Destiny 2 Has To Do Something Better Than This Ahead Of The Final Shape

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Bungie is taking Destiny 2 into the culmination of 10 years of story, and recent events haven't encouraged us to care.

By Phil Hornshaw on

Warning: This article includes spoilers for this week's Season of the Wish story events in Destiny 2. You might want to finish it before reading further.

With what is ostensibly the conclusion of the story of the Season of the Wish, Destiny 2 is now proceeding to the conclusion of its 10-year story with The Final Shape. Though the next big expansion has been delayed all the way from February to June, the stage is set for players to pursue and confront the Witness, the series' biggest villain.

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Here's the thing, though: We should be barreling toward this concluding chapter. Instead, we're crawling.

That's not a function of the delay, though, although it certainly doesn't help that Destiny 2 fans are stuck twiddling their thumbs for another five months. It's a problem with the Season of the Wish, and really all the story Destiny 2 has told since the release of last year's penultimate expansion, Lightfall. Destiny 2's story isn't gearing us up for a throw-down with a godlike alien creature. It isn't showing us the terrifying or horrifying consequences of letting the Witness go unchecked. It hasn't even really made clear what the Witness's goals are or what it'll