Diablo meets Chrono Trigger? ─ A Review of Last Epoch

After Path of Exile 2's Early Access period was delayed to December 6th, 2024, I figured why not take the time I would have spent in PoE playing Last Epoch instead? I'd heard pretty good things about it, and it was ultimately responsible for pushing Grinding Gear Games to include trading into PoE, so I thought it would be worth checking out just to see what direction it was pushing the ARPG genre to.

As for my experience in Last Epoch, I completed the campaign and all the base monoliths before delving into the arena and a few empowered monoliths. So while I haven't seen absolutely everything, I think I've devoted enough time to it to get a pretty good understanding of its basic systems and gameplay.

Overall, I have some pretty mixed feelings about LE. It has a very interesting world with some pretty cool settings, combining aspects of games like Chrono Trigger and Diablo, but I don't quite feel like it hits the mark, and I don't think it really competes with Path of Exile or Diablo IV just yet. With that being said, I still think it has a lot of potential, and if it were to focus on its strengths like its setting and story, I think it could carve a niche for itself for the single-player market, but with Path of Exile being free, I think it's going to be a bit of an uphill battle.

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