It’s Diablo to the nth degree and that’s both its most appealing aspect and its most off-putting.While Diablo 4 is making its mark on PC and consoles, Diablo Immortal is still setting records after becoming the 15th fastest mobile game to generate more than $500 million in revenue! Rather than betraying the formula of the series, Diablo 4 perfects it to an almost worrying degree of slickness. The tone is bleak and hopeless, just as fans like it the combat is nuanced but somehow vapid at the same time and there’s a never-ending stream of loot to quest for, that will keep you going all the way to Diablo 5 – or at least the first, inevitable, expansion. If you’re a series fan then Diablo 4 does everything it should and more. You also increasingly get the sense that the whole story campaign is really just a prologue for the real game, when the live service mask comes off and you’re no longer playing to see what happens next but purely for the loot and the desire to be a completionist. That’s going to seem extra galling once Blizzard switch on the in-game shop and everyone gets to see how expensive everything is. Of course, Fortnite is free and Diablo 4 very much is not. The visuals are a mixed bag though, as while they look good from a distance, while zoomed out, when they zoom in for a cut scene the character models seem disappointingly basic. The new open world structure creates a successful illusion of exploring a single interconnected land, instead of entirely separate maps. However, the game is also unbearably grimdark, with so little hope or humour exhibited by the script that it almost enters the realm of self-parody. The script shines with Blizzard’s love for fantasy cliches but it is more nuanced than usual for the series, with a surprisingly complex portrayal for Lilith that actually manages to humanise her to a degree. This time round you’re dealing with the resurrection of the demon Lilith (based on the same mythological figure as Marvel’s Midnight Suns), with whom you become linked after an attempt to sacrifice you goes wrong. According to tradition a dungeon crawler has little or no story and that’s always been largely true of Diablo, but not this entry.
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