deserves a raise.
the voice actor named him based off two of his friends
@@SteampunkCreeper then that was a pretty good coincidence
Sounds like octain from Apex legends
@@giannicolamatteo8155 it's the same voice actor
Halo is big on names having meaning
14:02 the song that plays into the Og halo 2 theme really is beautiful. Amazing campaign. Multiplayer could be better lol
@Mastnaer Ceef I strongly agree with that, now we got kids potentially going to take it over
Esparza: What do I call you?
Weapon: Oh I think I might have the perfect name!
Esparza: *completely ignores her and doesn't follow up*
I just finished this story. Wow I had insane chills and a bit teary eyed from that cortana scene. I loved the weapon and chief’s chemistry as the story went. The gameplay with the missions was also amazing. And the open world aspect added so much I love it.
I love that Halo 2 sounding ending music, chills
I had a HUGE smile on my face hearing thar again when I bear the game.
I love when a game you waited 6 years for ends on a cliffhanger. Won’t care in 6 more years. Good job team.
*8 more years. No new standalone games till next decade
@Shane Jewula excuses
Just like Gears 4 and 5
They literally confirmed a while back (a good while back...) This will be expanded on over the next few years with story expansions
@@nighttimestalker But for people invested in the story as you would with any trilogy this sucks.
Every boss fight in this game felt great honestly. This campaign blew my expectations out of the water.
So Harbinger was talking to Atriox. He went back in time. This is why everyone thinks he died
The question is how much back he went?
@@fotisthomos5939 probably back before the firing of the rings. If you look at the Legendary ending it will display the date and it was actually pretty far in the past where the Forerunners are still alive. You'll also get more context, but I'm excited to see how this goes
There something that confirms he went back in time? Im under the impression he went foward. A small thing backing this up would be chief jumping into that portal, ending up on the other side of the ring *3 days* later. If he really went back in time this story's gonna go off the rails real quick. I could buy the endless skipping thru time, it'd explain how they can "survive" a halo, but not outright time travel 🤣
@@mfspectacular that actually makes sense, as the harbinger “teleports” she’s just skipping time and the endless surviving the rings by skipping time. Going back in time is always bad news as it creates paradoxes and anything can go which usually don’t which doesn’t make sense in most cases. But maybe the endless are capable of going back in time since the isodidact says time cannot be allowed to be something they can control, which may imply going back and forth in time. I don’t mind if the time skips aren’t like years
@Rikki I feel like that he must have went back to the past to get the Endless free.
14:00 … fucking chills. Halo rules, now and forever.
The Weapon has some balls to adopt the name of a galactic genocidal dictator lol.
Nonexistent balls*
@@fulcrum6760 huge, massive balls
When did she do that? Lol. Never. She didn’t say her name 😂
@@timestampterry5415 Massive nonexistent balls*
@@fulcrum6760 Maybe Halsey is into futa. You kink shaming bigot! /s
Oh how i Love Halo. This for me was what Halo 5 should've been. It answered all my questions about Cortana and showed Chiefs emotional side. 100% loved it. Bring on story dlc please. I see Halo 7 is not coming anytime soon. So please more story dlc.
Nostalgia just hits hard... Great game, hope to see the future of John and the weapon.
Oh and don't forget Esparza
15:00 that music is just phenomenal. 343 redeemed themselves! Well done everyone at 343
does anyone know what song that is on the OST?
@@STRYKER007SQUAD Yeah that’s what I’m wondering
@Last Arbiter Thank you very much!
That music really is amazing
I was 5 when halo came out, and it was my first game ever. So sad to see cortana go ): big part of my childhood was playing halo and seeing chief and cortana together
Especially as you watch your favorite character develop and see new dynamics of combat he experiences
Wait i thought halo ce came out in 2001, not 1737???!!!
@@The_MAD_IT_LAD you thought wrong my boy
Damn, i didn't even know this game was out yet and you already finished it?
Damn homie 😂
They get early copies
@@Hartford860 it just released
@@omniscientbarebones Content creators received review copies of the game a few weeks early
Pre order gives bonus aswell...
@@omniscientbarebones content creators get copies weeks early to play and review it
This is perfect ending, story is so good damn, just finished the game and i love the story. Final good bye to cortana and chief got new child to protect included new friend pilot. This story is so good AF damn
Nah man they screwed up Cortana’s character big time.
@@skinfluithero4885 In 5 but they fixed in infinite.
@@fusingentree3928 Absolutely not, just because Cortana is “good” again doesn’t mean they fixed it. What, all of the sudden she’s just learned from her mistakes. Okay bud
@@skinfluithero4885 They did, she was always nice to John and like John said death changes us. Cortana already pased AI life because AI live 7 years cortana lived 8 and now its finaly gone. Story is so good and amazing
@@fusingentree3928 The story suffered when 343 took over. I’m glad you liked it but I can’t stand it
Halo 4 5 and infinite... the games where chief realised he's not just a spartan, but a human too ❤
Just beat Infinite and damn was it good. at the end Chief almost hugged 216
I noticed that. Quickly snapped his hand to his side after 😂
I somehow feel like I’ve played Halo 7.
The story was great and well put together but it just felt like we’ve missed much of the story(yes its explained in-game via the logs and short videos).
Halo 4 and 5 had its flaws but in my opinion the story was quite good, also they ended 5 with a cliffhanger of being the biggest enemy for the universe etc, and now starting in 6, Cortana is already dead,just felt like that book closed to quick for me. Just wish we could have played from 5 onwards.
Nevertheless, well done to the team, it feels like a great game, well put together with amazing gameplay and a well put together story, just feels like 7 to me 😄
No, id rather not know anything more about 5 or expand on that dogshit game and its "story". Its a soft reboot that seperates itself from 5 and I'll take it.
If anything, you'll probably learn more with the logs that are in the game
I'd love to have a mission where we go back to Reach after all these years to retrieve Weapon, just like the logs portrayed.
I understand why they did that. People were so harsh on them for making Cortana evil (I didn’t like it like most people) 343 probably wanted to skip that whole part as soon as possible. That’s why they didn’t make a game where you had to fight an evil Cortana and gave her a ‘warm’ goodbye in Infinite. Good decision imo.
@@J-Kersting they did it on the book shadows of reach
This game was clearly a way to reset the story in a better direction. Halo 4 actually had a good story, Halo 5's story was trash. 343 definitely recognized that 5 put the story in a bad spot and decided in Infinite to tie up (some) of the loose ends from 5. Leaves some questions open though--maybe these were answered by books and comics. First question is: where did the guardians go? Second question is: what happened to all of the AI? Third question is: So, what about the prometheans, are they just not going to be a faction anymore? Also, this wasn't clear to me, though maybe it was to others, why would Atriox want control of the ring? I get that it has secrets but did he want to fire it? I thought that would kill all life? I caveat this by saying I haven't been into the Halo lore for several years since adulting took over.
I think Atriox wanted to have the most powerful weapon ever known in his power but when Cortana destroyed his planet, it probably became even more about life actually. A lot of Brutes in the game talk about how much they miss their home planet. The only way to get their home planet back is to time travel. That is exactly what the Endless are capable of.
He wants to fire the ring near Earth, probably that is his main reason
Halo is the ultimate Superweapon, and Zeta Halo has the Endless who have an odd connection to time. Atriox could use them to restore his home and then use the Halo to basically point a gun at the head of the universe.
Zeta Halo is special in more ways than one.
One of these ways is that it is the last ring from the original 12 ring array . These Rings were larger (30km in diameter) and could not only fire omnidirectionally but also in a beam pattern(point and shoot)
So with Zeta one could choose what to kill.
And that is the least interesting thing about this ring.
It has a much deeper history
@@OyasumiBlerd Wait time travel?
14:01 literally when that Halo 2 ending music kicked in I got so fucking pumped
Bro I started screaming when I heard it.
this ending is bassicly choo choo charles ending because it lets see what multiplayer is gonna be
That last 'Get Ready' keeps giving me goosebumps every time I watch this. No matter how many times I have played the campaign, I'll never skip this. Well done 343... perfectly perfect.
13:03 that single line brought me back to 2007
You mean 2004. He said that the first time at the end of Halo 2
I've been rewatching the last echo of Cortana countless of times and it still hits hard. So hard that no matter how many times I come back to re-watch it, no matter how many times I can't stop watching it. It still bring me to tears that this is the last time we'll see Cortana even though may acted as the villainy from Halo 5 and in Infinite in how she destroyed the UNSC and also the universe. But also the A.I who stood with Master Chief from the start. Like what she said "Perfectly suited. Perfectly matched. Perfectly perfect.
Lol nah the story is pretty dumb. So is that dialogue. I can imagine in the writing room...
"Perfectly suited... What else means the same thing? Matched? Okay kool... What else? Gee uhhh... Perfectly uhhhhhh perfect I guess? Sure write it in lol.
Also lame to hear chief say crap he said from halo 2 like "I need a weapon" and "finish this fight". Fight is never finished is it? Of course not. Gotta wallet rape with the dlc lol.
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Lol I see you crying on every sub comment hater go cry on your pillow some more lil girl 👧
@@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342 Keep crying because your wasting your time
@@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342 cringe name
At 6:01, when she goes, there is "something else here", you can hear the terror in her voice. It is amazing voice acting, and genuine terror that there is something else here that she cannot tackle. And right after, "Something's helping me...". There is apprehension, but genuine relief as well. And we find out in the legendary ending, what was helping her. This is an iconic moment.
If only we got the answers to the Ending hinting Offensive Bias, it sucks how only now that ai gets introduced into the games despite how significant its importance was in the story
@@I_dcd Have to wonder, what what Offensive's plan here, sending Chief a few weeks forward in time? He's a Contender, so it'd be very weird if he had missed at all due to time dilation.
i really loved this fuckin game, felt like halo again, thank you 343 you guys really redeemed yourselves, felt like a bungi halo game.
That halo 2 music gave me chills
When I heard the theme in the start of the final battle I got chills, literal chills.
My boy Fernando had more character development in 1 game than Locke did in 2 and several shorts.
Locke deserved better. The fans didn’t what him to get a second chance though cuz they got insecure and afraid he was gonna replace Chief so they bullied him out of the franchise.
This ending gives me ideas for plausible expansion campaign. This almost resembles Halo wars 2.
This first one where you play as a marine protecting a base.
The other is where you play atreox who is dealing with a small flood outbreak.
As I said before, infant seems to mirror Halo wars 2.
Yeah, it feels like that but a little more satisfying of an ending then halo wars 2
Playing as Atriox would be fucking nuts
We better get a scarab battle soon. The Banished Scarrabs are Flipping SICK!!
lol halo: infant
Disappointed tho that cortana diddnt have a huge role in this i was hoping she would be one of the cooler villains in this
Bringing back Cortana at all, let alone making her a villain, was a mistake. Halo 4’s send off for her was beautiful.
What they did in this game was try to course correct, and fix those mistakes.
*Edit: While I understand this game comes across as a little weird, and rushed at times due to the course correction, I'm hopeful that in the long run it gets the story back on track.
Though I still want them to follow up on stuff like the Flood, the Forerunners, and our boy the Didact. 343 cannot just let such an interesting villain's story end in a damn tie-in comic.
@@MrImastinker fax
@@MrImastinker that guys smoking crack for wanting that
@@MrImastinker He was actually a shit character. Worse than Cortana going evil in H5.
The primordial is rubbing his hands together waiting
Yeah the next Halo is gonna be primarily Flood, it has to be. Zeta Halo is like known for it’s flood infestation. Mendicant Bias and the Primordial are plotting their return, and Atriox might help out with that.
The metahumans are going to flood the seas with votes
@@Tazdingoyahahahahaha not Mendicant bias, he may appear but last I checked he wanted atonement, didn’t he help the Chief.
That last soundtrack man nostalgia 😢
Does anyone else cry when Cortana delivers her goodbye because I sure as hell did
I didn't cry but I got pretty emotional, 20 years of Halo hit me in just a few moments all at once.
Did anyone else have the most annoying time taking out the final chieftain? was looping the room for ages chewing through all sorts of weapons before he finally died - heroic
same here bro, i cannot fathom fighting him on legendary
@@GuyAfro3000 I fought him on legendary; it actually wasn’t too bad tbh, but that was after countless hours on other bosses and stress lmfao.
The first half is difficult because he shoots at you, but when he switches to his grav hammer it honestly makes it easier. All I did was swing back and forth on each side with the grapple in the main room and just shot him from a distance. Did it in my 3rd try lol
nah the two brute chieftains after you destroy the AAs took forever for me to kill. I kept getting blasted by the one with the cannon from a distance and then the other on the chopper would just snipe me with it lmfao.
@@Silverhand659 i’m sure one day i’ll build up the confidence to play in legendary
I just finished this last night on Legendary. This ending brought such a flood of nostalgia to me, thinking back to all the years of me playing Halo and following the story since the CE days. Cortana’s final speech really hit me hard 😭😭😭😭
12:48, I love how Chief was considering hugging him back for a second. Don't know why he didn't but it was wholesome!
I feel he's partially afraid to crush him
man's got a grip that could crush bones, he's probably trying to avoid flattening echo
@Texel76 wtf you mean "nop"
@@AntiCaesarReal nop means nop!😤
Her appearance went back to the Halo 2 cortana. It was nice seeing my childhood again for the last time.
We all know chief was crying behind that mask because I know I would. Fighting together against covenants, floods, brutes, forerunners… since 2001. Them feels!
After halo 3 I started to not like what halo has become but this halo was by far the most fun I've had such a great game.
Cannot wait to finally smash Atriox’s face in… It was a very emotional campaign for me. Cortana wasn’t just am AI to me, to Chief. She was our friend… without her none of what we have accomplished playing as Master Chief would be possible. Nor without the Chief of course. I started this campaign with Halo Combat Evolved on PC. I was only a kid, maybe 12 or 13. I am 29 now. She meant a lot. Seeing go was hard. But sacrafices must be made for the greater good of humanity. John understood that very well.
I got my start with the PC port of Halo CE, too. Nothing quite hits as hard as watching her die in 4, but her goodbye here was a worthwhile sendoff to the last traces of her character, and it does a beautiful job of passing the torch to the Weapon.
bruh the Cortana whispers hit hard
I almost thought it was the Khan Maykr that entered through the portal and how maybe we were going to get a Doom Slayer cross over lol
14:03 I like how They used a slowed version of the halo 2 ending music :)
So much nostalgia...
When chief held back on hugging back... it made me feel stuff
One detail I really love: Earlier on, you see the cutscene of Halsey saying Cortana chose her own name. At the end here, you see Chief telling The Weapon she gets to choose her own name.
people saying she looks like kahn maykr from doom eternal, but can do a bit research that she was teased in halo 5. The mural paintings in the Enemy Lines mission.
When?
@@WhatIsLove170 some maps in halo 5 had drawings on the wall that... (Kind of) reminded of a harbinger.
@@WackRusDud Which maps?
Folk say it for different reasons (specifically, her way of talking, fighting, platforming area the fight is going on in, even her death (minus the yellow sphere inside her chest exploding in the air & some entity yelling "noooo!") And the next thing main character does is similar (both GTFO))
@@WhatIsLove170 haven't really bothered to play Halo 5 that much, so I can't tell you for sure.
There are videos about it though (but again, doesn't change that the boss fight felt... All too familiar)
This Scene Is The Only Scene That Will Make Me Cry When I Remember It Again I'm So Sad 😞😭
Weapon: *Chooses Siri or Alexa as her name*
Chief: *Goes to find Del Rio to GiVe, HiM, tHaT, cHiP*
Good news is that we are probably getting a desert biome for the next dlc!!! Can't wait
Bring back chief armor wearing a cloak?
Wait what
14:02 Gotta love that The Last Spartan OST from Halo 2.
Just perfect
Atriox has to have the best mug shot in history, like that Monke is always angry.🤣
The one thing I want to know is... what happened to the guardians?
Did the weapon sent a signal to make them self destruct. Is the created still active?
I assume many of the created still are. The Guardians are probably without directives now though I'd assume.
I think Cortana must have destroyed/shut them down after she chose to destroy the ring.
The whole purpose of Halo Infinite’s wonderful story teaches us that everyone makes mistakes, and later on, we learn from them and make better choices.
Just like how 343 should learn from this game and not make the same mistakes
I lost my mind when cortona walked through him like that. I cried. No one understands Cortona unless you’re a true halo fan. We All Miss Cortona❤️
That's Atriox at the end, without the war paint isn't it?
Or hair it seems
Man’s has rebelled against his own rebellion
@@86Fallowcp or part of his face.
@@deaconthe3rd Probably angered at how easily his army accepted him as dead. But honestly I feel like he’s going to come back and take charge of the Banished again and end up taking control of the rings defenses. (Hopefully not prometheans)
Dude the game came out today
@DreSaidSo oh shit yeah they do don't they. Sorry had a brain fuck moment
Pacific time nibbas
@@Outkast-sv9es that's another reason
It hits us all hard cause we all grew up NEEDING a cortana in our life and it just hurts to see she sacrificed herself for him we’re all master chief in our story I didn’t expect this ending at all and it made me cry 😭
Echo-216 hugging chief made me smile for some reason
I swear that one Brute chieftain was harder than the boss fight itself
I got one more idea of an extra level. It's actually set up as campaign forge.
The master Chief captured and reprogrammed a special monitor. It is placed at a special human controlled outpost. It's mission is to set up the base for a plausable attack from the banished or so forth.
There would even be a place where you choose the attacking enemy. From the banished, to the flood, the eternals, or invent your own faction.
Like chief master (evil master Chief counterpart) leader of the csnu. Zombie Spartans (from the infection games). King Forkey, leader of the living forklifts. Or giant living dolls. Or gun shooting blocks (that you can change their shape in forge).
Anyone else here cause their game crashed at the final cutscene, and when it was rebooted it put you postgame immediately?
I was really hoping we would find the spirit of fire and Jerome and get some conclusion on Anders, but I guess that’s all for Halo Wars 3
@Mehdusa Thais wasn’t a joke though… I am serious. Really wished we got to see some Jerome
@@Rschont11 they plan on continuing the campaign with paid DLC instead of making sequels. So we could see the Spirit of Fire and red team in the future.
@@see.eye.2361 Yea I hope so, and the flood as well!
Wheres Blue Team?
@@edwinmoy1402 that too, would’ve loved to have them back in the story as well
I think people are forgetting this game is getting campaign expansions for like the next ten years. Not to say they will be coming out frequently but it’s certainly not the end of this story
I loved it I’m so excited to play this game 💖💖💖
Someone has too say it, there’s
343 haters, and then there’s Halo fans. There’s a difference…
I finally did it boys. I completed the campaign on legendary thru blood sweat and tears. This boss fight was definitely challenging
You sure it wasn't a fever dream?
It was just amazing to hear Master Chief say "Good work, soldier" and "We finish the fight"
Esparza is the character you once met and never wanna lose in future games ! I’m surprised he hugged him 😂 I almost thought he was gonna grab his ass 😂
Bro what??💀💀
Like Johnson in CE
Finally! A Halo final boss that's longer than 10 seconds!😁
Personally speaking, I'm ok with this ending, Halo CE had something similar, with the ending being sort of like a "that's it?" moment. But as chief said "I think we're just getting started" and I can't fucking wait!
Yeah, I swear the hates gotta be people who haven’t even finished yet. It wasn’t perfect, but it was pretty good. Making a story as good as halo 2 isn’t as easy as pressing a button
With Epitaph revealing that Cortana had the Logic Plague from her time with the Gravemind, and that the Didact helped her overcome it and redeem herself, this is such a better ending.