How far we have Lightfallen... | Destiny 2: Lightfall Review

Bungie has been known for amazing gameplay and systems for a while now. Witch Queen was special because it finally gave us the thing they were lacking, an amazing narrative. But Lightfall goes right back down to the old days of shadowkeep with something messy... distracting us from all the good stuff the game added in the process. That being said full melee charge energy armamentarium with strand titan is never ending grapple it's SO FUN.

My favorite part was when the Witness said it’s Witnessing time, and we witness him telling us what the veil was.

Nobody tell Bricky that the voice actress for Ikora hasn’t been the Firefly lady for two years now but the new VA is so good that it’s actually pretty hard to tell.

Osiris' delivery is frustrating because HIS VA HAS HAD STELLAR DELIVERY BEFORE And I think some of the delivery in lightfall was great in isolation. When he shouts "we need to do better" and "we have done nothing but waste time," it feels like it would have been amazing if other characters in that conversation had the same tone and if he had more confident and non-frustrated scenes

Considering that Lightfall and Final Shape were meant to be one package and not 2 separate expansions, I honestly think the "traveler gone" voicelines were accidentally left in. Hell, the leading theory so far is that the first and last cutscenes were actually connected as the intro but were split and they rushed a story to fill the space between to make 2 expansions.

“Am I stuck in the gorilla grip of Calus and the caBUSSY?” I can’t express with words how much this caught me off guard and folded my stomach.

Bricky and Skillup dropping lightfall reviews hours apart, this is gonna be nice

Calus was posed to play such an insanely good role in this story, after the years long buildup from season of opulence to season of the haunted, all the lore from the chronicon, the dialogue from DUALITY which was so insanely good, and in lightfall he's reduced to a cartoon villain's cartoon henchman, who shows up in 2 and a half cutscenes and then dies after a lackluster battle. Also insane to me that there was so much buildup of him meeting and obsessively revering the Voice in the Darkness (THE WITNESS!) and then when he finally submits to it, they seemingly fucking hate being near each other. Calus has always been someone guided by his own goals and success, but after finding the voice in the darkness he was head over heels obsessed with making it to the end of everything, and being the last one there to see it. And then comes lightfall, where he doesn't really seem to have any ambition besides being mad that he's being made to do any work. He exists just for the main villain to have someone to say "You've failed me for the last time!" to. It feels like they completely fumbled his character after literal years worth of building and windup and it's so so so disappointing.

Nimbus is a prime example of "Millennial Writing" and Osiris LITERALLY had me yelling at my game "Osiris, STFU, I'M THE ONE DOING ALL THE WORK! NOT YOU!".

I kept describing the narrative around the fact you've got a really big problem with there being no answers or understanding. You have a super enigmatic villain with a vague motive, vague powerset and a vague plan chasing after a McGuffin which has a vague power which means we don't know how it works, why it's important or how the Villain will use it. The reason keeping us in the dark for so long worked with The Witch Queen was because it was an active investigation into the villain's plan and goals which you could crack open and understand as the plot went on. We actually got the answers to how the Hive got the Light, how & why Savathun betrayed the Witness and it fit into her plan to truly steal the Light from us.

On the scene where The Witness shatters reality, I like to think they are showing their true form (or a piece of it) to Calus, so the fear of the eldritch abomination is real

I love the part where the witness screamed "WITNESS ME" then he jumped inside the traveler and the traveler blew up. Truly a cinematic masterpiece.

Here’s the thing that always removes tension: vendors won’t die. As soon as nimbus was shown to be the planets vendor it was clear he was safe

One thing to note is that a lot of gameplay elements introduced in Lightfall and reworks are available for free, so that's even less value in that $50

There’s a theory going around that Strand was supposed to be in Witch Queen, but at the last minute they switched it over to bringing the Light subclasses to 3.0, which is why Strand feels out of place in Lightfall.

I personally believe best story arc would have been if Rohan didnt die but his pupil did and Nimbus came after giving him in the end a strict time of less then 365 days to train his replacement

im so glad that bricky has such a good critical take on this. he's fair and argues in good faith. people have been quick to say that if you dont like it dont buy it, and that's an ok take to have, but if we pay money for a franchise that was doing good since Savathun, then we are allowed to point out where the game fails

I honestly feel that destiny dlcs should be priced somewhere between 20 and 40 dollars and that the annual pass should be included in that price. I also think that they should release some sort of catch up bundle for each dlc where it comes with all the old dlc and the new dlc for something like 60$. It just feels to me every time I’ve tried to get back into destiny that I’m being nickeled and dined to death and that to actually be able to fully experience the game with my friends ima have to drop like 150$ dollars now and 100$ every year.

3:53 He has specific dialogue if you earned the Shadow title, calling you his Shadow and saying you belong at his side. Just a cool little detail I liked. Calus and Caiatl I think are the only redeeming factors of the campaign.

I'm sure you know but the reason Calus was voiced so damn well is he is voiced by Darin De Paul. Plenty of other voices but very recognizable as Reinhardt from Overwatch. Darin DEVOURS every role he partakes in. Meanwhile Oded Fehr who voices Osiris honestly is better in live action. He was in the Mummy as the Medjai and Resident Evil as Carlos. So I think the disconnect of being fully remote sadly hurt his and others positions in VAing. However Lance Reddick as Zavala is always Chefs Kiss