A lot of people like missions like Homecoming or Chosen because of the action, the cutscenes, the linear focus of it. I tend to look at the background and not the foreground. I like looking at the bigger picture so I can see the small, unseen details. When Destiny 1 was being marketed, Bungie said the purpose of Destiny is to have a very open area to explore. To allow the player to discover things but have an engaging story. To me, Sacrilege does the best of this. To begin, let’s start with the story of Sacrilege. You have been sent to IO to find Ikora Rey, the warlock Vanguard. Upon arriving, you find her scared, confused, angry. Gina Torres does an incredible job with her voice acting in this. Skip to 2:10. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DwHigowfDVk Listen to her voice. You can hear the distress that she is feeling. The music reflects this. It gives you a feeling of wonder and sadness. Ikora has lost everything. YOU have lost everything but your light and will, and Humanity is on the brink of extinction. And so...as you walk across the volcanic landscape of IO, you can feel this loss. The golden age, our planets, our moons, even most of our own damn cradle world has been taken. Now, we’ve lost our home, Our city, our friends, our family, our light. Sure we, the players, regained ours but Ikora, lost hers. Could you imagine that feeling of POWERLESSNESS? Knowing you once could raze entire armies with the flick of your wrist, now barely being able to fall down without breaking something. Knowing that even your best AND MORE WAS NOT ENOUGH. All of this is what Ikora felt, and I can relate to this feeling of powerlessness... Optional, this one is a life story so...+plus. MAJOR trigger warning. There are talks of death and animal death in it. [spoiler]When I was in the eighth grade, I helped run a small farm of animals. It had guinea pigs (because why not), goats, chickens..basically what you’d expect to be on the farm. Over time, the animals would grow sick and die. I tried to the best of my ability to keep them alive but I always had to bury them. A lot of people don’t realize what comforting a living creature in its dying moments before having to bury it hours later is like. It’s horrible. And it hurts. It takes its toll on you. Eventually you get numb to the pain of grief and it’s..disturbing. Chilling. It brings you a new pain of not doing more. Being helpless. Being useless and being unable to feel anymore grief. You feel powerless. Sometimes suicide becomes a thought. I’m better now but I look back on that year and it still sends shivers up my spine. This is why I can’t bear to think about what it’s like to live as a soldier. To watch the people you fight beside..DIE in front of you is just an awful thing. Ikora saw this and you can feel pain too. She feels the numbness, and the pain of helplessness too..[/spoiler] The gameplay: The Gameplay really shows the CORE of what Destiny is about. There is a story that has INCREDIBLE visuals and you can watch as Cabal ships fly overhead, with the energy from the Traveler following suit. Yes there is a directive to go to the base but it’s not restricting you to that area. You can explore, you don’t have to follow a linear path. You CHOOSE when you wish to progress. That freedom is something that needs to be captured more. And Bungie can do it. Take Halo CE for example. That game was all about having it open. In fact, some of the levels didn’t even have any form of out of bounds barrier. There needs to be more of that. Thank you for reading. And if you read my personal story, you’re a trooper. Most people take off when they here it.