What I can tell you is that unlike most modern RPGs, the world of Magalan is actually worth exploring. Will all this effort be worth it at the end? Only you can tell that, because I’m not the kind of person who spoils story stuff in a review. The player can influence how the story plays out in many ways, with the sort of “good/evil/neutral” choices we’ve all come to expect from major RPGs, though of course not their polished animations and award-winning vocal performances (there’s a Billy Idol cameo in the game though…). Cue faction-related questlines and dialogue screens filled with choices (all of them voiced!). Sadly, this world isn’t exactly trouble-free, and everyone has their own issues to deal with, so poor old Jax will have to do a lot of busy work in order to get people to join his cause. The basic premise of the game is similar to countless other open world RPGs (and even ELEX 1), as our character will have to traverse the vast open world of Magalan, trying to form unlikely alliances to battle an alien menace that threatens to wipe out humanity. This way of doing things helps a lot when it comes to onboarding newcomers to the series though, so in that regard it’s a pretty good thing. Is that a bad thing? I don’t think so, but then again, most of their choices closely match the ones I made in 2017, so your mileage may vary. Why do I say “might have happened”? Well, ELEX was a Piranha Bytes game, so players had plenty of choices to make, and this sequel doesn’t use a save game transfer system, so your playthrough of ELEX might have been different than the one the developers chose to use as canon for this sequel. You can probably skip the prequel and still get a good idea of what’s going on based on the flashbacks that will play from time to time, and the intro does a relatively good job at explaining what happened, but as the adventure goes on, you’ll meet characters from the previous game who will talk about stuff that might have happened back then. And when I say that, I mean the original ELEX, as this sequel doesn’t exactly hide that it is a continuation of the story told in the 2017 game. Will it be a new Gothic 2, or will it be another Risen 2? Strap in, because we are going for a jetpack ride! The original ELEX sits snugly in my top 5 Piranha Bytes games list, so you can imagine that I was reasonably hyped for its sequel, and now that it’s here, it’s up to me to tell you what I think of it. I’ve been a Piranha Bytes follower for a while now, and while their game have always been flawed in one way or another, they almost never disappoint (I consider Risen 2 an exception to that rule, because in spite of my love for pirates and “Eurojank” RPGs, I didn’t enjoy it at all).
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