Like everything else, it’s really accessible and easy to get stuck into, though it’s not without its flaws. This is where the game got me – the combat. You do get some guidance to begin with, and the game sends you on some tutorial quests to get you clued up on how the game’s systems work, as well as giving you a taste for combat. It’s simple and again, I appreciated how easy it was to understand and use. Swapping out old gear for new stuff is easy, too, and the game gives you a quick comparison between similar items, letting you know quickly whether you should swap out, or keep your current item. You can equip gear that you’ve found to give yourself some passive buffs, like increasing your luck, attack, defence, and resistance. This goes for the game’s gear system, too. The simplicity might put off hardcore fans of the genre, but I appreciate the ease of use – besides, I just want set-and-forget skills that I can try out and leave how I like I don’t like spending my precious playing time sitting around in menus. This is really cool and thankfully, for an idiot like me, easy to understand and follow. Levelling up gives you points that you can spend on the skill tree, expanding your character’s arsenal of abilities. Kill baddies, earn experience points, level up – standard. It’s your choice.Ĭharacter growth and progression comes from levelling up. You’ve got the option to alter your character’s skin, hair colour, and more, or you can just leave them as they come. The character creation options are basic but functional. Because, yes, I’m a basic bitch and guns are my go-to weapons in most games. There are four classes to choose as a base to build on, and my class of choice was the Sharpshooter. The lay of the land is simple, and it all starts with creating your own hero. Newcomers, like myself, shouldn’t be put off. It’s standard, then, and genre veterans will be instantly familiar with the setup. That’s the loop, and Torchlight 3 follows it to the letter. They all follow a simple formula, which can be broken down as build a character, explore dungeon-like levels, kill enemies, collect loot. Now, if you’ve played an action RPG before, you’ve played them all. It didn’t hold my attention, but the gameplay certainly did. It’s generic at best with some throwaway static image cutscenes. Part of that is because the story is, well, just not all that interesting. But, you don’t really need to have played the previous games to understand what’s going on here. Torchlight 3 is, obviously, the third game in the series. That being said, I really did enjoy Torchlight 3, and whether that’s because I’m a newcomer to the genre, easily pleased, or stupid, is something we’re going to explore in this review. Let me preface this review with a disclaimer: I haven’t played the first two Torchlight games, but I might have a look soon, and I’m generally not a fan of dungeon crawlers.
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