When Diablo III hit consoles in the fall of 2013, I knew it was going to be excellent. I was SURE of it. But how could I be so sure that the dungeon crawler would translate well to console" Easy! Someone else had done it first. People seem to forget that two-and-a-half years prior to Blizzard?s living room invasion, the original Torchlight launched as an Xbox 360 exclusive and it was staggeringly good. I?d gone into the Torchlight review (yes, I have been doing this for a long time?) with muted expectations, wondering if Runic Games would be able to translate their stellar PC experience for us controller jockeys. I?ll be damned if it wasn?t my favorite XBLA game of the entire year. So, as you can imagine, when I heard that Torchlight II was coming to PS4 I was all aboard the hype train, conductor?s hat and all. Next stop, Hack-n-Slash Junction! About Damn Time?
I know what you?re thinking. ?How can a game that is nearly seven years old still be worthy of a console port"? While that is a fair question, if you take a look at the dungeon crawler genre in general, both the art style and mechanics of most games are rather timeless. Torchlight II is no exception to that rule. It was critically lauded back when it was originally released, and now it feels like the perfect counterpoint to everything that Diablo III has been doing for the past several years.

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