Review: ELEX (Sony PlayStation 4)

Review by Matt S.

ELEX is a hot mess of a game. Anyone who has played a Piranha Bytes game by now (most recently, Risen 3) surely knows what to expect; clumsy combat, an attempt at open-ended gameplay that isn’t quite able to get its quests and conversation trees in order, so has bits of dialogue are all over the place, and difficulty spikes that are obscene thanks, again, to open-ended gameplay without any consideration for how players might actually go about their journey.

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