Elex 2 characters8/22/2023 You then open the chest – there’s the document. You talk to the person who owns that chest and get the key for it. It tasks you with retrieving a document from a chest. As another example: There’s a small quest you can get for the Clerics. It feels very aware of what you do, in a way that doesn’t feel entirely artificial. I could have never done any of it – and things in the rest of the story would change accordingly. I could have opened up the Upper District of the Fort and never even met him in the first place. It even felt like that was the way it was meant to go – but the reality is, I could have gone to the Morkons long before I ever even met that merchant. Nothing went wrong – it was a completely seamless experience. Problem is, I can’t get him back to the Morkons until I get the goods he needs – and I can’t do that until I figure out a way to open up the Upper District again.Īnd guess what? A lot of these quests I was already working on before I actually got the one to go find the guy. Turns out, I already know him – he’s a merchant in the Fort. There was a quest in particular that I got from the Morkons – it tasked me with finding a warrior that was missing. I especially like the way quests can feel like they branch out or weave into each other. Not gonna lie, when this happened – I sat for about 5 minutes trying to process what just happened. If you’re a huge jerk, then people aren’t exactly going to like you very much, y’know? Characters even react when you just do weird stuff – like taking items off the shelves, even if it’s not “stealing”.Īlso there’s a Billy Idol concert for…some reason. I also actually like that conversations can feel a bit branching – and that your choices can at least seem to effect other things, particularly how characters may react to you. The overall acting is…fine? It just feels like its from a game in 2008. You see the trailer and maybe think “Hey, this looks like a cool, high-energy sci-fi + fantasy game!”, but what you actually get is a glacially-paced, sci-fi + fantasy snoozefest. In this 100% fictional story set on an alien planet – Billy Idol just randomly exists. Which is truthfully kind of impressive considering its blending of things like Star Trek, Mad Max, and literal magic. But ELEX 2 feels generic across the board. The problem is that ELEX 2‘s story just isn’t doing enough to grab me. ELEX 2 even does a pretty decent job of getting you up to speed with the original game’s events. It’s a direct sequel – that’s to be expected. That said, the game’s reliance on knowing the original story isn’t really a problem. Just about anything will still have its fans, no matter how much it might be panned by others. To start, I never played the original – I only know that it wasn’t too well received overall, although it does have its following – like any media, really. Other games ended up requiring me to literally involve cheats to get through them.ĮLEX 2 is going to be one of those games where I can’t finish the story for the review. I always try to at least complete the story if there is one – but sometimes it just isn’t possible (Like with my review of Ace Combat: Infinity a while back – I couldn’t finish all of the story missions due to how that game was set up.) It’s not often that I don’t entirely finish a game that I planned to review.
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