Nobody does it quite like Blizzard. Our Diablo 4 review-in-progress:
is the most Diablo any Diablo has ever been. That delicious loop that's fed Diablo players for years is all over Diablo 4, as it has been in every other Diablo game, even Diablo Immortal. Nobody does it quite like Blizzard: it takes seconds for your character to blanket the screen in light, leveling up and earning their first skill point—the first bite in a buffet of class-based abilities.
I've completed the six-act campaign and spent over 20 hours carving through dungeons and am finding it hard to continue in an action RPG that spends so much of its time teasing the next thing instead of indulging in the present. Diablo 4's tonal and aesthetic"return to darkness"—a tagline that promises Diablo 3's biggest haters that this one is for big strong adults who liked Diablo 2—is so afraid of levity and color that it misses what made Diablo 2 and 3 so evocative. Diablo has always had to balance its dark fantasy world with your character's ridiculous presence in it.
Only when Diablo 4 embraces the over-the-top horror of a world being ripped apart by two selfish factions is it able to wield this stronger focus on narrative with its well-oiled systems. One early dungeon set in a monastery had me chasing after a lead on Lilith, the demonic mother of Sanctuary who is positioned early on as the primary villain. I expected demons and dead monks but what I found were eerily empty hallways with no enemies in sight.
By level 30, I was deep enough in the skill tree that respeccing incurred a significant gold cost and risk. The most build-defining skills sit at the top of the skill tree, which also happens to be the points you can't individually refund because later skills unlock based on what you chose. You have to reset the entire thing to radically alter your playstyle.
Nothing has convinced me the endgame is so brilliant that it's worth stripping everything fun out of the leveling process.
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