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Monday, June 6, 2022 9:43:06 PM

Destiny 2: Bungie 30th Anniversary Pack Review (Tanioka)

No. No, no, no.
That might as well be the whole review, but let me expand a bit for reasonable detail's sake: the only two things worth purchasing this DLC for are Eyasluna and Gjallarhorn. That is it.
Eyasluna is, at the time of writing, the only obtainable Stasis HC - the only other one is Vulpecula, and you'll only see that one mmmmaaaaybe in Xur's weekend rotation - and it can roll Rangefinder / Outlaw + Headstone, which (I'm told by Stasis users) is "utterly bonkers." I can't speak from experience here. I get my kicks off of Void.
Gjally is Gjally. Gjally + catty = nasty. Nasty to the point where it's still the bane of everyone in any Gambit match, an annoying once-a-blue-moon piece in Cruci, and admittedly a solid helper in PvE. But it's just... It's the vanilla of Exotic RLs, y'know? It's an understandable pick, but it's expectable and boring and yawn snore zzz. You get the gist.
And that's... Yeah. That's frankly all there is to it.

Matador 64 and 1000 Yard Stare aren't half-bad, but it's not like other Arc Shotguns and Void Snipers don't exist. A Sudden Death, Found Verdict, Xenoclast, Dead Weight, and Prophet of Doom in case of the former; Frozen Orbit and Fugue-55 in case of the latter. Are these alternatives not 1:1 with the M64 and 1000YD? Yeah. Are some of them harder to obtain? Yep - Found Verdict and Prophet are both Raid shotguns, which doesn't help their case. But their respective DLCs - if they have 'em; this only really applies to Prophet at the moment, lmao - are actually worth their salt.
Grasp is... not a very fun Dungeon. The Ogre encounter is annoying even with a comfy fireteam, the Sparrow segment feels like it was made for Always On Time, and the final boss is fine (though it's unhelped by the fact that Bungie left it in a state of broken-ness during the first week or so of Haunted). The Wilhelm lore is... there. Kind of Borderlands-y, which I get - it's meant to be somewhat silly, after all - but eh.
The Marathon armor ornaments, Traveler bless their material souls, are locked behind Dares. This doesn't seem like much of a problem on the surface, but it'll sure feel like it once you start making your way to the higher ranks of Xur's Strange Favor. I just want my friggin' Security Officer looks, man. Come on.
Shaw Han. Full stop.

Money is a hell of a thing. I find it kinda funny, thinking of it now - Wilhelm being a character of progressive greed and loathing in a twenty-five euro DLC that should've been free from the get-go is pretty fitting. It's also depressing. Get one of the expansions on sale instead. You can thank me any time you want.
2/10. Y'know, 'cause Gjally and 'Luna are the only thing contributing to this being decent.
And, um, maybe the emotes.
... I guess the couch party one's pretty nice. Bump it up to a 2.5/10, what the hell.