Torchlight 2 review 20167/29/2023 This seems to apply universally, although class-specific skills might make a difference. Mêlée Weapons are clearly inferior to ranged weapons. However, I also have some specific complaints relating to game design and balancing, so if you’re interested in such discussions read on. So if you want a fun game in the style of Diablo 2 I can tell you right now that you should buy Torchlight 2. I didn’t try that feature but the dungeon selection looked quite impressive! If you still don’t have enough after finishing the story, you can explore a ton of stand-alone dungeons for context-free monster bashing. Some people complained about this, but I quite like it – aside from set completion it provides an excellent money sink and prevents the usual syndrome of having a million gold with nothing to spend it on. This is partly because set items drop more often, and partly because you can occasionally buy them at stores. Surprisingly, you can actually complete item sets within a single solo playthrough. Boss battles are both mercifully shorter and much more varied. There are quite a few nice unique places and puzzles, especially the epic portal arena battles reached by killing portal beasts. Pet and minion AI was fixed so they always join a fight in time, without getting stuck in corridors. Pets, robots, arenas! I had a weasel pet with engineering goggles that I taught to cast fireballs and transformed into a battle crab. The story is still quite silly, which is okay because nobody plays these games for the story anyway. Matt Uelmen’s music is as fabulous as ever, although its eerie atmosphere admittedly doesn’t quite fit the colorful visuals. Torchlight’s endearing cartoon style returns with more details and better animations. The user interface deserves special praise: it not only correctly scales with resolution but allows custom resizing to boot! Other games need user-created mods for that. I expected that the game would run smoothly on my rather overpowered system, but it’s nice not to encounter any bugs at all. The simple game launcher merely checks for patches – there’s no onerous DRM, dependence on Steam or other services, mandatory registration or login, obnoxious advertising, or missing chunks sold as IAP. Only $20, available directly from the developer as a fairly compact 1.4 GB download. It's worth its low price for what you get, but at this point you may be better off waiting for the multiplayer sequel or the eventual MMO.I just finished my first run through Torchlight 2 with an engineer on veteran difficulty level, so here are a couple of thoughts on the game. However, an addictive game is not necessarily a fun one, and Torchlight will eventually wear out it's welcome in your library. I played Torchlight for a lot longer then it took to simply beat the final boss, which should be testament to it's sheer addictiveness. Coming from the developers behind the first two Diablos (and featuring music by the same composer, a man that will make you believe guitars can sound haunting and foreboding) it should come as no surprise that it does everything those games did and more, with various time-saving, anti-frustration features that serve to streamline the game experience and keep you in the fight. That said, it's a damn good dungeon crawler. That is a major shortcoming in this sort of game.
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