Tiger and Squid·Released Aug 4, 2015·Single player
Beyond Eyes is an adventure game that follows a 10 year old blind girl named Rae. The game follows her as she tries to find her cat Nani. The world is white and empty but as you control her character through the game the world reveals itself in its true colours.
Beyond Eyes is an incredibly admirable game. Its aim of simulating the experience of being blind is buoyed by a clever central conceit, and genuinely breathtaking presentation. Unfortunately, an exceedingly frustrating pace combined with a lackluster story means that the title ultimately buckles under the weight of its own ambition.
One summer Rae, a blind girl of around seven years old, strikes up a friendship with a local stray, whom she names Nani…
Over quickly and hardly exhilarating, but illuminating in a way games rarely bother to be.
Beyond Eyes has a fascinating premise, but its plot just isn’t up to the task of translating that into a good game.
There's definitely a feeling that there could have been more to it, but Beyond Eyes is an important game that is undeniably superb.
