Destiny 2 takes a new direction for the game, bringing in Star Wars to try and spice things up
I love Destiny. I play Destiny a lot; it’s possibly one of my most-played games of the last 10 years. I love everything about it. But it’s being handled so poorly due to cuts at Bungie, at Sony, and at ballooning corporate scope. There are issues in this game, just like in any, but it feels like the skeleton crew of developers still left on this project are being told to fix the issues in the next expansion rather than now, leading to an always subpar experience.
Destiny 2 is falling into the trap that many of these long-term games tend to do, which is to wrap up a long storyline and then have to figure out how to keep the momentum going for what’s next. With the previous expansion Bungie established a new storyline, a new thing with The Nine. But here we’re still dealing with The Nine but now we’re also doing Star Wars stuff, so it’s very, very confusing.
Why is Star Wars here? How does this help the new story? It really doesn’t. In fact this expansion is more Star Wars than it is Destiny, and we still have to pay the full price for it, so it doesn’t line up monetarily to spend hundreds of dollars just to play Star Wars in Destiny.
For Destiny fans this is a little treat, albeit not without its now-common issues and bugs, but we’ve been playing this for a decade already so “why not” keep going. For new players this is an incredibly hard pill to swallow, and I feel like it’s not worth the investment.
This review is based on a PC code sent to SideQuesting by the publisher. Images and videos courtesy publisher. It originally appeared on The SideQuest Live for January 16, 2026.
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