The narrative that this expansion sucks is such a knee jerk reaction, it's almost as frustrating as the low quality narrative in the Lightfall campaign.

Lightfall's narrative sucks, there's no defending it and while opinions are split on Nimbus' character (I think they're funny but occasionally annoying), it's pretty unanimous that the full story sucks and they should've taken a completely different approach when it came to presenting this story in lieu of The Witness attacking the solar system. I felt deflated after the campaign because I love this universe and its stories so much, but I allowed myself to continue playing the game to see how I felt after a couple of days doing post-campaign stuff.

Turns out, there's a LOT of good here! QoL changes make the foundational gameplay experience smoother than ever for me, Strand is a lot of fun and with a few tweaks could be even better, Neomuna is a really cool environment (people say it feels empty and dead and while enemy density could be dialed up, we've never had an environment that's "alive" in the sense of civilians walking around a war zone). The post-campaign questlines are decent narratively and gameplay wise, and the new exotics are powerful and fun to use.

Is Lightfall as good as Witch Queen? Nah. Is it worse than Shadowkeep or Beyond Light? Hell no. In my opinion, Lightfall perseveres to be a really enjoyable time in spite of the severe narrative shortcomings. When the story let the game down, the gameplay and encounter design stepped in to save the day.

I have a feeling in a week's time, we'll see some negative reviews flip to positives when it stops being cool to hate the expansion, and when the raid comes in and, as always, makes the Destiny community fawn over the game again.

CONS:
-Story sucks
-Final boss encounter is mid (especially if solo)
-Pls let me grapple more

PROS:
-I like Neomuna
-Strand is fun and powerful
-Solid post-campaign content
-New exotics are bumping
-Mission design in campaign missions (for the most part) is really fun

The narrative that this expansion sucks is such a knee jerk reaction, it's almost as frustrating as the low quality narrative in the Lightfall campaign. Lightfall's narrative sucks, there's no defending it and while opinions are split on Nimbus' character (I think they're funny but occasionally annoying), it's pretty unanimous that the full story sucks and they should've taken a completely different approach when it came to presenting this story in lieu of The Witness attacking the solar system. I felt deflated after the campaign because I love this universe and its stories so much, but I allowed myself to continue playing the game to see how I felt after a couple of days doing post-campaign stuff. Turns out, there's a LOT of good here! QoL changes make the foundational gameplay experience smoother than ever for me, Strand is a lot of fun and with a few tweaks could be even better, Neomuna is a really cool environment (people say it feels empty and dead and while enemy density could be dialed up, we've never had an environment that's "alive" in the sense of civilians walking around a war zone). The post-campaign questlines are decent narratively and gameplay wise, and the new exotics are powerful and fun to use. Is Lightfall as good as Witch Queen? Nah. Is it worse than Shadowkeep or Beyond Light? Hell no. In my opinion, Lightfall perseveres to be a really enjoyable time in spite of the severe narrative shortcomings. When the story let the game down, the gameplay and encounter design stepped in to save the day. I have a feeling in a week's time, we'll see some negative reviews flip to positives when it stops being cool to hate the expansion, and when the raid comes in and, as always, makes the Destiny community fawn over the game again. CONS: -Story sucks -Final boss encounter is mid (especially if solo) -Pls let me grapple more PROS: -I like Neomuna -Strand is fun and powerful -Solid post-campaign content -New exotics are bumping -Mission design in campaign missions (for the most part) is really fun