The handling of the story was completely awful. No explanation within the game as to why these Covenant are there. Cortana's rampancy was really just her going bzzzt gzzztt a few times per stage and had NO EFFECT whatsoever in how she operated. She went through the whole game without messing up even ONCE, she got EVERYTHING right. There was even a scene where she fries a bunch of circuits in the Infinity and NO ONE DOES ANYTHING about it. And on top of all of that she uses her rampancy as a benefit to attack the Didact. So this whole boo hoo about Cortana going nuts was NOT represented in the game properly at all. The crew of the Infinity was the definition of stock characters, i mean... they didnt even deviate at all from how they were supposed to behave, they didnt have any extra little spice to show a bit of uniqueness. Del Rio was the dumbass captain that just disagreed with everything anyone said which made Lasky, of course, the commander that was the total opposite. If it wasn't for the live action series Lasky would be as forgettable as anyone else. Oh and Palmer..Palmer is just not impressed. Some one make a meme about that. The worst is the fact that the WHOLE Didact story is told through the terminals that you have to search around for. 343 basically doesn't really know how to balance out how much was needed to be told in the game story and just simply cut everything in half. The story of this new Covenant comes from the books, the story of Lasky comes from the live series, the Didact you have to search around which isn't that bad but it means you have to go the extra mile for needed info. The Terminals should be for bonus info not required info. And I guess the building up of Palmer is coming through Spartan Ops which is fine because is not like she did anything in the main story. People shouldn't be going around searching to find out what actually happened after playing the game, people should be going around searching for additional info because the story in the game was so awesome you just want more.