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Hello Neighbor - Review



Hello Neighbor is a stealth survival horror video game..  or at least this is how it is called, but after the first 5 minutes you realize that this category was not correctly applied and why?? Because it has nothing of horror ..  maybe stealth a little but definitely not horror.
When you watch the game trailer you get the impression that the owner of the house is a monster or some kind of monster (and in this case the genre would be correct) but after a few minutes of gameplay you realize that there is no consequence when you get caught ..  sometimes the screen goes dark and you appear on the other side of the street as if nothing happened, so what is the point of hiding? At this point you realize that this game is only a poor game of simple puzzles, bad graphics and awkward character movement.
Seeing this review you may think that this game is horrible and it has no salvation, but things can change, the developers (Dynamic Pixels) can simply change what happens when you get caught, and in my opinion they can do this in two ways that if applied to the game can make it shine.
      1 - after you get caught the owner of the house may lock you in a room with a series of puzzles to get out..  each time you get caught the puzzles get more difficult and at some point you will be locked forever and will have to restart the game.
      2 - the game can start with 2 or 3 kids playing on the street..  when you get caught your player will be locked down and you will start with the other kid ..  this way you will know that you have only 3 lives and you will need to take care of each one in order to finish the game and when it's done you will be able to release all of your friends.

My major critic here is with the game difficulty ..  in this day and age all games are too easy to play, if you are an old gamer you will remember that Sonic had no saves , the games at that time where extremely difficult and everybody loved them. The game Cuphead is difficult and the players loved it ..  it shows that you don't have to make the game super easy just to sell your game.

I hope this review reaches the developers so they can change it..  it's simple to make these changes and the game will shine , it can become a gem on the horror genre.









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