Recent reviews by Mae

This game has an automated ban system that enables people to mass-report accounts for "trolling" on any chat message, regardless of the content of said message, and get them banned without human review. Support then rejects any appeals with the exact same canned message; this has happened to me four times, and after just getting banned for a fourth time for no reason (I asked to join someone's guild), I'm calling it and uninstalling the game. Unbelievably terrible.

I don't know what the hell happened here, but this is not Dragon Age.

If you've been away from the game and you're thinking about getting back into Destiny for this expansion, it's worth it. If you're already playing, it's pretty much a mandatory purchase, both for story and character power reasons - more on that later.

Writing is good and is properly back to Witch Queen levels where it belonged. As it should be, Nimbus has 5 seconds of screen time in a single mission and is otherwise never seen again. Actually likeable characters - Cayde, Mara, Zavala, Ikora, Crow, Micah-10 - are the ones taking the spotlight here. The dialogue between them in particular is SUCH a huge step up from Lightfall and I'm happy that they've moved away from MCU-tier quips.

The new raid is the hardest in the game with some of the coolest mechanics I've ever seen. Fourth encounter in particular is insanely cool, and does a ton of stuff that I didn't even think would be possible in-engine.

Prismatic is broken, simple as. The only issue with Prismatic is that it's simply better and more fun than everything else, such that you don't really need to play anything else. Light/Dark subclasses definitely feel like they get left behind here, and while that's not the end of the world, it does put an objective power gap between people who own this DLC and those who don't. I expect to see pretty much only Prismatic in PVP soon unless you're playing a Light/Dark subclass for a specific Super.

The Pale Heart as a destination is really nice, but it's a solo patrol for whatever reason so you never end up seeing other Guardians. It's not necessarily good or bad, just weird. You'll see a bunch of callbacks to old Destiny locations and story beats within, and as a vet player, I liked it.

My biggest complaint here is that this expansion's story plays it really safe. It does pretty much exactly what you'd expect for the finale, and not a ton else. Don't expect earth-shattering story revelations or last-minute plot twists. I especially would've really liked to see Zavala's fall into the darkness be a little more impactful, but him losing his Light and then getting Stasis to do the exact same things he was already doing makes Targe's death feel meaningless. I think it would've been cool for him to explore his renewed mortality again, but instead he just goes "I'm not scared of death" and then goes charging head-first into a bunch of Dread anyway.

Overall I don't think this is the 10/10 people are hailing it as, but it's a damn good 8.5/10 that gets the job done, and it's the best expansion they've done for Destiny 2.

just trust me do NOT look at your "hours played this session" stat in steam's shift+tab after you're done playing.

no good very bad nope never again

I just want to know what they were testing this on prior to release. I have a 7800X3D and 4090, and I cannot run the city without stutter to 20-40 FPS. If my computer can't run it, wtf can?

AI generated art used as environmental assets and AI generated voices for mission briefings.

god forbid women have any fun

mc decides to build a bomb for no reason other than the fact that it would be really funny

It's really unfortunate that this game has gotten trolled to hell and back, because this is legitimately something pretty special. The criticism about polish is very warranted - audio clipping and dialogue cutoffs REALLY should've been caught in QA and it's bizarre that they got through - but this is otherwise extremely unique and touching, and KO_OP should be incredibly proud. The unapologetically queer depiction of teen life is really well done as well -- for people concerned that this is unrealistic, a) it's a game about dinosaur people LOL, b) gen Z is incredibly queer and it makes sense for a queer protag to have a friend circle of similarly queer people