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Diablo 2: Resurrected makes a beautiful swan from an ugly duckling. But the Remaster is not far enough.
Dune 2: Fight for Arrakis, a certain indexed ego shooter of ID software that has something to do with a castle, and Diablo 2 have something together: they have no genres, but decisively shaped. Each action roleplay after 2000 Blizzard s masterpiece has taken a role model. Diablo 2 was that this unbelievably addictive Loot spiral has perfected. Without this title and its enormous success, there had probably never been a Path of Exile, Titan Quest or Torchlight. In addition, he managed to overlip the time. Even in the recent past, there are still various people Diablo 2 instead played successor. And now the number of players are shot back to the height, thank the Remaster. Diablo 2: RESURRECTED is above all a technical upgrade - and what kind of one! But also in terms of ease of use, something has done, but unfortunately not enough.
Strengths that stay
Before we come to talk about the innovations from Diablo 2: Resurrected, we should respond to what Diablo 2 generally today makes a good hack & slay. There are such some reasons for that. In the first place is the core gameplay loop. From the isometric perspective, you attract with your character beyond the dangerous world, depresses hordes of monsters and other bad figures, collects experience points, increases in the level, learns new skills and incidentally tons of weapons, armor parts and jewelery. Gradually, your figure is becoming stronger, your possibilities in the fight expand and before you passes you is 3 o clock in the night and you tell you for a tenth time: Well, the one level / dungeon still. The Ground fascination of Diablo 2 still works perfectly today, because the game in these aspects is no bad bad as a more modern genre representative.
Reason number 2, why Diablo 2 still works 2021 and captivates for hours to the screen: the great class design. The seven different characters barbar, paladin, druide, sorceress, deadlocks, Assassins and Amazone offer enormous variety. Each of these heroes is unique. There are also various species and ways for each individual, as you can play him, thank the sophisticated skill system. All classes have three highly different talent trees. Be taken for themselves, they are not very extensive, but for this you make an interesting decision for every level of levels when it comes to the distribution of the next talent point. Do you increase the damage with a specific weapon style or do not you prefer to shut down a new attack?
There are many opportunities for individualization, in great as in the small. Diablo 2 creates a fantastic balance of accessibility and complexity. If Diablo 3, in which you can not even increase your core attributes (strength, skill, etc.), is too simple, you feel at the same time from Path of Exile with his felt felt several square kilometers of high talents killed, then Diablo is 2 The perfect middle ground for you.
Last but not least, Diablo 2 shines in terms of atmosphere. The successor was colorful to many players in the gameplay videos shown before release. Blizzard then held the color splendor slightly, nevertheless he looked right at the end. The first two parts of the series are extreme gloomy. Straight Diablo 2 is not just fantasy, it drifts already in the horror area. That was much more on his own legs, when Diablo 3 ever did, and nothing has changed with the Remaster. If you drive in Diablo 2: Resurrected, for example, by the monastery at the end of the first act, just brighten the grounds of the environment and find bloodlons everywhere, this feels like the scene of a nightmare.
What upgrade!
That Diablo 2: RESURRECTED is an atmospheric dense experience, the new graphic is thanks. With the original optics, to which you can change at any time at the touch of a button and without waiting time, the game will look no only hopelessly outdated today, it would not unfold the same effect as 21 years ago. Thanks to HD textures, detailed 3D models of characters and especially the dynamic lighting effects, but this is fully possible. In addition, there are the completely redesigned intermediate sequences that are at the level we are used to from the Blizzards render films today.
When fireballs fly through dark caves and brighten the gray walls, this is simply enormous aesthetic. The new water reflections also make a lot. In addition, the animations are much more fluid than in the original, which does not change anything that all figures are still moving very stiff. Nonetheless, Diablo 2: Resurrected One of the best graphics upgrades we have ever seen in the area of Remasters.
Why that age does not quite hide
Playful Diablo 2 remains faithful to 99 percent. Developer Vicarious Visions, who has been to Blizzard since January and has previously done a good job with the new editions of the Crash Bandicoot and Tony Hawk s Pro Skater games, did not touch the mechanics. That s all right, because if something is already damn good, why should you then do it about it?
Only the focal feeling is just no longer on the stand that is expected of today s Hack & Slays. While Diablo 3 feels, the opponents really help the opponents, because they react so credible to the hits, Diablo 2: Resurrected no secret make that in the fighting just independent animations suitable for the Cube rolls played in the background. The illusion that approximately the bank ax of our barbarian really cuts through the meat of a goblin, comes up at any time. Here the game can not hide his true age. Probably Vicarious Visions would have but to improve this aspect, the combat system must completely re-develop. But then resurrected would hardly be a remaster, but a remake and that was not the goal of the team.
There were probably more important the console
We can live with the fighting feeling something old baked. After all, you are not forced on the PC to play Diablo 2: Resurrected with mouse and keyboard, but can be used as well as Gamepad. This is even our big recommendation to you, because with the controller, the thing plays much better. Sure, with the mouse it falls easier to target certain opponents and collect the loot. It is simply much more precise than an analog stick. With the latter, however, you move your character smoother through the world, the full 360 degree control is thank you. That does not exist with the mouse.
However, the most serious difference can be found in the interface and the capacity usage. Mousejüngeren are only available two skill slots: one for the left and one for the right mouse button. If you want to use a different ability, you have to replace an exchange with the F buttons and then press the respective mouse button to activate the desired skill. Foreign loyalty is nice and good, but that is simply outdated and uncomfortable. However, if you change to the GAMEPAD, the interface is also exchanged and you suddenly have a real skill strip with six slots - it s even two strips. If you want a capability from the second, you press the rear left trigger plus the corresponding action button. As long as the developers do not make the skill bar accessible to mouse users, we will continue to grab the controller, even if inventory and co are not bad, but just worse than using the mouse. It is incomprehensible why Vicarious Visions develops a complete interface revision for the Gamepad control, but the standard operation on the PC has left untouched.
More space would have less trouble and work
Also elsewhere are a pleasingly innovation and gave away potential close to each other. So it is great that the boot chest offers significantly more space than in the original. Stupid only that the inventory is still so cursed. That would be to be overturned if we could now stack potions and gems of the same kind as key. But no, every single healing and mana drank, every counter-motif, every gem occupies their own slot.
This does not mean that we often have to make interesting decisions. Hmm, do I take more healing drinks now or save the place for prey I can sell? - Such questions we do not ask ourselves in Diablo 2: RESURRECTED. The opponents are constantly dropping potions and we rarely have a lack of portal writing roles, so that we teleport ourselves into the city and again after larger item yields, only to collect and sell every single valuable item, so that we can sell space for the have other objects that are still on the dungeon floor. This is not an interesting gameplay, but just annoying. Diablo 2: Resurrected would have lost none of his fascination and claim when the developers would have gone with the time here at least a little bit more.
Conclusion
Diablo 2: Resurrected is a fantastic Remaster in many parts. The strengths of the original are still a pleasure and overrupt many other, younger action RPG. Thanks to the completely new graphics you can now enjoy the great game design without suffering eye cancer. Rarely is the difference between original and new edition as big as here, remakes left outside.
We also welcome the Gamepad control. Even Diablo 3 has fun with the controller more fun than with mouse and keyboard. In the case of Diablo 2: Resurrected, however, we do not leave the standard input devices of the PC untouched because it plays more actively with the Gamepad, but because it is simply more comfortable. Please, dear developers, give us the skill strips for the mouse / keyboard control! And if you are already in patching anyway, you also think about stacking drinking and Co. Then Diablo 2: ResurRected really a perfect Remaster. But even so we attach it to everyone to the heart, who either indulge either the nostalgia or wants to catch up with the classic finally. Even though the fighting is no longer completely contemporary, Diablo 2 is still a very good hack and slay, with which you can spend many nice hours.
Diablo 2: Resurrected
Per
Very nice graphic revision
Still fantastic gameplay loop
Strong class design and skill system
Dense atmosphere
Successful Gamepad control
Contra
Fights feel old baking
No skill bar with mouse / keyboard control
Little inventory annoys
Stiff animations
4/5 stars
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