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When I was a kid, I had a pair of creepy, reclusive neighbors who lived next door and greeted everyone with a sneer. My imagination spent a lot of time constructing what kind of weird stuff might actually be going on in their shuttered, suburban home – so the premise of Hello Neighbor was enticing because it was practically out of my autobiography. As the plucky, unnamed child protagonist, you hear and see some disturbing things through your strange middle-aged neighbor’s window and take it upon yourself to investigate. Unfortunately, the most disturbing thing you find within ends up being the puzzle design. Hello Neighbor is essentially a stealth game in which the ultimate goal of each of its three acts is to find a way into the neighbor’s basement and uncover what he’s hiding while he roams around trying to catch you and kick you out. However, because the house’s floor plan gets larger and more elaborate across each of the acts, it creates some pacing issues and a strange inverse difficulty curve where stealth is much harder to maintain in the beginning. Act 1’s modest cottage, for instance, was a pain to infiltrate due to the sheer lack of space between me and the neighbor. He was always practically on top of me, and getting caught was very common, even with cabinets to hide in and the ability to slow him down by throwing objects in his path.

This served to really dull the tension – a good horror game makes you afraid of getting caught but avoids having it happen too commonly, lest you lose the fear of failure. Solving a puzzle usually didn’t give me a sense of satisfaction. The later two acts felt better from a stealth standpoint thanks to more room to maneuver, but they featured some of the most bizarre and frustrating, “guess what I’m thinking” puzzles since the days of the ‘90s adventure game boom. In fact, they’re worse in that the combination of items and actions needed to progress often don’t make any logical sense whatsoever, which turns it into pure trial and error. Solving a puzzle usually didn’t give me a sense of satisfaction. It made me say, “THAT was the solution? How would anyone have ever made those connections?” To give one example, I had to freeze a pool of water by putting a globe recovered from an obscure corner of the house (which was its own illogical adventure) in the neighbor’s freezer on a completely different floor, then placing it on a random pedestal. That definitely shouldn’t work. Furthermore, reaching the final boss requires you to get a double jump ability that’s hidden away in a secret area you’re never encouraged to visit, and I spent about an hour trying to figure out how to access the area by other means. The arcane voodoo that underpins the world is never explained, and I frequently had to resort to community guides from the early access version to figure out what to do.

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This is really Hello Neighbor’s biggest failing: it does an abysmal job of teaching you what kind of interactions are possible within its world and nudging you toward progress. I can only imagine how long it would have taken me to complete in total isolation, banging every item I could round up against every combination of appliances. Weeks? Months? If I hadn’t been playing it for review, I’m certain my patience would have run out before then. The neighbor learns your favorite routes through the house and sets traps. There are rewards for navigating this labyrinth. The basement segments at the end of each act are effective at ratcheting up the creepiness and even presenting some outright horror. The overall mood and feel – you’re in normal old suburbia but something is always just a little bit off – is well-constructed in terms of graphics and audio. And the way the neighbor learns your favorite routes through the house and sets traps and cameras to trip you up was a cool touch. Perhaps Hello Neighbor was always intended to be more of a “cooperative” experience among a group of people playing in parallel. Its complexity and oddball internal logic suggests some kind of byzantine enigma box intended to be pecked away at by a community sharing discoveries on a forum or Discord server until someone finally reaches the end, like the notorious Mount Chiliad mystery in Grand Theft Auto V. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

But if that’s the case, anyone who hasn’t already played it has missed the boat, as the puzzles have been solved ahead of release. They’re all up on YouTube. And your chances of going into this as a solo experience and actually finishing without consulting outside sources are incredibly slim, unless you have a tremendous well of patience and more than a little luck. The sinister neighbour has been a cinematic staple for decades, from The Burbs to Disturbia via Arlington Road. It’s curious that few video games have made full use of the concept, though. Hello Neighbor looks to buck that trend with a game that leans heavily on the premise, but it falls well short in a number of critical areas. You are cast as a curious kid in what appears to a typical (if hyper-stylised) American suburb. At the outset, our mischievous scamp witnesses his strange neighbour behaving erratically. There are blood-curdling screams, locked doors, a crashed car, and a general air of threat. Something’s not quite right, to put it mildly. Starting outside Mr Peterson’s decidedly ramshackle detached property, with a handy cut-away shot showing where he’s keeping the key to his basement, it’s up to you to figure out a way to get to the bottom of things. Hello Neighbor offers a curious blend of components. At heart, it’s a first-person stealth game, as you sneak around Mr Peterson’s property without alerting him to your presence.

Until you finally find a distance

But it also has a certain point-and-click adventure feel to it, alongside some physic puzzler components. You need to figure out how to get to where you want to go using only the objects found around Mr Peterson’s property. Stacking boxes, flipping switches, grabbing special-use items and nabbing keys are the order of the day here. Alert Mr Peterson to your presence in the process of doing so, and the spry middle-ager will head straight for you, smashing through windows like the Terminator and throwing whatever he has to hand at your head. You can slow him down by lobbing objects at him, but your main goal should be to get out of Dodge. The first time you’re chased down, complete with heart-thumpingly dramatic music, is fairly traumatic. But then you’re finally caught by this raving psychopath and… deposited right outside his house with all of your purloined gear (you can carry four items at a time) still in your pocket. After a while, it robs the game of much of its tension. What it doesn’t rob the game of is a near-constant sense of irritation. Whether you’re being caught by or evading Mr Peterson, the outcome is more or less the same, so repeatedly being spotted and chased can grow incredibly tiresome. Unfortunately, given the fact that Mr Peterson is both eagle-eyed and erratic in his movements – and the game’s complete lack of any alert HUD – this is a common occurrence. Call of Duty: Black Ops 

That sense of frustration isn’t helped by some sticky controls and flaky physics. Trying to pick objects up, throw them a certain distance, or use them within the world is the kind of exercise in tension that we highly doubt the developer was aiming for. It might work the way you want it to first time, or it might not. Who knows? It’s also irritating how opaque the game can be. We’re all for games trusting in the player’s intelligence and refraining from excessive hand-holding, but Hello Neighbor tosses you into its world and offers precious few hints as to how to proceed. If its mechanics were more solid and reliable, then you could maybe make a case for a more experimental ‘try everything’ approach. But when your sixth successive attempt at building a makeshift set of stairs out of boxes fails, it’s all too easy to assume that it’s you doing something wrong. There are moments of genuine suspense and even horror in Hello Neighbor and the storyline evolves and expands in unexpected ways, which we naturally won’t spoil here. Yet the lack of consequence for being busted seems to grate against the game’s attempts to grow a meaningful narrative. Hello Neighbour’s colourful Pixar-style graphics also lend to this tonal dissonance; the subject matter is actually quite dark. It makes for a game that feels quite different from anything else, but also rather confused and unfocused.

From multiple angles and distances

Ultimately, Hello Neighbour feels like a bit of a mess. Its various components are undercooked in isolation, and they don’t cohere into a satisfying whole. Salt and Sanctuary is a game that deserves to be played. It mixes together elements of Castlevania and Dark Souls, creating a game that is incredibly well designed and is easily as compelling as anything from either of the series that it draws inspiration from. Ska Studios’ game is a side-scrolling action RPG with platform elements, taking place on a mysterious island filled with undead beasties and Lovecraftian nightmares. After washing up on the island, you’ll be forced to survive by battling said beasties and using their salt to make your character stronger and your weapons more deadly. So far, so Souls, right? It’s true that the gameplay is very similar to From Software’s games, even with a few nods here and there (there’s basically a Bloodborne outfit in there), but the 2D, sidescrolling perspective and the more platformy nature of the gameplay, makes for a more fast-paced experience. You can still dodge-roll and parry, but there’s more to it than being an homage to other titles. The world is surprisingly huge and interconnected, with one particular shortcut heading back from the final area of the game, to one of the earliest places you visit. It’s a long run too, making you realise just how big the island is. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered

I spent most of my time playing Salt & Sanctuary in handheld, where it really shines. It looks sharp and runs at a mostly solid 60 frames-per-second, with only a few dips during more particle-intensive moments, and especially when you beat a boss and the “vanquished” message takes up almost the entire screen. It’s rarely ever an issue though, as it doesn’t seem to drop below 30fps and it’s only ever for a few seconds at a time. It’s still present when docked too, where it looks a bit blurry but nothing too detrimental. That signature Ska Studios art direction helps to keep things looking darkly beautiful, no matter what. The controls fit the Joy-Cons very well, with the face buttons used for attacking and jumping; the shoulder buttons used for rolling and blocking, as well as item usage and weapon swapping. You can have two sets equipped at a time; I usually go for a sword and board set, with a larger, two-handed weapon as the second set. Everything here is fine for the most part, except for rare moments when a button wouldn’t register, with one example leading to a long fall and a decidedly squishy end. Luckily this is extremely rare, but no less frustrating when it happens. I had already spent hours and hours and hours playing Salt and Sanctuary on PS4, filling the character slots completely as I tried out different character builds and weapon sets (including transmuted weapons

It’s tedious and frustrating, and the fact that you then have to put those same objects back down in a way that’s useful to you only builds on the tedium and the frustration. One of my other big complaints about Hello Neighbor is that it doesn’t seem to have any coherent system of natural laws or physics — which is a fancy way of saying that glitches abound, and that you never know whether things will react the way you want them to. Once I was just walking along the street, when I bumped into a garbage bag and I got launched all the way down the street. Another time, windows smashed spontaneously, caused by who knows what from who knows where. This is in keeping with the game’s general sense of complete randomness, where sometimes you can toss an object far away, and other times it falls uselessly in front of you. With so many major issues, it’s sort of a blessing in disguise that Hello Neighbor is only three acts long. After all, that means you don’t have to spend as much time with it as you would if it were full of unnecessary padding. Still, Hello Neighbor is the kind of awful that doesn’t need much time to make itself obvious. It stinks pretty much from the get-go, and that stench only gets more putrid with every second you spend with the game.

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