![]() Torchlight 2 review Offline#"Runic's sequel has the rich, oily colours and wispy smoke trails of a battered pulp paperback cover, and its dungeons are filled with tentacles, coal-driven robots and skeletons who have-at-you with the very sword that once skewered them to a wall." There's a LAN option alongside online and offline play, and there's dynamite fishing alongside regular fishing. What matters is that you get a little bit excited at the very mention of his name. Who doesn't want to travel through the Witherways to Riftkeep? Who doesn't want to defeat the Manticore in the Stygian Aerie - particularly when it's as a favour to the Sphinx at the Forsaken Gate? It doesn't really matter that the Manticore's just another big guy who's waiting to explode into coins and weapons. Runic's sequel has the rich, oily colours and wispy smoke trails of a battered pulp paperback cover, and its dungeons are filled with tentacles, coal-driven robots and skeletons who have-at-you with the very sword that once skewered them to a wall.ĭressed up in the world's chunkiest, friendliest art style, it's the kind of antic, swashbuckling romp that can get away with having an NPC named Professor Stoker, and although most of its quests are pure smash-and-grab affairs - and quite rightly so - they're always presented in elaborate Lovecraftian terms. Torchlight 2 is fairly riddled with improvements - new classes, new skills, six-player online co-op, a much larger game world, pets that can come back from the shops carrying groceries - but the thing I really love about it is the atmosphere it conjures up. Actually, why do games ever send you anywhere else? Plunder Cove: you bet I want to go there. What I will say, though, is that the name of the place had me won over even before I'd seen the misty underground lagoon itself with its giant crabs and its shimmering wraiths. It's one of my favourite moments of this gaming year, and you deserve to discover it for yourself. ![]() I won't tell you exactly what I found in Plunder Cove, even though I'm absolutely dying to. What was even better was that I'd been invited to visit Plunder Cove by a ghostly ferryman type in order to smack around some undead sailors who had done him a wrong'un. ![]() About an hour into Torchlight 2 I'd already hit Level 8, and that was a pretty nice state of affairs. ![]()
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