This would be fine if the game was less arbitrary about how he acts or searches for you. In addition, the game doesn’t provide any mechanism for you to know (or suspect) where he is or how quiet or visible you are-only a thumping heartbeat that rises when he’s near. You can hide in closets and try to stay out of sight, but there rarely seems to be any real rhyme or reason for his searches. He will also set traps to thwart your efforts, like placing a bucket of water over a door.īut as soon as the neighbor sees or hears you in virtually any capacity whatsoever, he flies into search mode, much like any predictable goon in the ‘stealth level’ of any FPS/action game ever. If you break a window, the neighbor will repair it. And aside from reacting to various ways you can manipulate him, he primarily has two basic modes: searching for you and not searching for you.įor example, if you shut off the power to the house at the breaker switch, the neighbor predictably exits the house to fix the problem, which gives you a chance to sneak into the house. The neighbor, for example, reacts to your actions but to a seemingly limited degree. The game’s mystery is the most compelling part of the game, but the gameplay otherwise falls short. Unfortunately, Hello Neighbor never really achieves its aspirations. Alien Isolation is a good example of a game that combines these elements successfully to deliver a compelling, thrilling, and terrifying experience. Working against an intelligent AI, frantic chases, and hiding fearfully in closets can all be exhilarating when they are done well. This is, of course, assuming you can tolerate the game’s many technical and gameplay problems. Hello Neighbor is a visual experience that challenges you to solve its puzzles and piece together its abstractions, all while avoiding, confounding, and sometimes manipulating the neighbor’s behavior. It’s intriguing from the beginning, with its odd art style and lack of any dialog. Fundamentally, it combines a tense game of hide-and-seek with the exploration, logic, and story-based puzzles of adventure games. Hello Neighbor is a stealth-horror (ish) game based on sneaking around a mysterious neighbor’s house to expose his dark secrets. TinyBuild’s Hello Neighbor is a game you want to like but defies even the most forgiving gamers, testing your patience and ultimately falling short of its inspired premise.
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