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andylt posted...

You have me very intrigued in Before Your Eyes, I only heard about it recently when it was mentioned on a game of the year thing. But it's just PC, aw. Maybe it'll get ported to consoles soon.

I think the game could theoretically work on consoles, but it would require a camera attachment and potentially need to have significant work done to be viable in that state. The game's most prominent feature is that you control progression through blinking. It uses your computer's webcam to register this. I believe there's some sort of application used for tracking the blinks, and I'm not sure it would be feasible to translate that to consoles. You can play without the blinks of course, but I don't think the game would be anywhere near as engaging or thought-provoking without that mechanic.

andylt posted...

And I'll admit I kinda shrugged off Astalon when I first saw it mentioned, I love Metroidvanias but as you say it is a very saturated genre and we got so many new ones in 2021 alone. I had a very brief look at it but it didn't look like anything special to me, I'll definitely take another look now though.

Definitely try it out, especially if you can get it on sale. It's a blast! It is more akin to Castlevania than it is to Metroid, so take that for what you will.

andylt posted...

Haven't yet gotten around to 8age or Dread so I won't read those write-ups but cool list!

I don't think I spoiled anything, so feel free to read them if you want. Dread writeup goes more in-depth on my relationship to the series as opposed to any substantial discussion over the game itself, though I know people have varying degrees of spoiler sensitivity. I basically have none so I potentially actually have major spoilers in the write-ups. Oops.