Destiny 2: The Final Shape debuts as 2024's best-rated game, beating Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Balatro
Jun. 14, 2024Bungie closes a 10-year-saga in style
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Despite being an expansion,Destiny 2: The Final Shapeis the year’s highest-rated release so far.
Bungiedid the seemingly impossible and closed out the Light and Darkness Saga (which had been enduring for 10 years) with a bang in the game’s eighth expansion, the Final Shape. Guardians everywhere finally went head-to-head with the big baddie the Witness, but the bigger triumph came from how damn good the whole package is.
Since The Final Shape is an expansion, other games on the list have far more reviews attached to their Metascores, and thus, a broader range of opinions that could drag those numbers down. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s score is based on around 140 reviews, for instance. Regardless, The Final Shape’s aim is squarely focused on people who’ve followed the looter shooter for the past decade, and that comparatively smaller sample size has few complaints for Destiny 2’s conclusion of the Light and Darkness Saga.
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