It is handy that you can easily tell if a piece of clothing/armour is stronger, although youвЂ™ll have to compare them to make sure youвЂ™re not losing any enhancements. ItвЂ™s not exactly an issue I can direct just at Torchlight 2, when every Action RPG is riddled with loot. If anything, it can feel youвЂ™re having to spend as much time fighting as you do sorting through your inventory. If you enjoy the loot aspect to action RPGвЂ™s, youвЂ™ll find yourself neck deep in items. Regardless of which mode you play, the game runs well as you turn large groups of enemies into exploding chunks of meat without skipping a beat. The game still retains its cartoonish visuals and the environments are varied enough. To this end Torchlight 2 holds up, ideally a game as old as this should, but thereвЂ™s been plenty of others that havenвЂ™t. With a game like this where youвЂ™re tackling large groups of enemies, itвЂ™s important that the gameвЂ™s performance can hold up. More recent games have been much more generous with how you can distribute your points, itвЂ™s a shame that it hasnвЂ™t been implemented here. Although the flexibility only goes so far, if you get further in the game and realise that youвЂ™ve sunk your points in skill trees but youвЂ™d rather spend on more recently unlocked skills, you can only respec the last 3 points. Then thereвЂ™s whether you want to lean into making them proficient with support bots or turn yourself into an unstoppable powerhouse on your own. You can either make them a heavy hitting melee tank, or devastate some creatures with heavy duty cannon blasts. For example, I chose to use the Engineer for this run. They can all use skills that can take them at least two different ways.

Once you spend some time with your character, youвЂ™ll also find there is flexibility in the classes. If it doesnвЂ™t gel with you then thankfully itвЂ™s easy to start a new character. Although the game wonвЂ™t even tell you that much, it doesnвЂ™t take long to be able to check the skills menu and get some idea what kind of class they are. You can pick between the Tank-like Engineer, Magically-focused Embermage, Close combat Berserker, and Guns a blazing Outlander. It fails to give any information about what the class does or will be able to do. Strangely enough, the starting Class selection is one of the gameвЂ™s few stumbles. Like Diablo itвЂ™s really about the fighting, the powers and the loot, and there is plenty of all three. Although youвЂ™ll still be alright If you have never played the first game, you can easily leap into the sequel and pick up the terms and piece together what happened. Although some emotional impact is somewhat diminished if you havenвЂ™t played the first game. There is a story, but it doesnвЂ™t really matter 90% of the time. Once one of the heroes, the Alchemist from the original game is wreaking havoc and it is time for new heroes to step up and save the world. Following on from the events of the original Torchlight, the Ember blight sickness and its cause is thought to be defeated.

Torchlight 2 shared stash