On top of all that, every single level in Halo 2 has something that will make you want to rip your hair out. While Halo 2 can be a made tad easier with another player, if anyone dies, it's immediately back to the last checkpoint - which is often frustrating thanks to Halo 2's poor checkpoint system.
Most other Halo games provide options that ease the difficulty of Legendary by bringing another player along. I'm new to Halo CE and got stuck on The Truth and Reconciliation for quite a while. To say Halo 2 is unfair is a severe understatement. We board a Covenant cruiser under the cover of night in this third mission of the Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary Campaign. The Truth and Reconciliation vs The Library (Halo CE Legendary). It's a lengthy campaign that constantly throws players into undesirable situations, including large, open areas filled with one-hit-kill snipers with dead-eye accuracy, Covenant Elites sporting shields seemingly made of titanium, literally everything about The Flood and the fact that enemies shoot faster than the player can, melting shields and killing the player in a fraction of a second.
There are a few areas I remember spending hours in, but this wasnt one of them. Halo 2's Legendary difficulty is one of (if not the) hardest first-person-shooter campaigns to ever exist. Truth and Reconciliation hangar, WT actual F So, I completed Legendary on the OG Xbox in college, and dont remember this area being the one that caused me an issue.