Not every spooky season adventure needs to terrify gamers. Including well-known tales like mystery-solving cartoons to delightful stories including Over the Garden Wall, numerous spooky-season titles are enjoyable without raising your heart rate. There’s also, a increasing selection of ghostly-adorable titles featuring autumn atmosphere, but not the keep-you-awake intensity of horror. Gloomy Eyes was released in the fall, and serves as an superb relaxing choice to the intensely frightening titles of this year.
An Original Collaborative Solo Journey
Known as a solo collaboration puzzle game, Gloomy Eyes unites a undead youth known as Gloomy and a human girl named Nena as they embark on an mission to return daylight to their gloomy environment. Their design resembles stylized dolls blended with the figures from a animated feature. The pale-skinned and heavy-lidded appearance borrows heavily from the appearance of Tim Burton’s films, and the story is a classic family-friendly journey. These two forms an strong bond over the span of the game’s multiple stages as Nena attempts to show to her clerical relative that, hey, maybe the undead aren’t half bad.
Original Gameplay Systems
This unique description originates from the game’s interactive problem-solving. Once Gloomy and Nena cross paths, you’ll swap between the recent allies to solve puzzles and progress through the areas. Since he's not alive, Gloomy can’t walk through the illumination of a lamppost, while Nena can be captured by loitering creatures unless a light is shone on them.
They have to cooperate closely — well, you’ll use them simultaneously — to advance through areas. Nena may move or temporarily shut off lights to open routes for Gloomy, while the open-brained character will utilize his supernatural ability to move objects in the surroundings, creating paths for Nena.
Immersive World Building
These challenges bring to mind a bit of The Gardens Between, in the fashion the levels are floating, model-like structures that the perspective rotates in sync with your characters. Gloomy Eyes’ environments are quite fun, taking the friends around a carnival and through a haunted house, amid other locales. There’s a “diorama view” button that allows you to view from afar and turn the areas, both for admire the visuals and search for routes that may not have been clear.
Slight Issues and Complete Gameplay
And that’s one of the only difficulties with Gloomy Eyes. Comparable to other releases with a locked camera, sometimes it's unclear where the protagonists can and cannot go. Gamers could require to just bump into a few random items to discover which ones are usable, as the game doesn't always indicate.
Nonetheless, those slight speedbumps don't hinder of a spooky-cute fun adventure. Gloomy Eyes has a compact length, with about three to five hours worth of challenges. Later levels combine light sneaking and exciting moments with the challenge completion, as Gloomy Eyes advances to a rewarding — and moderately unexpected — ending.
Accessibility and Summary
Those avoiding the scares of fear-inducing titles ought to experience Gloomy Eyes. It’s available on Switch console, PlayStation 5, computer, and Microsoft console, and is available at a reduced price for a quarter off on digital platforms.
Gloomy Eyes is out now on several consoles and offers a pleasurable choice for fans seeking autumn enjoyment without the intense scares.
