“In one world, we have the traditional way I approach games. I wrote about this all the way back in 2014, when I beat Destiny’s first campaign and tried to make sense of it. I have, over and over, tried to tell myself that, and never learn my lesson. The much funnier part, of course, is the not-angry-just-disappointed people come back, too. They seem to complain about everything Bungie does? But they still love it, and the mark of having made a good game is whether angry people will keep coming back. Destiny does not need to change for me, because the people who play it are clearly in love with it. The launch of Lightfall last week coincided with its most concurrent players ever on Steam. It also, sadly, marked the beginning of the end of my love affair with the studio, when it became clear the developer I fell for, the one behind legendary single-player missions like Halo’s “The Silent Cartographer” and Halo 2’s “Metropolis,” had new ambitions.Ī lot of people love Destiny, and I’m happy for them. It’s a towering achievement that suckered many companies to waste money chasing after it. The 2014 launch of the original Destiny marked the start of what would become, after a bumpy start, a landmark mashup of shooters and MMOs. (This is a video game that used to have a loot cave, after all.) Some of my favorite experiences, notably the Souls games, are famous for demanding near perfection from players, only to be immediately undermined by players doing something as simple as tricking an enemy into walking off a ledge and quickly dying.īut it got me thinking, as it seems to happen every few years: how did I end up here again?ĭestiny, if you can believe it, is almost 10 years old. Every video game has cheese stats, ways of subverting what the designers are asking of players. It’s hard to know right now, but maybe Lightfall lore books will confirm Cemaili’s identity one way or the other.There’s nothing wrong with this. Or maybe Cemaili is the name of Calus’s favorite war beast or childhood sled. It’s possible that all of this was a reaction to the loss of his wife, which would, we suppose make him a slightly more tragic character. Before he was deposed by the Midnight Coup, Calus was all about hedonism and having a good time. Given all of the Witness’s dialogue about Calus fearing pain and loss, maybe losing Cemaili is what kicked off his entire arc. Of course, it’s worth noting that in that same lore book, Caiatl describes her father as “full of shit.” Caiatl asks Calus about her mother, and he gives a very un-Calus response in which he blames himself for her loss. She’s seldom been referenced in Destiny 2, but is mentioned in the Lightfall Collector’s Edition lore. Who is Cemaili? Our best guess is that this is the name of Calus’s old wife and Caiatl’s mother. Before he does, however, he cries out “Cemaili!” It’s a tough, two-phase fight, and when Calus is finally defeated, he dies in the manner of Rhulk from the Vow of the Disciple Raid and the Tormentor enemies - he makes like a tree and gets out of there.
In the final battle of Lightfall, Guardians face off against the Disciple Calus. At the climax of Destiny 2 Lightfall, one character says the word “Cemaili.” What does this mean? Let’s dig in. As is typical of Destiny 2 expansions, it answers some questions while leaving plenty unanswered. One question players might have is about the meaning of a line at the very end of the campaign. Lightfall, the newest expansion for Destiny 2, is here.
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