Each character can start with a pet, with the initial choices being a dog, alpaca or owl, but more pets with more abilities will be unlocked as the game progresses. The Fort’s layout can be customized, so as the player progresses it’s nice to see the Fort grow with the characters. Because the Fort is shared across all characters (with one caveat we’ll discuss later) bonuses from Fort items can be shared and useful gear for other classes can be stashed in the shared storage to help encourage repeated playthrough with each character class.

With each of their skill trees along with their chosen Relic there’s a lot of room to build a character catered to one’s playstyle. The Railmaster is a burly train worker whose might translates well to the battlefield, the Forged is a steampunk technology automaton, the Sharpshooter is an unrivaled gunslinger who employs the aid of summoned minions and the Dusk Mage is a master of arcane magic. There’s also a Fort system which is shared between each character a player creates.Įach class has their own strengths and weaknesses along with their own skills. Electrode, which grants mastery of electricity, and lastly Flaming Destroyer, which grants control over fire. Coldheart, which grants crowd control powers by freezing one’s enemies. Blood Drinker, which has skills that allow player regeneration when enemies bleed. There is Bane, which summons poison volleying spiders. In addition to choosing a class each character can choose a relic that grants them an additional set of skills. The player can choose between four classes: Railmaster, Forged, Sharpshooter and Dusk Mage. Torchlight III has players once again exploring Novastraia.

This seemed like the wiser choice, as while certain franchises have had success in branching off into MMOs, most of the time we miss their traditional style games. During development they scrapped the MMO approach and decided to make it into a sequel in the traditional Torchlight style.

Torchlight III began as idea for a Torchlight MMO called Torchlight Frontiers following the success of the first two entries. It’s been some time since we’ve seen a new entry in the Torchlight franchise, with Torchlight II originally releasing in 2012, but this isn’t the longest we’ve had to wait for a sequel.

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