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Before Your Eyes speedruns might be an eyesore
Image credit:Skybound Games
Image credit:Skybound Games
Here’s a slightly magical idea for a story game: every time you blink in real life, your webcam notices and the game skips you forward to the next scene. That’s how it goes inBefore Your Eyes, a new vignette ‘em up released today. Having played a bit of it myself, I’d describe it as ‘Edith Finch meets 30 Flights Of Living with blinking’ if I were required to briefly introduce the concept in a blog post, which I was so I did. Have a look in the trailer below.
Before Your Eyes - Launch TrailerWatch on YouTube
Before Your Eyes - Launch Trailer
I’m still in childhood on my playthrough, presumably with a great many years still to come, but I’m keen to see where it goes. The writing is more natural and funny than I’d expected, and the Ferryman framing story has some intriguing sinister vibes. Yeah, I’m in.
This is what became ofClose Your, a game I first saw way back in 2014. After that, it ran a Kickstarter campaign to help fund development, including a whole new look. The original was quite 30 Flights Of Loving, while the new style actually reminds me a bit of those other vignette ‘em up titans: Turnfollow,makers of games including Little Party and Wide Ocean Big Jacket. Before Your Eyes is a good-looking game.
