Point-and-click ARPG created by Runic Games. Torchlight 2 is the follow-up to Torchlight, the 2009 On the former last week, so I got to playing the latter over the weekend. It’s a doubly impressive feat when you take into account the low-poly models used in the game.CowboyNeal writes: "Last week was a big week for gamers, with the release of bothīorderlands 2 as well as Torchlight 2. Runic’s art team has really outdone themselves with the staggering amount of assets put into the environments, and the personality put into each enemy type shines. The art style and music are both beautiful. One particularly challenging dungeon has players having to manage a difficulty fight while trying to stay within the beam of a spotlight. Special enemies called Phase Beasts lurk around the maps and defeating them spawns a portal to a challenge room where you must do things like defeat waves of enemies while standing in a zone, or simply kill a miniboss and choose to open one of three doors with his key. Some are surprisingly challenging, and most bosses bring friends. Boss battles come quite often, and each one is unique. There’s a lot more variety in the game than you usually see in this genre.
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This leaves you free to experiment with new abilities and gives you an “out” if you decide they don’t synergize well with your build. You can’t respec your character or undo stat point assignment, but you can reclaim up to the last three skill points you’ve assigned for a small fee.
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All characters can use all items (though some are class-restricted), so if you’d like to make an axe-wielding melee Embermage you’re more than welcome to try. Speaking of building your character, Torchlight 2 provides an awful lot of freedom in both the loot choice and skill selection. The charge abilities can really turn the tide of a difficult battle, and I’d definitely recommend building your character in a way that maximizes their effectiveness. The Embermage’s charge ability allows him to hurl spells with impunity, while the Berserker’s increases his movement and attack speed. A new charge mechanic has been added to each character- successive attacks build up a meter that provides a huge but temporary buff to their abilities. Character movement is faster than most games in this genre, and slinging abilities around is a breeze. Torchlight 2 is probably the most fluid Action RPG I’ve ever played. This had an unintended side effect, however, as I now resent my cat’s lack of enthusiasm when I ask him to go grocery shopping for me. You can still offload all of your unwanted loot onto your furry friends and send them back to town to sell it while you’re galavanting around the countryside, but now you can even have them buy potions and other consumables for you while they’re gone. The pet system returns from the original game with a few new additions.
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This holds true for all classes, but my abilities made me feel almost overpowered, despite the difficulty level keeping me in check. My dual-wand slinging brought delightfully unstable effects- nothing made me smile more than my attacks suddenly spawning a huge meteor to land on top of my foes. As I added status effects to enemies, each hit I landed caused pulses of elemental pain to hit their enemies. He started out by chucking spears of fire, but expanded his skills to be able to launch hot columns of fiery and/or electric death. In a nice twist, the three original classes are recast as characters in the storyline, and one of them just so happens to be a villain these days.įor my adventures, I chose the Embermage.
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Rather than bring back the original cast of character classes, Runic’s gone back to the drawing board and created four new classes for Torchlight 2: the Embermage (spellcaster), Outlander (spells + ranged weapons), Berserker (crazy melee), and Engineer (melee with wonderful toys). Will Torchlight 2 bring all of the charm of the original, and provide a heaping helping of co-op goodness? Yes. I was an enormous fan of the original Torchlight, but there was one glaring omission: no co-op. It’s strange to think of Torchlight 2 as the Action RPG’s greatest hope, especially in a year that saw the release of Diablo 3, but here we are.