ELEX

I'd say it's even better than Risen 1 and Gothic 3

I'm a harcore fan of great shooters/explortaion and the like. Even more so, games that challenge. This mess? (I'm being gracious) is an exercise in frustration - it is awful - it is a head shaking - eye rolling piece of nonsense. I do not need to go into details - pay the price and see for yourselves. OR - skip it and save some hard earned. TERRIBLE controls - TERRIBLE combat - etc etc etc ... -10

I cannot say anything about the story of this game, having played less than 30 minutes, after which I completely lost any and all interest. Indeed, now I deeply regret buying this game at all. Issue 1: The graphics are glitchy. They are actually rather lovely, but despite good hardware (16GB RAM, 3.6GHz and a 1070 Nvidia GPU), they glitched very badly, flickering between pixelated and proper with such speed that it gave me a severe headache. This is the first and only time such a thing happened to me. I would also like to mention that no other games I play glitch, and that all drivers are up to date. Issue 2: There is no character creator. You can determine nothing about your character beyond gameplay. Deeply disappointing for an RPG. No appearance changes, no voice changes, no gender changes. You play as an ugly white dude TM. Any remaining interest I had in the game, after I nursed a headache, was killed by this disappointment. Thus, for me, this game is absolutely not worth the money you pay for it, right now. It might be that the story is good - but I have 0 motivation to give it a chance, at all.

This is simply a beautiful game. The music, all the sounds, the graphics, the classic RPG problems like: do something for me and I will reward you with a nice gun, or simply you can kill that guy and own it anyway. Even some small glitches - I liked it all.

ELEX has neither spirit nor soul and is obviously is made to make money from recycling good old Risen 3. Why? E.G.: - There are not more than 10 different faces for the NPCs in the game, which makes all of them feel like liveless clones after a short while (even your own Avatar) - Battles that don't take place on a open flat floor are an ordeal: Once your opponent is a little bit lower, your robotic feeling Avatar just swings his sword over their heads, which was ok for a game, that is let's say, more than 3 years old, but definitly lacking after having seen what can be done in e.g. Witcher 3. If there are walls, your opponent can sometimes "jump" into them, switching to ranged combat and slaughtering you from within, while your melee doesn't hit anymore. Battles generally are rather an ordeal, suffering more from the promising stamina idea, than gaining from it. Getting stunlock-slaughtered has no gaming or fun value, its just mirroring an unbalanced lovelessness in game developement. - Factions don't really matter in ways of gameplay. The differences are optical, but that's rather it. So a Berserker Bow or Cleric Laser? Effective difference is marginal. - You'll never find out what your stats are, as there is no character screen telling you. So should you take the upgrade giving you 20 Livepoints not knowing wether your Base is 10 or 1000? You might feel a slight difference, but never know. Same in regards to resistances. - It's not even possible to stop the mini map from stupidity-rotating. It's a shame, there are some really good ideas you could feel at the core, but obviously by far no investment in regards of finance/time/manpower in developing them. The finished, not finished feeling product isn't really worth more than 15-20 € for the "old game feeling" experience that shamefully can't get emotions running. I played it to the end, but wasn't able to feel anything for the gameworlds people. The in-game philosophy just doesn't work. It feels like something scrawled on a peace of paper while talking about something totally different. Maybe sales numbers?