I’ve not watched the Halo tv present on Paramount+, so I’ve no opinions on it. Former Halo artwork director Marcus Lehto has seen it, nevertheless, and he does have opinions—and he hasn’t been shy about sharing them on Twitter.
Lehto was with Bungie from the early days, credited for graphics and paintings on Delusion: The Fallen Lords earlier than changing into artwork director on Halo: Fight Developed, a task he held by Halo 2 and three. He then served as inventive director on Halo: Attain, the final Halo recreation to be developed by Bungie, earlier than leaving the studio in 2012.
It is truthful to say that historical past entitles him to some ideas concerning the Halo TV sequence, and he is been sharing a couple of of them on Twitter. “I am nonetheless getting by the sequence. Plenty of blended feelings and opinions!” he stated final weekend, when a follower first requested him about it.
That opinion appeared to harden a few days later, although. “I am undecided the place the inspiration for the present comes from now,” he tweeted throughout a dialog with followers. “Not the Halo I made.” In response to a different fan, he shortly clarified the purpose: “The Halo I helped make.”
Yeah, I’m undecided the place the inspiration for the present comes from now. Not the Halo I made.May 16, 2022
It sounds fairly harsh, however Lehto later famous that he wasn’t implying criticism, simply change. “For readability, I by no means stated I did not prefer it,” he tweeted afterward. “It is simply so completely different than the Halo I helped make—it is like a special universe.
“I really like a number of the battle scenes. Cool motion and a few nice VFX. Particularly, the plasma hit results in ep1 are spot on.”
I did not say I hate the present. Some elements are fascinating. Simply confused by lots of the selections that had been made which really feel fairly far exterior the core fiction I helped create.May 18, 2022
It isn’t too arduous to grasp Lehto’s perspective. He is one of many authentic main figures chargeable for the creation of Halo so he is certain to have deep connections to it, however he is additionally been away from the sequence for properly over a decade—Halo: Attain got here out in 2010. Issues have modified so much since then, and it is truthful for Lehto (or anybody, actually) to say that it is cool, nevertheless it ain’t my Halo.
(To be truthful, the Halo sequence did not precisely knock our socks off both, though chatter across the digital workplace suggests some have warmed to it. It is superb what a bit ass can do.)
When he is not speaking concerning the Halo TV sequence on Twitter, Lehto is heading up a brand new studio at Digital Arts, the place he is engaged on the Battlefield sequence.