Some exciting narrative developments in Destiny 2's Season of the Deep have left many players wondering why some of this stuff wasn't in Lightfall, an expansion that got a lot of flak for its often vacuous story (some of it from me in our Destiny 2: Lightfall review). In a recent roundtable interview, Bungie leads addressed criticism of Lightfall's story and explained that the expansion was partly a narrative experiment meant to set up more engaging seasons for the current year.
"It used to be where we would kind of nod to what was gonna happen in the next season, and then you jump into it and it would be a whole sort of new story with a chain link between the previous one and this one," begins senior narrative designer Nikko Stevens. "Now I would say we are at the point where the events of [season] 21 lead directly into the events of 22."
