Beyond Eyes
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Her amiability coupled with her disability makes criticising the game in which she stars seem cruel and churlish. And this is, at very least, an interesting project, that will, perhaps, leave players with a better understanding of what it feels to journey without sight. But it is, alas, less worthwhile than it is worthy.
Unique Game Back in my review of Lifeless Planet last year I talked about the current trend of “world immersion” games, where there aren't really any enemies to fight, difficult challenges to overcome, or other traditional game objectives. Instead,...
Over quickly and hardly exhilarating, but illuminating in a way games rarely bother to be.
Over quickly and hardly exhilarating, but illuminating in a way games rarely bother to...
A beautiful but boring arthouse game that makes other so-called walking simulators look like all-action blockbusters. There's heart, soul and emotion in there, but just not enough idea about how to keep the player engaged. As a result, it's a painfully...
In Beyond Eyes, players guide a blind girl through an unfamiliar world, revealing it through touch, scent and sound. The game shows you the imaginative world of Rae, a 10 year-old girl, as she ventures outside her familiar surroundings in search of a...
One summer Rae, a blind girl of around seven years old, strikes up a friendship with a local stray, whom she names Nani. Each day the cat stretches through the bars of an iron gate into Rae's idyllic garden, and the pair plays among the butterflies and...
If you know me, you know I yearn for diversity in games and new experiences in general, which is why I jumped at the chance to review Beyond Eyes . It has people of color, the main character is blind, and the art style is beautiful.I just wish the devs...
A few months ago, our very own Darren Nakamura went hands on with a game called Beyond Eyes , where you play as a young blind girl, exploring the world in the hopes of finding her lost cat. I was lucky enough today to be able to sit down with Team17 at...
I badly wanted Beyond Eyes to use its attractively whitewashed look and novel, visually limited ideas to tell a much more moving story whose empathetic lessons could've stayed with me long after the end credits rolled, but it didn't. Only its ending...