1/10/2024 0 Comments Elex wiki guide![]() It’s a reductive, transparently gamey faction system that should be one of the worst things about the game, but actually fuels odd stories and endearing fish out of water interactions between characters. To progress, you must join one of the groups of the Free People-technology loving Clerics, barbarian magic-using Berserkers, or drugs-and-explosives obsessed Outlaws. On the world of Magalan, there are four kinds of people: People who think technology is Jesus, people who think technology is evil, people who are emotionless mutants, and people who want to get really wasted. Instead of the normal moral compass of good-bad that RPGs use, your character’s spectrum runs from cold and emotionless to passionate and explosive. What you can’t scale with a jerky climbing animation and a few jumps you can reach using your jetpack, allowing satisfying open world exploration where you can pick a point on the map and go straight to it, no matter the height you must climb to do so. In return for this lack of coordination and stiffness, Elex gives you an open world that’s both densely packed and easily traversable. Characters are visually interesting and pretty well acted, but their writing and behaviors are wooden. Frankly, it’s no worse than the much-loved PUBG, but since Elex lacks that game’s fast pace it’s much more noticeable. Individual animations are smooth, but they fit together very poorly, making action scenes look sloppy and indistinct. After 54 hours with Elex, playing well into its endgame, I was still curious about its world and the things in it, but in the process I was so often frustrated with the actual play that I doubt I’ll go back for more. More an unapologetic genre mashup of post-apocalypse, fantasy, and sci-fi videogames than a straightforward science-fantasy game, Elex’s cobbled-together tropes and genres are an astonishingly apt metaphor for its cobbled-together systems and stories.
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