Torchlight III

Let me start by saying I have played all three of these games. And they always seem to improve the classes and ideas for them. Unfortunately they don't seem to recapture some of the same wonder as the last one. It feels like they had a great start and just tried to fill the rest with whatever ideas they had left. CLASSES: You can play a ghost captain with pirate and ghost themed abilities, play a large combat mech that has built in weapons for both melee and ranged, a Conductor with a small mechanical train turret, a mage with light and dark themed abilities and then just... a ranged shooter. Starts out very different and slowly just sort of gets more generic. WORLD/MONSTERS: The general breakdown of all the monsters fall into these, Goblin/Spiders, Mechs, Ember Demons, Bugs, Skeletons/Zombies and Bosses. Most of these are just ideas from the last game, even using much of the same level ideas and final bosses along the same theme. Where as in the last game where I could get lost in the game and replay it many times for the fun of it, this one feels highly streamlined. In the last game there were cursed forests with gargoyles, werewolves and undead, fungi forests with mushroom people, a mechanical mummy people, Bear people, strange genies and spirits and then Ember cultists and demons with a few mechs thrown in. It just feels recycled and railroaded. Even the big bosses are just custom version of the cultists from the last game. Even the dungeon worlds feel rather cloned rather than the older games. PETS: in the last game you could have all kinds of pets, including most of the enemies and unique little fun ones. This one, its mostly just cats and dogs of different kinds with a few old enemies and creatures. Again, just felt somewhat phoned in. BASE BUILDING: At first it seems like there is a ton of space and lots of things, but there is no store for buying spesific new gear, your sort of at the mercy of what you find and with the exception of the bigger items for crafting or buffs, the rest of the stuff is just for looks. And most of it is pretty generic. Once you get the max rank in one of the buffs, that's it. I feel like for something as simple as that they could give you a lot more space to work with and more items, or have something. Again, it feels like an unfinished idea. Lastly, the game glitches semi frequently for a finished game. And not small things either. Like how your summons will stop targeting enemies and just stand around if you play for a certain length of time, the sound for yourself or friendlies going fully mute any enviromental sounds for some reason and of course being stuck in walls now and then. Despite what I am saying, it's still a 'good' game. But it is hard to step down from a 9/10 game to a 7/10 sequel. Im sorry I cannot be more positive, but its hard to accept a cupcake is better than a cake you got last birthday.