And then, bam, the game ties it all to a JFK conspiracy theory and kills a senator. The rest of the game is all about a gritty story of revenge and street-level crime bosses fighting each other. I have no idea what the developers behind the game had planned for a future sequel. At this point, Donavan takes out a handgun, promises he’ll track down all the others who were involved, and shoots the senator dead. And then he reveals the final wild bombshell: The senator running this hearing, who’s been asking him questions the entire game, was also involved with the murder of JFK and working with Marcano. He reveals that Sal Marcano, the mob boss who you killed after destroying his entire empire, was connected to the Kennedy assassination. It’s at this moment that the former CIA operative and war vet reveals why he was so eager to help Clay take down the mafia. But in its final moments where Ben blinks between life and death, it reminds us that to be human is to be more than ourselves, it’s to be everything we are to those we care about, and to know that sometimes they see us more clearly than we’ll ever see ourselves. Mortality’s vice grip on our existence, shame in unfulfilled dreams, and how we all ascribe some kind of storytelling to our lives when sometimes, the world stops following the script. Before Your Eyes mediates a lot of profound themes. In this sequence, you listen to the Ferryman tell Ben’s tale, but as you blink, the game seamlessly swaps between his narration and Ben’s mother, as they tell the same tale in perfect sync. Meanwhile, the Ferryman, having learned the truth of Ben’s life, also sees him with a new clarity, and is able to tell his story to the powers that be. Ben has spent all of Before Your Eyes hiding who he was because he was angry at the life he lived, and is grieving the one he wished for. After Ben has reflected on his life, remembering his attempts to write his life story down at the end, he remembers his mother reading a revised version of the story he wrote that is much kinder to him than his was. That is completely recontextualized in the game’s final moments, because blinking is key to a full understanding.
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