Especially when you start building up your skills and stat points. It’s a system that is initially so bread and butter that we were a bit bored but when the game ramps up the challenge, it all clicked and became a lot more enjoyable. After you’ve got your attacks and spells sorted, it then becomes a bit of a rotation every time you run into a new mob of enemies as you drop crowd control spells and activate buffs before spamming your main attack button. The can be melee attacks, spells, potions and others in whatever combination works best for you and while Torchlight II can’t take the credit for the system, it was smart of the devs to implement it. Its easy enough to just follow the main quest line if you’d prefer but the game does offer a significant challenge later on and so skipping opportunities to level up is not really recommended.Īs with Diablo III, the game allows you to bind a mixture of attacks to the main eight buttons of the Dual Shock. The flow of these is fairly linear with most quests being in the next area of the game and you’re usually only juggling two or three of them. Firstly, you meet people who give you quests. Once you’ve picked your class and customised your character, and picked a pet, you’re out there in the world and doing all the typical things you’d expect from this type of game.
So essentially two ranged classes and two melee and all that dabble with a mix of real world and magical attacks. You also have your up close and person melee class, The Berzerker, the gun-toting Outlander and The Engineer who is your tank class.
Not having a sensible re-spec option (you can only undo your last three skillpoint allocations), we read up on it and found that the Embermage was your best option offering a good range of ranged magic attacks. From the off you get a choice of four classes. What we can confidently tell you about is the game and what it does well, what it does badly and how it compares to its more famous genre-mate. To the point where I basically had to read up on it to produce this already thin recap. After that quests are given to you as text and while the occasional cutscene shows up to break up chapters, we found ourselves completely disengaged with the story almost immediately. Gone are the gorgeous cinematics of Diablo III and instead we have an opening cutscene that explains how the town of Torchlight has been destroyed by The Alchemist (one of the playable hero classes of the original) after he goes a bit mad dabbling with ember, a powerful substance that is probably best left alone.
Unusually for an RPG, the story on offer is really thin.
#Torchlight 2 ps4 Ps4#
On the PS4 its main contemporary is the exemplary Diablo III with the main difference being that this comes at the pocket-friendly price of £16.99 and the game does have a few elements that show you why this would be a harder sell at a higher price point. And also the Switch (chortle!).Īs with its predecessor, Torchlight II is an isometrically-viewed, top down mix of RPG elements, hack and slash combat and lots of looting.
#Torchlight 2 ps4 Pc#
The sequel has now made the transition from PC to console and has landed on the major consoles.
#Torchlight 2 ps4 series#
Although the series has always debuted on the PC, Torchlight did eventually make it across to the previous gen of consoles and I played through it on the Xbox 360. Torchlight II is a port of a 2012 Diablo clone which was itself the sequel to the 2009 original. Septemin PS4 tagged diablo / hack and slash / rpg / torchlight 2 / torchlight II by Richie
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