Warning: This article includes spoilers for this week’s Season of the Wish story events in Destiny 2.
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Instead, we’re crawling.
Destiny 2’s story isn’t gearing us up for a throw-down with a godlike alien creature.
It isn’t showing us the terrifying or horrifying consequences of letting the Witness go unchecked.
It hasn’t even really made clear what the Witness’s goals are or what it’ll actuallydo.
And with the two seasons that followed, events have been anticlimactic.
This isn’t a complaint about the content of the seasonal stories this year.
It’s just that simple.
What’s more, Destiny 2 hasreallyfailed to sell the gravity of what we’re facing in the finale.
We don’t know what the Pale Heart is (except that it’s inside the Traveler).
And we’re definitely not in any serious rush, regardless.
Back out here in the regular universe, things continue as normal.
There are a bunch of aliens hanging around and we shoot them.
They’re not particularly dangerous.
Everybody who was any kind of threat has been summarily dealt with or has disappeared.
This is not to say that Destiny 2 needs to explain everything in order for this story to function.
Is the alliance with the Cabal straining under all this standing around?
In a word: no.
It’s business as usual.
The Final Shape will be an unprecedented moment for Destiny 2.
The game needs to make us feel it, now more than ever.
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