Naturally, it’s now up to you, a new recruit, to unite the realms against his rath. One of the heroes from the first Torchlight has been corrupted by dark power and is blazing a path of destruction across the land. It would genuinely be a disservice to say that Torchlight 2 doesn’t have a plot but asking you to care about it is a whole other issue. But a slavish adoration of legacy stifles innovation as the potential for the future of the ARPG is squandered in service of its past. This passion for games of yore is evident despite my gripes with Torchlight 2, it can not be denied how much love was poured into its grimdark virtual world. Runic Games was in part started by the creators of Diablo with the intention of continuing on the legacy of the Blizzard owned classic property. This isn’t all that surprising given how openly inspired by the Diablo franchise the Torchlight games have always been.
The adaptation of the game’s click-centric PC UI/input also works a treat as the console versions feel as natural as the Diablo III radial menu port before them. The exclusion of local co-op is borderline unforgivable though. While not as graphically intensive as the team’s other recent ports, such as Doom and Warframe, the Switch edition of Torchlight 2 looks crisp and runs smoothly with only a couple of minor hitches. The port itself has been handled with the kind of excellence we’ve come to expect from studio Panic Button. And while purists will no doubt enjoy the reverence for tradition found in the game’s core systems, Torchlight 2‘s light has been all but snuffed out in 2019. Now, almost five years to the day since its original PC release, it arrives on consoles. This isn’t inherently a bad thing the Action Role Playing Game (ARPG) genre by nature will always have a degree of steady repetition but Torchlight 2’s greatest sin is doing so with as little panache as possible. A game that seems designed not to thrill the player but to engage them in an endless loop, placating only the base desires.
This is how it feels to sink into Torchlight 2. I was curled up on the couch, Switch in hand, as my mage plunged the depths of yet another dangerous cavern when I thought to myself “What time is it?” I genuinely had no idea how long I had been sitting there playing and as I looked up at the clock I half expected the evening to have settled in. There came a brief moment of complete disassociation on my first day burning through the newly released console port of Torchlight 2.
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