The Star Named EOS is an escape room-like puzzle sport wherein you play as a woman named Dei, a photographer following in her mom’s footsteps. Every degree on this sport relies round recreating photos your mom had despatched you whereas on her journey. And with every degree accomplished, you study extra about her story and the secrets and techniques of your loved ones.
Every degree begins with a cutscene, studying a part of a letter out of your mother. The letters comprise an image, as nicely. The primary one you obtain is of a window, taken from inside a practice. The window has crimson curtains and a vase of flowers sitting on its sill. After wanting across the room, you’ll discover clues hinting in the direction of recreating this photograph. To take action, you need to clear up puzzles reminiscent of discovering keys, codes, and extra.
With every puzzle you full, you’ll acquire extra objects. Within the first degree, you’ll discover curtains and flowers like in your mom’s photograph. As soon as these are positioned in the correct place, you may take an image precisely like your mom’s with your individual digital camera. This transports you to the practice on which the unique photograph was taken, the place you discover a new letter with a brand new image to recreate. When you clear up this degree and full your copy of the brand new photograph, you’re transported to the place that one was taken, and so forth and so forth.
Together with perception into your mom’s story, every degree offers “bonus photos” you will get. You have got entry to your digital camera at any time, which might develop into very helpful. For bonus pictures, nevertheless, there’s a cryptic indicator as to what you ought to be taking an image of—normally a sticker of some form. Getting all three bonus photos provides you entry to additional data of your location, and you may inform if you happen to captured the correct photograph by whether or not its polaroid border is colourful and ornamental, or simply plain white.
Whereas utilizing the digital camera, you may zoom out and in. This lets you use them like binoculars, enabling you to see clues which might be farther away.
You entry the digital camera with the X button, zoom out and in with ZL and ZR, and take photos with R. The opposite controls for this sport are simply as simple. You go searching with the correct stick, and transfer your cursor with the left. You work together with objects and puzzles by clicking A, and entry your stock with Y. In your stock would be the photos out of your mother, and any gadgets you discover to assist clear up puzzles and recreate pictures.
The Star Named EOS makes use of totally hand drawn imagery, which helps this sport to really feel extra real and fascinating. The music additionally helps add to its general emotion and thriller which permits its touching story to be informed in a heartwarming method. The sport is enjoyable, artistic, and charming. It’s additionally pretty quick, making it a enjoyable and fast play that’s arduous to interrupt.