Recent reviews by Lynori

I'm genuinely going to quit for now because Helpie is gone ;-;. It was fun for the 10 hours or so I got with him. Helpie wasn’t the only reason I was playing Throne and Liberty, but now that he’s gone—so am I. He was one of the only reasons this game didn’t feel lonely to play. I genuinely cried during the cutscene where he vanished. You can’t just make me build a connection to a character—one of the best in the game—only to remove them with no way to keep them as my companion ;-;

Mr worldwide kills the world

I will never support or pay in any way to be screwed by this ♥♥♥♥♥♥, anti-consumer, purely profit- and FOMO-driven game and company ever again—and I implore you not to do so either.

Never in my life have I ever felt so robbed by a company. I laugh thinking about how excited and happy I was when I originally heard that Bungie, the quirky little indie company, would be splitting from Activision. Now, having had close to $200 in paid content stolen, I can only cry.

Literally, just make a new game. In no world was vaulting content the best choice or a necessary evil. Removing content players paid for is never justified. Bungie owes it to the players who supported their company through thick and thin. And no—no amount of "Only 1% of the player base played that content" or "Players don’t want a new game and want to retain access to their current gear" will ever justify Bungie’s decision. I highly doubt that only 1% of players engaged with that content, and even if that were the case—it’s their right, even if they are a minority! They paid money to access it for as long as they wanted, and nowhere did it state, when purchasing content from 2017 to 2020, that they were paying for a "temporary license," even when pre-ordering to play the original beta. Just make a new game and allow the transfer of previous content and characters—it’s really not that complicated.

Despite my current feelings about the game, every once in a while, I get the urge to come back; lured by my fond memories—only to be slapped in the face by the degradation of the new base experience resulting from the free-to-play transition. The fact that I can literally do nothing unless I pay $40–$50 for the (new, certainly temporary) expansion, because why would I ever trust a company even willing to remove paid content in the first place. Being unable to ever start from power 100 again to experience the game as originally intended. And the gaping holes in the story and content from when they removed the original base campaign, Forsaken, and other DLCs. I think I literally have trauma from the disconnect between how much I loved this game and how much I loathe it now. Everything screams at me to go back, but when I do I realize how much they have bastardized the game I once loved.

We are not cash cows to be exploited, and every Destiny 2 player I see defending this disgusting, anti-consumer robbery makes me lose my faith in humanity a little more. People wonder why "You’ll own nothing and be happy" is slowly becoming more and more of a truth rather than just a saying. Companies like Bungie push and push, just a little more each time, and the happy little sheep roll over, accepting garbage—only paving the way for the rest of us to get screwed over and abused for nothing in return.

Story is meh, game play is good.

I just wish my computer could handle more units at once ;-;

"Esports ready"

I finally learned the controls.

One of my favorite games of all time. Does almost everything right!