Destiny 2: Renegades Review So Far

Destiny has ever been the “we’ve got Star Wars astatine home” looter shooter, and with Destiny 2: Renegades, Bungie has decided to thin into that straight with a crossover expansion. Weirdly enough, truthful acold that determination seems to person kinda worked retired alright! Renegades doesn’t lick galore of Destiny 2’s longstanding issues, including the information that it’s been awkwardly spinning its wheels for implicit a twelvemonth present (reminiscent of the MCU post-Endgame), but embracing the cheesiness and over-the-top play of Star Wars is astatine the precise slightest a amazingly bully alteration of gait successful what has go rather a predictable universe. The communicative is silly, to beryllium sure, but introduces a fewer caller mechanics and limb types that are a invited change, and there’s an awesome level of force density passim practically each of the activities that keeps the enactment interesting. I’ve inactive got a batch much questing and looting to bash earlier my last review, but truthful acold this enlargement has been a beauteous compelling enactment of caller aerial successful a crippled I’ve different been acold little excited astir than usual.

If you’ve work immoderate of my erstwhile enlargement reviews (of which determination are a lot), past you’ll already cognize I americium 1 those weirdo Destiny fans who has stuck with this crippled done heavy and bladed – truthful it should mean thing erstwhile I archer you that saying I americium besides a Star Wars instrumentality would beryllium specified a monolithic understatement that I’m really excessively embarrassed to elaborate further publicly. But adjacent with my undying emotion of abstraction wizards, I was initially mortified to larn Destiny 2 was readying a crossover with it. For me, it was the eventual motion that Destiny was retired of ideas, had gone “full Fortnite” successful a mode that seemed inexpensive and tacky, and was making 1 past desperation play during the dilatory decease it’s been suffering for a fig of years now. And, yeah, that each beauteous overmuch turned retired to beryllium true. But erstwhile I recovered myself watching 2 lightsaber-wielding foes quadrate disconnected successful an epic cutscene portion listening to the John Williams-esque euphony this enlargement makes dense usage of, I’ll admit it won maine over… astatine slightest a little.

Renegades does spell retired of its mode to see each small Star Wars notation to a grade that tin consciousness a spot forced – a crutch that’s continuously leaned upon successful lieu of immoderate archetypal ideas. For example, you find yourself trapped successful a garbage compactor during the precise archetypal mission, rescue idiosyncratic from off-brand c freezing, and marque a leap to lightspeed portion a brooding, masked villain angrily watches you flight his grasp. It’s highly connected the chemoreceptor stuff, and I was conscionable arsenic apt to acquisition a full-body cringe arsenic I was to grin astir it. But the implicit “screw it” vigor astatine play present arsenic it full-throatedly embraces each the corniness and play for which Star Wars is known does person a definite benignant of refreshing charm that’s astatine slightest a chiseled absorption for Destiny 2. I’ve been complaining astir this crippled feeling stale for astatine slightest 5 years now, truthful I’ve got to springiness Bungie a spot of recognition for trying thing caller here.

There are besides a just fig of caller mechanics that I wasn’t expecting, similar a shielding strategy for definite enemies that forces you to woody a full clump of harm successful a abbreviated span of clip earlier you tin really wounded them, AT-ST-inspired walkers that person immoderate unsocial attacks I wasn’t expecting, and adjacent immoderate caller limb types, similar battery-powered guns that tin beryllium fired until they overheat and request to chill down. None of this is massively game-changing stuff, but they’re decent small tweaks to the sandbox that are invited additions. Of course, there’s besides a ton of worldly that hasn’t changed astatine all, and adjacent portion you’re facing disconnected against a caller benignant of force successful theory, you’ll inactive beryllium warring the aforesaid Cabal armored warriors and bony Thrall monstrosities you’ve been shooting for implicit a decade, which has made this consciousness similar a inexpensive reskin astatine times.

I’m inactive reasonably aboriginal into my abstraction opera travel (I haven’t adjacent crafted my lightsaber yet!), truthful I person a full batch much to play earlier I tin definitively accidental wherever Renegades lands. But truthful acold this enlargement seems overmuch amended than I expected… though that’s partially due to the fact that I expected precise little. I’ll person overmuch much to accidental erstwhile I’ve completed the run and statesman to dive into the endgame activities. For Light and Life!