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I found that even within a few hours of gameplay, I had collected six Legendary/Unique fire-based swords that all had the same design, along with three off-hand eggs that again were identical. Each character has a pretty focused set of gear that they can use, and only weapons are really interchangeable to some extent. Loot is certainly bountiful in this title, but I did find a surprising lack of gear identities that I was hopeful for. However, the chaos on the screen did take a performance hit on the Switch, even when docked, which is always disappointing because I love a buttery smooth experience. Hacking and slashing along the way is definitely the key aspect of the game, much as one would expect in a dungeon crawling loot game, and there was a lot of fun to be had letting my hell on a railroad track take the hits for me while dolling out mortar rounds in rapid succession. Each main quest built up to a boss room, where if I won I’d gain access to a big treasure chest and a new pet, if I was lucky. The majority of my quests were maybe too linear, in that they never felt unachievable and certainly didn’t promote much in the way of exploration.

Here you’ll go from region to region and transition across three biomes that all feel unique in style. The progression of the map and quests are linear, much to the same way Chapters exist in Diablo III.

To us consumers, it felt last-minute that they decided to an about-face and turn it into Torchlight III, a proper premium game, and in some ways there are some lingering effects of that changeover, which I’ll cover in a bit.Īs I started my early hours of the game, it felt enriched in just the right ways.

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It’s had a bit of a sordid development past, in that previously it was headed towards a free to play “ Torchlight: Frontiers” that was likely attempting to compete with the likes of Path of Exile.

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Choosing my character was exciting, and I struggled so much with who I wanted to play with, that for this review I decided to both play an offline solo campaign with the Railmaster (who legit calls forth a semi-adorable, but devastating battle train that choo-choo’s along with me) and I an online multiplayer game with my wife, where she went with the Dusk Mage, and I got to rock the robot Forged (who looks much like my wood burning stove, but with a sweet rapid-fire cannon in Its chest).Īt this point, it’s best to address the elephant in the room with the game.

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Torchlight as a series has contended with the dark, brooding Diablo series since inception, but where this franchise has always prospered was offering a more vibrant, fantastical, and humorous approach, complete with useful pets! Torchlight III still has much of that charm that I so did enjoy in the last two games. It’s been a long wait for this new entry, but can it hope to hold a candle to the prior entries? The series is known to be a great alternative to the hack and slash loot-driven action-RPG Diablo franchise. Being the sequel to the prior two games, which were fan favorites to be sure, this latest iteration has a lot to live up to. After a long awaited, and potentially rough development, Torchlight III has launched for consoles and that includes the Nintendo Switch.