It’s the season of spooks and ghouls, and in Destiny 2, remembrance, with Festival of the Lost returning to servers now and ending on November 19th.

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The Event:

The Traveler zone has been revamped for the holiday, with cobwebs and lanterns hung all about. In game vendors give gifts of candy, and the notorious Eva Levante is back with a slew of Halloween bounties and rewards.

These bounties mostly focus around the Haunted Forest. The Forest zone is essentially the Vex’s Forest of Glass, but retooled for spooks and scares. Guardians will sign up for a romp through the Haunted Forest via the director within the Traveler, and do their best to run through the area killing and fighting as fast as they can to clear ‘branches’ for an ultimate reward. Clear nine branches in under 15 minutes, and earn some pinnacle gear! Don’t fret though, if you can’t quite manage that limit, you’ll still walk away with tons of candy, coins, and perhaps even a mask or two to don and show off.

The Rewards:

A variety of goodies are up for grabs from Eva this year, all costing Candy or Chocolate coins to purchase – which are earned through completion of bounties and the Haunted Forest.

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There are five masks to buy, some goodie bags to purchase with random rolled gear from the season, and of course, the Festival’s unique weapon, the Braytech Werewolf assault rife. The rifle comes at item level 950 regardless of a Guardian’s power, and can be repurchased for random perk rolls at a cost.

The Cash Shop:

Most of the really cool Festival gear is relegated to the game’s cash shop, the Eververse. There are cool armor ornaments to buy with silver or brightdust, really awesome Halloween Ghost shells too, and a plethora of vehicles and transmit effects and shaders.

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Bungie has stated that all festival items will at some point during the event be available for brightdust, probably rotating weekly for those who don’t feel like shelling out real cash for these tasty treats.

The Verdict:

Destiny 2’s Festival of the Lost is pretty fun for a while. The Haunted Forest quickly becomes a slog of a grind through, and the vendor rewards themselves are the least interesting of the lot that are available. The coolest stuff is in the cash shop, and that’s a shame.

That being said, the decorations around the Traveler are a fun addition to gameplay, and there is a lot else going on besides the event this week as well. A new dungeon has launched, a new exotic quest is available, and a whole new Moon activity has gone live.

The Halloween event may be a bit of a let down overall, but it’s a nice addition if nothing else.