It can be hard to keep track of who’s who, but that’s probably what the lore tab’s for. At this point, the game quickly throws a lot of proper nouns at you: Crows, Screebs, Ravagers, Scorn, Barons. Naturally, things don’t go as planned, and a lot of these creatures bust loose. In the opening mission, players accompany Cayde on a mission to secure the Prison of Elders, a facility located in the asteroid belt where some of the solar system’s fiercest criminals are kept in cryo-stasis. The fan-favorite character of Cayde-6 ( Nolan North), a posthuman “exo” in a robot body, is the driving force of Forsaken’s main story line. It’s comforting to know that Bungie and its partners haven’t forgotten, either, how odd this game can be when it’s at its best. “Sometimes I forget you’ve killed a god ,” says a new character called the Drifter (Todd Haberkorn). The first “Destiny” had players hunting down robot time lords and a literal heart of Darkness outside of known space, and Forsaken finds that footing again. “Destiny 2” did away with that approach, by and large, trading the Clarke-and-Kubrick vibe for mainstream blockbuster action in the vein of Bungie’s earlier success, “Halo.” But Forsaken rolls back the clock on that, too, introducing a new library of unlockable in-game lore and a whole lot of interdimensional strangeness - portals between realities, outlaw alien gunslingers, lots of teeth and tentacles.
Its incoherent narrative and inscrutable lore gave players a mystery to puzzle out, and reasons to keep playing, and those who wanted to try to really understand it could read more of the story in prose form at Bungie’s website.
The grind of leveling up and collecting relevant gear is slow and steady again, and exotic items feel truly rare and meaningful for the first time since the launch of the original “Destiny.” What’s old is new again, but Forsaken also innovates and reinvigorates this joint effort from Bungie and High Moon Studios outdoes even 2015’s “Destiny: The Taken King.”
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“ Destiny 2’s” Forsaken expansion is the most interesting thing to happen to the series in four years.