Destiny 2: Witch Queen Review - No Witches? 

What's wrong guardian? No Witches?

“You think people play Destiny 2 to have fun?” - Bricky

Watching both Bricky and Skill Up’s reviews of Witch Queen today was really interesting

Man it is so refreshing to see someone talk so positively about Destiny

Debra wilson is a great VA in the gaming space. Really happy to see her get bigger roles now. For reference Bricky, she is Amanda walker in the tell tale game, Harbinger in Halo infinite, Renata in LOL, and Jormag in Guild wars 2. Shes great and I love her voice work as Savathun

As someone whose always been interested in Destiny as a universe and as a story first and a game second, Witch Queen took the 6 to 7 years of "villain of the week" story and finally started hitting some damn good narrative beats. They've been doing it well since Beyond Light but goddamn, from the campaign to the lore to the damn RAID- like, i cannot stress enough, they actually made the raid story RELEVANT outside of the raid. There's plenty to say about Gambit being a shambling corpse taking up space and Void 3.0 being REAL fun but also kinda balance-breaking in some ways, but personally, now we actually have an idea of where this stupid space opera is going and a face to the big bad leading the Pyramids and Disciples, the rest is confetti. The battle lines have finally been drawn and I'm so fckin hyped for where this leads now.

Rhulk’s encounter is like, when you get a DPS phase, so does he.

The bit about re-doubling on lore exposition around 13:40-something I do agree with as someone who's really invested in the lore and knows most if not all of the little details. However have you considered the people who will run through the campaign with voice lines turned down and subtitles off that will half-watch a cutscene and then go "I don't get it"? (Looking at you Th3Jez)

My problem with destiny is the new player experience. With Bungie killing previous content It feels like trying to watch End game without having watched any marvel movies up until that point and players should not be forced to have to watch old playthroughs or lore videos to even remotely understand what's going on and whos who.

Seasonal/limited time narrative chapters are such an awful design choice. Like, congrats any players who are new or didn't know the season/event was happening have missed out of parts of the story and will never get a chance to experience them first hand. The FOMO for story stuff like that does keep some players involved well past the point they would have otherwise quit from burnout, but it also drives plenty away as well because it makes it harder and more exhausting to continue caring about.

I don't know a single thing about Destiny but I'm glad you're having fun Bricky

I was unbelievably surprised he didn't mention the music. This is probably the best collection of OST released in a destiny expansion. and if you're a destiny fan, you know how astronomically fucking high of a bar that is.

Cool to see that D2 finally hit its stride. I got too frustrated with the game during beyond light's 2nd season for a bunch or reasons after years. I wont be playing that game again but glad to see the loyal players have finally gotten a quality product after what feels like too long.

"It is the top Destiny has ever been! And I'm a little scared it might not be able to maintain that" Lightfall: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, my poor summer child.

FINALLY! Someone puts Taken King and Forsaken into perspective and doesn't drown in nostalgia. People are weird with how high up they put those two expansions when all they did was make Destiny good.

Describing Savathun's voice acting as "poisonous delivery" is spot on, they really hit the nail on the head when it came to characterising how a god of lies would sound

"I know hunters have brain damage from hitting their heads using stompees" As a hunter that doesn't use stompees, I approve this message. I thoroughly enjoyed this video and now has me questioning if I've encountered a wild bricky in the throne world... I will keep my eye out, hugs will be given.

Okay I watched the whole video, and I only have one issue. Witch queen and destiny as a whole seems to kinda embrace it’s existing player base and kinda forsaken any possible new players. After playing witch queen and experiencing the Kino of it, I told my friend. He seemed excited since all he plays is FF14 so a new game would be nice. But after playing red war and such, he has no clue the story, the relations between people, why I fucking dislike crow the way I do, so on. That’s my only major complaint. Well that and not having 6 friends to play destiny with but besides the point. If there was a way to redownload old content and locking you out of playing it unless you had gear from that expansion or before would be my suggestion to fix it and to also appreciate old design.

Ever since finding your channel and getting me into Warhammer 40k I’ve started a new passion project: I’m making concepts for a tabletop wargame for Destiny, with armies for each race/faction in the game. And with the New Witch Queen Expansion I’ve started working on Lucent Brood and Ikora’s Hidden army concepts. I’m so happy this game is only getting better because not only am I a fan of Destiny, but my passion project is only getting more and more ideas for Factions and mechanics. Thank you so much for introducing me to the tabletop scene, I wouldn’t be working on this without you!

We all know Bricky gets Witches

24:30 I know this is a Destiny thing, but if you read the lore the fireflies were going to kill Joel anyways as soon as he stepped out the building. So in a sense he killed them before they could kill him

“90% of the complaints about Destiny are either outdated, or just memes, or done by people who don’t play Destiny” You literally described the hate mob so accurately with this 😂😂

Then lightfall happend

This... did not age too well.

bro I basically play none of the games Bricky discusses but I always like watching his videos. Also he introduced me to frostpunk, I know damn well that if I ever have time for video games I can trust this man's taste

Hey Bricky, have you ever played Deep Rock Galactic? it's a coop game about dwarks in space fighting big bugs to mine some stuff that actually works really well on solo too and it's pretty fun and the best part? It has a "battle pass" that actually works and it's really REALLY good

I think the interesting problem I always run into with a game like Destiny after putting it down for years is the question of, is it too late or did I miss too much? Despite the game being at its height, it’s weird. Great video though!

What you said about raids is absolutely right. I’ve been stuck in VOG for 4 hours cuz of 1 shitter on my LFG team when I was learning the raid, but I’ve also done VOG in about 45 minutes, also LFG. It all comes down to skill and execution.

Fun detail about parasite worm gun the ammo counter is a heart rate monitor so we flatline the worm every shot and revive him.

The narrative/difficulty balance finally being hit, that's exactly what makes this the peak to me.

Mfw both bricky and shillup release a Bitch Queen review within a few hours of each other

bricky calling expansions by the name of the raid is a warcrime

Bricky talking about Tzeenches girlfriend, this will be interesting.

The notification from your videos had me audibly saying “YES TIME FOR ANOTHER MASTERPIECE” your content makes my week.

… wow that energy. It’s so nice to see someone just enjoy the fuck outta this DLC. I watched Skill Up’s review and felt like I was wrong to like it. Glad someone else is feeling the awesome.

I disagree in the point about the traveler, for me this campaign only showed the traveler as a even more merciful and loving entity in the destiny universe and as the best side to choose in comparision to the witness by revealing his will to bless the krill(how the hive was called before the darkness), they were the weakest species on their planet and were cursed to short lifes full of suffering and he was going to free them from that, meanwhile the witness lied to them and condened them to become murder machines for eternity, and even after millions of years of the hive trying to kill him and destroying many civilizations that he visited and hold dear (Dreams of alpha lupi basically confirms that the traveler deeply cares about the civilizations that he blesses), he was still willing to free them from the worms curse and give them a second chance, in the current moment they may be using this gift badly, but even humanity took a long time to use the gift of the light for good as we saw with the warlods, and the lore even shows some members of the hive questioning all this violence now that the light gave them the option to not be murder machines.

Agreed with everything, and especially "if sunsetting and vaulting old stuff means Devs have more time to make what we have today? To hell with it, remove it all! "

Agreed with everything in this video. Only thing I want that's sunsetted is Titan. Titan is to me what the Throne World is to you. I could live in the Archology. Also if I could get the Breakneck back that would be cool

Is the majority of past content still inaccessible? Genuinely curious, as a new player who experienced the (imo abysmal) free-to-play trial content, I'd like to experience all the substantial stuff I missed before the most recent expansions. Also, did they say they were putting D1 content into D2 or was that never planned?

I’ve said this before on a different video, but Forsaken went from crawling to walking so that Witch Queen could run and fly

Destiny 2 sunsetting previous DLCs is enough to make me never want to touch it again. Why would I pay $40 per expansion and not be able to play it in 1-2 years?

Just wanna say that you've grown to be one of my fav creators, been watching you since the story time days and your content has just gotten better and better.

bruh, this AND the Skill-Up review today? I can only form my own opinion based on those of youtube personalities so much

Thank you for mentioning glaive animations. I wanted Lubrae's Ruin to do Rhulk's kick so bad for the final melee in a chain

I don't think I'll be playing much Destiny until I can get the final version of it in 6 years or so Edit* Wait. Hold up. So you are telling me in this raid, you don't dunk a ball?

I'll never play a game that deletes old (PAID) content. Fuck that.

So to blow the lid off the glaive discussion if no one else has noticed, but you were saying that the glaive is kind of underwhelming. I'm not sure I agree, because off rip we have an artifact mod that makes all of its damage suppress which is kind of broken since that will stun lock anything that isn't the boss. But what got me laughing maniacally was when you said that maybe it could use some synergy with some Exotic armor or something, because for once, my vanity has done me a favor in Destiny. So I'm a Warlock main, so it was awhile before I noticed this, but eventually I got around to leveling up my Hunter, and I was a void hunter. I always thought the bow was cool, I like supporting my team, and the group invisibility is great for reviving downed allies. That being said, I use the Graviton Forfeit religiously, and as someone who avoids PvP like the plague, it doesn't really bite me in the ass too often because it's a get out of jail free card that if used optimally, can keep you in stealth indefinitely. But you came here for the glaive. Remember the void hunter rework? Did you notice the part where you can get invisibility resets off of killing suppressed enemies? Some of you may be ahead of me, but think of it. Your glaive suppresses, your subclass makes you invisible for killing suppressed enemies, and you're wearing an exotic that extends invisibility. And if I remember correctly, you also get bonus damage coming out of stealth. Seriously. Try this build in PvE. So long as there are mobs that aren't the boss, I'm am nearly permanently invisible. I don't know what causes it, it would require more testing, but sometimes it even lets me wail on enemies without breaking the invisibility. I don't even use the glaive's ammo. In fact, in that one campaign mission where you have to deactivate the scanners in the pyramid and kill that Cabal boss, I decided for fun to not kill anything and just focus the boss, go invisible after the shield comes up, and then get the scanners, wash, rinse, repeat, but it was SO effective that it eventually was spawning so many enemies with each new wave, and I hadn't even killed the last one, that it began to slow down my computer as this mass of mobs swarmed the area around the boss. The best part is, in an effort to thin out the herd to get some heavy ammo for the boss, you would think coming out of stealth is suicide at that point, but when you only come out of stealth for 3 jabs maximum depending on the enemy, the time it takes for them to register you're there, turn to you, and fire, you've already killed the straggler and you're on to the next. In other words, at least while this artifact that gives the glaive suppression on all damage is around, it is strong in PvE arguably broken, and in a solo void hunter run, it is like activating God mode. Oh and, yes, I didn't forget that you said this is all due to the seasonal artifact. I know it's only temporary, but it is FAR PAST STRONG even if temporary.

ive been playing destiny since D1 first launched, ive been here since the beginning, and without a shadow of a doubt this is my favorite DLC to be released. More than just the main story, all the little side stories hidden in lore entries and weapons are good enough on their own, and the main campaign far exceeds The Taken King, which was my all time favorite. Going forward, I can't wait to see what Bungie has in store for all the seasons, and eventually Lightfall.

Hmmm, a two handed spear like weapon that is also part gun, sounds like Bricky just wanted to play a Custodes in D2

I hear you, but still find unacceptable that content I paid for is not available any more. That should not be legal. Sure, some of it was lame, but I can't introduce Destiny 2 anymore to friends who never played before; it's like asking someone to start reading Lord of the Rings with the 3rd book...

For destiny veteran the best expansion so far. BUt for new player there has never been a worse time to start playing destiny. There is no story to get invested in. IF you literally want to know who the fuck Uldren is or why you should care about sawathun, the only thing you can do is to watch 5 hours long video about game that no longer exists. Too bad you started playing destiny to late, this story no longer exists in the game.

Makes me so happy to hear bricky gush about this game I love. It's got it's problems, but I'm glad more people are finding thier own love for the game

"Void 3.0 is as bad is stasis was in beyond light" - A pvp player on drugs

I'm glad that you enjoyed Witch Queen, Bricky Legend Campaign was a fuckin' Nightmare, but a good one The Loot was worth it, and with such a great story I didn't mind the Ass-Fuckening lol Also I'm glad I'm not the only one who struggled at the Giant Scorn Bitch.

You know what, I almost fell for it. I almost reinstalled the game, thank God I came to my senses. Good video Bricky, it it almost managed to get myself an avid "I won't support this game due to X reason" person to actually begin the reinstall process of the game and look up the dlc prices. Very well made and a person can see that you put a lot of time and effort into it.

Even though I couldn't be paid to play Destiny 2 ever again I always like watching videos on it from people like Bricky and Darkside Royalty Lore.

Debatable if every season was good in beyond light imo and tbh the only decent thing for it was the new sub class

The rock bottom joke killed me I love you Brick

The seasonal content and sunsetting killed the game for me. Can't be fucked playing a game that removes the content I buy. Hopefully under Soney they'll make a make a Destiny 3 with a new engine that is easier to develop with so they can produce content more efficiently without having to remove it later.

Glaive is just a Guardian Spear, change my mind

I love destiny I just don’t like that destiny 2 isn’t conducive for casual play there’s no way I can keep up while trying to do everything else in life I completely understand the appeal of that and I wish I had the time but I also wish I could come home and just put in an hour or 2 every couple days rather than feeling like I’m falling behind everyone else

6:59 "all the complains is wipe away because it a good expansion. pvp players: skeleton. pvp players after WQ: dust.

I'd like to see Bricky do reviews on the seasons - more specifically, what they brought to the table, new or reprised. His review of Void 3.0 as fun instead of over-/under-powered or over-/under-tuned really made me happy.

I love that bricky is back into Destiny bcs rn is the best fps out there with battlefield 2042 being a mess, and the new cod being boring af and halo having no new content

goddamnit bricky youre really about to get me back into destiny huh.

So, Brick, I heard you a recommending it to everyone. So, shall I recommend it to my friend who bought it at Forsaken and dropped it before Shadowkeep, without sighing up to do the explaining of the required non-accessible seasonal plot for 4 hours and why his bought dlc's are no longer playable?

Hearing the "Have a little faith" bit regarding the number of times Ikora mentions that the Hive were lied to made me chuckle because I know a few people who went through the mission for Lament and still didn't realise that Clovis Bray = Banshee-44

I highly doubt vaulting of the content is there to save development time, I have a feeling they are just taking our eyes from the truth.

By a purely aesthetic definition, the dreaming city color scheme seems to better fit your preferences of "magenta, statues, flowers, the combination of a metal and somthing white/magenta colored." Which do you like better Bricky, the throne world or dreaming city?

My biggest complaint about destiny even from the beginning is that you can’t really rest on your laurels. You always have to coming back every week to get your bounties, RAID, heroic strikes in it just feels like a job after a while.

3 hours for Last Wish? I remember going on LFG and joining teams that "knew what we were doing", and spending 8+ hours WITHOUT COMPLETING IT, because supposedly competent teammates didn't know how to count from left to right (Kalli fight), or couldn't stand on the appropriate platform (Shuro Chi puzzle). Hell, even for the Riven cheese, in which all you had to do was melt her in one go with a rocket launcher, teammates couldn't even do THAT right. ;D

I loved Destiny 2 so much. Me and a friend of mine played it for hourse on end. Until we experienced our first ligth level reset. Everything we grinded for days was just worhtless untill we grind agin for a coupel of days. Well, befor that we had to reach the soft cap and then had to work towards the hard cap, again. I really like destiny 2, i really do. But if a game just says the time i invested in it is worthless, im not exactly motivated to play anymore. Im punnisched for taking a break from this game. So if i stop playing for i while it will be a long one, because i have no reason to return knowing i have to grind from base level again. Oh cool a new dlc dropped that looks really good. Cant wait to grind for a few days to be abel to play it. I find it bafeling how littel i hear about this, because i cant understand how people like a game, that does not value the time you put in it. I know this is kinda out of place, but im just sad that Destiny 2 made me to not like it anymore. I love this game so much but i dont want to play it. At all.

Want to know something even better? The VA for Savathune is also Eva. Yeah, the old woman who comes for the holidays.

Maybe for someone who has played every Destiny expansion and season this makes sense, but the way you describe Destiny is like you're talking about a completely different game. You can't participate in the campaign because it all got deleted. Outside of a 5 hour lore video you can't be part of the story. Everything is fomo so why bother getting invested? Unless you've already been playing you can't get any of the guns, armor, or cosmetics that everyone else has. Anything you work to get is already planned to be deleted. There's no reason to play anything other than the raid and maybe nightfall since every activity in the game only drops blues. There's no way to intentionally get gear other than "I was running around and for no reason a thrall dropped a purple gun after 10 hours." Crafting is a step in the right direction but a bandaid solution. The only thing it has is the gunplay. It does that fine but it's like none of the perks or skills matter. There's only a select handful that do matter, and the difference in power is the difference between one shotting a raid bosss, or hours of chip damage. Unless you're lucky enough for the Destiny gods to grant you the correct gear, you don't get a choice in your build. Destiny to me has always been "why bother?" It's bad, and it's basically the same game that came out 8 years ago minus the loot cave.

I know this will be different for your channel but can you please review my favorite band named Ice Nine Kills specifically the Silver Scream albums. They are based off of horror movies and they are really good. Also great video my dude.

Its not the best to be honest, yea it does not have most of the old problems but it has new problems, old campaigns are gone so no new player know what’s going on, crafting system is literally the worst(it’s not worth the time at all) no new pvp maps in like what 900days? I don’t play pvp but still, and there is gambit, it’s worst then it ever was.

Taken king’s changes to light lvl is what made me quit destiny. And D2, well, I think I got like 3 hours in. Twice. Before I just gave up.

This game is fun, until you realize that the dlcs were prices of a game, 60 fucken dollars on top of the 60 you payed for the game, then it went f2p and the dlcs still cost money 😂

i’m irrationally buying this while high, you better be right

i actually think that destiny 2 was great, and i decided to start playing it again recently. and then i found out that they removed all of the content that i was in the middle pf doing. like, wtf?

What a garbage take at 34:30, yeah sure let's sacrifice new people experience cause it doesn't affect me so who cares... thx Bricky

Well Bungie took in count that some of the players are like Jez who hasn't been playing with voices since the launch of D2

*shows clip of Ana and Saint* "Saint-14 is back" doesn't mention Ana... (great review though)

The Virgin Ballas, The Chad Rhulk

No way they put a difficult mode picking no way told changes everything fucking boring it was iv played it boring

Lmao as a titan you know I completed the story with no idea what was happening or why I was doing it

Meanwhile season of the haunted :/

My brain on destiny: explosions make me go vrooooooom. Also the glaives are literally guardian spears

16:22 ...but here's the thing.... It's made outta worms.... It even fires worms..... But It STINGS like you wouldn't believe....

Glad to see bricky doing some destiny 2 content. As the one creator who got me into Warframe, Destiny 2 and the bane of my existence that is League, I'm happy to see him talk about one of those games every now and then

I agree the witch queen is the best dlc. But i still think Oryx is a better villain in terms of lore

I believe Rhulk sub name should be “Lord of kicking you in the face”

I'd love to get back into destiny but I feel too far behind to just jump in again. I'm afraid of being drowned by dlc, seasonal events, ect.

turns out bricky was in love with destiny 2 this whole time

Man Bricky looking in shape af, nice work!

Damn looks good, I'll care again when they unvault the stuff I like

Ooff....the mediocre game riddled with every MTX possible...pass

I had to abuse void invisibility to much during the legendary campain

the issue with destiny is being locked into mediocrity unless you pay money. They made the shitty part of the game free, "YAY!!!!". I understand that this may be the best content for destiny 2, but would you ever in your right mind reward mediocrity with the saving grace being that it is backed by paywalls for the good parts?

Hey bricky have you played warhammer 40000 battle sister?