Deckard Cain is still around so we can stay awhile and listen. Because the game occupies sacred space between Diablo II and Diablo III canonically, fans get the best of both worlds. The setting, characters, and enemies are excellent. For now, it’s a good time to plunk away on your phone if you want a new demon-slaying snack. Do I wish there was a PC version? Yes, absolutely. Having had a chance to play a ton of it now in its Technical Alpha period featuring a deluge of early and mid-game offerings, I’m happy to report that it’s a real deal Diablo game, and even features some aspects that could move the franchise and the genre forward in interesting ways. This is about Diablo Immortal, the upcoming mobile Diablo title that’s been excoriated and eviscerated since its calamitous reveal. I’ll never forget my level 80 necromancer dying to Izual when my dorm room ethernet blinked out for a few moments during a Diablo II LAN party. I still have an awesome hardcore-mode ear collection out there somewhere. Diablo II set the standard for the ARPG genre when it was revealed, and it’s still the title that all others are measured against. I remember being eaten by the Butcher, picking up the oddly-boxed Hellfire expansion (Yeah did you know Sierra made and published a Diablo expansion? What wild times those were.) at CompUSA and going hard in the very Zerg-inspired Hive, and that was just a taste of how important the franchise would become in the annals of gaming.
I’ve been playing Diablo games since the original game. Headlining Blizzcon with a mobile game when the Diablo community was desperate for anything related to Diablo 3 or 4 was a rough reveal, and what’s more the game didn’t look or feel anything like I was hoping it would. A few years back when Diablo Immortal was unveiled, I was less than enthused.
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