A Gothic-style steep progression curve is no longer enough to make me defend this game, my standards have changed, unlike those of PB. The key difference is that G3 was released in 2006, ELEX in 2017. This game here is more comparable with Gothic 3, which was only okay, because of flaws very similar to what I mentioned above. I have spent maybe 90% of this time running boring errands for NPCs that all have the same 3 faces and 5 hairstyles and talk waaaaaay too much while saying nothing, fruitlessly hoping for the story to get interesting, and fruitlessly hoping that my character would become strong enough to actually navigate this generic open world without being attacked at every step by creatures that can kill me in 2 hits and chase me across half the map, which has been my experience the other 10% of the time.įor whoever might be a PB fanboy thinking that I just don't get it, I'm familiar with all their games, the first two Gothic series being among my absolute favorites. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright. I got to 15 hours in, fruitlessly hoping to reach this alleged part of the game past which it's supposed to become fun. This feels more like an unfinished MMO than a proper RPG. This isn't it, but I'll throw them a nice score in hope that they get it right again at some point. One of these days, I hope PB does a good job again, putting them on the level of what they made with Gothic, Gothic 2, and the first Risen game. If it wasn't for the amazing environments that they create, I'd be a lot less forgiving. Huge thank you to Piranha Bytes & THQ Nordic for providing us with an early review key for ELEX IIELEX II on Steam. The combat is rough, the character animations are awful, the cold/warm system is ridiculous, the ending is poor, and the initial learning curve makes the game unattractive to new players. This is 7 hours of gameplay from Elex II as we roam around the world of Magalan fighting against a new thre. The voice acting is awful and the translation of the dialogue from German to English is embarrassing, causing the story to make almost no sense. Elex II is the sequel to the open world RPG Elex. This is hardly a surprise but there is so much they need to improve. That said, you can't ignore the landslide of issues facing PB that make their work seem AA rather than AAA. When you play a PBRPG, you really feel like you're living in a well designed world. This is the central reason I play their RPGs. They build some of the best open worlds there are. I'm going to give a good review score because I want to say good things about Piranha Bytes.
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