However, I didn’t mind it for long because I found that doing so lends to the game’s dreamlike quality and the sensation that even cherished memories eventually fade even – when we hope that they won’t. Yes, I was occasionally disappointed after I blinked involuntarily and advanced the story sooner than I would have liked. Ben’s memories are fleeting, and the mechanic sells that point perfectly. Closing your eyes, then opening them to a brand-new scene creates the awesome sensation that you’re reliving a life through an old-school View-Master toy. Having played Before Your Eyes twice, once using blinks and the other using the mouse, I think the story loses a fair bit of its magic when playing with solely traditional control inputs. On that note, it’s good that there’s an option to play the entire game using traditional mouse clicks, but I think you’d be doing yourself a major disservice in doing so. I also never felt disoriented or uncomfortable playing using eye tracking, but those factors will vary by person. I never had an issue where a blink didn’t register or my camera needed recalibration. I’m impressed by how the game accurately recognizes eye-tracking. This is all to impress a being called the Gatekeeper who wants an honest assessment of the kind of person Ben was.īy blinking when prompted, you’ll jump days, weeks, and sometimes years forward in Ben’s life. At the beginning of the game, you encounter a canine ferryman who forces you to relive the events of Ben’s life, beginning at birth. Players take on the role of Benjamin Brynn, a lost soul who has already passed on. It may seem like a novel gimmick on the surface, but the mechanic is used so inventively that it meaningfully enhances the already powerful storytelling that fans of narrative adventure titles would be mistaken to write it off as a shallow trick. Through the power of a webcam, Before Your Eyes tracks when you blink which allows you to progress through a wonderful narrative adventure title from GoodbyeWorld Games. I don’t mean hitting a button to close your virtual eyes. Blinking for the first time in Before Your Eyes is a genuinely magical moment.
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