I only kept saying those things in the beginning because it felt like no one really understood what he meant.
It really felt like no one understood that both me and him thinks that Halo 5 is still a great fucking game.
But he's not.
Because this is a Halo 5 review. He covers the problem with sprint and other stuff in his other videos.
About the art direction, what you mention is color scheme and such. I'm speaking of the general design. The elites and grunts, for example, has minor changes in 1-3, all that changed felt just like a graphical improvement of the same model and designs. For Halo 4 everything went different. Skin, how the body was built and all that. Chief's armor magically looking completely different. And so on. It didn't look like the same universe and it was extremely off putting.
To ease peoples minds of thinking I'm a 343i-hater, I can say that I think the elites went downhill from Reach.
About the soundtrack. I don't know how much of a trained ear you have or if you're schooled in music, but you can add guitars and keep the same tonality... Almost all the themes and songs from CE were in 2 and 3, and so on. The new ones were in the same style and tonality as the other ones.
Almost every theme portrayed a kind of feeling and are expected to come be there when that specific feeling is being portrayed. Like in Star Wars. Star Wars is a perfect example off this.
I think his biggest problem since Reach is sprint. Would be cool if you did check his video about sprint.
Thanks for argumenting instead of downvoting like everyone else. You have lots of good arguments that has made me think more about all this! :)