Very disappointing
Elex 2 started out seemingly just as much fun as Elex, but after a couple of dozen hours into the game the realization has finally sunk in -- they took out the most intruiguing part of the game, which was the wonderful, varied, eminently explorable world, and replaced it with a pale imitation of that world.
Gone are the different terrains. Gone are the fantastic buildings to explore, replaced by generic, repetetive clones, and not many of them. Oh,sure, some of the locations are similar, and I eagerly run to them, hoping to revisit one of my favourite places, but but this time they're just watered down and much smaller, as if we'll just forget how great they were in the first game. The passage of a few years doesn't explain where all the buildings have gone, or why they shrank, or where all the rooms went.
And I think the overall map size has been shrunk, too. It's ostensibly the same map, but you can run across it in about ten minutes. The cliffs aren't as high, and the terrain is flatter everywhere.
On my laptop the game runs perfectly, and I've had no issue with the camera angles. No crashes, either, and only a few visual clitches.
The gameplay is pretty much the same as all PB games, and it's fun enough, but for me, Elex 2 has had all the wonder leached out of it. It makes me want to load up another game of Elex.
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