The writer has snubbed gaming on Android for a very long time, also thanks to games that are simply more interesting on the other platforms available on the market. This is simply to warn any reader that, who writes, he's not exactly used to it to play without a pad or the combination of mouse and keyboard and therefore avoided getting too angry about the obvious UI problems that have already massacred this title in reviews published abroad.
Having said that, let's move on to the actual review: let's go back to Greece.
From the past with fury
The first half of the first decade of the XNUMXs was a particular period for the world of computer video games, a period in which many companies tried to pull out of the hat a video game that could act as a game for the Diablo, in an attempt to repeat the success of the masterpiece Blizzard (which will be remastered very soon, according to the information given by the company in its latest online event).
TItan Quest appears in this period and puts the gameplay from action rpg hack and slash within a new setting for the genre: that of ancient Greece. No deals with demons and high fantasy of Sacred and welcome centaurs, satyrs and other beasts of Greek origin. The skills will be linked to the deities, the characters that will appear within the story will be linked to the Hellenic narrative: everything will have that flavor that made us crazy at the time between a Titan Quest or Age Of Mithology.
Here, TitanQuest Anniversary Edition it's still that game with all the expansions added - sorry, the DLCs that came out over time. For about ten euros it will be possible to take us home Immortal Throne, Ragnarok e Atlantis which will then be downloaded individually from within the game to avoid weighing too much on the memory of our smartphone. The DLCs add new content to explore, bosses to slaughter, loot to find with strength and courage, adding to the whole an extra mastery that will allow us to play using the powers of the runes.
The bulk of the game, in essence, remained perfectly the same: fifty to seventy hours of gameplay are contained in the Anniversary offering virtually none differ from the idea of Hack and Slash that the original Titan Quest placed on the market. If you are nostalgic this is the game for you.
Everyone in Greece massacring things
How was the transition from the big computer screen to the small mobile screen?
First of all, let's start with some technical data: the game test was carried out for a comfortable twenty hours on an android phone: a smartphone Xiaomi Mi9T (that's right, the one with the pop up camera) was the battleground for the title's graphics engine. The phone in question is a mid-range device from a couple of years ago but it holds up very well, showing sporadic drops in frame rate within the most messed up sections with dozens of enemies on the screen and a few overused skills.
So technically we can say that the video game defends itself well: while not showing anything particularly exaggerated on a technical level, the game has one graphic style that makes the experience pleasant, bringing back the Greek imagery into polygons without skimping too much on details or details.
Clearly we must immediately remember that we are playing a title with a few years on its back and that the graphics, however remastered they want to be, always come from that base.
What will surely make a large number of players turn up their noses is the interface, not perfectly adapted to the small screens of mobile phones. It is plausible to think that the boys of Handy games we decided to use Occam's razor as a solution to the age-old problem of how many keys I put on the screen because, in practice, the player has a single key available to interact with the circumstances.
Lo same key it allows us to attack, collect the loot, interact with NPCs, interact with merchants and use switches.
We understand well that the interaction becomes complicated practically parallel to the complication of the situation on the screen, leading us to tragicomic conclusions such as the impossibility of attacking the right enemy or looting the right object.
Attacking opponents, incidentally, is not very easy, especially in the most complex situations with a summoning enemy on the screen: this is because the choice of the target to attack is automatic and therefore it is difficult to manage the priority of the attacked.
If we want to take a specific object, what we can do is click on the screen exactly where the name of the object appears: a practice that is not always very simple, also given the small size of smartphones. It would have been smarter use of solutions with mailing listsand or put the loot rarity selector for automatic collection somewhere on the screen (instead of hiding it all in the options).
Let me do some of it.
All the rest of the title can be evaluated without even having to consider the smartphone system. The gameplay hack and slash, assuming the data we talked about above, it remains terribly effective from multiple points of view.
Titan Quest today again It is funny and will be able to donate one to all diablolike fans long series of satisfactions, especially if you prefer the ad high customization given by the presence of runes and hollows, a bit like in Path Of Exile.
We all agree that a smartphone is not exactly the most comfortable tool for playing games like this, especially without a user interface redone ad hoc for the occasion but we would like to emphasize how, for the price at which it is offered, the title in question is fun and long-lived, perfect for keeping the player company on long train or subway journeys.
It doesn't even seem to be one of those games that gobbles up your smartphone's battery, so even better.
Only thing: to all this beautiful panegyric an extra vote should be added, a clear vote, if and only if the developers decide to give us the control supportr.
With those many of the problems would be solved in the sprint and the game experience would end up improving significantly.
Titan Quest Anniversary Edition is the perfect video game if you have one of those crazy cravings for diablolike while on the train. The title brings the action rpg gameplay of the progenitor made in Blizzard within a Greek-Hellenic setting, placing wagonloads of mythology on the loot pallets that will accompany the player from the beginning to the end of the adventure. Compared to the original, the transposition is imperfect, with some ingenuity in relation to the user interface that could be solved with one of the next patches while technically you are dealing with a fairly solid game even on devices with a few years on the shoulders. The final result is an economically unbeatable bundle, perfect for those who want to approach the title and enjoy playing with their smartphone. Mouse & keyboard lovers, of course, still have no reason to change their minds.
