So, with a weak concept established the game dumps you in front of the old man’s house and tells you nothing. This is the premise and why the boy suddenly decides that he must discover what the man is hiding. The opening cinematic sees this ugly child kicking a ball, which rolls into the yard of the ‘neighbour’ and as he attempts to collect it, casually views the old man locking his basement with a large gold key. Opposing a man who is clearly up to no good, but never actually goes much further than setting back your progress slightly. You play a strange, ugly child who seemingly has too much time on his hands. It might even be dead bodies, which is likely given the screams we hear, and it’s up to you to find out. It could be riches, it could be slabs of chocolate long since removed from sale. There is a point to the premise of breaking into a man’s home, to see what he’s hiding in the basement. Once an ‘early release’ on PC, YouTubers across the world beamed this nonsense into the brains of children. I think it’s a YouTube situation that got out of control. Even the open world isn’t safe from enemies, as the trailer shows the raven following the player out of the house and capturing them near a car.I’m not sure Hello Neighbor is even a game.
The AI in the original game followed a series of waypoints set by the developer, but the sequel is promising a fully dynamic AI that changes patterns based on the player’s actions. In the reveal trailer, key items are more obviously laid out to the player, and the addition of a security camera allows players to see the enemy from different angles. Hello Neighbor 2 seems to retain several of these puzzle elements, but they don’t look nearly as illogical or completely random. That can be anything from throwing objects through paintings to find obscure holes to climb through, or stacking boxes up to climb up the side of a house that looks impossible. One of the biggest complaints of Hello Neighbor is how the puzzles are not solved organically, rather the game has you advance through the story by a series of trial-and-error attempts. Hello Neighbor’s gameplay is part stealth, part horror, part ridiculous puzzle solving. The trailer for Hello Neighbor 2, however, seems to take the game from a buggy mess into a real fleshed-out title. Although an online sensation of its own, Hello Neighbor was critically panned at release, sitting at a solid 38 on Metacritic.
The sequel looks to play fairly similar to the original, but this time hosts players in an open-world with a supposedly fully dynamic AI stalker far more advanced than in the first game. Related: All 27 Games Revealed In Microsoft's Xbox Series X Showcase Hello Neighbor 2, unveiled during Microsoft's Xbox Games Showcase, is set directly after the events of the original, where the new protagonist is a journalist looking for a series of missing people, leading them to the neighbor’s house from the original game that is now occupied by a strange raven creature. The child sees the neighbor aggressively locking the door to his basement and decides to figure out what’s going on inside. The events of Hello Neighbor have players take the role of a child living across the street from a very strange, creepy middle-aged man. Since release, a prequel and multiplayer game have been released, with Hello Neighbor 2 being a direct sequel to the original. The game’s development attracted a number of streamers and YouTubers that formed a large community online, making the new IP much more popular than when it was raising funds. After failing to secure funds for their Kickstarter in 2015, Eerie Guest Studios (formally Dynamic Pixels) decided to continue working on the game anyway and managed to secure a publisher with tinyBuild. The original Hello Neighbor game has quite an impressive history. Hello Neighbor is getting a sequel for Xbox Series X, Xbox One, and PC.