Each season lasts about three months, after which your season characters become normal and you must start new ones (we are currently in Season 15). Normal is the standard fare with little in the way of post-game content, while Seasonal adds extra challenges, achievements, and leaderboards for after you have finished the main story. The Necromancer summons skeletons, curses enemies, and revives corpses to fight for him or her, and I must admit that there is something comforting about having 40 minions at your side to shield you and distract enemies while you destroy them from a safe distance.Īfter choosing a class, you also choose one of four character types. For my playthrough, I chose the Necromancer after developing an affinity with that type of character in Diablo II. Melee classes include the Barbarian, Crusader, and Monk, and ranged/caster classes include the Demon Hunter, Witch Doctor, Wizard, and Necromancer, the last of which represents the most recent DLC added to Diablo III. While Diablo III shares story elements, characters, and genre with its predecessors, it is a much faster, deeper, and more streamlined experience.įrom the start menu, your first task will be to create a male or female character from the seven classes available. The first game, simply titled Diablo, came out on PC 16 years prior, and when I first had a chance to play a demo of it in a computer shop, I was terrified, but also hooked. The third game in the popular series was originally released in 2012 on PC and Mac. Veterans and newcomers to the series will find a lot to love here.įor the uninitiated, Diablo III involves fighting through hordes of minions and monsters as you work to push back the denizens of hell and ultimately defeat Diablo, the Lord of Terror. A few Zelda-themed items and light Amiibo functionality add to the package. The controls feel perfectly at home mapped to the face and shoulder buttons as well. The online multiplayer is impressive, basically running without any hiccups or slowdown, with seamless transitions between menus and different areas of the game world.

The dungeon-crawling action RPG runs amazingly smooth, even with dozens of creatures, foe and friend alike, on the screen at one time. Diablo III: Eternal Collection is the latest AAA port to arrive on Switch, and the folks at Iron Galaxy and Blizzard who brought it to Nintendo’s latest console deserve a ton of praise.

Diablo 3 review