Fun Hack n Slash
THE GOOD
1. The graphics are NOT dated, if you have the machine that can handle it, Loki shines. From the lighting to the spell effects, landscape animations, and mob animations, it looks real nice. Graphics do not make a great game anyways....
2. The sound is emersive and atmospheric, and the number 1 notable thing for me about the sound is the fact that NPC's TALK, yes you can hear them speak and not just read endless text with no voice to give it life.
3. The creature variety is good and seeded with original mob types, that's a good thing folks
4. Skill system is straight forward and is useful to use, not just a bunch of non essential skills that take up skill points. Additionally, you can turn in rare loot for skill exp to earn additional skill points...That's a nice touch.
5. Armor/Weapon upgrading is done nicely, you can tear down weapons and use different parts to create a better weapon.
6. Traveling is not a pain in the a$$, for me in a hack n slash, I don't want to have to travel forever to get around, leave the long travel for other RPG's, this is just click and go. Wouldn't you rather spend time hacking and slashing anyways?
7. Ability to separate junk from items you may want to keep on the fly is a great thing, it's called a Kiosk and its a tab in your inventory, just open inv and right click all the crap you want to sell at the vendor and it goes into the Kiosk tab and out of your main inventory. Then when you arrive at the vendor to sell, just hit the sell tab in the vendor and then the Kiosk tab and click sell all...BOOM done, all sold, no individual clicking to sell...nice job, thanks for not wasting my time.
THE BAD
1. DO NOT INSTALL THE PATCHES, it just makes your game CTD and you have to deal with Starforce. I am running without any patches and doing fine.
2. The game lags a bit, so if you have a slower machine, turn everything down low.
3. It's like other diablo clones, you've been here done this....but it's done well
4. TOO much money in the game, you'll be rich before you know it, I recommend giving ALL rare items you can't use to the gods for skill point exp.
5. Game is real easy, you can buy a ton of healing pots and wade through the mobs with ease, maybe they need a longer cool down timer on heal pots.
Honestly though, there isn't a whole lot that's bad about the game, just minor things here and there.
Bottom line, if your looking for a fun Diablo / TQ clone, Loki fits the bill and is quite a bit of fun.