9/25/2023 0 Comments Destiny 2 lightfall nimbus![]() Instead of fleshing out the genuinely tense and compelling cutscenes between Calus and the Witness, we're left to reverse engineer the Witness's likely plan of using the former emperor as a disposable lure for the Guardian. Instead of doing the work to show Osiris reckoning with his grief over the loss of his Ghost, his character shifts wildly, bafflingly in tone from one mission to the next. Lightfall rushes through plot beats and character arcs, never giving one enough time to germinate into something interesting or coherent. Outside of the first and last cutscene, everything here feels like a disposable sidequest. What is the Radial Mast? What will happen if Calus connects it to the Veil? What is the Veil? Throughout, Lightfall does a terrible job of setting the stakes of our missions, making them feel inconsequential. A lot has been made already about the tone of this expansion-particularly the asinine banter from Nimbus, who has never met a situation they can't quip their way through-but the problems are so much more fundamental than that. These are not quotes I've cherry picked from throughout the mission. "There must be more than one path to the Radial Mast," says Rohan. ![]() "Even if we could fight through, they'd have enough time to secure the Radial Mast." "The Shadow Legion have the corridor locked down tight," says our Ghost. "A source of paracausal energy? It could be the Radial Mast." In the third mission, we're asked to board his ship in order to destroy "the Radial Mast" before he can connect it to "the Veil". Leading the charge on behalf of the Witness is former Cabal emperor Calus and his new Shadow Legion. Immediately allying with them, we begin working to stop the Witness from retrieving "the Veil". We follow Osiris to Neptune-discovering the hidden city of Neomuna and meeting Nimbus and Rohan, two cybernetically enhanced Cloudstriders, when we land. In terms of the story, Bungie has again returned to the infuriating narrative trick of having characters talk about the importance of The Noun without ever doing the work to explain why you should be invested in it. ![]()
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