Before Your Eyes PSVR 2 Review

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Does your life really flash before your eyes in your final moments? It’s a notion that has always felt like storytellers taking artistic license, and yet here comes science to say that maybe, just maybe, it’s actually what we experience at the end of our days. Or maybe it’s the Ferryman from Before Your Eyes searching for souls with life stories worthy to tell to the gatekeeper to the afterlife?

Plucked from the waters of a dark sea, the Ferryman – a scruffy wolf fellow – explains to you what’s going on. You’ve a story to tell, but as an incorporeal soul of some kind, you can’t speak, you can’t move, you can’t do anything… except blink. Blink if you see where this is going.

Telling your story – the life of Benjamin “Benny” Brynn – will see you dive back to memories of a life, from the earliest formative moments, through childhood, school and up to adulthood. Great things lie before you, the Ferryman sees, he just needs to know what they are. Each blink skips time ahead, progresses and interacts with the glimpses into the world around you, lets you make decisions in the moment of what to do.

Originally released for PC in 2021 and using webcams to keep tabs on your blinking, but now the game has been adapted to PlayStation VR 2, using the built-in eye-tracking to detect where you’re blinking, the headset motion to physically look around and really get to embody Benny.

It’s a truly unique feeling for experiencing a story. You go into every scene – pools of environments and people that emerge from an inky blackness around you – literally wide-eyed as you anticipate the need to effectively stare down the game while soaking in every morsel of story that you can.

That’s easier than you might think it should be – this isn’t an