Bungie had a thing going for them when it came to them. The forerunners were meant to stay mysterious because pulling them off would be hard if you tried to keep that isolated and mysterious feel to it. 343 does something that really bugs me and that's adding too many things onto something. Take the promethean Knights for example. These guys have so much going on between the human arms dangling and the teeth and mouth and details that at that point it's not mysterious it's just a new enemy that you'll forget was even forerunner. 343 has a shithole of an art style. They tried to make halo their own thing by making elites look like shit unlike reachs elites. Same with grunts and spartan armour btw Reach spartan armour was the best. Point is, the mysterious stuff is gone because of 343.