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• gamedeal user

  Nov 28, 2022

  very good game
• gamedeal user

  Nov 29, 2022

  This is One Hell of a Prequel!
• gamedeal user

  Dec 3, 2022

  This game is very challenging and heart racing. But its fun!
• gamedeal user

  May 8, 2023

  The fact that we will never get a game like this in the HN franchise will forever sadden me
• gamedeal user

  Dec 29, 2019

  The dad has a cool vest
• gamedeal user

  Jan 1, 2020

  Hide and Seek is worth playing, but the original is better. Much of what I loved about the first game has been retained but this one ends up feeling a bit repetitive. In original Hello Neighbor each Act had unique goal and ridiculous tasks to achieve them, with insane ways of getting around that I'd never figure out without the help of Youtube. All of the wackiness is here but the goal is always the same and gets old fast.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 8, 2020

  [h1]A Prequel That Doesn't Do Enough To Be Worth Your Time[/h1] When Hello Neighbor was going to be released for the PS4, I was interested. I preordered it, and got the game when it was released and No Time To Explain which was bundled. And No Time To Explain was much more worth the buck than Hello Neighbor. Hello Neighbor is one of the worst games I've ever played, so close on being *the* worst game I've played if Agony didn't exist. The story, controls, physics, puzzles, platforming, the AI itself, etc. was terrible and the whole game felt unpolished. The only good things were the concept and the artstyle. So that's why I was interested in Hide and Seek, see if they fixed the many issues the first game had, so I got that on PS4 as well (but not when it released). And... I thought it was better, but still bad. But that was a while ago, and I now picked it on sale on Steam for five dollars. I bought it here so I can review it, so how well does it hold up? Hide and Seek is about the Neighbor's family, with the biggest focus being his daughter and son, who go into their imagination and play. And... to be honest, I can't really say much about the story, since there really isn't much of a story here. You play the levels, stuff happens, and that's it. There isn't much to it, and while there might be stuff that I might've missed ([spoiler]like the daughter and crows thing[/spoiler]), I was left unimpressed. And it's the same with the gameplay, I'm not impressed. To be fair, there are improvements like puzzles that make sense, open level design that can be interesting to explore. But stuff that plagued Hello Neighbor is still intact, like clucky and floaty platforming, frustrating and unpredictable item physics, controls that just don't feel right; the prequel even has a couple of things that are even worse. Instead of the Neighbor, the one on the hunt is the brother, and somehow they made his AI even more annoying to deal with. While you can go into specific hiding places and wait for him to go away or go onto higher ground, getting caught sends you back to the start, along with the toy(s) in your inventory being sent back to their original spots or put into a different hiding place. If you get caught and have many toys in the huge basket, he'll take out some of them and hide them again as punishment. Now, I'm fine with this idea and actually gives purpose to the brother (the Neighbor catching you did very little. Just sending you to the start with all items intact), but it makes it frustrating if the AI spots you a mile away (the first level's the worst one in the game because of this. It has a bunch of flat land where you're too easily spotted) or won't go away in an area you need to be in. It makes the whole thing tedious. Which brings me to my biggest issues with this: tedium. Since the levels are big now, it can take a while to find everything on your first playthrough. Because you can lose toys if you get caught, having to search for them again. Because the physics and platforming are bad, it can make sections hell to get through. I actually saved a bunch of times just so if I got caught, I can just load up the save again and not lose my progress. I also used the "I'm Stuck" feature from the menu to get back to the start of the level again. Yeah, that might be cheap, but it's way less tedious. In general, the game still feels unpolished. Not to the degree of Hello Neighbor, but the brother got stuck once which let me breeze through the second level, the chasing music doesn't loop properly, along with just not fixing many issues Hello Neighbor had. What I do think is polished however are the cutscenes and artstyle. While it reuses many assets, the much bigger levels with their own styles make each one stand out visually, along with having different character models for each one. The cutscenes are the best part in my opinion, with great animation that feels lively. The game also ran well on my laptop as well. The second level I enjoyed the most, since the brother is much less annoying to deal, and the gimmick of alarms going off that alerts him of your position is more tolerable. He's not in the way for the most part when exploring, and he's the most dangerous inside the building you're in. It feels the most thought out in my opinion, and I find it to be pretty okay. Overall, they could've made this better, but for some reason they didn't. I think the cutscene animation is great, the artstyle is great, puzzles that make sense, and level design that is more interesting to investigate. But the tedious gameplay thanks to the AI and previous issues not fixed, along with the very minimal story, the game isn't worth it's price point in my opinion. If you like Hello Neighbor and don't mind the issues I brought up, then maybe you will like this one as well. It's a better game, but it's still not good in my opinion. [h1] Overall Score: 4/10 [/h1]