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okie let's see what thoughts I can get out

... Destiny 2 is kinda all over the place, in both good and bad ways, and I really struggle to pinpoint how I ultimately feel about it. Even just by Kyle himself good god I guess with the plot being a protagonist that's the child of the Destiny 1 protag they're gonna ham up his childish personality and naivete, buuuut I mean he is a good kid, just frustrating at times. Honestly he deserves better than the plot he's given of just... I wanna be a hero! Oh Reala you need a hero? I'll just do whatever you need!... what's that, you're not gonna really tell me anything about your goals or who you are or what this story even is?... sure that's fine! Ultimately it just happens to work out but oof, I guess I'll take that out on the bizarre story

That being said yet again... the story isn't all bad, it's certainly more engaging than Destiny 1 starting off with a goose chase of flat out generic baddies until the plot twist that actually some other generic baddies are the problem and then finding out oh hey these generic baddies were being misled / borderline possessed by the REAL ancient baddie! A couple of the big plot twists were predictable but that doesn't at all mean bad, I rather like Judas's story, and the relation of Reala with the big bad makes for a fair main plot.

Reala's pretty terrible though. I really wanted to like her, and for the first half of the game I can... but when she gets into questioning the validity of fascism and still endlessly keeping everything to herself despite Kyle's endless and honestly mindless devotion to her for little reason. Their relationship is terribly contrived, he likes her because she needs a hero and he wants to be a hero although he doesn't know what the story is... and she likes him because he will be her hero which is what she's looking for... also the whole realization where he does become recognized as the hero she's looking for... I don't get it, it's all just made-up plot serving its needed purpose without explanation or reason.

Gameplay is kind of a clunky mess coming from Eternia, I think it was too ambitious for what it could pull off, specifically with the overworld good lord we were not ready for a zoomed in perspective this close... although I guess it's kind of a neat alternative take since we already explored this world in Destiny 1 they wanted to mix it up. Dungeon design the worst so far and I'm ever so thankful I played this on the PC with a speed-up button, if I didn't go on manual and speed through the re-traversals mandated by plot and unintuitive dungeon design I'd go insane. Battles were tough, I'd probably appreciate this more if the game was in English so I could go more in-depth with my setups, but it's still enjoyable even with necessary grind.

Despite my issues with Reala, characters overall are pretty great. Particularly Judas/Nanaly/Harold all top tiers (impressive given where Judas came from, and all the enjoyment Harold brought despite coming in so late in the game). Loni's got his moments but I think the womanizing was played up too much he became one-note with the odd serious moment. Villains............. not great, but middle-of-the-road decent, at least ahead of Eternia's which is kinda the same "acceptable" tier. Was really expecting better of Barbatos, from how he's always the antagonist representation of the series I see, but ultimately eh he's a mindless henchman. I like him but damn I was hoping for another real villain to finally compete with Dhaos.

I think that's it for my Destiny 2 thoughts... it sounds a lot more negative than I intended, I actually contemplate putting it #2 ahead of Phantasia... but I don't think I will. So I think I'm ending up with Eternia > Phantasia > Destiny 2 > Destiny for now.

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