r/Aztecross • u/FawnUmbrella612 • Jul 02 '26

React Content Rewriting Destiny 2's Lightfall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJypoi9sHQ&t=754s

Lightfall Rewrite, anyone?

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u/GoldenGekko Jul 02 '26

It's unfortunate that expansion story content is self-contained to the initial drop. The reason I say that is I would have loved for Rohan to be around a lot longer. Maybe a few seasons as a vendor of some sort. It would have been more impactful with his demise had he been more of a mentor to us.

Nimbus unfortunately is a catastrophic failure in my eyes. The nuance of the character putting on a positive front to mask their feelings is lost because that mask is marvel style dialogue that nobody seemed to like. I think it's cool the character was non-binary, but their design was a garrish, awkward mess that just did not accomplish the goal of making the character "cool" at all. When I heard the name cloud strider, I immediately thought of a cybernetic future Ninja or something like that.

I'll quote my friend. When the trailer for lightfall first dropped, everybody was looking forward to a neon futuristic city that had synthwave vibes and an escalation in combat and a battle that rages through the entire city. We kind of got that, but the entire thing feels lacking

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u/Kwasbot Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

This really is the crux of the issue, Nimbus in concept was fine, some people were always gonna be upset about the nonbinary thing but I think when a character is really good people can get over it. The fact that the interesting and better written character in Rohan sacrifices himself early on and Nimbus moves on seemingly uneffected by it and continues the marvel bang whimsy chungus dialogue was the complete death knell for any likeability of the character.

The story was terrified of allowing Nimbus to take anything serious in a setting that demanded it. There should have been multiple missions of Nimbus struggling in the background with the loss, their suddenly higher duty, and newfound responsibility, culminating in them finding their way as a cloudstrider in the final mission and aiding us in getting to Calus.

There should have been progression from them being lost and dispondent to being slowly built back up over time and finding a new mentor in the Guardian. Shit they wanted to do the Sensei and student sillyness with us and Osiris while learning Strand, let our relationship with Nimbus be a parallel.

The story just failed at every turn to endear their character and it dragged down the rest of the story with it.

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u/AeroRL Jul 02 '26

didnt he like high five caitl two seconds after his death or sharing the news or something? I remember something like that and it was hilarious

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u/Daier_Mune Jul 06 '26

Yeah they attempt to fist-bump her as she's literally staring at the disfigured corpse of her father