Diablo Immortal
I am one of the few who kinda dug this game when it came out so it felt time for a revisit.
The Good
- Unlike every other ARPG, the graphics and UI are actually pretty nice, cohesive, and usable. The tutorialization points you to where stuff is in the UI just enough to be helpful and not annoying. The game actually feels polished.
- Fun remix of all the fun Diablo stuff, you get to kill Baal and see Lilith's cult or some shit and fight Diablo. You hang out with young Cain.
- Number Go Up gameplay is good. Combat Rating ftw.
- Random Dungeon feature where you can throw bots into your party rules, great for mobile.
- Edit: I've just learned this is temporary for returning players and doesn't last. Deeply sad.
- Being able to change class at will and re-configure your legendary set with essences is great. This is how I want to play an ARPG, trying out every combination.
The Less Good
- Having not played at all I ram about rank "171" so I guess like every mobile game its 150-200 player servers.
- The monetization feels SO in your face. its even more than TLI. too much. Also asks a lot of you for dailies.
- Bruh every fucking quest involves following some slow moving NPC around and its truly awful.
- The ratio of "tedium" to "fun attacking bits" is way out of whack in this story, bad pacing in between fun actvities.
Experience Playing
—A lot of this quest design is heavy on set pieces and while most are good, it goes overboard with it. Especially because the boss encounters themselves are lame so you get through this sort of interesting series of actions only for a lame fight at the end.
—As with every mobile game, it just straight up stole some mechanics from POE1 (Blight and Heist mainly). lol
—My internet hot take: this game is actually better than Diablo 4. it does all the open world stuff nicely, pvp, team activities, 4-player dungeons, and uses the open world in a much nicer way than D4. It has an identity and sticks to it for better or worse.
my friend amelia said i had to put this here
look sometimes your bot allies will stand on top of each other :)
