Relive Destiny 2’s opening in Solas, an ‘Immersiplay’ series

If you’ve been playing Destiny since the very beginning, or even since the beginning of Destiny 2, the opening moments of your guardian’s story have probably taken on the sepia tones of a faded memory. The space game has woven a story across two titles and a whole catalogue of expansions and seasons – a lot has happened. But one videogame filmmaker has set out to recapture those first few moments, using techniques usually associated with pre-release marketing.

Gage Allen, the creative director at Player One Trailers, has recently debuted the first episode of a new series of Destiny videos called Solas, which traces the story of a single guardian – a hunter named Vero Solas – from the moment he awakens with the light of the Traveler outside the Cosmodrome.

Solas uses a blend of filmmaking and capture techniques to create something that’s somewhere in between a ‘let’s play’ and machinima. Allen calls it ‘Immersiplay,’ and it manages to recapture what Destiny feels like rather than what it’s actually like to play.

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