Future 2: The Last Form is lower than a month away, and Bungie has formally set the stage with its newest cinematic.
[Warning: This post contains spoilers for the finale mission of Destiny 2: Season of the Wish, which includes a major cutscene that leads into The Final Shape expansion.]
On Tuesday, Guardians jumped into a brand new mission that took them into the Black Backyard, the place the finale of the unique Future takes place. Upon ending the mission, gamers have been proven a brand new cutscene, which sees the return of Cayde-6, the beloved (and long-dead) Hunter Vanguard.
For some fast context, The Witness — Future 2’s largest dangerous — created a portal into The Traveler on the finish of the Lightfall marketing campaign final yr, and it’s been hanging out in there ever since. Guardians have been unable to go inside, because the portal kills something that will get shut.
Nonetheless, months in the past, the Vanguard determined to permit The Crow to want his method into The Traveler. The concept right here is that, as a result of Crow (previously prince Uldren) and his sister Queen Mara have such a robust connection, Mara would have the ability to twist actuality in an effort to assist gamers get contained in the portal.
And that’s the place the Future 2 story paused for months, due to Bungie delaying The Last Form from February to June.
The cutscene on Tuesday lastly pushes the story ahead once more, as we see Crow tumble out of the portal and into The Traveler itself. Except for the large monolith of dying looming within the background — The Witness’ fortress — The Traveler appears picturesque. However Crow hardly has time to absorb the sights earlier than getting shot at.
Veteran gamers will probably acknowledge the silhouette of Crow’s attacker nearly instantly: Cayde-6, the wisecracking Hunter Vanguard that Prince Uldren executed again in Forsaken. (This was earlier than Guardians then killed Uldren and he was resurrected right into a Guardian known as The Crow with none of his outdated recollections … that’s till the Hive God Savathun gave Crow Uldren’s recollections in Season of the Misplaced — lots has occurred within the final six years of Future storytelling, OK?)
The cutscene is loaded with fan service, however the actual cash shot is after we see the reverse of Cayde’s notorious execution, which exhibits the previous Hunter Vanguard standing over Crow and aiming down at him. Cayde, in fact, has no concept that that is not Uldren, and that his killer has been reborn as a Guardian. As he’s about to tug the set off, Glint, Crow’s Ghost, reveals himself, inflicting Cayde-6 to decrease his hand cannon.
Cayde helps Crow up and the 2 share an ungainly second earlier than they each give attention to the true job at hand: The Witness.
This cutscene, frankly, guidelines, and is the precise type of factor I used to be on the lookout for forward of The Last Form on June 4. Final yr’s growth, Lightfall, upset a number of Guardians — myself included — within the story division, so to see one thing like this main into what Bungie guarantees would be the finale of the previous 10 years of Future is fairly thrilling. All that’s left now could be for us to traverse the portal ourselves and retake The Traveler from The Witness.
