Feels like a small game that got more attention than expected and was artificially inflated.

the older versions were better than the final game tbh

I don’t know if this is what the developers were going for, but the game gives me old-fashion point and click vibes. Games that had puzzles like: use some trail mix to attract an squid, to trade with a butcher for a knife, to give to the blacksmith to create a saw, to use on a rope for a job, to receive a payment of two gold, to pay the toll to cross a bridge. All with little to no hints of the sequencing.

I didn’t even know that ‘Hello Neighbor’ had a book series until I finally saw this video

“A Euphoric Absence of Insufferable Confusion” is an amazing line. love it

The fact that you bought the annoying orange letsplay just for one gag makes you braver that any US marine

The kid model looks like those mug shots of people where they look like their 12 and 40 at the same time

"You basically go on to youtube, type in Hello Neighbor walkthrough and follow the exact steps of the video. Thats not a joke, thats how you really play this game. You have to watch a video on KZfaq to know what the fuck you are doing. Why now just watch the video theres no reason to play this game" -FoeKoe

Reminder that the shoe thing was a glitch way to solve it (although that's the best way to solve it imo, and I don't think either of us are mentally prepared to go down the rabbit hole of the correct way to do it), and it definitely seems like they focused more on story than anything fun or solvable.

Man imagine if what was in the basement was actually the son. After losing his wife and daughter the Neighbor couldn't handle losing his son to and decided to hide him away in the basement. Son ain't exactly happy about it and needs to be boarded in so he doesn't get spotted and arrested. That would've been a good tie up for at least some of the stuff and keeps to the original goal in the original beta, finding out what's in the basement Edit: also actually really like the cover on hide and seek bc its extremely common for kids to reenact their trauma through play to make sense of what happened in a safe environment. So it's a fairly accurate representation of what kids going through the trauma of losing their mom might do.

5:06 You forgot the 4th option where you place a random object beneath your feet and get rocketed a million feet into the air and land on the other side of the fence.

You gotta love how the red key puzzle clearly had a set idea of a proper way to complete it, yet the devs were so incompetent that they literally couldn’t properly program it in, with the gun. Yeah, you know all that bonus content you talked about? That stuff is actually “necessary” to beat the game properly. But guess what? The puzzle is so broken that you actually HAVE to resort to the shoe glitch in order to beat it.

Seeing the final game compared to the previous versions feels so weird. It's like they took all the interesting stuff from the alpha and tossed it out

the sad thing is that Hello Neighbour's Alphas seem to point to a completely different game, where you played as a paranoid dude who was trying to break into the Neighbour's house to find out what he was hiding in his basement, with it being suggested that the Neighbour was a murderer and it looked darker and less...eccentric, and msot notable of all the Neighbour was COMPLETELY different as was the gameplay, where the parkour was just one element where you could find multiple approaches to multiple ways of getting inside, and the Neighbour would counter in different ways to halt you afer he catches you (such as laying traps and even reinforcing windows and doors if you use them multiple times) and he was actually active and smart. It seems like for some reaosn they COMPLETELY changed their ideas of the game and what they wanted from it during development, focusing less on the neighbour and trying to beat him and this bizarre "easter egg lightbulb' approach they implemented for the full game. You can play the Alphas to this day and far more people enjoy those.

“This game wasn’t meant for me,” well, yeah, but then... Who IS supposed to be the target audience? Little kids like let’s plays of this game, but with how unintuitive the puzzles are, they’d never get any enjoyment out of it. Even OLDER, legit gamers find the games frustrating, it’s not just you. Even if you were in it just for the lore, these games aren’t worth the hassle. A mechanically broken game is a broken game. I do suppose you’re right however, it’s amazing to see an indie developer rise to such success, and who knows? Maybe in the future we’ll get a remaster once they get the gameplay down and story finalized.

I've heard people complain about games that constantly hold your hand, but honestly I'd rather have that than just be left completely in the dark about what the fuck to do.

I wish this had more views, clearly you put a little too much effort into it. I've been watching a couple of your videos lately and I'm enjoying them quite a bit; hope you get a crazy algorithm boost Joel Haver-style ;)

This guy is criminally underrated. His commentary is informative, funny, the editing is good, yet only 9k subs?? Seriously?? This was perfect to listen to while doing homework

I legit never realized there was more than one game.

The puzzles are what ruin the hello neighbor games.

I'm a big fan of the series and you made some very valid points throughout the video (game physics, puzzles that are nonsensical etc.) and you even ended the video with a wholesome message towards the developers regardless of your bad experiences with the games. Great job on this!

Gotta remember how good the alphas were... You should try them

As a HN fan, this is genuinely the best HN retrospective of the entire internet. I dont hate you (for litterally exposing these games xD). There are so much humor in it especially how u mentionned how Mya died so casually and how u read the SN steam review. I agree with most things that are being said and i love the fact you arent going into hating the life out of those games and rationnaly making fun of them as well as respecting the community. Im sure everyone will enjoy, HN haters or not Edit: Wait how tf do you have 10K subs?? Thats so freaking underrated for such a... human living guy you are

Alpha 1 was the best it was creepy the neighbor was clever ,while not perfect he was still much better than the final release,the basement had more mystery the puzzles were optional and weren’t platforming and the final game looks like ass hate the art style just looks way too messy Its not creepy now for the best basement I’ll say alpha 2 I don’t like alpha 2 much but the basement was good.

Yes this game really suffered. I guess they decided to focus on lore more than the brilliant AI of the neighbor.

Your channel is criminally under rated my guy, this was a perfectly structured video

Hot take: the additions to the house and convoluted puzzles could work as a representation of the Neighbor’s increasing paranoia. The puzzles shouldn’t have been what they were, but more along the lines of real traps taken to a game world. Like, the Collier brothers meets the Joker in a surreal house. The house starts off normal for a person who just so happens to be crazy, but the player’s repeat trespassing worsens the Neighbor’s maniac paranoia. Because of whatever is in the basement, the Neighbor can’t call the police to deal with your meddling. Even the dream scenarios could have been an interesting look at the Neighbor’s paranoid perspective of the world, especially the grocery store one.

It's sad that the Alphas were better than the final game. It was so promising!

dont know why people think hello neighbor was such an amazing game, the developers literally delivered on none of their promises and turned the game into "attic crawling simulator 2017"

You should not be allowed to have platforming in a first person game without a ledge grab.

This neighborhood desperately needs an HOA

Nikita (Series creator) did say Hello Guest isn't scrapped, so that's good. "How is your weather?" is also a reference to the books based on the games And I don't hate you for not liking the games, although I'm a huge fan of them, I completely think you're allowed to hate them

i absolutely love this video - super well written and edited. your video essays are such a treat

I wish my mental issues could be solved with convenient dream sequences

Secret Neighbor really is the only good game so far from this franchise imo.

Is anyone gonna talk about how this guy gives off Brian David Gilbert vibes?

Absolutely love the videos you've been making recently, someday the algorithm will cause this hidden gem of a channel to blow up I just feel it.

I can't believe you do not have more subscribers! You're doing a good job!

just found your channel and I'm very glad, love this video

This was some good shit man. Editing all all was on point

Hot dang! This is an extremely high quality video! You're underrated as hell and just earned a new subscriber!

It's crazy how many changes the first Hello Neighbor went through it's been completely redone like 10 times.

You should make more game reviews. I'd watch every one of them! Good job!

Great video, definitely worth it, lol. Absolutely subbing, can’t wait to see more!

I’m more interested in watching rant videos of Hello Neighbors than the actual Hello Neighbors series itself.

Idk how you only have 10k subs, this is an insanely high quality video

Hello Neighbor reminds me when I went to a shop in a middle of nowhere selling all kinds of things in the span of 100 years. One of the items was a dried cow dung pile being sold for 30 dollars.

Dude, your channel is so underrated. I just found you today and i already love your videos! keep it up!!! :D

Underrated your a trooper i did not know the franchise advanced this far lmao

Absolutely love this video, you can see the dedication that was put into this. You have the thousand yard stare, caused by the trauma of Hello Neighbour 😅

this video is getting recommended, congrats, boyo

What a fun ride this was🙂👍 Thank you for your video.

The annoying orange officially counts as a vtuber.

18:24 Neighbour: Are ya winning kids? Kids: Yes

this is painfully underrated

Underrated KZfaqr. Need I say more?

i know this video is old but i watch EVERY Hello Neighbor video i come across and my god you are HILARIOUS 😅

I believe a game has to focus on a message, a subject, or a mechanic. I never played Hello Neighbor, but according to the video I watched: it started as a simple game about a kid trying to prove a neighbor is a dangerous criminal. It matches the game title (when caught: “Hello, neighbor…”). And the aesthetics (a neighbor that looks harmless, but supposedly the kid knows there's something wrong). But the designers deviated that main subject and tried to add a lot of unrelated mechanics and a convoluted story, trying to be smarter than it is. And leads to nothing. Games like FNaF and Among Us have simple mechanics and focus on a subject. For instance, the paranoia, like in The Thing movie. I think Hello Neighbor thought the minimalist map (a house) isn't enough, and it needed to be bigger, instead of taking advantage of the small are. It could have been like a detective game where you learned more about the neighbor each day you're hiding and exploring it, until you find the truth. I believe it would better if it was like Home Alone: the neighbor is a nice guy after all with some personal issue.

Very underrated video.

Holy shit, this man is so god damned Canadian. Instant subscribe.

Watching the gameplay made me relive the hell that was this game, I cant sleep, its haunted me

Let it ne known i was here before he blew up!

This game reeks of 'youtuber appeal'. The mystery that youtubers love, horror/thriller aspect, etc. Alpha 1 is the best because it wasn't trying to appeal to youtubers.

Underrated as heck

earned a subscriber 🤙

im glad i got to help while you played this

great vid +sub

This was a great video on the franchise

8:49 the akward music thing was actually one of the neighbors chase themes in prototype to alpha 1 (one of because there was more then 1 chase themes added so sometimes it would play a different theme then the last time you got chased)

as a person who has also read the books , the book lore is so much better than anything , i wish they went along with the book lore + used prototype game function and cut scenes , iv also looked into so much characters and depth in cut out scenes , secrets and characters that aren’t even introduced yet , i can well say its a wasted potential for such a good plot .

Aw man are you gonna do more videos about games? Because if so, I'm subscribing. This one was so good!

I think if they added notes or some kind of inspection tool to the original, the puzzles would be a lot easier to get through, like maybe notes next to items you need to solve certain puzzles. Like the gramophone, If there was a note next to it talking about how the tomato plants shrivel when hearing the music, then you’d put it together in your head, and it would be a lot less weird and random

Your video’s quality is NOT reflected in your views. KZfaq’s a tough platform and you are gonna blow up on here someday, you’re genuinely really entertaining!

as much as i dont like this franchise the guest has such a cool design, i love the mask

the biggest thing I take away from this video is the fact that there are lets plays on amazon video. WTF

You should do other game reviews, I enjoy your style and the humor is great!

I'm pretty sure most people didn't notice this first scene in act 3 which is why they called the playing dumb and stupid for going back to the old neighborhood. The letter the player gets, its actually pretty clear that he has gotten evicted from his apartment. Although I do agree with EVERYTHING in this video the first 2 alphas were better than the final game ;)

Thank you for making an actual good review of this game. Most people just say it's bad because they didn't know how to beat it or beat it using glitches.

I’d like the game if the puzzles weren’t bs. It makes absolutely no sense and I don’t feel like wasting time on it.

9:12 just a thing of note is that the valve is to drain water out of a room that has an item that is necessary to melt the keycard. So it's not useless.

The game was so bad and the house was so big and I used to play this a lot. So much that the entire house feels like a fever dream

This game was so hyped in 2017 then when it released. It fell off the face of the earth

This sure do be a hello gamer moment Fuckin fantastic video loved every second

29:50 Tommy Wiseau needs to start a gaming channel

wow cool Vid how are you not more popular

Something to say, the trampoline in act 2 is supposed to be opened up by finding a water heater that is only accessible by breaking a window then heating it up by pulling a hot-cold lever and going to the room in front of the door that is right in front of the entrance and putting the valve down to turn the machine next to it on then pulling the lever next to it and the red key puzzle is supposed to be solved by throwing an object at the button behind the gate with the door that is to the right of the lever to access the lever

So........... Secret Neighbor is basically a mixture of Dead By Daylight and Among Us

This guy is truly insane

i liked the video :)

Actually, there are bags with tomato plants and music drawn on them, there's also a giant arrow in fear darkness

You are like so underrated

After destroying your mind, go play a very obscure game by rare, viva pinata!! Very relaxing

THERE'S BOOKS WHAT.?????

I don’t know who you are but you’re a funny fella I’ll tell you what

It was fun watching you stream this, how often do you stream?

Underated video

The brother's chase music sounds like the bubble game in Wii Fit.

i remember i had to watch playthroughs during the entire time i was playing the first game just to beat it. it was hell.

I think act3 looks like that because it's a big nightmare, it recopilates the childhood traumas of the main protagonist, Nicky Rod into one big house, the most traumatic part was act 2(obiously he was kidnapped) and as the house was blvery big at that time the house in the nightmare was enourmous and all of this was triggered because he couldn't pay rent so he went to the house he inherited from his parents and swing the neighbour's house it triggered the memories of when he was a child so he has to get into the basement to defeat his fears

I love the games and I like you