FallenCor

I never really thought of Heroes as being canon. There were too many plot-holes (or more accurately, no plot to speak of, really). I remember being fairly bamboozled when I first came across Axonn as a boss, ha ha. Besides, what about being able to play as the Piraka themselves? I remember re-playing and completing a few levels as Vezon, though others will probably explain it away as a mere bonus-feature (which it is). The whole freakin' game was a big, fat bonus-feature, if you think about it. Can we really call a game that has a feature called Piraka Playground "canon"? XD There's also the fact that the game was aimed at a younger and/or newer audience. You'll notice that the Piraka were drastically dumbed down, quite literally, and came off as simple yahoos who could pack a nasty punch, nothing more. Virtually no dialogue; nothing telling you to "go do X"; just the visual signs of "oh hey, walk this way, kill that thing, unlock this thing, then get rid of that boss!" A game that's perfect for people who are new to the world of BIONICLE, as there's practically no story to get mixed up in. Just your stereotypical first-person shooter game, but one that takes place in the BIONICLE universe. All you know as a newbie is that you're playing as some mechanical warrior(s) who's supposed to get rid of these villainous oafs and collect shiny Lego pieces while you're at it. I love that old game, but I honestly doubt it could ever be considered canon; even as an alt-universe. It was seriously just everything from the past few story-arcs tossed into a blender of awesome. I don't think any BIONICLE video-game is "canon", really. Just fun lil' games that allow the player to do with as they will, using their favorite characters. It's an awesome idea, though!

Personally, I like them. Especially the Slender Man's Shadow series. The games are stupid in some ways, yes, but I'm rather fond of the simple maps/layouts and renders, really; and the jump-scares. lolI hear the graphics are going to be improved in most of the existing games by the end of the month; plus the rumored release of a program that will allow you to construct your own Slender Man map, which would be fun to mess with.

I'm inclined too agree with Levvisokk. Although the Ignika was known as the "Mask of Life", it did possess the power to manipulate life however it wished. There are a number of examples of it using the power of "death", such as when Toa Ignika attempted to kill Pohatu, Lewa, Tanma and Photok by accelerating their aging in Shadows in the Sky, cursing Nocturn with killing every being he touched, absorbing life energy to unleash a sort of "Nova Blast", the list goes on. There's also the fact that the Great Beings built a fail-safe into the mask that, were the Matoran Universe thrown utterly and hopelessly out of balance, was to destroy every living thing in the Great Spirit robot. It counts as both the Mask of Life and the "Mask of Death", in my opinion, so I doubt that there ever was, or ever will be, a Mask of Death.

Never got around to actually posting here on BZP 'til now, ha ha. *bricked*I suppose artwork would be #1. Haven't done any Bionicle-related art since 2005, I don't think. Good grief. Next would have to be any fan-fiction I've put on hold for the last few years because of both real-life and the demon that is writers'-block. Time to get my rear in gear and actually work on this stuff.