Before Your Eyes is a thorough, deeply personal exploration of memory and the impermanence of life, one so powerful and important that, besides being equal parts life-affirming and devastating (both of which I cannot exaggerate the qualities of enough), I believe, earns it a legendary status as one of the very few pinnacles of art or any other medium in the 21st century. This is what it's like to live another life. This is what video games are for, to transport you into a world in a way that no other medium can. One of the rare, one-in-a-billion video games that deserve the title of art rather than entertainment. This is one behemoth step forward for gaming.

Time, and by extension life, passes in the blink of an eye. Every moment, good, bad, whether it be something you wish to cherish eternally or something painful that you want to put away forever, need to be held on to. Because your memories are your life, and you need to hold each and every single one dear, because you never know when they'll be taken away. So live your life, and live it well, because your life is your legacy and the way you live it is everything.

Reviewed on Feb 06, 2023


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