I would like to end the year talking about Destiny 2, whose last (and highly anticipated by me) expansion arrived on November 10 and we are on December 31 and I had not been able to talk about it yet and it cannot be and I have to stop chain sentences and get on with it .
Let’s be clear from the start: Destiny 2: Beyond the Light isn’t the best expansion in the game. In my opinion that honor is still in the hands of The Forsaken, but it is tremendously fun. At the plot level I lost time, which does not prevent me from enjoying all its madness and characters with each new expansion, but at the playable level the thing is still as high as ever.
Beyond the Light is fine , it is entertaining, but it has neither the Forsaken charisma nor the former’s taste for doing something truly different within the game’s own mechanics. Bungie shone like never before in that expansion, launched two years ago, and it would be nice if it could reach that level again at some point.
Finally a new subclass arrives: Stasis
What I wanted was to get my hands on expansion so I could test the new Stasis subclass. I really enjoy my titan (I am one of those, yes) in any of its flavors, whether I start throwing fire hammers or electrocuting the bad guys by falling on top of them with the force of a thousand stars or blasting them with vacuum shields. released in the purest Captain America style, but a new subclass after so many years with the same? HELL YES.
And it goes, and they don’t give it to you at the beginning.
I had that hope, I thought that shortly after starting the expansion the game would give me the subclass as a good friend, but no. Destiny 2 does a very evil thing but that makes sense: it lets you try it while you advance in the new campaign so you can see what it is about and, when you are in full swing, it takes it away from you.
Yes, of course, that precisely the part of the story that Beyond the Light tells is directly related to the meaning of Stasis, a power that comes from darkness (the guardians being beings of light and more beautiful than all) and the danger of using it. A bit like you are a Jedi flirting with the dark side , something that has never happened …
Total, there are a handful of missions and new bosses and until you complete the campaign you do not take Stasis. That I have not said, but it is a power based on ice that allows you to freeze enemies and create frozen walls with tools. You can even create steps by throwing Stasis grenades at the walls, which comes in handy at the mobility level.
Bottom line: the new subclass is cool . And it also introduces more customization than we already had, adding a system similar to that of the mods that already have the weapons and the different parts of the equipment. We’ll see how it evolves over time, but things look pretty good.
About the campaign
At the level of history … well, if I tell you the truth, I have already forgotten the details of what this expansion has to say. As I said at the beginning, it is very easy to get lost in its extensive lore and, in the end, it is not that it matters very much when it comes to enjoying the game. Cool when you live those stories for the first time, when they tell you and freak out with some details, but also cool when you forget and go in daily just to do activities and enjoy their excellent gunplay.
With everything and with that, I liked the role that Variks has assumed here, who has also become one more merchant of those who give you adventures and contracts, and know his history a little better. Basically you have to throw a cable and smash the faces of other Eliksni, captained in this case by a certain Eramis , and defeat another handful of bosses along the way.
The confrontations with these bosses are interesting, but again I remember how this was raised in The Forsaken and the thing pales. Where this expansion does shine at a narrative level is in the importance of some data that is revealed to us, such as the true identity of The Unknown (I am not going to reveal it, but I was more than pleasantly surprised to know who she is and how she fits into el lore), or how Bungie wanted to give the characters a somewhat deeper personality, specifically Eramis, through dialogues with which they let us know their motivations, their past and the reason for their actions .
Europe, the new destination
That several planets have been loaded, hey . I know that many of those who have played very little or nothing at Destiny 2 took their heads when they found out how such a game loaded a lot of content that it has been adding over the years. Several destinations have disappeared and, with them, a handful of activities that took place in them.
And that?
The truth is that the game needed to put order. It had grown too much for the developers, who had it getting worse with so many things to manage, as for the players themselves. I myself was overwhelmed by the enormous amount of things I had to attend to if I wanted to get everything more or less up to date. Well there Bungie .
On the other hand comes Europe , a new destination in the form of the icy moon of Jupiter that has turned out to be beautiful. It is large, has many locations, and its inclement weather makes for snowstorms that even leave the player without knowing where he is. I already say, maximum beauty.
With this moon new enemies have also arrived, among which are some large and heavy robots. Heaviness in several ways, especially in terms of not leaving us alone with the damn missiles. There are also some very annoying and threatening new Vex that are nice to end up with, of course. Everything is for the good of the show .
There are also news in weapons, equipment and the way we manage mods, in general all aimed at being able to customize in greater depth the way we want to play, but the essence of Destiny 2 is still intact . What is cool here is to unlock the best weapons, ideally with the best advantages, and generate the most absolute chaos both in cooperative activities and in the Crucible against other players.
Beyond the Light , in short, it seems like a good starting point for what is to come, for that promised new stage of the game. After having made a kind of clean slate, with all those destinations, activities and weapons that Bungie has loaded , the future of the game looks promising .
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