Our Verdict
The Star Named EOS affords a beautiful expertise crammed with puzzles of differing issue, on a background of hand-painted artwork and a pleasant piano-filled soundtrack.
The Star Named EOS follows Dei as they appear by means of images despatched by their mom in letters whereas she traveled, and piece collectively a journey by recreating her photographs. You’re employed by means of completely different settings and full little puzzles to search out patterns and codes and uncover hidden objects as a way to progress.
Nonetheless, not all the things is because it appears – a guide could lay out your path, or maybe a code lies in watch for you as you go searching a room. That’s about as a lot as I can say with out being too particular and making a gift of any options, actually, however bear in mind to have a look at all the things and totally discover your atmosphere.
There’s a pleasant mixture of puzzles right here, some are easy to unravel and others could have you reaching for a notepad and scratching your head. A pair did admittedly get me very confused however sufficient considering and puzzling and the answer got here to me. That, or I ended being a foolish goose and used what was in entrance of me.
That mentioned, there’s no assist if you happen to do get caught. An analogous point-and-click title The Room had clues obtainable, and Paper Path even had options if you happen to get caught to indicate you methods to progress by folding the paper.
The Star Named EOS sadly doesn’t have any hints, clues, or options within the recreation. As somebody who loves the concept of puzzle video games however all the time finally ends up getting caught and harassed (a me downside, for positive), I’d wish to see even the tiniest trace like a teeny-weeny glimmer on an object it’s best to have a look at, or which path it’s best to flip, as an illustration.
Whereas figuring my approach by means of completely different eventualities, I additionally observed that you should use the Swap’s contact controls whereas within the puzzle itself, however not to go searching the room or enter into the particular puzzle’s zoomed-in view. A number of video games do that, and I all the time surprise why it isn’t totally touchscreen, particularly when the Swap’s controls are generally a bit iffy.
The sport can be actually lovely because of the hand-drawn surroundings and animated scenes, with sufficient element to catch your eye even at midnight corners of each setting. It’s possible you’ll acknowledge the art work from Silver Lining Studios’ earlier title, Behind the Body, a equally hand-drawn puzzle recreation that passes on its seems to be and magnificence to EOS. The video games don’t look like associated by way of story, nevertheless.
Coupled with that is full voice appearing by Suzie Yeung (recognized for Honkai Star Rail’s Hanya and Genshin Influence’s Eula) to relate the expertise, and a really good soundtrack paying homage to the piano ballads in Genshin Influence’s Liyue space, combined with a little bit of Sims 4’s merry melodies too. By the way in which, you will get the soundtrack at launch, which I extremely advocate because it’s beautiful and emotive.
Silver Lining Studios’ heart-warming puzzler runs nicely on the Swap, with minimal load instances and no hang-ups. Nonetheless, I did get caught on a display screen after finishing a selected conundrum because the button to exit the realm didn’t seem till after I’d restarted the sport. Fortunately it robotically saves, so nothing was misplaced, however it was a bit inconvenient.
Both approach, I did have a pleasant time with The Star Named EOS. Higher puzzle solvers than me will certainly have much more of an exquisite time, however the story is intriguing and deeper than you assume, making you need to progress to the following situation and uncover extra.
If this has you intrigued, we will advocate some comparable hidden object video games on the Swap, together with point-and-click video games which may be proper up your alley.