Video Essay: What Halo Reach Was Secretly All About

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  @RawLens3 · 1 year ago (edited) · pinned

  🔥 Halo Reach is officially turning 15 years old on September 14, 2025. &nbsp;<br><br>I made this video as both a story analysis <b>and</b> a reflection on why Bungie’s final Halo game still hits so hard all these years later. &nbsp;<br><br>Where were YOU when Halo Reach first launched? Do you remember your first time playing it, or the moment Noble Team’s story really hit you? &nbsp;<br><br>Drop your memories below — I’d love to hear how Reach has impacted you. 💬<br><br>Join my discord: <a href="https://discord.gg/eHZWFgbw3Q">https://discord.gg/eHZWFgbw3Q</a>

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• BA

  @BATTLEPUGMAN5 · 1 year ago

  Made me pull a sgt Johnson coughed out my cigar and say what when he said he was only 4 when Reach came out

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• DA

  @DarthMirasshtar · 1 year ago

  Late to the game or not, you&apos;re one of us, Spartan... and Spartans never die. Were it so easy...

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• MI

  @micheal8093 · 1 year ago

  There will never be another Halo that did what Reach did. This game is THE game of my childhood. I’ll never forget reach or its impact on my childhood.

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• RE

  @RepyonYT · 8 months ago

  The shot of 6 in the Pelican looking over a destroyed new alexandria? Tears bro. That “sorry I came alone.” <br>“Make him proud.” <br><br>Hits me like a truck bro smfh.

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• FE

  @FergiesGarden · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDnXlcTH8LM&amp;t=1780">29:40</a> that pause before “may got help us all” is so perfect, you can <b>feel</b> the dread washing over him as he processes what carter just said. what an amazing line delivery by that voice actor

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• RU

  @Rul3r77 · 1 year ago

  I clicked on this video thinking it was another high quality video essay from an established creator. There is honestly no easy way for me to fathom that you have less than 1000 subscribers. Please keep up this effort and I have no doubt you will become one of the best.

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• MA

  @MagnaGuy · 1 year ago

  I never will get tired of Reach and never will get tired of seeing video essays both new and old. I could see how much effort went into this video, both listening to it and watching it on two seperate occasions. I hope the YouTube&apos;s algorithm will give this video essay the views it deserves

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• DO

  @DoomieGruntVentures · 8 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDnXlcTH8LM&amp;t=2377">39:37</a> Caboose saying &quot;The Words Please&quot; lives rent-free in my head.

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• TO

  @toakovika · 1 year ago

  Sad Fact: The memorial to Noble Team set up after Reach’s rebuilding? Six wasn’t on the monument, because his being part of the team was never publicized/acknowledged after the war. Man didn’t even get a memorial. :(<br><br>But it was also to maintain the ambiguity of his appearance, as to not invalidate anyone’s custom appearance, even though canonically he was the default armor configuration.

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• SW

  @Swigester · 1 year ago

  I almost cried a few times watching this. Very impactful to come back and remember reach.

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• ZE

  @zekkyauditore3021 · 1 year ago

  Your video made me remember a detail about Reach: my mom hated videogames and hated me playing videogames, but she had a sole exception, she liked watching me play the campaign, particularly the first mission, because it&apos;s so beautiful. That&apos;s the kind of impact Reach can have.

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