火炬之光2

First, the good: - Easy-to-learn. It's a Diablo clone. You point and click to kill monsters. - Bright, colorful art style. Think 2000s-era World of Warcraft. - Fun gameplay loop. Kill monsters, collect loot, find the next dungeon. Now, the disappointing: - The aforementioned gameplay loop is only an inch deep, and gets repetitive QUICKLY. Near the end of the campaign, the game basically plays exactly as it does in the beginning. - The storyline/role-playing is almost nonexistent. The entire game is a series of NPCs telling you "go to [dungeon] and get me [object]" and that's it. If you feel like reading walls of expository text that the NPCs dump on you at the beginning and end of each quest, you can piece together a very generic and unengaging fantasy story, but it's not worth the effort. - Inventory management is needlessly frustrating. A few tweaks here and there could have made the experience more enjoyable.

As someone who played first TL and other ARPGs I was very interested in TL2, since this game received so many positive reviews, and it was created by a lot of ex Diablo developers, including my favorite composer. Some fans are saying that this is better game than Diablo 3. I’m personally not a big fan of D3, but I consider D2 best game I ever played. I thought that that must mean that I will like TL2, but I do not love this game. To me, this game was so boring, that 26 or so hours that I spent playing, seemed like eternity. Diablo 3 is class above. On the positive side, game runs fine with no annoying issues, gameplay is fluid, music and sounds are very cool. Item game was cool, as well as number of spells you can use. Animations are good. While graphics can be nice, it is not the style that I enjoy, as I do prefer “realistic” style. Of course, I knew this before I played the game, so this is not that important. Story is just uninteresting, and the world is not that interesting to me as well. Environments in particular were very dull, except some parts of act 3. Monsters are mostly large and colorful (not memorable), spell effect are exaggerated, you cannot really tell what is going when you have more than two on the screen. On normal difficulty, game is too easy. Too many items are dropping. These are all Diablo 3 traits as well, so I do not see why people call it Diablo 2 successor. One of the most annoying things for me is huge number of bosses, as that just diminishes the importance of the big fight. I think that players who enjoy mechanics, item hunts, playing with friends and farming could possibly find this game interesting, as these things seem to be on point. But if you want memorable experience, story, world, memorable monsters, cool item look, interesting characters, and to be honest, any innovation, this is probably not going to leave good impression. I would recommend anyone to try Hob from the same developer, it is more interesting and original.

Super fun, great improvements over the first part. Thanks for a Linux release!

cdt, I'm playing it from a very low end pc and it runs very smooth. Very funny game Diablo style, that I prefer to Diablo itself :)

It is a refined and more cartoonish version of the Diablo series - all the gaming mechanisms have been refined in order to make them as immediate as possible. it is a very user-friendly game, as the first Torchlight was- i have to say that Torchlight 2 shos more variety in level design, landscapes and enemies. The only weak point of this game is personality - the "light" atmosphere and the very basic story, combined with the boring quests, makes it ideal for power players - but anyone who's looking for an immersive experience, should try something else.