You’ll usually be a few levels short of where you need to be by the time you finish the main story content in each location, which means you’ll have a few hours of busy work before you move on. What's more, instead of letting you blitz through each zone and leave a trail of bodies in your wake on the way to the next, areas are locked to a certain minimum level. Rather than randomly generated level layouts, Diablo Immortal mostly skews towards more hand-crafted levels. It's the structure stringing together your character's adventures that’s undergone the bulk of the tinkering. The moment-to-moment gameplay in Diablo Immortal does a great job of looking, sounding and playing like that of other games in the iconic hack-and-slash series.

You're tapping on enemies rather than clicking on them, but that substitution isn't nearly as significant as it might sound. The core gameplay here doesn’t have a lot of verbs to it, so squeezing it onto touch controls isn’t as much of an ask. The jump to mobile for all of Blizzard’s franchises is something that many people, including myself, have anticipated for a long time, and Diablo’s streamlined gameplay loop and top-down perspective make it a more natural fit than either Warcraft or Starcraft. While it's undeniably cool to explore and immerse yourself in the series' dark fantasy world in a way that previous Diablo games didn't really allow for, the potency of the storytelling here does take something of a hit as a result. The next will see you fighting pirates in a swamp. One quest chain will see you wandering through the deserts of the east. However, rather than a series of acts with escalating difficulty, specific environments and epic bosses, Immortal sees you crisscross the world of Sanctuary like never before.

The plot here is a race against time against a new and vicious, but largely archetypal, villain who has stepped in to fill the power vacuum left by the most recent defeat of Diablo and the other Prime Evils.

You create an avatar, choose from one of six classes, fight your way through hordes of demons and collect progressively more powerful gear along the way. Set between the end of the second game in the series and the start of the third, Immortal may as well be Diablo 2.5. An action-heavy RPG designed for iOS and Android (but also available on PC), Diablo Immortal represents Blizzard’s first stab at taking the fantasy franchise beyond the constrained co-op of the series’ usual formula into the strata of MMORPGs like World of Warcraft.

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