So Destiny 2 has been out for just over a month now and the dust has settled. All the reviews are out, the hardcore players have reached the end game, and they are ready to release the prestige mode for the raid. What does this mean? REVIEW TIME! Now you’re probably thinking why the hell are you guys doing a review on a game that came out a month ago? Truth be told because first impressions are bullshit. We’ve had time to play the game at our own pace, reach the end game, talk to other players, and so on and so forth.  First off, D2 from first impressions is just a polished version of D1. A version of the Bungie mammoth that consumed countless hours of thousands of players for 3 years. It’s essentially the polish everyone was expecting from the first DLC released from D1. The human race and guardians have fallen, scattered across the universe and your mission is to get the clan back together! The speaker has been taken, the universe in disarray, and you are the LAST HOPE. We were super happy with the story, in typical Bungie fashion, it kept us playing through it wanting to find out whats going on and how to save the universe. Visually the game is beautiful providing minor details that are appealing to the eye. New guns, new supers, new maps, and everything you would expect from a new game. But Destiny will be forever known as the grind. Spend hours and hours of game time to grind out strikes, crucible games, raids to get that next piece of armor or weapon. The infusion system has been frustrating, only being able to infuse the same type of weapon in order to increase it’s level. The following frustration come from the 275 power level plateau. breaking through that is painstakingly slow. with the only means to break that level is to raid, and weekly NPC engrams. And if you don’t have a crew to run with for a raid…..well good luck. although they have introduced matchmaking of sort for raids to make them inclusive. You are still at the mercy of your fire team leaders and human nature and the trolls that live online. Now that doesn’t mean that you will experience that 100% but it does happen and can be crazy frustrating, to reach the end of a section only to be booted before it’s time to collect your loot.  One of the other issues we found was it felt like Bungie was trying to stall story progression by limiting you getting your sparrow until either you completed the entire story, or reached level 20. We found ourselves walking around for a while going mission to mission and crossing expanses on foot. Super frustrating.  Crucible in our opinion has been downgraded. Not from the gameplay but from the fact that you are forced to play BUNGIES game. game modes are no longer selectable WHICH BLOWS! some people just enjoy playing control or clash or another game type. The crucible now rotates through game modes and is randomized so you are forced to play whatever gametype comes up. What’s up with that?! Now to go along with that, comes the lag and lag switchers, you find most of this in trials, so it can get a bit frustrating. Enough shitting on the aspects of the game that suck, Destiny 2 does have a lot of good. The biggest of course being the community. In any MMO assuming it gets to a large enough level, the online relationships you make are what make the game good or bad in the end. Most of our fireteam was brought over from Destiny 1, and thats crazy to think that we live in an age where you can make friends playing a game online having never met them in real life but have this connection that transcends the game itself. They way bungie has built the game that you need a fireteam to complete objectives, and everything that goes along with it has been done very very well. Being able to join up with randoms for public events, and flex that new emote you got from a bright engram. Overall the game is very enjoyable. With any game of this magnitude you’re going to have issues. Bungie has tried to improve the game based on the recommendations of the Destiny community, and overall they have done a good job. Could it be better? Of course, however ti could also be much much worse! So for us this is a definite pickup if you enjoy playing with other players, solo players can only get so far unless they log a shit load of hours. So ultimately it comes down to time, if you can dedicate significant time into the game, you will reap the rewards. If not it may take forever and frustrating watching everyone surpass you by leaps and bounds leaving you pretty much helpless especially when it comes to crucible, and trying to form a fireteam to take on the raid.