Like most Destiny expansions, though, the campaign ends too quickly at around 6 hours long, and it leaves you with plenty of loose threads that aren’t likely to be addressed anytime soon. Many of Destiny’s best characters also receive a ton of much-deserved screen time including The Drifter, Variks, Eris Morn, and The Exo Stranger, who we haven’t seen since 2014 and who now takes the spotlight in a major way – and this time she finally has time to explain. This story is one of the strongest in the series, mainly because Eramis is the first Destiny villain I’ve ever empathized with (and even felt a little sorry for). Instead, you end up going toe-to-toe with a particularly nasty Eliksni named Eramis, who has discovered a way to wield the awesome power of The Darkness in the form of a cosmic ice called Stasis. You’re deployed to Europa in search of answers but, strangely enough, the adventure that follows is largely unrelated and frankly you never really find the answers you’re looking for. Instead, this review will focus on the paid content available in the core Beyond Light expansion.īeyond Light’s campaign begins with a bang, as several planets in our solar system are blinked out of existence by Destiny’s longtime evil: The Darkness. Not included in this review is anything that a player can access for free, like the cosmodrome “New Light” mission geared toward new players, as well as the “Season of the Hunt” content that’s kept behind a separate Season Pass (most of which isn’t even available yet). Ultimately, this problem doesn't take away from how awesome the content in Beyond Light is, but it does leave me feeling bitter as a veteran player.Although Destiny 2 is now technically “free-to-play,” most of the new content is gated behind a paywall, including the bulk of the Beyond Light experience. Essentially, Bungie has significantly reduced the effectiveness of the arsenal we built up for three years and then failed to replace that lost arsenal with much new gear to hunt down. This issue is exacerbated by how Bungie sunsets most weapons and armor that released prior to Beyond Light by capping their maximum Power Level at 1,060, making them effectively unusable outside of old patrol spaces, playlist Strikes, and Crucible. Destiny 2 is a looter shooter after all, and if there's not much loot to chase, well. Even with the gear from the raid, the expansion overall doesn't have much to chase after. For an expansion that costs $40, you'd expect a lot more from Bungie. The big problem I have with Beyond Light is that there's barely any new loot to earn aside from a small handful of new guns, two sets of armor, and some new Exotics. Destiny 2: Beyond Light: What I don't like I also like the Aspects and Fragments system, which allows you to tweak your Stasis abilities so that they have some bonus effects that suit your preferred type of playstyle. I'm looking forward to trying out Stasis more in raids as I can already tell that the ability to throw up a wall of ice for protection or freeze foes to stop them from reaching a critical objective will be incredibly useful. The general theme of crowd control Stasis gives it a unique niche compared to all of the Light subclasses, and the fact that Stasis abilities do less damage overall compared to Light ones reflects that. Lastly, I'm a huge fan of how the new Stasis element feels to use in PvE content. I was a little underwhelmed by the raid's music (a rarity for Destiny), but even then, it has some killer soundtracks mixed in with the stuff I didn't love. The Deep Stone Crypt is, overall, everything a Destiny player could want out of a raid experience. The encounters are fun, cleverly-designed, and challenging, and the loot rewards are (mostly) great this time around. In addition to everything that the campaign and Europa have to offer, there's also the Deep Stone Crypt raid (catch our full guide if you need to learn the encounters), which is easily among the best of Destiny 2's raids alongside the likes of Last Wish and Garden of Salvation. Source: Bungie (Image credit: Source: Bungie)
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