While the puzzles might seem easy at the beginning, it all soon begins to descend into some really painful moments of despair. Searching through every nook and cranny within each room unlocks potential solutions to some of the puzzles, or may unlock more of this mysterious story, or also contain some filler material that may mean nothing at all. Like the back-story that surrounds the circumstances of the castle, the puzzles and the solutions to them have to be pieced together. In The Eyes of Ara, nothing is explained. The puzzles in the beginning are pretty tame, and they do a great job of introducing the possible concepts that are to be expected in the rest of this adventure. However, the technician can't just switch vantage points if already in the room - so a minor issue is having to leave the room through the right door that corresponds to the desired vantage point upon re-entering the room. Few rooms have various vantage points that depend on which door the technician entered the room from and these vantage points can reveal previously hidden items or 'hotspots' that are worth investigating. In fact, the idea of perspective plays out well in some rooms. There were only a few items that were hard to find due to being placed in awkward spots, where vision was severely limited due to where the character was standing. Due to the restricted nature of the gameplay, and the lack of being able to freely move around the castle, this places a lot of emphasis on getting the perspective right.įor the most part, points of interest scattered throughout the rooms can be easily discoverable. This fits snugly in the point-and-click genre, as the technician traverses the castle through a series of screens - each one represents a new area, and the technician can rotate 360 degrees around the room to try and spot objects or environmental 'hotspots' to interact with. The Eyes of Ara was developed by one-man indie studioġ00 Stones Interactive and is available on itch.While the similarity to Myst is visually striking, it's clear from the outset that this is anything but a carbon clone of the '90s hit. Graphics: Video card with Shader model 3.0 support and 256MB of Memory OS: WindowsXP SP2 or later / OS X 10.7 or later Graphics: NVIDA GeForce GTX 750 / AMD Radeon R9 M390 equivalent OS: Windows 7 or later / OS X 10.11 or later Will you pay heed to the unsettling tales and legends surrounding the castle, or will you set fear aside and venture in with an open and inquisitive mind to uncover the truth for yourself? The Eyes of Ara is a game about exploration, puzzle solving, and discovery.
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