The graphics appear lopsided, with the environment and some of the animals looking great but the humans looking stiff and plastic-y.
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In fact, I would go so far as to say (maybe) the first two full hours felt janky to an extreme. Jax is able to escape after a fight, but he is infected with Dark Elex, a new alien form of the miracle mineral.įrom there, the gameplay starts and I have got to be frank, the opening of this game is rough. After successfully saving Magalon the first time he has decided to live the life of a hermit in an isolated cabin - a cabin that we see almost immediately destroyed when an alien spaceship landed on it. After the cinematic cutscene plays, another cutscene shows what has become of Jax, the protagonist of both the first game and this one. Robots and drones exist right alongside wizards and spellcasters, known as Berserkers, one of the three major clans of Magalon (we’ll talk about this later). It’s the basis for technology, drugs, machines and even becomes a form of currency. In the time since the titular substance, Elex, was discovered and has developed into a catch all for this new world. We’re given a brief history of Magalon, this science-fantasy setting that takes place in what appears to be the distant future where Earth has experienced an apocalypse that was so severe that almost all knowledge of pre-disaster history has been lost. After the events of the first game, which I unfortunately haven’t gotten to play, the world has fallen into tribalism and the various groups see each other as enemies that need to be defeated or held at bay. When I first fired up the game and watched the opening cinematic it raised my interest.
So where in this spectrum of one of video games’ core genres does the likes of Piranha Bytes’ newest game Elex 2 land? Is it worth your money or time? Will non-genre fans have a good time with it? Let’s talk about it. Technology has made the genre capable of a depth people once only dreamed of with games like Disco Elysium. Skyrim has been released on every platform possible since its initial launch in 2011.
Nowadays there are elements of RPGs in almost any game being released, and every few months there’s a big-name action-RPGg or Japanese-RPG released to general acclaim. The role-playing game (RPG) genre has become synonymous with gaming in general.
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