Dusty deserts with giant birds, icy graveyards complete with zombies it’s a much bigger, elaborate experience and each area is genuinely interesting to explore. The environments presented in the prequel are less confined and give more breathing space than in the previous title, with each map serving as a gateway into the children’s imagination. ![]() The atmosphere is well realised and despite the fact it looks cutesy enough the game harbours a sense of doom that spreads throughout each of its five distinct stages. As you progress more is revealed about the Neighbour and the dark goings on presented in the first game, and fans will appreciate how keen the developers are to give this seemingly run of the mill puzzler some depth. The game serves to give the first title a little more backstory, as this time you play as the titular Neighbours daughter Mya as her and her sibling play Hide and Seek throughout their childhood home. Hide and Seek serves as a prequel to last years Hello Neighbour and it’s pretty much more of the same you puzzle solve all whilst trying to avoid getting captured by a pursuing foe. Alas, it turns out I’m not the super sleuth I thought I was, but it wasn’t entirely down to my own shortcomings. ![]() Now, with turning thirty looming over me, I reckoned I could go toe to toe with stealth’s finest after all, Snake taught me the multifunctional diversity of cardboard boxes years ago. ![]() Easily spooked, too fidgety to keep quiet and hilariously bad at fitting into confined spaces, it’s safe to say as a kid I would have been pretty screwed in the Hello Neighbour universe. It’s probably been twenty years since I last played a game of Hide and Seek and I’ll admit, I was never very good at it.
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