Destiny 2 Has To Do Something Better Than This Ahead Of The Final Shape
12.01.2024 - 22:07
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/ Phil Hornshaw
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Bungie is taking Destiny 2 into the culmination of 10 years of story, and recent events haven't encouraged us to care.
By Phil Hornshaw on
Warning: This article includes spoilers for this week's Season of the Wish story events in Destiny 2. You might want to finish it before reading further.
With what is ostensibly the conclusion of the story of the Season of the Wish, Destiny 2 is now proceeding to the conclusion of its 10-year story with The Final Shape. Though the next big expansion has been delayed all the way from February to June, the stage is set for players to pursue and confront the Witness, the series' biggest villain.
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Here's the thing, though: We should be barreling toward this concluding chapter. Instead, we're crawling.
That's not a function of the delay, though, although it certainly doesn't help that Destiny 2 fans are stuck twiddling their thumbs for another five months. It's a problem with the Season of the Wish, and really all the story Destiny 2 has told since the release of last year's penultimate expansion, Lightfall. Destiny 2's story isn't gearing us up for a throw-down with a godlike alien creature. It isn't showing us the terrifying or horrifying consequences of letting the Witness go unchecked. It hasn't even really made clear what the Witness's goals are or what it'll actually do.
Bungie absolutely needs something better than what we've seen so far--better than the Season of the Witch and absolutely better than the Season of the Wish--to bring up the tenor of Destiny 2 before The Final Shape. The game simply cannot head into its final chapter this downbeat, or downright boring, and expect players to tune in.
It's not a hot take to say that the last year of Destiny 2 has been disappointing in some big ways. The Lightfall campaign was supposed to set up the last few big moments of Destiny 2's Light and Dark saga but left even those dedicated lore scholars among us confused as to what the game's villains were actually trying to achieve, or what we had actually seen happen. The Season of Defiance at least focused on an ongoing invasion of powered-up Cabal forces on Neptune and Earth, but that war has grown stale in the months since it was launched, and whatever threat it posed concluded and turned into background noise.
And with the two seasons that