A browser game made in HTML5.
Stars In Your Eyes presents a cute story with a pertinent message that gets harmed in the execution.
Being a story focused on two disabled characters, the developer has chosen to add and take away certain features between two POVs. While the idea and the overall audiovisual execution of these aspects own their own, the fact that the POV shifts so often makes for a tiring, jarring experience. At the start, there are substantial developments between these shifts, but as the game progresses, these changes happen very close of each other giving the reader the disorientation of being jerked between two experiences while muddling them. That last point is especially true towards the end when these experiences are more intentionally melded.
Writing also leaves something to be desired. Most statements are composed of too many lines making it a wordy, though not necessarily meandering experience. That applies to dialogue as well, making for a very unnatural mode of speech and truncated flow of conversation. Also, the emotional payoff of a pivotal scene is curbed by how one of the characters cannot stop joking about it and gets no pushback for it.
Still, as aforementioned, the audiovisual depictions of these disabilities were well-thought out and make for an interesting idiosyncrasy on their own. The message too is straightforward and characters are understandable and relatable so it is rarely a dull project.
This project has a good message, but fumbles its delivery just a bit too much. Gets a sure recommendation for its qualities, but not a higher rating for the uneven execution.
