Destiny 2: Lightfall Drops To Mostly Negative On Steam As Guardians Criticize... Everything

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Destiny 2: Lightfall has been out for just 45 hours, and the consensus among players is it's not great. Guardians are critical of pretty much everything from the new Strand subclass to Neomuna's size to the expansion's campaign making no sense and doesn't answer any of Destiny 2's outstanding questions. The player uproar has gotten so bad, in fact, that Lightfall now has a mostly negative review score on Steam.

The vast majority of Steam reviews (which sit at 28 percent as of the time of this writing) criticize Lightfall's story, which one user likened to having been "written by a 15-year-old girl on Wattpad." Another user summarized it best with: "All this build-up. Very underwhelming, Very unsatisfied."

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For more nuanced takes on Lightfall's story, we head to the Destiny 2 subreddit where Guardians have been picking the expansion apart like a mortician at an autopsy. Newcomer Nimbus received their fair share of lumps (thankfully without the transphobia this time), but a somewhat longer post goes into greater detail about everything wrong with Lightfall. I won't reproduce spoilers here, but let's just say there are a lot of unanswered questions that Lightfall does nothing to resolve, unlike last year's Witch Queen expansion.

Destiny 2 content creator and well-known "lore daddy" Byf also had negative things to say about Lightfall’s campaign in a 30-minute video posted to YouTube. "The campaign as far as gameplay is concerned is bombastic and fun," Byf said, "but narratively, it misses HUGE opportunities and I cannot in good conscience recommend it at the very least to new players and potentially to returning players who are looking for a fantastic