Fear and love. Writing the Destiny 2: Beyond the Light review might seem like a daunting task and indeed, especially for a longtime gamer, it is.
The heart, devastated by years of Destiny and by the usual ups and downs that the player is used to, struggles to ink the words: the alternation between periods spent enjoying the proposed challenges and rejoicing in the successes obtained and months of extreme content famine nail the Bungie game as a service to its responsibilities.
What we are faced with, once again, is something that aims to write a new page in the universe of Destiny in continuity with what is offered in the recent past, following the comment offered by Bungie towards Activision.
And so it is that the exaltation for what is currently offered is quite a lot, however it turns out to be almost as strong as the fear deriving from the fact that, in a month, the whole community may find itself as already happened with a handful of flies in hand, without any core activity to be stripped, simply grinding with trite and coarse contents. but yet Beyond the Light is Destiny in its purest essence, for better or for worse, and what Bungie has fielded over the course of this meager month bodes well.
Europe, first of all, offers fertile ground for the exploration of new mechanics. Distinguished by a dazzling icy expanse, Jupiter's satellite is in fact much more than it appears. Although the explorable external area is considerably higher than the average of what can be found in other cases, it is what lies beneath the surface to deserve the attention of the gamer.
The expansion campaign, decidedly pleasant in the structure, although not impressing as narrated, easily manages to convey good feelings in the soul of the audacious guardian. Ed It is when the quests of the main story are intertwined with the secondary missions and the many subquests that open up with the endgame, that the PvE of Destiny 2: Beyond the Light takes off.
Together with the new class proposed by this expansion, the very icy stasis, the user will actually have to navigate between one activity and another, having the only, great goal to unlock every square inch of Destiny 2's lore and gain access. to exclusive exotic drops that, in most cases, represent the best that can be acquired. The exotic weapons and pieces of armor released so far, in fact, do not disappoint expectations both from an aesthetic point of view, and from the point of view of impact in the gameplay.
In this sense, the best rewards are offered by the Deepstone Crypt, the new raid specially created for Destiny 2: Beyond the Light. This new dungeon, quite interesting in terms of game mechanics, allows a group of six people to cooperate for the final victory. In this spoiler free review, know that the only disappointment deriving from the use of the raid can be summarized in the final boss, decidedly subdued.
Probably characterized by a slightly lower gross difficulty than similar past experiences, at the end of the fair the raid of the Crypt of Pietrafonda is however interesting enough to be counted among the most interesting tout court.
The launch of Destiny 2: Beyond the Light also coincided with a slight revamp of the graphics engine, which has brought benefits above all in terms of credibility and quality of the proposed lighting routines.
The day one of this latest expansion also sanctioned the momentary farewell to a whole series of content that Bungie has deemed correct to include in the Destiny Content Vault, a real safe inside which those settings and missions of little relevance in the current economy of the game are temporarily placed.
A choice that can only be partially shared: although on the one hand the space occupied by the installation of the game was really reaching very significant dimensions, on the other hand it hurts to know that you cannot enjoy a whole series of contents for which the player has given precious sound euros.
Another sore point, which Bungie is trying to remedy by reinserting the weapons and armor of the Seventh Seraph, is the lack of a consistent and varied loot pool. The sunsetting of a large part of the equipment obtained in the past, while being understandable in the context of a dynamic video game such as Destiny 2, further limits the choices that can be performed in most of the activities in charge, paradoxically obtaining an effect opposite to that for which the same sunsetting was introduced.
Instead of encouraging experimentation, the lower number of weapons available forces the player to resort to fairly standardized and time-invariant attack solutions.
Another decidedly conflicting point is the total lack of new maps for Crucible and Gambit. Really a shame, considering that potentially, thanks to the Destiny Content Vault it would have been possible at least to ponder the possibility of recovering some old acquaintances.
Destiny 2: Beyond the Light is an overall solid and successful expansion that aims above all to meet the PvE demands of the community. The total absence of significant news from the point of view of PvP, especially of the Crucible, together with some doubts regarding the loot pool and the weight that the removal of several of the older content may have on the future economy of the Bungie title, does not allow the DLC to take off and represent what The Taken King and Forsaken were in the past.
