Format PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series
Developer Studio Pixel Punk
Publisher Humble Games
Origin Brazil
Release 2021
Playing Unsighted, a host of influences jump out at us: our fairy-bot companion Iris, one “Hey, listen” away from spirit-channelling Navi; the ‘Drifter Chip’, a tip of the hat to Heart Machine’s top-down dystopia; mecha bosses that wouldn’t look out of place in Mega Man. But we’ll admit to being blindsided by one of the games co-creators Tiani Pixel and Fernanda Dias cite as an inspiration: Goof Troop, Capcom’s adaptation of the Disney animated sitcom and one of the first games designed by Shinji Mikami. Safe to say, it’s not one of his best remembered works – at least, not for most people.
“Here in Brazil, we didn’t have much of an official videogames market until relatively recently, so we had a lot of imported videogame consoles and a lot of pirated games, ” Dias explains. “When you’re buying a game and you don’t speak English, for example, a game in English and a game in Japanese are kind of the same, because you’re going to have to guess at the text.” The game was also easy to pirate, Pixel adds, before explaining for the uninitiated what made this such a seminal text: “It was like a multiplayer , with a lot of puzzles and items that you had to find. is inspired by , just so people can understand what I’m talking about – but honestly, it was much more inspired by .”
