![]() Tonally, Diablo was unlike anything that the gaming world had seen. However, the original Diablo also launched in this time period and it caught players completely off-guard. In the mid-90s, Blizzard experimented with plenty of ideas for video games, with many sticking the landing and becoming the pop culture phenomenons we know today such as Warcraft and Starcraft. With Blizzard promising a return to the franchise’s darker roots for Diablo 4, we thought it would be the perfect time to discuss why, above all, Diablo 1 is a masterpiece of building dread and darkness. ![]() While it never goes that extra mile in depicting evil in as much sinister detail as something like Berserk, it still presents a story that builds malevolent dread and terror when the occasion calls for it. ![]() ![]() The Diablo series deals with some pretty dark themes amidst its gripping fantasy setting. ![]()
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