It becomes evident after a few captures that you need to sneak about the garden and also hide in bushes or climb rocks if the music starts to play indicating that Aaron is after you as you cannot outrun him. Before you can do anything much about it, Aaron, who is now dressed as a Tiger, complete with face paint, catches you and you start once more at the entrance to the garden. As you take your first steps into the garden you start hearing music playing, insinuating that you are being followed or chased. Now while this is a grand affair, for me it became a very odd surreal landscape very quickly. During one of your turns to hide you end up opening a door that leads into a vast fantasy garden, inline with how children use their imagination while playing. Running into rooms and upflights of stairs is a fluid affair in the first person perspective however interacting with objects such as doors are an issue and take a bit longer than they should to open. In true Hello Neighbor fashion, you are left to your own devices as to what you should be doing and where you should go. As the title suggests “Hide and Seek” is what the children are initially upto, and you begin the game by hiding around the house from your little brother Aaron. Without revealing any spoilers to Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek, the prequel has you playing as Mr Peterson’s daughter, Mya, and as the story develops you learn a lot more about Mr Peterson’s character giving more depth to him and helping you understand why he acts the way he does in the original Hello Neighbor game. Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek is similar in this respect however the story this time is a lot different. The advanced AI cleverly and annoyingly analysed your behaviour and quickly adjusted to counter your style making each attempt to break into the house harder and harder. If any of you have played the game you will appreciate that the neighbor, Mr Peterson, was relentless in his pursuits of you and most of the game was about being caught. The first Hello Neighbor game saw you play the role of a young boy who thinks he has seen something untoward happening in his Neighbor’s basement and attempts to sneak into his house and uncover the truth, check out a film called “The Burbs” if you enjoy the storyline.

Let’s break it down! If you go down to the woods today you’d better go in disguise.

Conceived as a prequel to the first Hello Neighbor game, it is fairly similar in gaming experience and notoriously harder in my opinion when it comes to solving puzzles. Hello Neighbor: Hide & Seek by Tiny Build is the second installment of the gaming franchise and is available on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and PC.

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