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?
