ELEX II Reviews
The usual strengths of Piranha Bytes games are downed by archaic mechanics.
Review in Russian | Read full review
Even that's ultimately part of the charm of Elex II though, because it was a game made by RPG enthusiasts for RPG enthusiasts, and min-maxing is, ultimately, a big part of this community. Though the game comes across as an impenetrable club members-only experience at times, the creativity and energy behind it is impossible to deny. Frankly, I would rather play something like this, bugs and all, than something overproduced and so safe that it puts me to sleep.
ELEX 2 has a distinctive approach to RPG game design and an engaging story, but while it finally bucks the trend of having technical issues at launch, there's still much work to be done on the quality of combat and presentation.
An average RPG spoiled by janky combat and technical issues. I'd only jump into this if there was literally nothing else to play.
Returning to the apocalyptic fantasy associated with science fiction offers a new threat that the player must face and he constantly die there.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
If you are okay with eurojank taking it to the next level, then Elex II might scratch your itch. Some players have a high tolerance for bad gameplay systems, stiff animations that lack polish, and are okay with just seeing it through to the end. Also, if you are a Piranha Bytes fan, then you might already know what you are getting into.
While ELEX II’s core gameplay could be dismissed as traditional or dated, the way all the elements of the world interact with you and one another is what creates the magic.
Elex 2 brings us a game where its complexity is the player's ally to shape his path in this story, without needing to have played the prequel. However it feels somewhat empty and disappointing, with too much genericity, dragging excessively to culminate in an experience that doesn't add much to the player.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
This studio came out with the intention of creating an ambitious role-playing title, but due to its aging game engine and negligence in polishing various parts of the game, it failed to achieve the vision it had expected. As a result, ELEX 2 in its current state is not worth its $60 tag and it will be a while before the developers can finally turn ELEX 2 into a playable title after multiple updates.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Elex 2 is basically a typical Piranha Bytes game with everything that comes with it. The good and the bad. And while it's probably technically inferior to the first one, it's much better in storytelling, content, mechanics, and world-building. It has all the things that were missing from the first game. It's fun, it draws you into its magical world, and it won't let you go until dozens of hours later if you give it a chance. But that can be problematic, as the game's technical state, weird 3D models, animations, and crappy optimization can effectively put you off in the first hour of play. Ultimately, it's just fun. But at what cost?
Review in Czech | Read full review
ELEX II fails even to work as a video game.
Review in Greek | Read full review
It looks like Piranha Byte seems comfortable staying in its shell, as Elex 2 is keeping the things that the fans loved about the first game but they haven't made any attempt to raise the bar.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
Elex II was a promise. The promise to take the good things that had been done previously and to re-propose them improved and purged of their defects. Honestly, the choice made, that is to re-present a huge product in its branches, is not a happy one. Piranha Bytes doesn't have the means to ape more expensive brands. But it does have the means and the ability to tell and describe stories and worlds that are pulsating with life, realistic and plausible. In all honesty, it would be enough to take a few steps backwards - simplifying the combat, renouncing a few hundred objects and environments - to offer a reduced but homogeneous videogame. The reasons for this grade, sufficient but nothing more, are therefore to be attributed to the lack of farsightedness of a production that, after years in this sense, cannot but realise its limits and should finally aim at its strong points, which are there and make Elex II at least playable.
Review in Italian | Read full review
A great improvement over the previous game with a vast open-world and better gameplay, but it still comes with a steep learning curve.
Elex 2 does not give a good initial experience due to technical issues. But if you stick with it and grind out its systems, you’ll be rewarded with a great time. The game may have received a 6/10, but if I were to review it based on just how many times I’ve laughed at something, it’s a solid 9/10.
ELEX II offers plenty of new and familiar content that should satisfy the players of the first game, but it comes with a lot of technical issues.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Come for the jetpack, and stay for flawed but truly free form classic style of RPG Elex 2 represents.
Magalan is an unforgiving world. But I have my fair share of help in Elex II. Only time will tell if it will be enough. Elex II continues the story of the former Alb, Jax. He must wage war against an extra-terrestrial threat. But the fragile alliances he'll form may end everyone before the threat does.
While the first Elex left me with positive expectations for the sequel, the second part had the opposite effect.
Review in Polish | Read full review
Overall ELEX II is a decent experience and it fixes some of the issues that I had with the original. While not perfect, the sequel does have an easier level of entry and the return to Magalan was an enjoyable one.