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This lends some clarity to an old school Diablo II player. It sounds like they've picked up the pieces of a bungled launch and implemented a nice middle ground to ease players into the new paradigm. I doubt I'll pick it up, but if I did it seems worth my time.

Look, the only time I'm not wrong is when I'm right, so...

Yea I heard the proverbial horror stories about the launch and my brother and I were a couple months late to that. I think my bro did buy it but barely played it. I later got it myself, piddled around a bit but never got hardcore into it until Adventure Mode came out, which is great. There's certainly plenty to do.

(Also I'm old school. I played the original Diablo too, even with my own mother! As well as D2).

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Zyd likes words.

I mean, sure, we all do. There’s not a lot of people who go around shaking their fists at dictionaries, but Zyd writes in a stream of consciousness type way and that means that words tumble straight out of her mind and onto her word document where they stay forever. This has a lot of plusses; her writing is often fun and relatable, but it’s also prone to tangents (says me, right?) and, sometimes, things are less concise than they should have been. For example; I quite like the idea of the intro, but it’s three paragraphs when it easily could have been one, and there’s a fair bit of word repetition going on ( e.g: the word ‘class’ pops up four times in the first paragraph alone. Twice in one sentence at one point). It could be tidier, I guess the point is, without losing that rambling onto a page feel you go for.

It also makes the assumption that people are already very familiar with Diablo, which is fair in a way because it’s, you know, Diablo, but an existing knowledge is required to make the most sense of this review. Every now and then a line crops up that I just want to edit away (you don’t need to write a score in the review body; one’s assigned at the end)

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All I can do is chalk it up to style. That, and some day I'll have a real editor behind me to go over my stuff before I plop it on multiple websites. Otherwise, I do like how people feel that my stuff "flows" well. Even my own brother told me that many years ago, so it's certainly a constant.

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