shittiest third person combat I've ever experienced.
I disagree on the combat, as I feel that the enemy design is better rounded and scaled. By Chapter 3, I could kill just about anything in Risen with about 5 hits, and considering that combos in Risen are unbelievably fast and you have no stamina, it's plainly without challenge the last 10-15 hours of the game. In Elex the toughest monsters still stayed relatively difficult until the end, and you can't just stunlock enemies by swinging away because you have stamina. The attack patterns and animations in Risen are also stupidly broken, worse than in any other PB game despite being an issue in most of them. If you get hit once, you're going to get hit 2 or 3 more times more instantly with zero defense against it and that makes earlier combat pretty annoying. Infinitely annoying with ghouls and most animals because they group up on you, you get hit once, stunlocked for 2.5 seconds, get hit by the second one that's nearby and now you are dead.