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Torchlight 3 nintendo switch review1/2/2024 ![]() Players begin the game by choosing between four classes - Dusk Mage, Forged, Railmaster, or Sharpshooter. It's basic stuff that pretty quickly fades into the background. With the Ember Empire in decline, the Netherim plot their return, and the world needs heroes to defend against the invasion. Torchlight III's story begins hundreds of years after Torchlight II. Where the others emulate Diablo's demonically dark atmosphere, Torchlight's world is cartoonish and steampunk, closer to Blizzard's other RPG juggernaut, World of Warcraft. ![]() What most sets Torchlight III apart from those games is its aesthetic. Diablo III is still going strong, and games like Path of Exile and Grim Dawn have offered innovations to those looking for a more old-school experience. The game won't find the same ARPG-shaped hole in the gaming market that its predecessors did. Echtra Games, the new studio founded by Max Schaefer, developed Torchlight III under license from publisher Perfect World. In 2012, Torchlight II was the true-to-its roots alternative to Blizzard's evolved Diablo III. In 2009, Torchlight was the long-awaited spiritual successor to Diablo II. Runic Games, founded by Travis Baldree and Diablo designers Max Schaefer and Erich Schaefer, developed the first two Torchlight games. ![]() What's worse, the game has little innovation to offer to a video game genre that's more crowded and competitive than it was when Torchlight II debuted eight years ago. Unfortunately, Torchlight III sill wears its free-to-play roots awkwardly. Instead, eight months before release, the game switched titles and returned to Torchlight's traditional action RPG roots. Torchlight Frontiers was to finally fulfill the original Torchlight developers' goal of making an MMORPG. ![]() Torchlight III, the game formerly known as Torchlight Frontiers, hacks and slashes its way to PC and consoles as a drastically different game then what it set out to become. ![]()
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