gamerdad According to my trusty Playstation App I have logged about twenty hours into this slash-em-up romp in the last week.

I mention it because I mentioned playing this game to LM on the weekend and his eyes got real big and he told me a short cautionary tale about a friend of his who sunk literally thousands of hours in Diablo games of the past and how it was a black hole of attention grabbing and that I should be careful and for gosh sake, brad, stick to Baldurs Gate, dammit.

But I’m making progress, I argued.

And I am. I am playing as a whirlwind barbarian who blurs through enemies with abandon and I’ve been fulfilling all the little side quests and unlocking new skills and levelling up well into the mid-thirties all while I narrow in on completing Act I of the quest story line.

But I get it. Everything is so incremental and there is almost no grind. I mean it’s all grind, but the grind rewards you with a fresh shot of endorphins every couple of minutes. You just keep cooler better stuff and mightier skills and bigger numbers and there is a ceaseless motivation to just keep thrashing about and progressing. In fact, the game seems to know this giving you new quests that sometimes just happen as you stroll by… none of this clicking and choosing, heck, it’s more like hey you, follow me and kill these demons.

So I progress. And I unlock. And the game goes on.