El Paso, Elsewhere (PS5) Review | VGChartz

VGChartz’s Lee Mehr: “El Paso, Elsewhere is like a jazz standard at first glance. Several of these tunes are well-known among seasoned developers: bullet-time third-person shooting, PS1-era retro aesthetic, classic horror movie monsters, and a rugged film-noir protagonist monologuing to all who’ll listen. “Everything’s a copy of a copy,” as they say. And yet it radiates bits of flair, whether in its lyrics or tempo, that corner its own identity; after all, even the biggest jazz hits can be slightly tweaked on the fly. Perhaps the storytelling can be too self-indulgent for its own good, but that’s also clearly a motivation that drove this game altogether. That verve – that enthusiastic vitality – does just enough to weather some annoying technical faults and make this a trip worth taking.”