Iron Banter: This Week In Destiny 2 - Season Of The Haunted Story Review

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Just about every week brings something new to Destiny 2, whether it's story beats, new activities, or interesting new combinations of elements that let players devastate each other in the Crucible. Iron Banter is our weekly look at what's going on in the world of Destiny and a rundown of what's drawing our attention across the solar system.

After weeks of plumbing the secrets of the Leviathan for answers about Calus' intentions, we've reached the end of Season of the Haunted's story. The season has spent a lot of time building and exploring the personalities and traumas of characters we've been dealing with in the game for some time--in a few cases, for years--while also giving us something of a direction for where Destiny 2's story is headed in the future.

As far as seasonal storytelling goes, I'd log Season of the Haunted as one of Destiny 2's stronger outings. Though it was a bit shorter than some of the more recent episodic stories, it used its time to hit a lot of emotional beats while also expanding on the greater world in a lot of important ways. We've learned a shocking amount of backstory from Season of the Haunted, while seeing a ton of character development--not only in members of the main cast and current villain Calus, but also in Destiny characters who've long since passed on.

First, the Sever missions. The weekly missions each focused on a single character, and while not terribly expansive, they went straight into the psyches of Crow, Zavala, and Caiatl. This acted as a great payoff for Crow in particular, whose arc over the last year and change has been one of dealing with his past as Uldren Sov. I've said in the past that Crow has functioned really well as a semi-protagonist for Destiny 2, giving us a