So a friend sent me a link to a review about this game — 2 days later I bought it.
Right now I have a level 19 Alchemist on difficulty Hard.
As I've read in the review already that the difficulty is quite easy unless you choose the Very Hard Difficulty, I've gone right away choosing hard =p.
I have to agree that the beginning (on hard difficulty) was in fact, damn friggin easy. You could 1 hit everything.
Now on level 19 its actually getting harder, the monsters can take a lot of damage and also hurt me pretty hard. Good thing I got meatbags aka summonings.
But I believe one reason it's getting harder for me is because I'm already totally offskilled. I followed no guide, spend skill points into skills I think are interesting and spent stat points according to the equipment I want to wear.
Well, that's the normal procedure I do with every new game I play.
How the world is build up:
It appears that there is only 1 dungeon (at least the main dungeon)* in which you go like endless floors deeper (diablo1 anyone? ;D) and therefore only have 1 town called Torchlight (maybe there are more but didn't find any yet).
*There is another Quest NPC that opens a portal to another dungeon, where you have to complete the quest inside. After you finish the portal will close.
That pretty much repeats itself everytime the NPC has a quest for you.
Anyway! Back to my opinion!
One thing I really dislike is how they handled the skill usage interface.
First of all you have a limited number of slots where you can put skills which you can then access with the keys 1-9.
Another 2 skills you can use with LMB and RMB. You can switch the RMB skill by using Tab.
HOWEVER, every single time you use a skill out of your skill window (via rightclick) it will automatically overwrite the skill you have set to RMB. Therefore you have to click on the slot again and choose the skill you had there before.
They should have AT LEAST didn't make it overwrite the RMB skill.
That's something that really annoys me! Especially if you're in combat.
To the graphical aspect, I just gotta say that I like it. While others find it too cartoonic or not up-to-date, all I can say is 15$.
Nice skill effects and animations.
The price in comparison to the quality of the game is A++.
Some people even say its underpriced. But I think for that it lacks some features, which could have been added or maybe even will be added at some later time.
The story, I didn't bother with. I don't like to say it at it seems like a great game, but the story is kind of... boring... i guess... Most of the times I simply fly over the story that is being told before I click on continue.
Conclusion:
Worth its money. If you liked D2 you can go and give it a try.
Good to kill time until D3/SC2 comes out.
But one thing this game MUST have is multiplayer. I don't expect too much, but atleast a LAN feature. Please guys from Runic Games or former employees of Blizzard North: ADD MULTIPLAYER KTHNXBAIBBQ!!!111
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