Torchlight Adventures: Day 3 and Review

Day 3

It seems as if the mines would devour all would be adventurers.  So I guess, the super very hard difficulty is just too much for most characters.  I hear that the easy difficulty would not be much of a challenge and it's true.  In just about an hour and a half of game time, I've made it all the way past the overseers library.  Boss monsters would fall against the well placed fire trap or two taking no more than a few seconds to kill them.  It's a sharp contrast to ordinary trolls in very hard where my characters would have to go hit and run.  My pet is more of a tiger than a cat at easy difficulty.

Review

I think Torchlight's biggest flaw is the ability to select the enemy.  Large monsters can't just be clicked anywhere and using a melee skill won't make your character run up to the nearest monster to perform the attack.  You might even be wasting mana by attacks that don't hit anything.  I also don't like the fact that there are basically 2 stat points - damage and defense.  Strength, dexterity and magic are your damage stat points.  It would appear that the best way to get a good character is to pick one damage stat and put the rest in defense for survival.  Weapons and armor don't seem to have a specific strength, dex, magic or defense requirement.  You might pick up a really good piece of armor and the only thing you need is a high enough level to use it.

The good points of Torchlight is that it's pretty addictive and you're free to spend your skill points on any skill.  You might even have a summoning Destroyer with the aid of spells.  Game mods also add in the value of the game especially with certain aspects like grabbing the shaped gems mod would let you identify which gem is better by just looking.  The various skins for the characters also make a refreshing look for your playthroughs.

I do recommend grabbing Torchlight while it's on sale at $9.99.  It's a great deal at that price.