Episode: Heresy – A Glorious Disaster – And a Warning for Edge of Fate 🔥
Let me start by saying: I love Destiny. I’ve played through the highs and lows, from the Taken King glory days to the darkest depths of Season of the Worthy. But Episode: Heresy?
This isn’t just a misstep. This is Bungie lighting their own story bible on fire and dancing around the ashes while Psions slap us in the face. And don’t get me started on The Nether, or I’ll need to file a trauma report with the Vanguard.
Let’s break it down.
🧠 Plot? What Plot?
Savathûn just comes back—no explanation, no buildup, no emotional weight. She was literally the linchpin of the Light vs Darkness saga. Her death was poetic, powerful. Now she’s back like it’s a Saturday morning cartoon.
Bungie throws around terms like “Lucid Truth” and “Time Loops” to hand-wave inconsistencies. Instead of weaving intrigue, it’s just vague "narrative mystery" used as duct tape on a collapsing plotline.
👎 The Nether – AKA, the Pain Dimension
Let’s talk about the biggest disaster since the Red War: The Nether.
It’s visually interesting, sure. But beneath the foggy filter and weird architecture, it’s just recycled Hive hellscapes with every annoying modifier possible stacked on top.
Enemies are tanky, ammo disappears between phases, objectives feel like pulling teeth, and half the time you’re being punished for simply existing.
It’s not mysterious, it’s not challenging—it’s just bad design made to feel “deep” by being vague.
And the worst sin?
It’s not rewarding.
You suffer through layers of Nether nonsense for a chance at a mediocre roll on a mediocre weapon. It’s like Bungie made a dungeon that hates you—and then didn’t even drop loot at the end.
🤡 The Writing Team: Are Y’all Okay?
As The Boys’ brilliant quote puts it:
“Is your idiot brain getting -blam!- by stupid? That’s not rhetorical, I want an answer.”
No more "bold narrative choices." No more gaslighting players into thinking "confusion = intrigue." We’ve seen behind the curtain. This is just lazy storytelling disguised as mystery.
⚠️ Looking Ahead – Edge of Fate Concerns
Let’s be real: Episode 2 is Bungie’s last chance to prove they haven’t completely lost the plot. But here's what we’re afraid of:
Zavala’s arc will be butchered – He deserves closure, not cheap drama.
Crow will be fast-tracked to savior status – Despite zero buildup.
Keitel will be wasted again – Reduced to comic relief or muscle.
The Nether isn’t going away – It'll leak into future episodes and ruin more of the narrative.
If "Edge of Fate" continues this trend of half-baked storytelling and padded-out grind with no payoff, Bungie will officially have turned Destiny into a parody of itself.
🪓 Final Verdict
Episode: Heresy is a mess. A beautiful mess, sure—but no less a slap in the face to players who care about this universe.
We don’t hate Destiny—we hate watching it be handled with less care than a Scorn sticking its tongue in a fusion core.
Fix it, Bungie.
We’re not asking for miracles. We’re asking for respect. Coherence. And a story that doesn’t treat us like we failed an IQ check.
Because if Edge of Fate is just more Nether-tier nonsense?
The tomatoes are coming.
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Savathuns death was always going to be temporary , and she was a player in the light and dark saga, not really it's linch pin, that would be the witness Didn't you pay attention in Witch Queen ?, she was chosen by the Light, just like us And is our deaths poetic, nope, they are routine, we die 10-20 times a day We are going to have to kill Immaru before we can be rid of Savathun for good,I volunteer to crush the little -blam!-, like we came close to doing in Witch
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Heresy was a pure mess in story. After all of it i just ask myself? WHY?! Why did we visit the dreadnought and everything. It's 100% meaningless. While i enjoyed the nether and part of Court of Blades (not you stupid Lucent Hive). I literally don't want any more hidden secrets for a year. The amount of YT guides needed to complete this season is ridiculous.
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I think you need to visit byfs channel to catch up on what you missed.
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There are YouTube archives to fill you in on what you missed/didn't play.
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SITSWAV moment
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There was an entire season dedicated to the revival of savathun. Is there anyway for you to know that since the season isn’t in the game? No, not really.
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Edited by BetweenMyself: 7/13/2025 1:58:59 AMPutting everything else aside: [quote]Savathûn just comes back—no explanation, no buildup, no emotional weight. She was literally the linchpin of the Light vs Darkness saga. Her death was poetic, powerful. Now she’s back like it’s a Saturday morning cartoon.[/quote] Based on this statement (alongside your listed Triumphs) I would hazard that you are unaware of the storyline of [b]Season of the Witch[/b] during which Eris Morn became the Hive God of Vengeance in order to stop Xivu Arath’s attempt to feed her worm by laying siege to the system. As part of her ascent to Godhood Eris reached an agreement with Savathun’s Ghost, Immaru, that would see him freed from Vanguard captivity (thus allowing Savathun to be resurrected once more as she is in fact still a Guardian) in exchange for cooperation in dealing with Xivu. Eris’s plan worked, severing Xivu from her Throne World (leaving her very much mortal as a consequence) and stopping her attempts to grow in power as she besieged the Sol system directly. A video with the major plot points for [b]Season of the Witch[/b] (including Immaru’s release from Vanguard custody and the immediate aftermath thereof) can be found here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QxVAVjZH4_4 Savathun and Immaru hightailed it from the scene of Eris’s ritual after it was conducted but would later return to fight alongside the Vanguard, House of Light and Caiatl’s Imperial Cabal forces to destroy the Witness in the Final Shape [b]Excision[/b] Mission that occurs after the [b]Salvation’s Edge[/b] Raid and serves as the cap to that Campaign’s storyline, several months before [b]Heresy[/b]. So no, Savathun did not suddenly spring up out of nowhere with zero explanation after her death at the end of the Witch Queen campaign. (΄◉◞౪◟◉`)