This review contains spoilers
Destiny 2: Lightfall is the clearest example of overhyping a product, which turned out to be underwhelming upon release.
While the expansion wasn't bad gameplay-wise (I had a lot of fun playing around with Strand and moving around the cyberpunk city of Neomuna!) the story left me and a lot of others with a big giant question mark over our heads on what exactly happened. We get Osiris who is ultra cranky (but to be fair id be cranky too if the end of the world was happening) who is screaming at us about finding the Radial Mast and The Veil. Great. Cool...what are they? Throughout the campaign, multiple characters scream at you acting like we know what these things even are. It's never explained to us period. What does it do? What's its importance??. Calus is also here too and compared to Witch Queen's antagonist (Savathun) he just has...basic desires written (Power, Wealth, Glory) while Savathun was complex, mysterious, and deceitful.
It's not all terrible, the soundtrack is amazing as always and Neomuna looks phenomenal. The quality of life changes for the most part is good like finally adding loadouts and a rank/commendation system to teach players.
That being said, however, Lightfall feels like it has too much going on along with feeling like a $50 Strand tutorial
While the expansion wasn't bad gameplay-wise (I had a lot of fun playing around with Strand and moving around the cyberpunk city of Neomuna!) the story left me and a lot of others with a big giant question mark over our heads on what exactly happened. We get Osiris who is ultra cranky (but to be fair id be cranky too if the end of the world was happening) who is screaming at us about finding the Radial Mast and The Veil. Great. Cool...what are they? Throughout the campaign, multiple characters scream at you acting like we know what these things even are. It's never explained to us period. What does it do? What's its importance??. Calus is also here too and compared to Witch Queen's antagonist (Savathun) he just has...basic desires written (Power, Wealth, Glory) while Savathun was complex, mysterious, and deceitful.
It's not all terrible, the soundtrack is amazing as always and Neomuna looks phenomenal. The quality of life changes for the most part is good like finally adding loadouts and a rank/commendation system to teach players.
That being said, however, Lightfall feels like it has too much going on along with feeling like a $50 Strand tutorial