{"id":686,"date":"2026-04-10T09:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5faf0d6ae4b017964f148395"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:03:08","slug":"destiny-2-beyond-light-review-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/destiny-2-beyond-light-review-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Destiny 2 – Beyond Light Review in Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Were it not for Bungie\u2019s split with Activision last year, it feels like Destiny 2\u2019s<\/a> latest expansion, Beyond Light, might have just been called Destiny 3 instead. As the first installment in a trio of announced expansions, Beyond Light takes some bold steps in a new direction for the series \u2013 whether it\u2019s the story\u2019s darker, morally grey tone, the removal of legacy content from Destiny 2\u2019s sandbox, or our formerly-exemplar Guardians giving in and using the corrosive power of The Darkness. In many ways, this is not the same Destiny 2 we\u2019ve been playing for the past three years.<\/p>\n

But where Beyond Light deviates from its legacy in some important ways, it also finds itself making some of the same mistakes all over again. With a campaign that\u2019s too short, an endgame that has you grinding the same activities ad nauseum, and a sandbox that seems perpetually imbalanced, my Guardian\u2019s adventures on the snow-covered moon of Europa sometimes had me feeling left out in the cold in a very familiar way.<\/p>\n