Dark Journey: An Immersive Gaming Experience with Diablo Immortal
Diablo Immortal is a highly popular game, and its appeal is mainly reflected in its fast-paced and immersive gaming experience. In the early stages of the game, players will experience increasingly enhanced equipment and the unlocking of new skills in more than thirty levels. This process is deeply addictive. At the same time, the game also features the character of Deckard Cain, revealing a new crisis of annihilation in the Sanctuary. This gradually deepening game feels just right to present the essence of the Diablo series.
In addition, Diablo Immortal also integrates a main story. Due to its MMO-like genre and regional structure, it will take players a while to fully understand the plot. After experiencing the early fast-paced content, players will encounter level restrictions and need to reach a certain level of strength to enter new areas.
There are many types of experience-earning activities in the game, including bounties, regional dungeons, immortal secret realms, and challenge secret realms. Each activity is relatively short and can be completed quickly. There is also an automatic pathfinding function to facilitate players to quickly reach the designated location. Whether it's completing a bounty mission, recovering equipment from the blacksmith Chashina in Westmarch City, or finding the entrance to a dungeon, it can all bring you a sense of satisfaction.
In terms of MMO design, this game is committed to maximizing convenience. Players can easily team up with friends or be matched with random players to conquer dungeons and hidden lairs together. The game will also send a pop-up notification asking players if they are willing to join a team to complete bounty activities together.
Later in the game, I particularly appreciated the way the game blended the core campaign with a linear story. For example, dungeons can be challenged multiple times, and not only do they integrate into the main story, they also complement the aesthetic design of the area and provide contrast to the large map gameplay. The dungeon contains many interesting moments, such as fighting off dwarves on the island of Belfin, dismembering giant spiders in the Shasil Sand Sea, or being devoured by giant worms in the Realm of Destruction.
However, unless the player deliberately increases the difficulty of the game, the bosses in the dungeon are usually relatively easy. For the most part, players just have to avoid their specific attack patterns. These bosses mainly serve as sources of loot, similar to bosses in the larger world. In fact, Diablo Immortal's PVE combat is mainly about providing gameplay fun, rather than pursuing challenge. Players can experience fighting against hordes of enemies and huge monsters in the game.
Of course, there are also some areas in the game that can test the player's strength and skills, such as the Challenge Secret Realm and the Blood Road Trial with gradually increasing difficulty. However, these challenges do not encourage players to repeat completed Recommended Difficulty challenges. On the contrary, players need to improve their combat power before they can challenge higher difficulties.
In terms of equipment, Diablo Immortal provides a complex system. Each character has six secondary equipment slots: amulet, two rings, gloves, belt, and shoes. These equipment slots are for set items, giving you additional buffs for every two pieces equipped. Similar to Diablo 2, these secondary pieces of equipment can be equipped with gems to increase their attributes. Gems are initially level one, and three identical gems can be synthesized into higher level gems. The equipment itself can also be upgraded using versatile materials and mist crystals.
The character also has six main equipment slots: helmet, breastplate, shoulder armor, leg armor, main-hand weapon, and off-hand weapon, and each slot can be equipped with legendary items. Each legendary piece of equipment has a specific inscribed skill, and the effects of these inscriptions are similar to the skill runes in Diablo 3. Some of these inscriptions directly improve attributes, such as increasing skill damage or range, while other inscriptions change the mechanics of the skill.
For free players, Diablo Immortal is very cautious in providing Immortal Keystones. For example, players can earn an Immortality Keystone from the free Battle Pass or purchase one each month from an Honor Merchant. If players invest a small amount of money appropriately, they can collect some one- or two-star legendary gems for their equipment and slightly increase their level. But to improve further, it depends purely on luck.
As for the Order of Shadows, the story of Diablo Immortal revolves around a group of warriors called the Immortals, whose mission is to ensure that Sanctuary does not fall into the hands of demons and monsters. The Shadow Society, a hostile organization, is introduced into the game to test the Immortals and find their weaknesses. The conflict between these two factions forms the core of the game's PVP content. After players join the Shadow Society, they can participate in many activities. After completing the activities, they can improve the Shadow Society's ranking and increase damage and defense.
Diablo Immortal is a fun and casual free game. It provides rich content, including exciting ARPG combat and interesting skill system. But for those players who want to participate in PVP competition, the game may seem a bit restrictive and demanding. Despite this, the game is still worth playing and exploring.
In addition, Diablo Immortal also integrates a main story. Due to its MMO-like genre and regional structure, it will take players a while to fully understand the plot. After experiencing the early fast-paced content, players will encounter level restrictions and need to reach a certain level of strength to enter new areas.
In terms of MMO design, this game is committed to maximizing convenience. Players can easily team up with friends or be matched with random players to conquer dungeons and hidden lairs together. The game will also send a pop-up notification asking players if they are willing to join a team to complete bounty activities together.
Later in the game, I particularly appreciated the way the game blended the core campaign with a linear story. For example, dungeons can be challenged multiple times, and not only do they integrate into the main story, they also complement the aesthetic design of the area and provide contrast to the large map gameplay. The dungeon contains many interesting moments, such as fighting off dwarves on the island of Belfin, dismembering giant spiders in the Shasil Sand Sea, or being devoured by giant worms in the Realm of Destruction.
Of course, there are also some areas in the game that can test the player's strength and skills, such as the Challenge Secret Realm and the Blood Road Trial with gradually increasing difficulty. However, these challenges do not encourage players to repeat completed Recommended Difficulty challenges. On the contrary, players need to improve their combat power before they can challenge higher difficulties.
In terms of equipment, Diablo Immortal provides a complex system. Each character has six secondary equipment slots: amulet, two rings, gloves, belt, and shoes. These equipment slots are for set items, giving you additional buffs for every two pieces equipped. Similar to Diablo 2, these secondary pieces of equipment can be equipped with gems to increase their attributes. Gems are initially level one, and three identical gems can be synthesized into higher level gems. The equipment itself can also be upgraded using versatile materials and mist crystals.
For free players, Diablo Immortal is very cautious in providing Immortal Keystones. For example, players can earn an Immortality Keystone from the free Battle Pass or purchase one each month from an Honor Merchant. If players invest a small amount of money appropriately, they can collect some one- or two-star legendary gems for their equipment and slightly increase their level. But to improve further, it depends purely on luck.
As for the Order of Shadows, the story of Diablo Immortal revolves around a group of warriors called the Immortals, whose mission is to ensure that Sanctuary does not fall into the hands of demons and monsters. The Shadow Society, a hostile organization, is introduced into the game to test the Immortals and find their weaknesses. The conflict between these two factions forms the core of the game's PVP content. After players join the Shadow Society, they can participate in many activities. After completing the activities, they can improve the Shadow Society's ranking and increase damage and defense.