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Lord Shaxx’s Destiny 2 exercise mixtape is here to pump you upPain leads to perfection, Guardian - embrace it!
Pain leads to perfection, Guardian - embrace it!
If you too are trying to do home workouts with bottles of water and bags of sugar for weights, this might get you pumped up: a mixtape fromDestiny 2combining throbbing beats with the motivational words of Lord Shaxx. The Shaxxercize tape is a wee Easter egg in one quest from the new season, hidden on a shelf in the office of Commander Zavala, and now Bungie have put it on YouTube for everyone to enjoy. Shaxx is the hornhatted fella who commentates PvP matches with Shakespearean boisterousness, our fightdad who’s always proud of us but knows we can push just a little harder. And now he wants you to feel the burn.
In the Season Of The Worthy’s quest to get The Fourth Horseman, a daft quad-barrelled shotgun, we’re briefly sent through Zavala’s office to a storage locker. But if you pause to explore his private space, you might find some the Shaxx mixtape up on a shelf under some dumbbells. You can play it in there, and now you can play it wherever:
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Lennie James is not the only Shaxx, mind. Bungie have also put up the mixtapes from other localisations so all can enjoy Shaxx’s encouragement in hisJapanese,Spanish,Mexican,French,Korean,German,Polish,Russian,Italian, andBrazilianincarnations.
Bungie also toldthe surprisingly complex story behind the mixtape’s creation. Even an eight-minute track built largely from existing music and dialogue takes a whole lot of work to get in the game.
“While hanging out one night during aDestiny 2Crucible session, one of [technical dialogue designer Kareem Shuman]’s friends commented on how supportive and enthusiastic Shaxx is. She wished she had someone like Shaxx yelling at her when she was trying to stay motivated at the gym,” Bungie said.
“They laughed about it for a few minutes, but when Kareem came into work the next day, he couldn’t stop the idea from knocking around in his head. He wondered if he could turn the joke into something real in the game.”
We’re now three weeks into Season Of The Worthy and it’s, eh, a bit beh so far. The novelty ofSeraphTowers and Legendary Lost Sectors wore off quickly. Trials Of Osiris is a huge mess with a janky reward system that leads to the best players going up against the worst so they can farm weapons. As much as I like Rasputin and Ana Brey, the story so far has little weight considering we’re meant to be stopping a miles-long spaceship crashing into Earth to blow up the whole planet. Hints dug out from data files do indicate it’s going to get lively later in the season, though I’ll not talk about that yet. But Worthy has some nice bits and is still more Destiny and sure, I like Destiny. It’s just not a season that has me always keen to log in.
I’m still here and I will continue to be here, but it’s a bit grim knowing we have a whole extra season-and-a-half to go before we see substantial changes in response toBungie’s realisation that the current season model is a bit bum.
Our Alice Bee flagged Destiny 2 asa good game to play while self-isolating and social distancingbecause you can play a whole lot for free with your pals and yeah, I’d second that. It’s free-to-playover on Steam, with the base game and its first two expansions (plus some extra bits) available to everyone.
