El Paso, Elsewhere

Its really fun, good characters, and great music

Teknik yetersizlikler, tekrarlayan bölümler ve az sayıda düşman çeşitliliği oyunun hikayesini gölgeliyor gibi gözükebilir. Fakat beklemediğim ölçüde olgun bir hikayesi var El Paso, Elsewhere'in. Basitçe kadın-erkek arasındaki ilişkinin "tek iyi bir gün"ünün anısına ve sürekli özlem, arzulanan sıcaklığının, bütün ilişkiyi biçimlendirmesi yatıyor çok kabaca. Biraz daha kısa olsaydı anlatmak istediği derdini tamamlayabilir miydi emin değilim. Ama oynadığıma çok memnunum

It's a fun, snappy Max Payne/The Suffering-like, but once you realise that activating slow mo and headshotting everything with the starting weapons makes you barrel through it, it gets pretty samey unless you deliberately extend the runtime by complicating the game with dives, explosives and such. Essentially, engaging with the arsenal and moveset in a way that makes the game more difficult than it actually is. That's too bad, and you obviously want a game to reward you for involving yourself with its mechanics, but the most detrimental thing is this in combination with its rather meaty runtime for what it is. Pacing wise, at a point it feels like it's building toward the finish, but then it starts meandering in a way that even extends to the writing. The musings of its protagonist start repeating, locale motifs reappear seemingly willy nilly. And yet, the stellar storytelling, voiceover wrapping and a sprawling soundtrack propel proceedings in a way that make it difficult to put down, and there is something consistently satisfying about popping slow mo and finding everyone's head to click on. Crucially, there's an abundance of personality here, and once it all comes to a close - flaws notwithstanding - it has been an affecting, effective lo-fi experience that underscores that gaming has never been as cool as it is nowadays.

He's just like me for real

after tweaking the difficulty from intended to something more reasonable I'm having a lot more fun with this game And if it wasn't for it's story, humour and music I would've dropped it 2 hours ago. The leveldesign is ok and servicable but ultimately it's a bad idea to use bullet time jumps because of the tight spaces and fast melee enemies. When two sad ladies shoot energy balls at you it's pretty glorious though. So yea it's important that there are many difficulty sliders which can tweak animation times, damage numbers and much more. Find something that doesn't feel too OP, breeze through this propably 30% too long game and enjoy!

This is a love letter to Max Payne. Plus the music is phenomenal.

It’s not for me. The game is way too dark, to the point where I often struggled to see anything. The gameplay also gets repetitive: you enter similar-looking areas, walk through empty corridors, shoot enemies, complete simple objectives, and repeat. My biggest problem is the whole surreal, dreamlike aesthetic. The motel, strange empty spaces, distorted environments and monster designs make everything feel like some kind of drug-induced nightmare, and I just don’t enjoy that style. I think I would have liked the game much more if it had a more grounded setting while still keeping the vampires and supernatural elements. Even the monsters, especially the vampire-like enemies, reminded me too much of Silent Hill\style creatures. I can see what the game is going for, but the repetitive environments and surreal horror presentation just weren’t for me.