Destiny 2, like a lot of long-running service games, is a bit complicated to follow. It’s got a years-long story at this point that weaves together multiple eras, characters and factions, not to mention sci-fi and fantasy elements that embellish things quite a bit. It’s dense and hard to make sense of.
This fact has only become truer for Destiny 2, which had a large chunk of its first-year content ripped out to make room for the Beyond Light expansion in 2020. It’s a shame because a good deal of it was solid and, more importantly, plotted some of the earliest seeds for the upcoming expansion, The Witch Queen, and its villain, Savathûn.
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Bungie, likely aware of how hard this story is to comprehend as a new or lapsed player, while also riding the high of the excitement generating around The Witch Queen, has released an interactive trailer as part of an expansive rollout that’s shown off class changes and a highly-anticipated weapon crafting system. The trailer catches players up on the background of the series’ most threatening villain yet and some of the key moments to keep in mind going into this next stretch of Destiny 2’s ongoing narrative.
Framed as an investigation and debriefing, the minutes-long trailer on Bungie’s website details where Savathûn hails from and the origin of her and her family’s power, as well as the rise of the Hive, her species and a major recurring faction that players frequently battle. Clickable icons dive deeper than the narration to explain facets of the dense lore and some recent story beats that set up the conflicts that will be coming to a head here very soon.
Overall, the trailer is a short-but-smart way to get players caught up just enough to get the magnitude of The Witch Queen ahead of its release on Feb. 22.
Written by Moises Taveras on behalf of GLHF.
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