You know, I spent hours playing Diablo II in my “childhood”. Finding those rare items, going through the tombs, killing Diablo, and such. I finished it, with the Lord of Destruction expansion, a couple years ago. And from time to time, it’s always fun to play with friends for a while
So now we’re up with Torchlight, a very nice Diablo-like game from Runic Games, that takes all that Diablo II was, and adds some little twists here and there. And a pet, that will make your life very simple.
The Good
For the good, we have the aesthetics, the pet, and the gameplay itself. I found myself playing in the 3rd level of a dungeon in half an hour, and that was very cool. That means that the game is extremely easy play, and get used to.
The game feature three base characters (Destroyer, Alchemist and Vanquisher) which can be heavily altered with Skills. For example, I played as an Vanquisher (it’s Amazon+Assassin), and I wanted her speciality to be ranged weapons, so I increased her skill with that, and didn’t touched the close combat ones.
The Bad
Well, it’s a Diablo clone. You can tweak it as hard as you can, but there will only be Diablo and Diablo at the end. Did I say Diablo enough times?
Overall
Play it. You will like it, it would have been very nice if the Runic Games team could have added a Multiplayer feature (Co-op or something like that), but the game is still pretty good to play, will keep you hooked for quite a while.
