Beyond Eyes Reviews
Beyond Eyes' story and experience come nowhere near to making up for the boredom delivered by the gameplay.
As an exercise in empathy, Beyond Eyes is brilliant. As Rae muddles through her self-induced socialisation period, you'll see her sense of adventure overcome her fear of the unknown. Its message is loud and clear - to let life in, with all its risk and upset, so that the good can enter too - and its conclusion Watership-Down uncompromising. What's more, it's occasionally fun to indulge in a small-scale kind of exploration that encourages you to feel out the entirety of your environment rather than cast your eyes about for enemies and items. But for the most part the execution is too simplistic, and the frustrations are too frequent. Beyond recommendation.
As an experience, Beyond Eyes is unmatched in its imaginative approach to crafting a breathtaking and heart-warming world.
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 taps into this potential, and it's a shame the rest of its short playthrough time couldn't follow suit.
There's definitely a feeling that there could have been more to it, but Beyond Eyes is an important game that is undeniably superb.
Beyond Eyes is a great learning tool, but don't expect to be entertained.