Dear fireteam,
Last evening we completed Destiny 2: Shadowkeep‘s Garden Of Salvation raid for the seventh time, and once again I held everyone up while I paused to take screenshots. I am sorry. Ish. Sorry-ish. As I told you when I paused beneath the vast paddlewheels churning up canals of liquid consciousness to take snaps of a cherry tree, it was definitely necessary for work. See, look, here’s a publish about how the technorganic backyard is so very fairly, sharing a few of my pictures of huge landscapes for individuals who can’t or gained’t go to it themselves. It was for work.
Yours spacesincerely,
A
Garden Of Salvation is chuffing beautiful, although. This publish exhibits stuff you’d take pleasure in extra when you first noticed them in-game your self, however scroll on when you gained’t and wanna see some good vegetation? Destiny excels at sci-fi vistas and there’s loads to gawp at on this sculpture backyard world constructed by time-travelling robots venerating some darkish god.
Consider the primary room of the primary encounter. Functionally, it’s a semi-circle with some lumps of canopy. So certain, add an enormous half-pipe stretching again in direction of distant cliffs, statues kneeling in worship, and a spiked technohalo framing the primary boss.
And that is functionally a straight hall, made twenty metres excessive and draped in flowers:
Or with spacefungus:
And I wholly adore the leaping part previous glimmering wheels handing over deep canals of radiolaria, the ‘Vex milk’ which appears to be the thoughts of the robots.
This is simply spectacle, an space with a couple of trifling enemies on the way in which to a different boss. This! All this! Just for journey’s sake!
Destiny 2 can display a way of spectacle that I are likely to solely see in strolling simulators. I talked about that years again with Pip, about how Césure was one of many few games to make a wierd sci-fi area massive sufficient to encourage awe somewhat than have characters act like they’re awed by one thing small and bland. Destiny understands the significance of that feeling and has a few of my favorite game areas (the Whisper zone evokes such magnificent dread).
The underside of the Garden is grand too, revealing the floor as wholly false. And but! Roots penetrate from above, the inflexible and ordered assemble giving solution to the natural.
This portal isn’t even necessary however I nonetheless cease to border a couple of snaps:
I usually neglect to verify my drop from the ultimate chest as a result of I’m held rapt by the creepy statue cupped by branches in a hole of timber whose bark glows with veins of power.
Destiny: a fairly video game.
But actually, I wouldn’t have to spend so lengthy taking screenshots if different individuals weren’t getting in my method all “going to the objective” or “doing this platforming bit” or “Alice are you taking screenshots again?”
Move, please. I’m clearly doing work for enterprise causes.
