{"id":76045,"date":"2026-04-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=76045"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:36:28","slug":"diablo-4-lord-of-hatred-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=76045","title":{"rendered":"Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>After 2024\u2019s Vessel of Hatred expansion left me dangling off a narrative cliff like a hapless Sanctuary peasant, Lord of Hatred had quite a lot riding on its ability to deliver on that momentum and give me a reason to become hopelessly lost in its loot-filled grind once again. The good news is that it\u2019s done exactly that thanks to a tight, satisfying campaign, two new classes that I\u2019ve already spent dozens of hours experimenting with and min-maxing builds for, and an endgame that\u2019s so loaded with things to do that I occasionally forgot some of the systems even existed. If you\u2019ve been waiting for a reason to dive back into Diablo 4\u2019s particular brand of misery, Lord of Hatred has plenty of compelling reasons to do so.<\/p>\n<p>As a proper end to the demonic battle that\u2019s been building since 2023, Lord of Hatred\u2019s cutscenes are unsurprisingly jaw dropping, but it\u2019s the writing and pacing of this short and sweet 8ish hour campaign that stands as some of Blizzard\u2019s best work yet. It had me on the edge of my seat from beginning to end with all sorts of twists, turns, and tragedies, references to deep Diablo lore, and motivations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 2024\u2019s Vessel of Hatred expansion left me dangling off a narrative cliff like a hapless Sanctuary peasant, Lord of Hatred had quite a lot riding on its ability to deliver on that momentum and give me a reason to become hopelessly lost in its loot-filled grind once again. The good news is that it\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":76047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76049,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76045\/revisions\/76049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}