Welcome to the bizarre reality of Hello, Neighbor!, a twilight zone where normal things don’t happen very often. A standard-sized neighbour is outside changing a wheel on his shiny red car. I try to get away, but there’s nowhere to go. A huge, black rubber-gloved hand is reaching through the hallway into my bedroom. ![]() ![]() But wait, I’m locked in my room and what the hell is that outside? It’s the neighbour peering through my window, and he’s suddenly ginourmous. Just the wooden board and the numerical lock to deal with now. The ambiance increases in intensity, so I know he’s close. Nervously, I use the key in the padlock now securing the basement door, but it takes several seconds. Once out of sight I sneak in through the front door and search the living room. After a short wait, it goes off and out comes Mr. I wind up the clock and throw it round ride the side of the house, then quickly hide behind his car. So, I grab an old-fashioned alarm clock from the pile of junk conveniently sat outside my own home, once more heading towards the source of my burning curiosity. He’s presently sat in the living room watching TV. Next thing I know I’m safely back in my bedroom, but now it’s day time in this leafy suburbia, and I can’t help but notice that our tank-topped antagonist has employed some additional security measures. Just as I approach it, I’m abruptly spun round, now gaping into the face of a moustachioed man who seems to have materialised out of nowhere. There’s no sign of activity, and all the hallway doors are locked, so I cautiously head towards the living area and the mysteriously luminescent portal. I head across the street, casually strolling into the residence of a complete stranger. Obviously, I’m supposed to go check it out. An intense orange glow pours through the gap into the darkened room, sinister and alluring in equal measure. Perplexingly, there’s a green exit sign above it, and the door is clearly ajar. Through the lounge window a door underneath the stairs can be seen. It’s night time, nobody seems to be home, and the front entrance has been left wide open. The demo begins with you staring out of your bedroom window at the property across the street. ![]() It’s not due out until summer 2017, but in the interim you can get a taste of the core gameplay via the public pre-alpha demo they released at the weekend. Grrrr, the temerity, if only I could get into their house and have a good snoop around, I’m sure I’d find evidence of scandal or deviousness.įor curtain twitchers like myself then, Dynamic Pixels have devised the ultimate nosy neighbour simulator in the form of Hello, Neighbor!. When they’re not nicking the missus’ parking spot, mine are always flying their drone out back, having fun in their swanky Jacuzzi, carrying out DIY home improvements, and gifting us with fruit from their massive garden (actually, I’m hoping to make a nice apple pie from that). Pesky neighbours, they’re always up to no good.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |