I am a sucker for libraries in games, and procedural libraries that are also filled with epics and uniques to fight? Mercy! I still worry that the game takes a little too long to get going, and is saddled with a base-building element that has yet to truly come into focus for me. A really lovely level set in a library with bookcases filled with sumptuous lore and little weapon holders that sprung up from the floor. It was like holding Armageddon in a bottle, and then shaking it up and spraying it everywhere at three minute intervals. Daggers fell from the sky followed by flaming boulders, a proper meteor bombardment. My ultimate, which did not feel very ultimate at the start of the adventure, was now over-compensating. By the end of the three acts my Dusk Mage was a lot of fun to play, light and dark magic meaning that I could lance people with holy arrows that gave me a proper jolt of health back, as well as conjuring a gaggle of otherworldly grubbins and toothed horrors to fight alongside me when I fancied. Almost a mark of honour, in a weird way - this is real Early Access, not some polished marketing beat version of it. It's still buggy, but I expect that in Early Access. My apologies to developers everywhere.)Īnyway, by the end of the three acts that are currently there I was much, much more in thrall to Torchlight 3. I am not an ungrateful player by any means, I hope, but I have realised that Early Access often makes me feel like I'm acting in an ungrateful manner, like a kid rooting around in a box of cereal hoping that there's accidentally a second toy in the packet. (This is one of the problems with Early Access games, BTW. And afterwards you're left with questions: was that it? Wait, was that really it? Is there going to be more campaign to come? Is what I've played going to change beyond recognition? How much of this is fixed in place?

Incremental additions means the first thing you lose is your bearings - a sense of pace and of building towards something climactic.

It took my by surprise, to have come to the end of the campaign, but this is often the case with Early Access games.

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