![]() ![]() ![]() There's no easy way to just keep swinging your mallet (or alternate weapon), so you have to repeatedly click on the baddies. There was nothing especially noteworthy about their attacking style or appearance to make me remember them once the battle was over.īattle is fast-paced, whether you play on the delightfully easy 'casual' setting or the tough and occasionally heartstoppingly difficult 'veteran'. In general, though, aside from those Lorax, many of the monsters blurred together. Admittedly, my Lorax were considerably meaner than the good doctor's. The graphics are both fantastic and lighthearted - I swear at one point I was battling a horde of Dr Seuss' Lorax. There's something creepily awesome about turning a little cartoony dino sidekick into an all-too-realistic tarantula for 15 minutes. You can set your pet to attack everything, play defensively, or stay well back, and you can give them special powers by feeding them fish that you catch at special fishing holes. I also liked that each character has a pet to assist them. I particularly liked the engineer, with their ability to create robot assistants and their tendency to smack everything that moves with a heavy mallet. There's a good variety of builds that it's possible to develop - except as an embermage, where you'll find things tough going unless you stick to a few set archetypes. ![]() As with most RPGs, you level up frequently, assigning stat points and skills to your character to develop them. Torchlight II is not exactly an epic RPG, but it falls roughly into that genre, with a modicum of dungeon-bash and a slice of steampunk aesthetic. There's one main quest, but to be honest, there are so many sidequests that it's alarmingly easy to lose track of it. You play one of four character types - engineer, berserker, embermage or outlander - as you run around giant maps, thwacking baddies and helping people out on tiny, smallscale, medium, large, and bumper-funsize quests. Having said that, there's challenge aplenty for those looking for a tougher game. It's an engaging, accessible and easy to play game. (And there's my inevitable comparison to Diablo.) But it's also very easy to click with Torchlight. Make no mistake, it's a frenetic click-fest the likes of which even Diablo III can't match. 'Clicky' is the word that best describes Torchlight II. ![]()
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