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The best games you missed in 2021: UnsightedEye on the prize
Eye on the prize
The first rule of video game club (apart from not talking about video game club) usually involves saving the world somehow. We do our best to rescue others from harm, to avert world-ending disasters, and give everyone around us the happy ending they deserve. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned about myself in 2021, it’s that I’m a cruel, heartless robot who will happily toss others under the bus if they don’t provide any material benefit to me. Or at least I am when I’m playingUnsighted, the gorgeous and criminally underrated action RPG from Studio Pixel Punk that puts a ticking time-bomb inside each of its characters' metallic chests which, if left unchecked, will remove them from the game entirely, preventing you from gaining some potentially very handy upgrades to help you in your quest to fight back against your human oppressors.
It’s an ingenious system, as you’re not only fighting against the hordes of enemies that appear onscreen, but your own ineptitude.
UNSIGHTED | Gameplay Overview TrailerWatch on YouTube
UNSIGHTED | Gameplay Overview Trailer
The boss fights are spectacular, and hard as nails, too.
Aside from making me feel like a terrible human being, I also think it’s a novel kind of pressure to put on a player, as it really is the strength of your own actions and ability to conquer its systems that determines what happens to these people you’re trying to save. None of this going off to catalogue every last bug or poncing about taking pictures while the world burns around you nonsense, no sir. Time matters in Unsighted, and I like how it flies in the face of almost every single ‘urgent’ video game quest I’ve ever undertaken in an RPG. At first you think 325 in-game hours will be an absolute doozy, but I’ve already had to extend my own lifeforce a couple of times now, and my mates back home are starting to drop like flies - and that’s despite giving them bundles of dust, too. I’m so close to the finish line (I think), but man, I really have no one to blame but myself that not all of them will get to see how it ends.
I SAID I’M SORRY.
Still, that shouldn’t deter you from giving Unsighted a go, especially when it’s on Game Pass. My only regret is that I didn’t write about Unsighted sooner. It’s a special game that not only looks gorgeous and is satisfying to play, but it’s also doing something genuinely different from a lot of other Metroid-likes out there right now. I hope you’ll be a better person than I am when it comes to saving old granny Teresa.
