Daily Reaction: After Corridors of Time, Bungie Needs to Embrace Mystery and Surprise in Destiny 2 - Videogames Blogs

Daily Reaction: After Corridors of Time, Bungie Needs to Embrace Mystery and Surprise in Destiny 2



Destiny 2?s latest massive community puzzle has finally been solved. The Corridors of Time required an unrivaled community effort as players gathered pieces for a 5040-piece puzzle that created a maze that displayed a series of 30 symbols once solved. The climax of this nearly week-long surprise puzzle came early in the morning on Monday, January 20. Players finally ran the sequence and were given the opportunity to ?pay respects? at their own memorial as Saint-14 gave the eulogy. It was a fascinating bit of lore (albeit one that players had guessed since first seeing the tomb), but the loot reward was? something already scheduled on the roadmap.
Back at the end of Season of the Undying, I came to the conclusion that Bungie had shown its hand too much. The inaugural season of Destiny 2?s Shadowkeep year left little to the imagination, even going as far as mapping out an event that amounted to a simple boss palette swap. There?s something to be said for managing the expectations of your players. When people saw ?Vex Offensive: Final Assault? scheduled on the calendar, it set up expectations that it would be bigger than it was. Likewise, when Bungie dropped a surprise community puzzle bigger than anything the series has ever seen, players didn?t expect it to lead to something that was already on the roadmap.
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