One creepy neighbor, basement full of secrets, a crazy house of horrors and a story line that keeps you hooked but thats only the tip of the iceberg; Hello Neighbor has quickly found its way from PC to Console after its release last year and did i mention Puzzles for days ?
This game was one of the most interesting games I’ve played, Using all kinds of creative tactics to get into his house and find what secrets lie in his basement. As if that wasn’t enough story line after numerous updates, Tiny Build brought us Hello Neighbor Hide and Seek. We meet the neighbors family, see the house as it once was at some point; we learn a bit more about whats going on. Here we play as the neighbor’s daughter finding the hidden toys and placing them in a basket while avoiding her brother dressed in a tiger costume as well as other traps and puzzles.
I got inspired to play this game while watching you tubers like 8bitRyan and Captain sauce play. Each games puzzle base was interesting, as wacky as the neighbors house was the 30 rooms of puzzles is enough to drive anyone over the edge especially with the neighbor not giving you the time of day. did i mention he is a learning AI, he remembers your previous attempts and lays traps so just look out for bear traps, this game kept me busy so my brain didn’t get time to dwell on life’s problems.
Hide and Seek brought a different perspective, shed light on the neighbor who we knew very little about until now. Since the first games release, everyone had there own theory and the developers seemed to love it, run with it even. My theory, the short version is that the neighbor had a family and things were normal in the beginning and then we learn through cut scenes that his wife died in an accident resulting in the family being torn apart and the neighbor being depressed, frustrated maybe since now he’d be a single parent to two kids but something else is at play here. In hide and seek’s trailer we see scenes where the brother an sister seemed to have fallen apart, the sister dies eventually or at least thats how it seems so far and the brother is either possessed by something evil or simply run away. It makes more sense to think the neighbor is probably keeping his son in the basement rather than the mannequin we see him fight with in alpha 2. In many of hide and seeks game posters the kids seem a bit obsessed with this raggedy Ann doll that can be seen in the trailer, this doll most likely has some significance or it wouldn’t be so prominent in the trailer.
Their obsession with crime scenes is a little disturbing. None the less in hide and seek we explore the vast landscape that is the next room, the rabbit hole that is hello neighbor. we enter into a safari landscape with traps and puzzles and Timmy oh my; here we must find all the toys and that includes duplicates and put them in the basket sounds easy right ? wrong, we have to avoid Timmy and the traps that alert him. If he catches us he takes our toys and hides them again making it a long day in hide and seek land so get the snacks ready.
My only issues with the game is the items that don’t spawn in and The lag, its not as bad as the lag in hello neighbor but it needs work. besides that Hello neighbor hide and seek is one of those games that peaks your interest and keeps you coming back and the fact that they kept players waiting and wanting to discover more about the neighbors secret proves this. I don’t think Hello Neighbor is done, it has so many possibilities and unanswered questions what do those scenes in the hide and seek trailer mean, what happened to the children and what does the black ghost like entity represent ? i need answers Tiny Build. I love these games it is a great time killer, full of puzzles to keep my brain active and busy, and full of fun wacky colorful designs that you just gotta love.
J's Journey 