I was still using a mid-game shotgun on the final boss because it clearly did so much more damage than my magic powers, or my supposedly endgame quality unique weapons. Balance isn’t even an afterthought, it’s just nonexistent. It starts off hard because protagonist Jax is rubbish, gets way too easy once you figure everything out and then just inflates the damage and health of all the enemies until everything takes an age to die, but can kill you in a few hits. 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.
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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. It’s the sort of random that I can respect, and I only wish the game had more.Ĭontent 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 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.Elex II is an ambitious and slightly bonkers open world RPG hampered by badly written and unpleasant characters.
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