Though I could go on even longer with my fanboyism of this game, I have to be fair and speak on some of the issues I’ve had with this port. At times, players can even find hidden caverns to explore or even the very rare Phase Beast, whom upon killing leaves behind a portal to a unique location that is accompanied with some form of puzzle in order to receive a reward. You will also come across various side missions that you can complete for gear, money, and experience. I did this because the maps can be lined with special goodies from special events to golden chests, whose key requires you to hunt down a special fairy. The maps players can explore in Torchlight II are rather large some maps took me about 20 minutes on average to clear completely. Leveling up does take a bit of time since these monsters are sparsely scattered about their respective maps. As you “rank up” your player earns a skill point, maxing out in a total of 33 extra skill points on top of the skill points you earn from leveling up via experience. When you begin your adventure, your character’s Fame rank is “Unrecognized”, or rank 0.Īs you play through the game and hunt down all the bosses and champions, you can eventually attain the highest rank of Fame, “Demigod”, which is rank 33. As you level up your fame, which is separate from your character’s experience bar, you earn a new ranking. While aggressive has your pet running headfirst into the fray and helping you achieve your goal of carnage, gold, experience, and fame.įame is a special system in Torchlight II where players hunt down special monsters with auras or big bosses to gain recognition for these feats. Passive makes your pet literally a basic creature. Defensive means the pet will only attack an enemy once you’ve been attacked by them. Pets can be placed into one of three modes: defensive, passive, and aggressive. Additionally, players can choose from various color choices for each pet.īut your pets aren’t just here to be a steady companion, being that there’s no local co-op, your pet is a strong sidekick and pack-mule. From a simple bulldog to more bizarre creatures like a head-crab, there are a wide array of options. There are a few unique aspects to Torchlight II that makes me a fan including the utterly amazing array of pets you can choose from to accompany you. For example, on the Xbox One, I played an Outlander and when you fill up your charge meter, you gain a buff to critical hit chance and attack speed, allowing you to eliminate enemies faster. However, each class does have its own unique “ charge” mechanic, that is filled via damage, and is used to amplify either skills or stats for the character.
The classes in Torchlight II aren’t super unique with a Ranger class in the Outlander, Melee classes are Engineer and Berserker, while the Magic class is the Embermage. In the character creator, you also pick your pet and your class. The character creator is pretty basic, you can choose from a few options, such as hair, hair color, gender, face type.
Though the story could be quite epic, I treated this game, like I do with most ARPGs, by focusing instead on looting, leveling, and slaying of various evils that get in my way. The story is broken into four acts and has some good voice acting and animated cut-scenes. Torchlight II has a story where you play a hero and have to save the world of Torchlight from the chaos bestowed upon it by an evil Alchemist. With the console port having just released on September 3, 2019, Torchlight II has arisen from the depths of the shadows to compete in the race of memorable ARPGs, along with Diablo III and Path of Exile – who both have similar styles. Torchlight II is an amazing game, that I’ve put a decent amount of hours into on PC, simply playing with mods, and I’m willing to do that all over again “vanilla” on the Xbox One.
Torchlight II boasts a much more colorful palette for their environments and also let you choose an overpowered pet that seems to be invincible compared to the pets in its predecessor. Originally published by the now-defunct Runic Games, Torchlight II is now under the publication of Perfect World, and ported by Panic Button.
Torchlight II has been one of those top-down ARPGs I just happened to love because it was something different from Diablo, but at the same time was just like it.
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