Oh, you're holding out for heartrending emotional storytelling, are you? Well, here's some! Before Your Eyes is a little snacky experience centered around the gimmick that you have to point a webcam at your face and control the game with blinking. Okay, it's no show-stopper - there's no heartrending emotional storytelling going on - but it's interesting, in a “Ooh, they do chocolate brownie M&Ms now?" sort of way. But it's actually rather enjoyable and Zen, and the crunchy, pastel-colored, isometric pixel art is pleasantly nostalgic, like a Game Boy Advance in the mouth of a friendly Labrador plus, it's doing some interesting underhanded narrative stuff, as you notice what toys and kitchen appliances our unseen protagonist keeps from move to move, and what potential serial killers they're moving in with. Pitch that in the elevator at Ubisoft, and watch everyone's noses wrinkle like you just blew a hole through the seat of your pants. Case in point, here's everything you do in Unpacking: you click on a moving inbox and drag and drop all the contents into shelves, cabinets and drawers, then you go to the next room and do it some more. Some indie games are like hamsters on Viagra: doing an awful lot with very little. (game titles are spoken by a female computer voice) So with expectations set nice and low, let's begin. Last time I did this, I did it before the awards episode in case I wanted to sneak a dark-horse candidate up the drainpipe to clandestinely bugger expectations with its giant dark-horse willy, but in practice, anything I don't review is most likely just fine and not worth harping on about, so that was like trying to add croutons to my salad by shaking my keyboard over it. It's time for my second ever roundup of games I didn't review. 2021 is over another January wasteland stretches ahead of us like the romantic comedy our partner forces us to endure before the begrudging blowjob of the Quarter One releases.
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