Recent reviews by purrpl

Excellent puzzle game set in a stunning environment with a great story. A worthy successor to the first part.

Fantastic game even in its current early access stage. And there is a lot more yet to come as development continues. A wonderful mixture of exploration, adventure, crafting and building.

I've played this game a lot and for the longest time my review was favourable. However, due to recent changes by Bungie, the developer, I can no longer recommend it.

Positive things first. What initially got me hooked was certainly the look and feel of the game. The gunplay is probably the best I've experienced in any shooter. The universe with its locations and enemy races just looks great and is well designed. That hasn't changed and will most likely appeal to any new player.

So why do I not recommend it? Initially launched on another platform, the base game, as well as all expansions it received over the course of two years, had to be purchased. With its transition to Steam a year ago much of the content from years 1 and 2 became free while major expansions remained paid content. While Bungie has always had the tendency to make old content somewhat irrelevant with the release of new expansions, things have dramatically changed to the worse with the release of the latest expansion "Beyond Light": They decided to remove most of the content from years 1 and 2 from the game - content which back then was paid content. That is completely unacceptable. And make no mistake, it won't stop there. They'll continue removing paid content in the future.

Additionally, it means that the "free to play" classification is now a scam since basically everything that was free got removed (e.g. all free campaigns and raids), leaving free players with not much left to do.

Non-exhaustive list of removed content:
- 4 entire planets (out of the original 6 from year 1) including all activities associated with those destinations
- all story campaigns from the base game as well as from the Curse of Osiris and Warmind expansions
- 5 raids
- year 2 annual pass content

Lastly, a word of warning to those contemplating buying the Forsaken or Shadowkeep expansions: Don't do it. Even though currently still priced ridiculously high, they have become completely obsolete due to newly introduced gear "sunsetting" mechanics. Gear earned from those expansions is now completely useless.

Excellent game! Don't buy the base game, get the Handsome Collection when on sale.

A great, classic looter shooter in form of an FPS with RPG elements (character skill trees). Allows co-op play for up to 4 players which is very fun. Lots of content, great humor, unique and timeless graphics, badass enemies, tons of randomized weapons and gear. EXPLOSIONS!!!