I beat it for the second time tonight. I did this for 2 reasons. 1) because I'm trying to figure out which campaign of the halo titles is my favorite. And 2) because even today still some people swear it's bad. And after beating it again I'm still wondering why it's "bad?" The 2 major problems people usually bring up is cortana's death and the domain not being destroyed. For one the only reason we thought the domain was destroyed is because the grave mind told the librarian it would be. The grave mind could have lied. I mean they -blam!- people's Brains for a living. The domain could have been out of range at the time of the firing. Or in a slip space bubble similar to the didact's cryptum. As for cortana's death that's also explainable. She put herself into the composers systems. The composer is forrunner tech (technically precursor but that's besides the point). Forrunners transfer information via slip space. She could have learned of the domain then. And even left the composer before it was destroyed via the chief. And we know that once warden eternal sensed her he helped her. So he could have taken her to the domain or led her there. Her still existing doesn't take back te emotional development that happened in 4. And it doesn't cheapen or lessen the impact. Some other complaints I hear was jul's death was in a cutscene and not a proper boss fight. Ill admit to that one as well. The guy who was giving arbiter so much trouble just tossed aside easily. Then there is blue team being with chief out of nowhere. I can kind of see that. But on the other hand halo 5 doesn't take place right after halo 4. If I remember right it's been a few months. Chief could have easily looked them up and re joined. It might even be explained how in the books. So while yes it could have been written better its not even really a big deal. There's Halsey and everybody seemingly knowing cortana's is alive but neither chief nor Osiris knew initially. Halsey knew first. Considering jul had her poking around in forrunner tech for awhile it's entirely possible she saw evidence of her existence in the system. Halsey explains it to infinity. Chief and Osiris learn from infinity. Boom. How about the complaints that blue team and Osiris members hardly talk outside of key points? Frankly I don't get this issue. Osiris has a lot of banter as is providing your not blowing through levels insanely quickly. And we do learn a bit about vale and tanaka. Blue team I wouldn't expect random banter. They are not the type to do so. I mean it would be cool to hear about their past as if they were reliving memories. But it wouldn't fit. The focus on the mission. Not to mention every AI we've ever had stick by us through most of campaign barely talked to begin with. Lastly we get to the small number of blue team missions. People wanted to play chief and see more of blue team. I get that. I would to. But this game was about introducing Osiris. The marketing about chief versus locke is the only other major complaint I can agree with. But I don't believe that hurts the story directly. Just IMO. Level design and gameplay were on point. Only qualms were the stand around and hear me talk missions and having to fight 3 warden eternals at once. Otherwise it was great. Level design was on point. Promethean's were fun to fight this time around. So I guess please explain to me (especially if your a lore nut) what's so bad about 5's story.