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

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

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.

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.

"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 YouTube to know what the fuck you are doing. Why now just watch the video theres no reason to play this game"
-FoeKoe

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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

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

I legit never realized there was more than one game.

The puzzles are what ruin the hello neighbor games.

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