While the jury is still out on whether Destiny 2‘s current episodic content structure is good or not, Bungie’s seasonal offerings are wholly inevitable, and the new Episode 2 – Revenant is almost upon us. All content considerations aside, Revenant‘s trailer is appropriately striking and badass, riffing on Doom and Bloodborne.
To be perfectly frank, there are a lot of reasons why a Destiny player might be getting excited about Revenant. Between Onslaught updates, the removal of content time-gating, and a whole suite of cool new weapons and armor, Revenant is already looking mighty fine. If all of those things didn’t sell you on it, though, Bungie’s new trailer may well do so. With music that almost certainly brings up images of Doom and the like, and an art style that even FromSoftware wouldn’t shy away from, Destiny: Revenant may end up being exactly the tour de force that Bungie currently needs.
Destiny 2: Episode 2 – Revenant begins on October 8
Slated to kick off properly on October 8, Destiny 2: Episode 2 – Revenant is our opportunity to take up arms alongside Mithrax yet once more. This time, our enemy is Fikrul himself, the big bad of Forsaken, and a few other notable pieces of Destiny 2 content. As the narration tells us, Fikrul’s managed to get his undead paws on an Echo of the Witness following its defeat, and this led to the creation of a whole new kind of Scorn.
It’s an exciting setup, not in the least because there may or may not be flying Scorn mucking about. With the Guardians taking up arms as kinda-sorta vampire killers, it’s perfectly thematically appropriate for Revenant to adopt an almost Castlevania-esque design language for the season. A timely development too, now that Halloween is on the horizon.
That being said, Destiny 2: Episode 1 – Echoes had some good moments only for it all to kind of fall apart towards the end. Bungie has got a long road ahead if it wishes to impress its players with Revenant, now that the first Episode didn’t quite deliver on all of its promises.
Even if you’re thoroughly uninterested in Destiny 2‘s current content structure, there’s something to look forward to with Frontiers. Destiny 2‘s 2025 format seems way more player-friendly and approachable already. Though, I’d keep this in mind with a pinch of salt at hand: Episodes appeared way better than the prior years’ seasons ahead of their launch, too, and then we got disappointed. Bungie has since corrected the course, yes, but a tiny bit of skepticism goes a long way with Destiny 2, I feel.
