History VideoGame / TorchlightII

* RedShirtArmy: The Vanquishers are responsible for keep the peace in the empire. The player find their dead bodies whever there's conflict. The Vanquishers are also happen to be wearing [[RedShirt red uniforms]].

* GimmickLevel: Mapworks dungeons can have a variety of positive and/or negative affixes applied to monsters and/or the player and their pets. You can have, for example, a dungeon with a 10% increase to your magic-find and an increase to casting speed but the enemies have a chance to [[ActionBomb explode upon death]]. The prices for these maps seem to be based on the affixes as well so dungeons that leave you at a handicap will generally be cheaper than the ones giving you an advantage.

* NewGamePlus: It is even labeled like so with each + denoting the tier, it eventually goes up to New Game +++++ [[HarderThanHard which is somewhere around level 120 for your enemies]].

* PoisonousPerson: The Outlander utilizes poison in many of their skills such as Cursed Daggers and Venomous Hail. Their Master of the Elements passive increases the damage of all four elements by a percentage but poison in particular gets double the percentage that any of the [[FireIceLightning other three]] elements would have get.

* ShieldBash: The very first skill in the Engineer's Aegis tree which stuns enemies and derives damage based on the shield's armor value which increases with each tier. Segments of the charge meter contribute a damage bonus as well.

* GimmickLevel: Mapworks dungeons can have a variety of positive and/or negative affixes applied to monsters and/or the player and their pets. You can have, for example, a dungeon with a 10% to your magic-find and an increase to casting speed but the enemies have a chance to [[ActionBomb explode upon death]]. The prices for these maps seem to be based on the affixes as well so dungeons that leave you at a handicap will generally be cheaper than the ones giving you an advantage.

* BonusDungeon: The Mapworks (unlocked after beating the FinalBoss) is a whole collection of them.

* ThisIsADrill: Some of the unique claws are small, hand-covering drills that even spin when equipped.

* DifficultySpike: As in the first game, the final dungeon starts featuring a lot of enemies who can kill you in only a few hits. Even better, there are grills on the floor that spurt fire--fire that deals about an entire lifebar's worth of damage. Avoiding them whilst traveling is easy. Avoiding them in a fight, with a bunch of other attacks coming your way...

* SaharanShipwreck: There is a whole area full of shipwrecks in the second part (set in a sand desert) of the game.

* SplashDamage: all two-handed weapons provide this, which helps offset the reduced [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe defense]] or [[DualWielding damage output]].

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Several werewolves appear in the Blightbogs as well as the abandoned Sawmill. The good news is that they don't turn people, the bad news is that they're [[LightningBruiser fast, somewhat durable, hit hard]], and appear in packs, sometimes even in an ambush.

* BettingMiniGame: You can rescue a shady looking merchant during a side quest in Act II, after which you can go to him to purchase unidentified items.

** [[spoiler:Areas in the Wellspring or Watchweald temples have specific urns with glowing marking's and emitting smoke, breaking them creates vine bridges for you to cross]].

* EvolvingTitleScreen: The title screen has multiple backgrounds depending on how far in the game you've reached but picked at random, typically consisting of an act's town, first half and second half and sometimes the same background might have subtle changes (such as the background with the Frosted Hills either depicting typical Estherian ruins or showing burning bandit towers).

** The Outlander uses ranged weapons like the Amazon, acrobatic and trap-like skills of the Assassin and they have an affinity toward poison, enemy debilitating pacts and the ability to amass a ZergRush of weaker minions and a singular brute like the Necromancer.

** The Embermage simply has the FireIceLightning options similar to the Sorceress, though that's typical of ''many'' RPG mages in the first place though the Shock Bolts skill imitates the Charged Bolts skill that both the Sorceress and Sorcerer had and their Astral Ally has passing resemblance to the Assassin's Shadow Warrior or the Amazon's Valkyrie.

** The Outlander uses ranged weapons like the Amazon, acrobatic and trap-like skills of the Assassin and they have an affinity toward poison, enemy debilitating pacts and the ability to amass a ZergRush of weaker minions like the Necromancer.
** The Berserker is a close up DPS class like the Barbarian, uses a heavy wolf-motif similar to the Druid and wields WolverineClaws like the Assassin (though obviously less elegant).
** The Embermage simply has the FireIceLightning options similar to the Sorceress, though that's typical of ''many'' RPG mages in the first place though the Shock Bolts skills imitates the Charged Bolts skill that both the Sorceress and Sorcerer had and their Astral Ally's usage of their beginning skills is similar to the Assassin's Shadow Warrior and Shadow Master summoning abilities.

* OhCrap: [[spoiler:In the movie opening, Syl realizes too late that the Alchemist has quickly recovered from her spell and zaps her with an attack that cause her death.]]

* SuperWindowJump: The Varkolyn Whelplings ''love'' to do this with the stained glass windows in Vyrax's Tower just to ambush you.

** Corpsefire skeletons attack you by pulling off their skulls and throwing them at you.

* AbnormalAmmo: "Corpsefire Skeletons," who attack you by... Pulling off their skulls and throwing them at you. There's also the more serious "Nether Plaguebearers", who fire out diseased pustules from their backs that swell up and explode an area.

* AWinnerIsYou: When you finally [[spoiler:confront the dreaded Alchemist, he doesn't say anything and you just fight him. Then you go on to the TrueFinalBoss, the Netherlord, who also doesn't say anything. You fight him, defeat him, and he dies too. You get a cutscene telling you how you saved the world, but it feels rather anticlimactic, then the game ends.]]

** Similarly, Forcefield, which just provides some extra physical damage absorption and knockback resistance.
*** Other level 1 skills can be considered this, such as the Embermage's Prismatic Bolts, which fires five homing bolts that inflict all four types of elemental damage and is used primarily to trigger the Brand passives for massive damage. Or the Outlander's Glaive Throw, which seeks out enemies, rebounds off its first target to hit others, deals a solid chunk of poison damage even when your character level is 100 and it is left at rank 1, and even adds charge to boot. Or the Berserker's Shadow Burst, which heals the Berserker when it hits enemies and has an innate chance to break shields, but it can also act as a cheap escape skill if you leave it at rank 1.
** Passive skills. Unlike Active Skills, [[EvolvingAttack which evolve via the Tier system]], investing points in them only increases the percentage bonus they grant to you, which is not too exciting... But spending a hefty amount of skill-points in them is still highly recommended, as they generate nice bonuses that scale with your stats and/or equipment and increase the chance of triggering random beneficial effects. Let's put it this way:
--> '''LetsPlay/{{Northernlion}}:''' ''(...) I feel like I try to be a 'responsible dad', and the kids are like: "Come on dad! Get [[AnimalBattleAura the skill where you transform into a wolf]]" and I'm like: "No! You gotta get those percentage bonuses, they're gonna help you in the late game"''

* ChargedAttack: Of the 'collect' type. The Engineer's charge meter has five "pips" that fill as you deal more damage through attacks and certain skills. Many skills benefit from the charge in three ways, consuming a single pip to make it stronger, depleting the entire meter to increase the effects based on how full it was or passively benefiting from the meter without affecting it.

* ColorCodedItemTiers: The game has white (common) < green(uncommon) < blue (rare) < orange (unique) < red (legendary), with purple being reserved for quest-related items.

* TamerAndChaster: Commander Vale, the Vanquisher from the [[VideoGame/{{Torchlight}} first game]] wears a more covered outfit as opposed to her Stripperiffic one worn in the previous game.

A sequel, ''Torchlight III'' is scheduled for the future, with the game now a full MMO with the same ARPG combat.

A sequel, ''Torchlight Frontiers'' is scheduled for the future, with the game now a full MMO with the same ARPG combat.

A sequel, ''Torchlight Frontiers'' is scheduled for 2019, with the game now a full MMO with the same ARPG combat.

* AWinnerIsYou: When you finally [[spoiler:confront the dreaded Alchemist, he doesn't say anything and you just fight him. Then you go on to the TrueFinalBoss, Ordrak, who also doesn't say anything. You fight him, defeat him, and he dies too. You get a cutscene telling you how you saved the world, but it feels rather anticlimactic, then the game ends.]]

* FinalBossPreview: [[spoiler:The Netherim that was possessing the Grand Regent at the end of act 1 turns out to be the Nether King.]]

* TheMagicGoesAway: [[spoiler:The Alchemist has the destruction of the world's ember as one of his plans, thinking it might cure him of the ember blight. He seems to have overlooked the existence of entire races based on or subsisting on Ember, which would be wiped out if his plan succeeds. Thankfully for all concerned the trope is averted in the end.]]

* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:The ending suggests that at least ''some'' of the Alchemist's actions may have been due to the Nether King's manipulations.]]

* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:The Nether King starts the fight out as a half-incorporeal Netherim, but after defeating him once, he morphs into a giant Netherim with golden armor and a {{BFS}}.]]

* AWinnerIsYou: When you finally [[spoiler:confront the dreaded Alchemist, he doesn't say anything and you just fight him. Then you go on to the TrueFinalBoss, Ordrak, who also doesn't say anything. You fight him, defeat him, and he dies too. You get a cutscene telling you how you saved the world, but it feels rather anticlimactic, then the gale ends.]]