On the topic of presentation, this a game that has managed to age well over the last seven years. It is a simple gameplay creation that is wrapped with a smart progressing level-up system, good design choices and nice presentation. This never changes throughout the game however, the core gameplay loop is what makes it entertaining and addictive.

If you have never checked out Diablo III: Eternal Collection on Switch or ever played a game similar to this, then the best way to describe it in simple terms is the player runs around exploring the environments, attacking enemies to make them explode into a mess of gore, picking up loot, traversing randomly-generated dungeons, and killing huge bosses.

It’s not quite the many buttons available on a keyboard, but what matters is that using a controller feels good and responsive, and there is something devilishly enjoyable about obliterating thousands of enemies on a controller in a isometric dungeon crawler.Īnd as for the genre goes, Torchlight II is exactly what you would expect from a isometric dungeon crawler. All actions are assigned to the main face and shoulder buttons, where skills and items can be bind to any of those eight buttons. Movement is assigned to the left stick, while right stick controls the camera zoom and the D-pad can switch between map views. Torchlight II never had official controller support on PC, but there is nothing to worry about with the move to console, as the people at the current porting power house, Panic Button, has made the move from keyboard and mouse to controller without any issues. Luckily, this is a genre that does not need a great story to be entertaining to play, and Torchlight II gets a lot of the core elements right.Ĭontrols are important for an action RPG, since being able to quickly access skills and items are vital for staying alive. I just never felt engaged with it, since the story serves more to push the heroes from one setting to the next and accomplish the tasks set in those acts. The problem I had with the game’s story was that the entirety is spent chasing the Alchemist through the three major acts as he corrupts the elemental guardians of the world. It is the player’s job to track down and put a stop to the Alchemist’s plans of destruction.

Torchlight II follows on a few years after the original game, where one of the hero classes, the Alchemist, from the first game has become corrupted by the Ember Blight and destroys the town of Torchlight before moving on to the Estherian Steppes. This is a straight port, so there are no new additions to the story, remaining exactly the same as before, meaning that I feel this aspect is the weakest part of the game. This time around, with such a gap between the release of this game and Diablo III: Eternal Collection on Switch, this is a perfect time for fans of the genre to pick up another great action RPG and enjoy killing, raiding and looting in a more lighthearted take on the genre. While the game enjoyed the spotlight and gained a few fans in the process, the support for the game was ended after a couple of years and it was soon left behind by the constantly evolving Diablo III. Torchlight II was initially released September 2012 on PC, a few months after Diablo IIIhad released on the same platform. The action RPG battle from 2012 has been reignited on Nintendo Switch as Panic Button, the people that handled Doom, Wolfenstein II and Rocket League ports for Switch, has ported Runic Games’ Torchlight II to the system.

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