However, the blinking mechanic is a reminder that time is uncontrollable, just like how we cannot control when we need to blink. At certain times, I would find myself accidentally blinking, worried that I may have missed something important to my story. The theme of time in this game is both haunting and honest. I wanted to listen to the dialogue and view the vibrant, colorful graphics around me. At any given moment, a metronome will appear on the bottom of the screen, signaling that the next blink will begin a transition to the following snapshot.Īt times, I didn’t want to blink. The sound resonates throughout the 3D environment, telling the player where to look and where to blink.
We can only see small portions of each setting - the essential bits - as they are only a faint memory of Benjamin’s past. The game threw me into each moment with no information. Through these snapshots, we find out why his life is important to the plot. He prompts the player to venture back through Benjamin’s past by blinking through short snapshots. The short 90-minute story immerses the player in the first-person point of view of the protagonist Benjamin Brynn, as he ventures through the afterlife with a mysterious wolf-like Ferryman (voiced by Stephen Friedrich). It not only refreshed my memory of how video games can be an exhilarating interactive medium, but also inspired me to view my life through a different lens. In fact, I had not played an entire video game in years, before sitting down this week to play Will Hellwarth and Skybound Games’ newest creation, “Before Your Eyes”: a game that requires you to control the story with your real-time blinks via webcam. I wouldn’t consider myself to be a gamer.
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