With The Final Shape looming on the horizon of Destiny 2, Bungie has launched a brand new story trailer setting the stakes for the ultimate chapter within the story the developer started with the unique launch of Destiny in 2014. It additionally suggests new twists within the story of the enlargement: the temptation of one in every of Destiny’s most notable characters, Commander Zavala.
Destiny 2 gamers have recognized that the Witness, the antagonist working from the shadows for the final 10 years of the Destiny Gentle and Darkness Saga, has designs to finish the world, however the story trailer lastly reveals us what that may appear to be. The “Final Shape” the Witness needs to result in is a reshaping of actuality that locks the universe into an ideal stillness, which the Witness believes will convey an finish to all struggling. In observe, meaning turning everybody and every thing into taxidermy-like statues, and when the trailer reveals that utilized to the individuals of Earth, it hits fairly onerous.
You possibly can take a look at the trailer your self beneath. It contains the reunion of Cayde-6, who was killed within the Forsaken enlargement however has returned in The Final Shape for causes even he would not perceive, along with his buds Zavala and Ikora. It looks like Destiny 2’s main characters will see a good quantity of motion in The Final Shape, too; the trailer suggests an identical variety of story cutscenes to what Bungie put in Destiny 2’s vanilla marketing campaign.
Most notable, although, is the place the story appears to be headed, with the trailer teasing that Commander Zavala may be tempted by the Darkness. For those who’ve been following the story for the previous couple of years, that makes quite a lot of sense. Zavala has been combating a disaster of religion for some time now, particularly after the occasions of The Witch Queen enlargement when the Hive, a gaggle of genocidal aliens and principally humanity’s biggest enemies, had been gifted with the identical physics-breaking superpowers, the Gentle, as Zavala and the remainder of us Guardians.
Zavala has appeared like he is been having a tough time for the previous couple of years, and after the Lightfall marketing campaign, one in every of his shut buddies and lieutenants, Amanda Holliday, was killed. That loss hit him very onerous, and you may see early within the trailer that Zavala is sporting Amanda’s scarf tied round his arm. So when the Witness means that perhaps Zavala would possibly get every thing he needs if he helps enact the Final Shape, there are some good the reason why Zavala would possibly contemplate the supply.
It is value noting that the trailer is among the many first instances we’re listening to actor Keith David within the position of Zavala, who he performs all through The Final Shape. David is taking on the position from Lance Reddick, who’d performed Zavala since 2014 and was a daily Destiny 2 participant himself, died in 2023.
The Final Shape launches on June 4, so we’ll have to attend till then to see how issues shake out. Within the meantime, take a look at our previews of The Final Shape, together with a take a look at the brand new vacation spot, the Pale Coronary heart of the Traveler, and the expansions story marketing campaign, and its new Prismatic subclass.