Destiny 2's latest cinematic makes me excited for a game I've not played in years

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Bungie's eye-catching new Destiny 2 cinematic arrived this week to cap off the game's current Season 19 in style.

Perhaps more excitingly, the trailer successfully hypes up both the impending arrival of Destiny 2's Lightfall expansion at the end of the month, as well as the fact Bungie is finally bringing its overarcing 10-year narrative to a long-awaited finale.

I've previously put hundreds and hundreds of hours into the original Destiny and its sequel, but in recent years just kept up with its story, unable to devote the time required to keep up with the game itself each week. Even for someone like me, this new video has plenty to get excited about.

For starters, the cinematic includes a large proportion of Destiny 2's cast all coming together to observe the activity of the Traveller — Destiny's great space golf ball which has been hanging out over Earth.

Here, a threat to the Traveller from a more recent enemy, Eramis, sees the Traveller attempting to flee Earth's orbit and escape annihilation. But wait! That threat can be averted by the newly-personified Rasputin — aka the AI intelligence you've befriended over the years since it was first introduced as a Russian music-loving computer terminal housed under the Cosomodrome.

Sadly, the solution here is that Rasputin must destroy himself to remove his network of attack satellites aimed at the Traveller. In doing so, Eramis' plan is foiled and the Traveller screeches to a halt.

This is good — after all, the Traveller gives you and everyone else on Earth your powers, and it leaving would be bad. But as Destiny's gooey-headed villain The Witness, the saga's ultimate Big Bad, states: with the Darkness now bearing down, where else could the Traveller go?

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