![]() ![]() It makes finding that new piece of gear remain exciting throughout. Weapons and armor change the look of your chosen adventurer, sometimes in significant ways. ![]() The characters and setting are of a cartoony nature with everything have a consistent and clean style. The art style is well done though, and is actually probably the biggest departure from Diablo that Torchlight manages. The strongest aspect of Torchlight are the visuals. It’s common for ten plus goblins or spiders or skeletons or whatever to charge at you, and it’s just as common to decimate the entire group with one click of the mouse.ĭeep in the underground jungles.wait, the UNDERGROUND jungles? Who the hell came up with this. Characters, especially after learning three or four of their class skills, become death-dealing machines. While there is nothing truly creative here (the Vanquishers shot that will track enemies is called….Seeking Shot) the game plays well. The final class is the alchemist, which I have yet to play, but it’s clear from the games description, he plays like a mage. ![]() The ranged combat seems more fun, the ability ricochet when upgraded will fire a single shot that bounces around entire rooms, taking out four or five foes with some nice visual flair. The Vanquisher plays the rogue role, specializing in dual daggers or ranged weapons. His abilities are designed to have him up close and personal in combat, with abilities such as Titan Stomp and Doomquake sending out waves of energy around him, usually causing swift death to most everything. The Destroyer acts as the hulking barbarian type, his primary statistic being strength. ![]() The character classes themselves are familiar as well, though the names have changed. After level 10 or so though, most things you find will be items you won’t want to keep, so off to vendors they go. Almost every foe killed will drop some kind of loot, with upgrades coming very quickly in the early goings of the game. Torchlight is most definitely a loot fest. Spells and abilities are hotkeyed, health and mana restoring potions are your best friend. Controlling one of three character classes, it’s a matter of just pointing and clicking to move or attack. Most of you probably know how the game plays just from the introduction then, but for any unfamiliar, it’s simple. For a game that came out in 2009, it is not just influenced by Diablo, it does it’s best to be exactly the same thing. Torchlight is fun, comforting, and easy to play. Runic’s own description of the game says from the designers and leads of projects like Diablo and Diablo 2. Torchlight is unabashedly a Diablo clone. That game would be Torchlight, developed by Runic Games. Thus, after accepting the grim fate that I would not be playing the game until next year sometime, I finally decided to try a game that had been on my radar for a long time, but I had never given a chance. I’m excited for Diablo 3 and was really hoping it would appear soon. Diablo 3, with an original target date of sometime in 2011, was pushed back yet again. I needed a fix and it is Blizzard’s fault. ![]()
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