Destiny 2: Lightfall

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3.1

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 84 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 6 out of 84
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  1. MacielBR
    Mar 4, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Melhor FPS de todos tempos a Microsoft tem muito que aprender com a Sony, não ficar chorando que ela domina o mercado… Expand
  2. DinaSousa
    Mar 1, 2023
    10
    Destiny is one of the greatest stories ever told and Lightfall continues that. I just beat the campaign on legendary and I'm about to replay it.
  3. Rednew
    Mar 4, 2023
    10
    The expansion isn't that bad, a bunch of crybabies trash talking about it, doesn't make sense.
  4. negaovoadera77
    Mar 2, 2023
    10
    quanto mimimi. entendo q o jogo deixa uma vasta historia escondida e inexplorada. mas o jogo continua sendo fantastico. se tem inovaçao vcs reclamam se nao tem tbm. apenas aproveitem o q esta por vir. vai ser um ano fantastico pra destiny.
  5. nespofurda
    Mar 5, 2023
    10
    Nice dlc, the best dlc in my entre life please do more contente like this destiny
  6. rokkogirda
    Mar 5, 2023
    10
    This game lives up to the hype. The world concept and art are some of the best I've seen in a decade, and the performance optimization is nothing short of miraculous for a startup company founded to make this game. The gameplay is also a well rounded FPS action game that is reliably fun.
  7. vaknonirke
    Mar 6, 2023
    10
    我歌唱火焰，在我的眼睛周围，他们永远不会害怕，就像敌人奔向太阳
  8. medrekagnu
    Mar 17, 2023
    10
    I have never played this game as I am on PlayStation but from talking with people on XBOX who have played this game and watched some gameplay
  9. Enriel
    Mar 5, 2023
    9
    I don’t understand all this review bombing. Maybe the campaign was not the best in terms of story, but the overall gameplay was absolutely fun; the missions were extremely good, the new strand power is extremely fun to play, weapons and changes to the artifact and armor mods made the game way better. The rework for some assaults made them fun to play again. Everything in terms of gameplayI don’t understand all this review bombing. Maybe the campaign was not the best in terms of story, but the overall gameplay was absolutely fun; the missions were extremely good, the new strand power is extremely fun to play, weapons and changes to the artifact and armor mods made the game way better. The rework for some assaults made them fun to play again. Everything in terms of gameplay is very good, don’t listen to people that critic just for hate; the raid isn’t even out and they already review bombed Lightfall. … Expand
  10. real_d1
    Mar 2, 2023
    9
    The campaign was one of the most difficult, including legendary. Characters participating in the campaign could be better, but the new place was very well done.

    Strand needs some buffs, especially on the grapple that takes a long time to come back, I think they should fix that. Also, since the release of the stasis subclass, not everything works out for all classes. But Titan and    The campaign was one of the most difficult, including legendary. Characters participating in the campaign could be better, but the new place was very well done.

    Strand needs some buffs, especially on the grapple that takes a long time to come back, I think they should fix that. Also, since the release of the stasis subclass, not everything works out for all classes. But Titan and Warlock already have very strong endgame builds.

    Ignore the cries of some haters who probably haven't played the game and don't understand the core of the game (which is the grind, always has been). New activities, new strike, new raid (coming soon) and much more to explore in this new expansion (apart from the new meta).

    It's worth playing, for anyone who really understands what the game is about and has probably been playing since D1. Peace!    … Expand
  11. Csolan
    Mar 4, 2023
    9
    I'll admit, I'm writing this because I've seen so much negativity about Lightfall and I just don't get it. This has been a fantastic expansion and I can't wait for what's coming up from Destiny! I loved Witch Queen too, but I have to say that when it ended I felt like we were kind of just waiting for another year until the Black Fleet showed up. In contrast, I really don't know what toI'll admit, I'm writing this because I've seen so much negativity about Lightfall and I just don't get it. This has been a fantastic expansion and I can't wait for what's coming up from Destiny! I loved Witch Queen too, but I have to say that when it ended I felt like we were kind of just waiting for another year until the Black Fleet showed up. In contrast, I really don't know what to expect after Lightfall and I'm very excited by that.

    The story was not what I expected, and Bungie took some bold moves in the end. There are some weak points to the narrative, with the intro to the Cloudstriders feeling somewhat rushed, and lots of questions left unanswered. But personally I wasn't expecting to understand everything with this expansion; it seemed clear that we were going to be fighting was a war, and a war is what we get. The new campaign was a tough play through on Legendary, and there's a great final fight (even though I can now find or think of strats to melt the boss way more easily).

    The narrative really puts our Guardian in the context of a single soldier in the middle of an impossible battle, with a race against the clock to figure out how to stop Calus from getting what the Witness needs to destroy the traveler. It's also a bit of an homage to 80s movies, more than just with the aesthetics, which I think they pulled off well. Strand is a part of this, and I think they narratively and mechanically incorporated it into the game in an overall better way than with Stasis. Speaking of Strand, it's been a blast to play with and feels strong with the right combo of fragments now available (I love my hordes of Threadlings!). Not sure yet about the revamped mod system, but I like the change to artifact mods and the removal of elemental affinity for armor. The loadout system also seems to be solid overall, and gives you almost instant swapping of builds. The new gear has been really fun too, with post campaign quests adding more and more to the story while we get our new shiny exotics.

    In short, take the negative reviews with a big grain of salt. There's a lot to love in Lightfall.    … Expand
  12. Tai234
    Mar 2, 2023
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Lightfall is definitely a great addition to the destiny universe, I enjoyed the campaign from start to finish and the new environment/destination has a very cyberpunky feel to it.

    The only downside to the dlc is explanations to the story ..... The veil, what is it and why are we trying to protect it and Calus such a big bad boss just to be played by the witness and killed off. Thought he was gonna be a raid boss. But kudos to Bungie all in all I'm happy with Lightfall    … Expand
  13. Greysteel
    Mar 2, 2023
    6
    Really poor writing. Abysmal new characters and a real slog of a campaign. Great new environment and the quality of life changes make the game easier to organise and enjoy.
  14. IAmInsanityYT
    Mar 1, 2023
    6
    Overall, not recommended if you're new to Destiny and looking to jump in. Has it's fair share of good bits, but horribly misses the mark in aspects that had improved in Chosen and beyond.

    The good: Strand is stupid fun when you're allowed to let loose. Once again, the art and sound teams steal the show. Neomuna is a lot smaller than expected, but manages to stay interesting and fun to    Overall, not recommended if you're new to Destiny and looking to jump in. Has it's fair share of good bits, but horribly misses the mark in aspects that had improved in Chosen and beyond.

    The good: Strand is stupid fun when you're allowed to let loose. Once again, the art and sound teams steal the show. Neomuna is a lot smaller than expected, but manages to stay interesting and fun to explore. Bungie nails the vibe of an 80s action movie (training montage included.) Calus and The Witness have good interactions and play off each other fairly well.

    The bad: The main campaign is a mess on nearly every level. There is a significant tonal dissonance between the apocalyptic severity of what's supposed to be going on and how characters such as Nimbus actually react.
    The Veil is never explained, turning this into a chase the maguffin story. The comparison to Infinity War has been made, I believe by Bungie themselves, but with Infinity War, you *know* the stakes. Lose the stones, half of all life gets dusted. Here, the Witness gets the Veil and...something really bad will happen. This is made worse by the fact that the other people in the story, such as Nimbus and Osiris, know what the Veil is.
    What there is of the story is focused on getting Strand under control to the point that it actively harms the rest of the story. I maybe could have tolerated a seasonal story focused on getting Strand, but this is an annual DLC. Not just the annual DLC, this is the *2nd to last* annual DLC for this entire saga. A not insignificant portion of the time spent focusing on Strand could have been used to fix the other issues going on in the story.
    When you do get Strand as an actual subclass, it's main selling point, the grapple hook, has it's cooldown nerfed significantly. Hesitant to include this as a criticism because it could be fixed down the road, but as for now, it's there.

    This is the penultimate expansion of Bungie's entire 10-year story for Destiny. Here's hoping they can course correct into Final Shape, because a misfire of this scale this close to the finish line is absurdly dangerous and not a good sign.    … Expand
  15. Jaidenbrkl1
    May 10, 2023
    6
    This is the end of the Destiny marathon of reviews and it a disappointment!! Boring at times, characters that were wasted, a story that was an interesting idea but was underwhelming. Sadly the first Destiny 2 expansion after Bungie was acquired by Sony and I’m so sorry Sony, that was not it. I give it a disappointing score of 6 out of 10!
  16. Evgeni_M
    Apr 19, 2023
    5
    the most miserable addition made by crooked hands.
    well, the final battle is made exclusively for the group. As the logic of the battle is to kick you out, and if you are not in the group you start over without checkpoints in the battle with several phases. all you do this battle is run away so as not to fall. Developers don't care about the solo campaign.
    Do you think the plot of the    the most miserable addition made by crooked hands.
    well, the final battle is made exclusively for the group. As the logic of the battle is to kick you out, and if you are not in the group you start over without checkpoints in the battle with several phases. all you do this battle is run away so as not to fall. Developers don't care about the solo campaign.
    Do you think the plot of the add-on is a witness? no. an advertising lie. The witness is the first cutscene and the last. all you do in a campaign is fly somewhere to protect something. what is it? why? because Osiris said so. well, the season is another of the same type of activity as in other seasons,nothing new.    … Expand
  17. MidnightArdvark
    Aug 29, 2023
    4
    The game is at least consistent with Destiny 2 since Forsaken but my issue here is the story. It was made out to be a big climactic start to The Final Shape but it fell flat. It made characters that made me feel like filler characters and it left more questions than answers. The new destination is very nice and the environment is still something that I feel the developers excel at. ThisThe game is at least consistent with Destiny 2 since Forsaken but my issue here is the story. It was made out to be a big climactic start to The Final Shape but it fell flat. It made characters that made me feel like filler characters and it left more questions than answers. The new destination is very nice and the environment is still something that I feel the developers excel at. This expansion is definitely worse than Curse of Osiris in my opinion so don't expect too much going through this.… Expand
  18. deftones034
    Mar 1, 2023
    3
    Prob the worst destiny campaign add on. Not worth the money. Wait for sale on this one.
  19. DavLai3
    Mar 15, 2023
    3
    Been a long time Destiny fan but there are some major issues with this latest expansion. Starting off with the good…strand sub class is fun/powerful and the new exotics are fun to use. Mod Builder is also an improvement. Now the list of negative things outweighs the positive by a lot unfortunately. Poor story, poor level design, numerous inexcusable bugs (frame rate insta death bugs,Been a long time Destiny fan but there are some major issues with this latest expansion. Starting off with the good…strand sub class is fun/powerful and the new exotics are fun to use. Mod Builder is also an improvement. Now the list of negative things outweighs the positive by a lot unfortunately. Poor story, poor level design, numerous inexcusable bugs (frame rate insta death bugs, disconnects, etc), poor game design, and increased “difficulty” which just translates to most activities have enemies that are 30-40 levels above you and feel like bullet sponges and you do way less damage. Nightfalls are awful now. Lost sectors are awful now. The game across most activities is less fun and enjoyable than pre-lightfall. The level and number of bad development decisions is remarkable. Sadly, it would be impossible to recommend this game to anyone. Even as a long time Destiny fan.… Expand
  20. Lian_Ruins
    Mar 2, 2023
    3
    I've completed the story Campaign few hours ago. Horrible story, terrible writing, absolutely different from what Bungie hyped so far throught trailers, really poor Missions design, Strand is not ready to compete with Light Subclasses we already have. Definetely not the start we hoped for with this new Expansion and what Bungie promised. Many good changes in the system and gameI've completed the story Campaign few hours ago. Horrible story, terrible writing, absolutely different from what Bungie hyped so far throught trailers, really poor Missions design, Strand is not ready to compete with Light Subclasses we already have. Definetely not the start we hoped for with this new Expansion and what Bungie promised. Many good changes in the system and game organizzation but at the same time at the cost of our power and fantasy (for example: we have Loadouts now but since many Mods have been removed, we have no Builds to play with). Enemies made much stronger that needed and we weakened for apparently no reason...?

    Right now I suggest everyone to wait a Season or two before dive in into Lightfall and give Bungie time to understand the mistakes they made and fix things up.    … Expand
  21. Benzant
    Mar 5, 2023
    3
    Death to Sony, death to the backstabbers of bungie death to Playstation, destrucción Destruction of everything related to playstation
  22. Asgard0822
    Mar 1, 2023
    3
    Story: barely any story or explenation on things and campaign missions get replaced by Strand tutorials. Surely not a DLC story, but feels like a season story.
    Characters are trying to be funny during a war on Neomuna, weird vibe.
    And dialogue is really cringy Mods: the mod system has been reworked but its awful and full of weird choices (like ammo mods now depend on burn of the    Story: barely any story or explenation on things and campaign missions get replaced by Strand tutorials. Surely not a DLC story, but feels like a season story.
    Characters are trying to be funny during a war on Neomuna, weird vibe.
    And dialogue is really cringy

    Mods: the mod system has been reworked but its awful and full of weird choices (like ammo mods now depend on burn of the weapon in sted of type of weapon)

    Strand: forced down your throat during story in sted of letting players explore themselves.
    no grenade charge cause of the grapple hook is a weird choice, surely when the grapple recharges slow as hell outside story.

    Loot: sadly a lot of reskins and no real weapons that stand out sadly.
    the DLC armor isnt my cup of tea either.

    Idk what happend at bungie, but it weird to think they made Witch Queen last year when you compare it to this...
    This 50 bucks DLC has been an empty filler DLC before the Final Shape and its brought in an awful way    … Expand
  23. Lian_zzz
    Mar 25, 2023
    3
    It feels like bungie's main focus now is just to extend players' time in the game without respecting it and considering the experience. The difficulty-scaling is so messy across the game, imagine patrol ads being harder to kill than the contest raid enemies... It used to have little fun, but now just meaningless grind, not to mention the expansion is 50 euro with full of reskins, evenIt feels like bungie's main focus now is just to extend players' time in the game without respecting it and considering the experience. The difficulty-scaling is so messy across the game, imagine patrol ads being harder to kill than the contest raid enemies... It used to have little fun, but now just meaningless grind, not to mention the expansion is 50 euro with full of reskins, even beyond light brought us some new cool gun models… Expand
  24. N3XTNOTCH
    Mar 2, 2023
    3
    The only "good" thing about the Destiny 2 Lightfall dlc is the amount of content is inculded. Everything else is a letdown, be it the campaign, the weapons (not including the preorder bonus), the season activity and weapon for that, or the lack of making any sense on what the whole point is. Honestly, if you were planning to spend money, use it on something else. Worst Destiny dlc besidesThe only "good" thing about the Destiny 2 Lightfall dlc is the amount of content is inculded. Everything else is a letdown, be it the campaign, the weapons (not including the preorder bonus), the season activity and weapon for that, or the lack of making any sense on what the whole point is. Honestly, if you were planning to spend money, use it on something else. Worst Destiny dlc besides Curse Of Osiris and Warmind.… Expand
  25. shi11tenshi
    Mar 8, 2023
    2
    Lame old destiny at its bs once again. I really dislike the grind over and over every year. Sad thing is the grind is to get to master content i have already completed. Now I have to grind 300 more light to play stuff I already have?. Feels like an arbitrary waste of time. Light level is the problem and holding this game back. Find another way to keep people interested in the game TheLame old destiny at its bs once again. I really dislike the grind over and over every year. Sad thing is the grind is to get to master content i have already completed. Now I have to grind 300 more light to play stuff I already have?. Feels like an arbitrary waste of time. Light level is the problem and holding this game back. Find another way to keep people interested in the game The Grind isn't interesting anymore. Try you know making compelling levels of a story like you used to.… Expand
  26. F1reF0x
    Mar 3, 2023
    2
    This new DLC fells like I just paid to get a new manifestations - Strand. Is it worth? No! Just wait if you get this for a low budget price or wait till the next big DLC. This wasn't worth the 50€. Very sad because I was really pumped up after Witch Queen.
  27. Steviesiganoff
    Mar 2, 2023
    2
    Just really disappointed was expecting so much from this expansion if your new to destiny I can’t say in good conscience to buy lightfall
  28. DoorFang
    Mar 7, 2023
    2
    Really disappointed with this release. Feels lackluster and empty. They phoned this one in. Wish I could get my money back. Wait until a massive sale price would be my advice.
  29. Malohu
    Mar 1, 2023
    2
    Total waste of money. There is no story to speak of and they explain very little. Its like the whole thing was written by an elementary school drama class. The new characters are trash and the dialog is hard to listen to. No changes in the weapons just a bunch of reskins. Definitely not worth $50 let alone $99 with the season pass. If you already play Destiny you might be stuck but if yourTotal waste of money. There is no story to speak of and they explain very little. Its like the whole thing was written by an elementary school drama class. The new characters are trash and the dialog is hard to listen to. No changes in the weapons just a bunch of reskins. Definitely not worth $50 let alone $99 with the season pass. If you already play Destiny you might be stuck but if your new I would skip it.… Expand
  30. Remiulv
    Jun 1, 2023
    1
    Worst expansion for destiny 2, what the hell are bungie doing? The story is so boring, and the missions so lame. Who ever wrote this story deserves to get fired. Nothing makes sense
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 24
  3. Negative: 0 out of 24
  1. XGN
    May 1, 2023
    80
    Destiny 2: Lightfall hits a lot of great notes. The new subclass, Strand, is very cool to use and gives you a lot of new movement options. Neomuna is a true sight to behold and invites players to explore. The most important part of the expansion however is the campaign and even though it has a lot of amazing and cool moments, the story falls short. Lightfall offers up more questions while we should have been getting some answers.
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  2. PLAY
    Apr 5, 2023
    50
    The gap between what Lightfall promised to deliver, and what it has actually provided, is unacceptably wide. There’s plenty to do, but you’ve done most of it before. [Issue#26, p.78]
  3. Digital Chumps
    Mar 22, 2023
    65
    Destiny 2: Lightfall is disjointed in story, but pulls through with its gameplay. Something has to give with the former, as the story needs to be memorable and engaging, and this expansion simply didn’t get there in either category.
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