Lost Ark does provide what is the crudest part of the appeal of something like Diablo - i.e.
In the spirit of Lost Ark’s slightly older (one might even say dated?)
Although I should make it clear I’m not doing our properLost Ark review.
That honour falls to Ed, who is more plugged in to modernMMORPGsthan I am.
STORY
The premise of Lost Ark is basically the same as Diablo.
and you have to get an orb or a bit of rock to stop them.
Giving it all “the light of destiny” this and “the orb of some dickhead” that.
On the other hand, you don’t actually need to remember the names of any characters.
So I have to respect that.
Find demon, kill demon.
GRAPHICS
I genuinely have very few complaints about how Lost Ark looks.
It’s full of weird monsters that look like cacti and stuff.
EvenDiablo IIIwas a bit, you know, gothic magician’s castle for a lot of it.
SOUND
The sound design in the Diablo series is one of my favourite things about it.
The NPCs aren’t fully voiced, but they say some key lines when you interact with them.
I can’t even imagine how many t-shirts with ‘Stay awhile, and listen!’
on the front exist in the world today.
People will say “Where are you from, adventurer?”
in a vaguely flirty way.
Bonus points for having to play an awesome guitar riff to fast travel, though.
I particularly like how she can can switch between ranged and slightly-less ranged attack styles.
In this sense, Lost Ark is easier to play than Diablo II.
In some ways, it dosen’t really matter what class you choose.
But you could also invest in your character and the cool gear you got.
Lost Ark is weightless, in a way that works for and against it.
Is there someone there?!"
and shrug because you’ve done your to-do list.
Each new area you reach, the quest hand-ins will all cluster in and around the next milestone.
I invested time and care into my characters in Diablo II.
In Lost Ark I’ve not come across any interesting weapons dropped in-game.
The best gear is stuff I’ve had to pay for.
Which is the point, right?
It’s easy to get sucked in to Lost Ark because it doesn’t ask you to care.
But then that also means…
