New characters-and cameos from old ones like Roland and Sir Hammerlock-miss more than they hit. The best dialogue in the game comes from the inappropriately cheerful citizens of Elpis, who casually shrug off the moon’s many dangers and drop exaggerated Australian slang.
I love the way that 2K Australia pokes some reverent fun at its homeland, though. There aren’t many NPCs that you can have meaningful reactions with.
Elpis is meant to be the Australia of Borderlands, and it’s a decent frontier, but the game as a whole feels underpopulated. I was starved for a mission that wasn’t a fetch quest, and though pieces of Elpis are gorgeous, the orbiting space station that you spend about half of the game on is a set of familiar, futuristic city interiors lined with unpopulated facades. Enemies pour out of spawning points that are helpfully beside explosive barrels and sets of ammunition containers. Having spent a hundred-plus hours with the series, everything else feels exceptionally templated. Better are the new lasers: wrangling a wavy line of energy in mid-air is like trying to spray someone with a firehose after leaping off a trampoline.īut broadly, that’s the extent of what’s new in The Pre-Sequel there aren’t many other new weapon types or attributes to fill out the armory further. Cryo weapons freeze enemies into solid blocks when their elemental effect triggers-I liked sniping jetpacking bandits into ice cubes to make them plummet back to earth. Most of the skirmishes at the end of the game had me cycling through all four of my weapons. I wish more of The Pre-Sequel had put me in this kind of pure chaos that the last section of the game did. Most of the skirmishes at the end of the game had me cycling through all four of my weapons, throwing multiple grenades at a time and narrowly making it out alive. It’s a terrifically exhausting sequence that demands careful spending of abilities and the mid-air dash maneuver to dodge and reposition yourself for reloads. The last chapter mercilessly throws a variety of jumping, somersaulting, flying, cloaked, ranged, and melee aliens and soldiers at you alongside enemies that, similar to the Goliaths in BL2, enter a cocoon state and level up if you don’t kill them quickly enough. Chasing him without shocking yourself and fending off his airborne minions was frantic and tough. Combat is occasionally great-one of the first bosses pounces and floats between a bunch of indoor platforms, some of which are electrified. The problem with mechanically simple missions is that their fun relies entirely on funny dialogue and interesting firefights, both of which are inconsistent throughout The Pre-Sequel.
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