![]() Presumably the first two Gothic games, but I could never get past their terrible controls. Sadly, it also has the same problems as the previous game. It’s clunky and janky, but compelling and can be a breath of fresh air when you’re used to a steady diet of over-polished AAA affairs. It’s an open-world RPG that cares precisely not one jot about whether you live or die. ![]() In the first game, this was a desert region inhabited by the Outlaws, but the area has been conquered by the Berserkers and terraformed with the aid of their magic tree thingies, making it lush and green.Įlex 2 is very much a Piranha Bytes game. The high point of this is definitely the Fort and its surrounding environs. I also very much appreciated the decision to locate the game in more or less the same place as the original and being able to witness the effects of time’s passage. The plot is huge amounts of sci-fi guff and endless exposition, but it seeds just enough mystery in there to hold your interest and does a decent job of foreshadowing the inevitable Big Plot Twist. Somehow it all hangs together, even when you add the game’s baddies, a group of techno-organic alien invaders, into the equation. And last up are the Morkons, the new kids on the block, who lived out the apocalypse underground, worship a god of destruction, and dress like the Cenobites from Hellraiser. Multiclassed hippy-vikings the Berserkers reject technology and have figured out how to convert elex into mana which allows them to cast spells. They birthed the pasty-faced Albs, the baddies from the first game, who you can now align with. The Clerics are a hi-tech religious order who have definitely been playing too much Warhammer 40k. The Outlaws are the most stereotypically post-apocalyptic in the Mad Max-cum-Fallout vein, all scrap armour and conventional weapons. The mix of factions is wonderfully bonkers and makes me think of a bunch of LARPers who all turned up to a game expecting entirely different settings. 160-ish years later, we’re left with a handful of different groups who have all learned to use elex in different ways. Elex 2 returns to the post-apocalyptic world of Magalan, which looked a lot like modern day Earth until a comet carrying the eponymous substance smashed into the planet. Watch on YouTube Content warning: this review includes mention of threats of physical violence towards a childĪt first glance, this kind of “why the heck not?” attitude is all over the place. It’s the sort of random that I can respect, and I only wish the game had more. It makes no sense whatsoever and the only explanation I can come up with is that someone involved in the game really likes Billy Idol and just wanted him in their game. In the 40-ish hours I spent playing the game, I had no reason to return to the amphitheatre. ( Whiskey & Pills from his 2014 album, rather than anything you’re likely to have heard.) After the cutscene, you’re left in the empty amphitheatre, alone apart from a couple of guys talking about how great the concert was. I immediately made a beeline for the concert venue and was treated to a rather unflattering rendering of Billy Idol and his guitar-playing chum performing a song. The broadcast was announcing a concert at the nearby amphitheatre. Just a few minutes out of Elex 2’s, pleasantly brief, tutorial area I came across a radio. From: Steam, GOG, Humble, Epic Games Store.I was actually planning on covering guides for ELEX II but I can’t even play it at this stage.Elex II is an ambitious and slightly bonkers open world RPG hampered by badly written and unpleasant characters. This made me lose all my hopes for this game. No updates, not even a tweet, from the developers. So I thought the developers would take note and respond with a fix for these issues or at least give us an update on when these issues will be fixed.īut so far (at the time of this writing it’s been almost a week since launch) it’s been nothing but tumbleweeds. The questing and level issues were all there.Īnd it wasn’t just me either, many other players were experiencing these issues. The lag, FPS drops, performance issues were all there. Sadly, the day-one patch did nothing to improve the game. So I waited for the official launch and the day-one patch. After all, I was playing the review build. I thought these issues would be fixed in the day-one patch. Why I’m DisappointedĪfter going through all that I pretty much rage-quit the game. I managed to complete the first few missions and while I was on my way to another area on the map, I was attacked by a super high-level enemy.
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