#GAMES LIKE UNPACKING SERIAL#

Because you’ve recently died and your life is literally flashing “before your eyes.” Title drop, y’see. The premise is, you’re going through the key memories of your protagonist’s life, jumping to the next one every time you blink. Oh you’re holding out for heart-rending emotional storytelling, are you? Well, here’s some: Before Your Eyes is a little snacky experience centred around the gimmick that you have to point a webcam at your face and control the game with blinking.

In a “ooh they do chocolate brownie M&Ms now?” sort of way. Okay, it’s no showstopper, there’s no heart-rending emotional storytelling going on, but it’s interesting.

#GAMES LIKE UNPACKING SERIAL#

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. But it’s actually rather enjoyable and zen and the crunchy pastel-coloured isometric pixel art is pleasantly nostalgic like a Game Boy Advance in the mouth of a friendly labrador. 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. Then you go to the next room and do it some more. Case in point, here’s everything you do in Unpacking – you click on a moving in box and drag and drop all the contents into shelves, cabinets and drawers. Some indie games are like hamsters on Viagra – doing an awful lot with very little.

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. TranscriptĢ021 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. We have a merch store as well! Visit the store for brand new ZP merch. Want to watch Zero Punctuation ad-free? Sign-up for The Escapist + today and support your favorite content creators! This week in Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee discusses a roundup of 2021 video games he didn’t review, like Unpacking, Eastward, and Tales of Arise.

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