Close Your Eyes [Old Version]

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Follow this cute little grim, as they journey through self-identity and trying to recall who they are. As I continued playing through Close your eyes, I started to uncover more and more of who our MC really is, their past experience, specifically their interaction with a human girl (no more spoilers). Despite the 2D, paint-like doodles and artwork, the map was quite immersive with a diverse range of themes; from a bustling crowds outside, to empty hallways, a train station, and even abstract-looking areas filled with confusion and awe ... I found myself becoming more and more anxious of what the ending would reveal. These feelings of unease are exactly what the developers were going for, when creating this game. Hence the horror and surreal category, and the forewarning on the loading screen. The music and voice actor also added to the creepiness of the game, with the voice almost 4th wall-breaking the game play at certain moments. Controls are clear and easy to use, with no bugs nor errors. It was a smooth experience. Overall, Close Your Eyes is up there for F2P interactive horror game with a twist that you'll never expect; with 8 different endings, too! I suggest giving the game a try.

Long, Dark (As in lighting), and irritating to figure out what to do. Couldn't even get to an ending.

[h1] I can see you... [/h1] Esse jogo foi uma verdadeira pérola que eu encontrei por acaso e baixei de forma totalmente displicente, sem esperar muita coisa. E me surpreendi bastante. Trata-se de um jogo de terror feito no RPG Maker. Os gráfico são simples e o estilo artístico minimalista, lembrando jogos como Ib ou Omori. O criador faz muito uso da escuridão pra aumentar a sensação de enclausuramento, de estar preso. A jogabilidade é simples, mas as mecânicas vão variando conforme vc avança. Então ora vc tem que ser rápido, ora vc tem que explorar, ora vc tem que fugir, responder perguntas, memorizar caminhos, enfim não é repetitivo. Também há alguns jumpscares, mas são esporádicos, não é um game de jumpscares, isso é só algo a mais. E os puzzles são interessantes, não são muito fáceis, mas também não são extremamente difíceis, ficando em uma zona alcançável para a maioria das pessoas, mediante certo esforço. A história é extremamente sombria e macabra, envolvendo assassinatos, abusos, vinganças e outras coisas escabrosas, e isso contrasta muito com o estilo gráfico e artístico do game e também com o personagem controlado pelo jogador, referido através de bilhetes espalhados pelo jogo como Little Marshmallow. Alguns diálogos chegam a ser doentios, e por falar em diálogos, chegamos no ponto alto, a dublagem. É aqui que o jogo brilha. Que dublagem foi essa? Meu irmão, vc não tem noção, toda vez que o locutor aparecia falando eu me arrepiava! Dublagem de altíssimo nível, não apenas técnico mas também de interpretação. As músicas também são muito boas, dá pra perceber o cuidado que eles tiveram nesta parte. E toda essa sonoplastia potencializa e ajuda a dar personalidade a história. Não causaria o mesmo impacto se fossem apenas caixas de diálogo, pode ter certeza. O jogo possui um total de 8 finais e cada um dá uma conquista, é preciso rejogá-lo algumas vezes para platinar. As conquistas não estão bugadas, como eu li em alguns comentários, é só esperar os créditos subirem que a mesma aparece. O game tem bastante diálogo e perguntas, e infelizmente não está em pt Br. Isso pode dificultar para algumas pessoas, principalmente no que tange a resolução de alguns puzzles que estão diretamente relacionados a textos. Se vc não dominar um inglês básico fica difícil. De qualquer forma, é raro jogos de RPG Maker dublados, só isso já é um grande diferencial. É incrível esse jogo ser grátis, baixem sem medo e joguem com fone de ouvido ;) Caso interessar, conheça minha curadoria: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/clubedoscinco

I was so confused within the time I played. There are no clear instructions and your often left to wander for a few minutes figuring out what to do next. I'm still playing however currently this comment is being used to help me get past my first steam level. I'll see if my opinion changes as I go further.

Close Your Eyes looks and sounds scary and creates incredibly heavy atmosphere. The player gets to know the bare minimum in terms of story and begins to explore increasingly abstract, surreal, bizzare and overall creepy environments in what seems to be the journey towards deep self. As a self-proclaimed seasoned veteran of RPGMaker(-ish) horror games I must say that this game made the best first impession on me, especially in terms of aforementioned aspects. It's utterly unpredictable, it's not afraid to throw a jumpscare when the player doesn't expect a thing and the devs seem to exactly know when to strike. For me that makes a top-class horror though the sudden scares tend to get a little exaggerated. Now however comes the ugly part: the game never proceeds to make any more sense than it does at the beginning. Of course, you get some more story stuff while progressing (in the form of various well-delivered scenes - more on that later), but it is very lacking. Without spoiling anything but fittingly describing the problem: after arriving at a couple of endings on my own and watching the rest on YouTube I can say there is simply nothing to spoil here. You watch the stuff unfolding before your eyes, always arriving to more questions than answers and the chain of "events" suddenly terminates, since you inevitably make the story end. All the locations also match this pattern: you go through multiple places, equal to one another in their surrealism without any sense of progression and the spectacle suddenly dies out. I find this an unskippable flaw: the story is the soul of games like this and it has to see conclusion. And I don't mean that it has to shake off its abstract face. The resolution could take many forms, you can make it open-ended and vague. As it is now, the game is like it's cut in half waiting in suspention for any progress. An "obstacle course" would be a more fitting name for all this, not a "story", bringing us to the next topic - the obstacles. Those are bad. There are barely any puzzles and those that are present gatekeep the player from progress varying in their status from "simple roadblock" to "unbearable". They aren't clever and it's clear to see they weren't meant to be taken as a main dish, or even a side dish here. All of them are an annoyance, but I can't quite say what exactly is wrong with them. My best take is that they are kind of "underdetermined": even after being given all the information, you can imagine more solutions than the authors would like. This forces an unpleasant trial-and-error approach, which makes the existence of the puzzle to be unfounded. Everything that isn't a puzzle and blocks progress relies on running in circles in dark (both visually and atmospherically) locations and finding a trigger for an event. It all gets frustrating really fast and turns heavily advantagous and omnipresent darkness into an active and stubborn enemy. Lastly - the scares themselves. I must admit - I was (and still am) hungry for the kind of horror that is plentiful here - obscure, unclear, vague, unobvious, I can't allow this bias to cloud my opinion though. Partly due to the aforementioned problems with plot I can't get rid of the feeling that I'm being scared of the sake of it. The "another-location-another-absurd" syndrome catches on really fast and turns unnerving anticipation and real interest into trivial part of the plan, which is sad to me. If the game wasn't free I wouldn't be much more critical. In our (collective, societal) circumstances 5$ which this game would probably cost wouldn't make much difference (at least in my - fortunate, I admit - reality). The most valued currency nowadays is time, which even if not otherwise amounting to something much educational, or else "useful-in-life" could be spent on playing something else, potentially worthwhile. I don't wish to imply that playing Close Your Eyes was a waste of time - I only fight the "it's free what do you want" pretence emerging once in a while in my discussions on the web. It's a bit of a painful negative review for me, because if anything, this kind of horror clicks with me the most. It's awesome: it's scary, confusing, unpredictable and most importantly - creates an actual sense of dread. Plus, many things were done here "properly". I like how surreal it is, and how all those scenes that you see over the course of the story - how they give SOME information while raising more questions than explanations - absolutely brilliant. But too much unwanted stuff got on board and it will make some people drop this - and I understand them. Thus (to my own grief) I can't just plainly recommend it. But, not to be all that negative - if you by any chance like the sort of scary stuff I (hopefully accurately have) described here then go and play for yourself! Perhaps you will be happy to overlook the misgivings of this title. After all, I definitely can't say that I regret the time spent here.

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Really great horror and suspense game. It's not about the monsters and jumpscares, this is about the unknown about our own (Marshmallow) story and the edging of being watched at every single step, being probably just fun and entertainment for a public we can't see. Plus, the soundtrack is wonderful.

f*ck off simon i'm calling the police