You can then select one of multiple appearances for your pet. The pets are normally animals or other various creatures if you’re playing the SynergiesMOD, and the vanilla game even includes a Headcrab from the Half-Life series as a pet. After deciding on a class, you can choose your character’s face, hair, and hair color and then you get to select a pet that will aid you in combat. For my playthrough of the original game, I chose the Engineer and I played as a Ranger for my Synergies playthrough. The SynergiesMOD adds in several new classes including the Warlock which is a magic-based character class, the Ranger which is kind of a ranged character class that can also dual wield one-handed weapons and can use nature-based magic skills, the Necromancer specializes in raising the undead, and as of this review, the Paladin looks like a melee class but the mod indicates the class is still in the alpha stage. The Embermage in an elemental spellcaster, or in other words, the magic character class. The Berserker is another melee fighter class that uses fist-type weapons and can summon spirit animals. The Engineer is a melee fighter that specializes in wielding heavy weapons and can construct bots that will assist in combat. The Outlander specializes in ranged weapons and some magic. When you fire up the game for the first time you’ll need to create your character and there’s four classes to choose from – Outlander, Engineer, Embermage, and Berserker. You run around completing quests and slaying monsters to obtain loot, experience, and level up your character. Just like other action RPG’s, Torchlight II is played from the isometric perspective. The story is clearly just a backdrop for the gameplay which, thankfully, is addictive and fun from beginning to end. With that said, the voice work is nothing special and it seems that only the story quests contain voice acted dialogue. The cut scenes, themselves, are okay but I do kind of wish there was more of them because it’s very tempting to skip the dialogue boxes when interacting with NPCs. The story plays out through acts and in between each act is normally an animated cut scene. Both games include a character from the original that become the antagonist. Actually, the plot is very similar to Diablo II’s plot. I knew The Alchemist was the bad guy and that’s about it. I’m going to be honest, I had to look up a plot summary because the story just isn’t interesting. The Alchemist then destroys the town of Torchlight and plans to use Ordrak’s power to disrupt the balance between the world’s six elements. Apparently, The Alchemist, who was playable character in the first game, has become corrupted by the Ember Blight coming from the Heart of Ordrak who was the original game’s antagonist. The story takes place years after the events of the original Torchlight. I know development of the original Torchlight was led by some of the guys who were behind the original Diablo and Diablo II and in many ways, the evolution of Torchlight to Torchlight II kind of mirrors Diablo’s evolution to Diablo II. I played the Steam version of the game and downloaded the Steam Workshop version of the SynergiesMOD but you can also download the mod from Moddb. This review will also cover the SynergiesMOD which is best described as a complete overhaul that includes re-balanced gameplay and tons of new content. And unlike the original game, this never made it to console. Developed and published by Runic Games, Torchlight II was released for PC in September, 2012. After that, I explored more games in the genre and so far I’ve only beaten the original Diablo and Diablo III. Something about it just got me hooked and I plowed through it in about two days. Torchlight was the first action RPG I actually completed. At the time, I had played Diablo and Diablo II but never beat either. Before the original Torchlight, I had a passing interest in the action RPG genre.
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