- The Eyes of Ara - Nintendo Switch Release Date Trailer. The Eyes of Ara - iOS Teaser Trailer. Aug 11, 2016-26. The Eyes of Ara: An Intriguing Mystery from a One Man Team.
- 100 Stones Interactive’s The Eyes of Ara pushes you to solve the many brainteasers also lying inside it. After an unseen force begins sending out a mysterious signal, you are put on a path to.
The Eyes of Ara is a puzzle-adventure game set in a sprawling castle, home to untold secrets. The player's goal is to explore every nook and cranny of the castle, picking up information that will lead to the bottom of the mystery. Played from a first-person perspective, The Eyes of Ara draws inspiration from Myst, a classic that’s also heading to the Nintendo Switch (realMyst via Limited Run Games). While The Eyes of Ara is much more contained than Myst – you’re exploring a single castle – it still manages to feel unique in its own way.
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Textby Dick Leeuw and Screenshots and lay-out by Louis Koot
22August 2016: There is a new version of The Eyes of Ara ..... this new versiongives the player the possibility to skip the tricky 3 paintings puzzles via askip button. You can then easily solve those 3 painting puzzles by entering ayear. If you bought the game via Gog.com or Steam you can get the new versionthere via your Gog.com or Steam account. So you have to download the entire gameagain to have the new version.
Youare a radio technician and you are 'out of a job'. So what does anunemployed specialist do then ... Yes ..... as a self-employed person youset up your own company and in this case your company is called'Rent-a-Tech'. Soon you get your first assignment because you are hiredto find the source of a 'Static RF disturbance'. This disturbance hasput all TV, Radio and WiFi traffic in a radius of 100 kilometres flat. Thesource of the disturbance appears to be in an ancient castle on a desertedisland. The castle has a very bad reputation among the local population, so noneof the local specialists dares to set foot on the island and that is why youwere hired to solve the problem.
Yourassignment is to go to the island and the castle to find the source of thedisturbance and switch it off so that normal TV, Radio and WiFi traffic will bepossible again. Full with Excitement you leave for the island, in the expectation that a couple ofsquatters have taken possession of the castle and a pirate radio station hasstarted up there. But instead of a pirate radio station it soon becomes apparent that theisland and castle are completely deserted and that 'flying' camerasconstantly keep an eye on you and that your quest through the castle is hamperedby insanely difficult puzzles that you need to solve to get your assignment to agood end. Completely according to the tradition of the Myst games you arecompletely alone on the island and in the castle ..... You will not encounterany other characters
Firstsome explanation about the 'mechanics' of the game:
YouCAN NOT save and load yourself in this game. The Game saves your progress each time you exitthe game and you continue from the last save point. As you can see on the startscreen of the game you can start a 'New Game' 3 times. That might behandy to do .... you can then use a different order in each of those 3 games.For each of those 3 'New Games' your playing time is kept and a Save gamefile is created and stored.
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UnderWindows 8.1 you will find those save files at the following location:
Users your name AppData LocalLow 100 Stones Interactive The Eyes of Ara SaveData01.
Hereis the 'SaveData01' the save file for New Game 1 .....
Ifyou also start a New Game 2 and 3 then the game also creates a'SaveData02' and a 'SaveData03' file.
Youplay The Eyes of Ara entirely with the mouse. You advance by pressing your leftmouse button and you can rotate 360 degrees by holding your left -or your right mouse button and then rotating your mouse. You can also look upand down in this way. However, this rotation is automatic as soon as you movethe cursor to the edges of the screen, but that can go quite fast. If you cannothandle that, you can reduce the speed of the mouse in the 'Settings'.
Thereforego first to the 'Settings' because there you can set some thingsaccording to your own preferences. Under 'Gameplay', tick 'InvertCamera' and 'Hotspot Helper Cursor'. By default, turning in thegame is 'in order', so if you turn clockwise with the mouse you turnleft in the game and if you turn left with the mouse you turn right in the game.If you find this annoying, you can correct this by ticking 'InvertCamera' in the 'Settings'. Then clockwise is to the right andanticlockwise is to the left. With 'Camera Sensitivity' and'Input Sensitivity' you can use the sliders to set the speed of therotation and the forward / backward movement.
Youhave an inventory in which the few items you need to find are stored. You willfind the inventory at the bottom of the screen.
Youcan keep the inventory visible or hidden and make it visible again the momentyou think you need an item from the inventory,
Thegame takes place in a large castle that has many rooms, halls and hidden spaces.That is why Ben Droste, the creator and maker of the game, has divided thecastle into various 'Areas'. The inventory always contains only thoseitems that you find and need in a certain area of the castle. Youcan freely go back and forth between the areas, if at least you have'unlocked' those areas. If you move from one area to another area, theinventory is 'emptied' but when you return to a previous area, then allitems for that area are in your inventory again.
AboutYellowOrbs, Blue Orbs, Coins, Photos, Paintings and Action man:
Thereare hidden items such as Coins, Photos and Orbs to be found per Area ... Theseitems are of no interest to the game except the blue Orbs and the yellow Orbs....
Youhave to find all blue Orbs because they are important if you want to be able toplay the game to the ending. There are 2 blue Orbs per 'Area' but to obtain them youneed 3 yellow Orbs per Area. You will only reach the END GAME if you have foundand caught all blue Orbs.
Coins and other hidden items such as photos, paintings and action men, are of nointerest and serve only to score your 'Steam achievements', so it isnot necessary to find them all. When you have finished the endgame, you canalways go back to areas to try to find the photos, coins and action man that youhave misted
Youneed all the coins, photos, paintings and Action man to get to the hidden roomafter the endgame.Furthermore,you have to read all books, all journals and notes, because if you do all this,after the endgame, a puzzle and a hidden space will appear where you also haveto find things. Then a hidden passage appears.
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Well..... more can not be explained ....... So have much fun with the game,because that's why you play computer games, to have fun playing them
2018:Walkthrough door: Dick Leeuw and LouisKoot
The Eyes Of Ara Review
Textby Dick Leeuw and Screenshots and lay-out by Louis Koot
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