I say “try” because eventually, enough secondary characters die after barely spending 20 to 30 minutes with you (sometimes less) that a new death hardly registers.

It’s grimmer with deaths that try to tug at your heartstrings. Right from the outset, the mood is decidedly different from Diablo 3. As a relative outsider, you are tasked with gathering the pieces while fighting back against the forces of evil. A new evil force is looking to harness its power and resurrect Diablo. Picking up after Diablo 2, the story sees the Worldstone shattered into pieces. The sheer audacity is as maddening and rage-inducing as it is hilarious. This isn’t even a soulless cash-grab – the cash-grab is its very soul.

Whatever progress you do make is slow and agonizing with a litany of issues at nearly every step. But the truth is that unless you have a hyperbolic time chamber a la Dragon Ball Z, you will never advance enough to get even close to end-game min-maxing without spending some money. Maybe I didn’t give this money hydra, sprouting more things to purchase the more you pay, a real chance. The sheer audacity is as maddening and rage-inducing as it is hilarious.'ĭiablo Immortal is one of the very worst games ever made. 'This isn’t even a soulless cash-grab – the cash-grab is its very soul. Fast-forward several years later to the announcement of a PC port and here we are. With how long it took to develop and Blizzard seemingly focused on delivering a “true” Diablo game, I was still somewhat curious. It’s heavily based on NetEase’s Crusaders of Light, which is the prime example of terrible monetization practices in a video game, forget the mobile space. Slowly and slowly, it became more obvious that Diablo Immortal isn’t necessarily a new game. Even if soaked to the gills with microtransactions – which I believed at the time would be limited to premium cosmetics or stash tabs like Path of Exile, maybe a Battle Pass – as long as it was fun, that was enough. Was it what I wanted out of a Diablo title? No.

Way back at BlizzCon 2018, when the bomb dropped about the next Diablo being a mobile, free-to-play action RPG, I was one of those “wait and see” types.

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