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In an industry that has a lot of re-releases and repetitive content, I enjoy innovative titles with unique mechanics to set them apart from the rest. Before Your Eyes requires the use of a web camera to detect the blinking of the player’s eyes to progress the story. A mouse is also required to focus on particular objects so some motor skills are still required to fully enjoy this immersive gaming experience.

In a sea full of floating souls, yours is plucked out of the water by a wolf-life creature who thinks you’ve led an interesting life. Unlike the Biblical judgement, you’ll have to impress the gatekeeper to see if you’ve led a life worthy of everlasting joy or being turned into a seagull that can detect lies. The wolf doesn’t have the best track record according to the seagulls that squawk at some of his statements, but he thinks he can retell your life’s story in a way that’s sure to impress the gatekeeper. With no other options, your soul is in his hands.

As a helpless soul, your only means of communication is by blinking. The wolf asks you to think back as far as you can remember and you’ll relive the many defining moments of your life, one blink at a time. Most of the time you’ll have to blink to progress the story, but there will be times where you’ll have to keep your eyes open so be prepared for some dry eyes!

Since this game is a little over an hour long, I don’t want to give away too many spoilers. I will say that your character, Ben, is very artistic and is skilled in both painting and playing the piano. You get to influence the drawings/paintings/and piano playing with the mouse cursor.

In class, the girl that sits next to Ben asks him to draw the teacher with a constipated look on his face. Besides potty humor, you can expect to hear a couple of OMGs. With the choices I made I saw Egyptian gods being discussed in Ben's history class. There is a scene where you’ll see some blood and carnivorous animals eating. Other than that, this game is pretty clean.

The art style is very colorful and I love how you get to look around and interact with various objects. There are times when your character is feeling pain and the screen will flash red.

The voice acting in this game is phenomenal. I would get mad at myself for blinking and skipping the remaining dialog and progressing the game unintentionally.

Though I don’t agree with this game’s spiritual evaluation, I found the story very engaging and well done. The different perspectives of the life in question are eye opening (pun intended). The web camera gameplay is unique and quite accurate, even if it progresses the story inadvertently. I highly recommend this experience if you have a webcam.