![]() ![]() For example, in the predecessor we might have chosen a romance with outlaw lady Nasty - today we are in a relationship with berserker Caja and even have a son together. This can sometimes lead to confusion for players of Elex 1, because certain situations are forced upon you, which you didn't choose in part 1, because no savegame import was used. Piranha Bytes has chosen one of four endings for the first part. One minute we're sneaking past the critters in a forested area, and the next, without warning, a video starts in which we see Jax being chased past cliffs in a desert-like region by these same beasts. The transition to this intro is a bit sudden, though, as the landscape shown doesn't match the in-game environment at all. ![]() Jax returns to the humans after the aliens destroy his hut, but is bitten by the creatures and infected with a disease on the way there in a second intro. The Skyands plan to reshape and subjugate the planet to their liking using a modified type of the Elex, the Dark Elex. The sudden arrival of the aliens in Elex 2 is presented in a nicely rendered intro and, of course, changes everything. Elex 2 begins 6 years after the first game with the arrival of the alien Skyands on the planet Magalan, which was once populated by a modern civilization before a meteorite devastated it and brought the Elex to the world. Jax, meanwhile, lives as a hermit on a mountain after people failed to listen to his warnings about alien invaders. With Elex 1, the Piranhas dared to break styles in 2017 by mixing medieval fantasy and science fiction and giving the hero a name. Have the Piranhas used the long development time to improve in all aspects with Elex 2, or are the biting fish taking a bath with their ambitious vision? Fans have never had to wait this long for a new game from Piranha Bytes - a studio that polarizes like no other from Germany. It took a proud four and a half years for Elex 2 to finally be released. World of Elex has reviewed ELEX II: Elex 2 Review – Is the successor doing everything better? ![]() If you are mostly interested into character development, combat and loot, then.this game is probably not your best choice.įor more details (and the answer to the question whether you should have played Elex 1 beforehand), check out the full video. Still, if you are mostly looking for Exploration and doing Quests in a vast open world then Elex 2 should be just the right game for you. And I am explicitly mentioning the language, as I think that the significantly better Dialoges in the German version push that one towards the Full Thumbs Up rating. My overall rating for the English Version of Elex 2 is a three quarter thumbs up. While neither the controls nor the combat is great, they are manageable and aren't really standing in the way to enjoy the game. You can often see that the developers went an extra step when they implemented these quests, really making them part of the game world. If you are traveling around in the world, it just feels like it's somewhat alive and it's not just consisting of different spots which were designed to tie quests together. Because even if a lot of the items you are going to find, aren't super relevant, there are still some left which do have some value for the player, and besides of that it's also just fun to explore and discover all the locations the developers put together in so much detail. Character development feels nice for the most part, but loses relevance after about the first half of the game and that's also true for most of the item system.ĭespite of that the exploration aspect is the biggest strength of the game in my opinion. The issues with the questlog aren't as much of a problem, although it's still annoying to handle and to find any resolved quests. It's not full of errors, but where the original has lots of humor and properly directed voice-overs, the English version is just bland in comparison, and has almost nothing of the humor left (you can especially see that if you understand German and compare the dialogue joining the Berserkers with the one of my German review). It's a bit of a shame that the English localization is way inferior to the the German original. While the story-transition from Elex 1 over to Elex 2 has a bit of a problem in regards of plausibility and some quests aren't exactly convincing and they kind of degreade in quality closer to the end, I think the story overall is rather well done. ![]()
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