Pulse does not reproduce blindness, but it does force you to consider the fact that you take sight for granted and make you adapt to new sensory inputs. Fortunately, once you learn how to see as the young hero, the few visual tricks that lead your eye towards your destination – such as the red hanging fabrics – alleviate many of these issues. Pulse is focused on exploration but, on the occasions that it forces you to use its jumps or stealth, Eva’s slightly sluggish movement can grow frustrating as you struggle to find the right route. Less passively, your new senses also allow you to see growling wolves as they patrol - a skill that regularly saved me from an untimely end. You become easily able to spot the tiny forest spirits that are used to solve Pulse's simple puzzles. And you discover that, while it is a struggle to understand the constant waves of information that the pulses bring back, they reveal things sight alone could not. The tale explains how your doomed, ancient world is covered in darkness – making Eva the only one capable of finding her way. Then, as you get used to the visual cacophony, it starts to make sense. Walking up a slope towards what seems like a clear path forward, only to hit a wall that Eva’s pulse is unable to see from a distance, becomes a frustrating diversion as your eyes struggle to become accustomed to the constantly changing barrage of information.
This makes the early stages far more maze-like than perhaps was intended. The game's first-person perspective, in conjunction with the barrage of different neon shades and the sometimes unreliable construction of the world around, make it initially impossible to tease out the useful information.
The problems is, as you start playing, it is almost painful to look at.
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