Halo 5’s Winter Contingency
It’s apt that Halo 5: Guardian’s “Swords of Sanghelios” exhibits what may be the most vertical terrain of any mission in the series: 343 Industries, the new vanguard of the Halo property post-Reach, has an even steeper climb before them now than with the polarizing Halo 4.
Put aside the fact that Halo, reception aside, will always be ‘in the black’ (it’s essentially gospel, at this point); the franchise is still, in many ways, an unenviable inheritance. As a studio, 343 was not commissioned but lab-grown by Microsoft for the express purpose of shepherding Bunjie’s creation over the hills of a new console generation, and far away. No one said the task would be easy, but the property is of such renown that players are unlikely to go easy if at all crestfallen.
