It showcases so much potential for ideas and stories but settles on an adequate, middle of the road balance. Here’s the problem though – more than anything else before, Rise of Iron illustrates just how far Destiny has to go. ' Rise of Iron is actually fairly bereft of interesting characters.' By comparison, Rise of Iron is a smaller offering in terms of content and it’s priced $10 less. That is, until The Taken King released last year and brought sweeping changes to its characters, progression systems, loot and quest structure. I was an Iron Lord by this point, bestowed with relics like a flaming sword and a revitalized Gjallarhorn.Īnd yet despite how it sounds over a few minutes, Destiny‘s Rise of Iron still manages to elicit a somewhat bored “Is that all?” from its offerings.īungie’s Destiny has always had problems with content. A looming, cable-infested, red-tinged neon lair of horrors and Splicers. The ascent to the top was followed by a descent into one of the many hearts of Darkness conquered till now. Wielding a giant flaming axe in battle to conquer a techno-organic virus eventually led to traversing the innards of the opposing Wall. These ancient warriors of the Golden Age – I had finally learned of their fates. Ascending the winter-worn steps from a bygone era, my Guardian stood beneath the statues of the Iron Lords.

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