Byf blasts Lightfall campaign

[u/USArmyOldTimer]

In his new video MyNameIsByf expresses his profound disappoint with Lightfall and concern for Bungie's narrative capabilities and for the future of Destiny 2, particularly The Final Shape.

Here is a link to his video :

https://youtu.be/BcX6TjLbpWU

[u/Aymen_20]

I think what frustrates him most is that it's basically his job to simplify and teach Destiny's story to the playerbase and ESPECIALLY new players (the reason I got into Destiny was actually because of Byf's lore videos) and to see Bungie basically squander this golden opportunity of potential new players with a confusing/unsatisfactory plot is disheartening and it would drive-off a lot of people

Hell, even those who stick through it and decide to watch a lore video to explain things to them are surprised to learn that even the community's lore masters don't know what's happening either.

[u/Yawanoc → u/Aymen_20]

Reminds me of when the Frozen 2 documentary came out, showing that Pixar's staff didn't even know where the story was going within the last few months before it hit theaters. They were still trying to figure out how to end the story while the commercials were hyping up fans for a release date.

Lightfall had a clear theme of "80's view of Cyberpunk," so it really comes across that Bungie knew what highs they wanted to hit, but just had no idea how to put all those high marks into one cohesive story within their time crunch.

[u/East_Onion → u/Yawanoc]

"80's view of Cyberpunk,"

Shocked how no one questioned this, let alone vetoed it as a fucking terrible idea this late in the story, those pyramids have been floating around in the background for what? 4 years now? they finally attack and the director thought it's time to do a cyberpunk themed expansion not a cosmic horror one?

Straight up not thinking about what they're building or the plot

[u/Yawanoc → u/East_Onion]

The raid is definitely leaning more toward cosmic horror, but you’re right.

I’m pretty sure Bungie knew where they wanted to go long term, but didn’t know how to ease us into the Veil and the themes of Final Shape without setting some pieces out. Unfortunately, setting some pieces out is all they ended up doing.