This game is WORSE than you think | Highlights

[@NyanTheCartoon]

I think @MatPatGT will enjoy dissecting this frame by frame 👀

[@tadpolegaming4510]

LMAO

[@WeirdMagnus]

@@LazyBuddyBan alpha 3 kinda sucks lol

[@sensevison1464]

people when random tiny build employee tweeted something dumb 3 years ago (he apologised for it)

[@Unknown-rw1im]

I believe @MatPatGT is going to enjoy this 👀

[@kamanira]

@@sensevison1464 don't care, it's funny

[@laurice1285]

I feel Matpat will love this highlight

[@ujiarchive]

He'll certainly enjoy dissecting it frame-by-frame.

[@laurice1285]

@@ujiarchive Yes MatPat you should totally reply to this highlight

[@ujiarchive]

*Getting fired intensifies*

[@P-P-Panda]

lmaooo

[@yeeteryeet]

@@ujiarchive NAHHHH they said that buts thats a pile of balony it sounds more like this "My friend did that" they aint fooling me i wasnt born yesterday

[@CuppaTeaExe]

Legend has it that Post Shift 2’s instructions took inspiration from the puzzles in Hello Neighbor

[@Garbo_trashcan]

globe in freezer

[@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225]

"What if we had HN's puzzles, but the player only had about ten seconds to solve it before they get instantly killed and sent all the way back because our monster AI, while way simpler, *_doesn't_* have fetal alcohol syndrome?" _and history was made._

[@130_]

Accurate ☕

[@130_]

Do you plan on making FNAF+ In Minecraft?

[@130_]

W Cuppa

[@williamangelo6732]

When not even Pastra likes the game, you know you've done something wrong

[@bekfastalways6471]

fr.

[@WeirdMagnus]

TRUE

[@billcipher8645]

Oh come on, Pastra already got shit from HELLO NEIGHBOUR DEVELOPERS THEMSELVES! He's already aware his standards are low ok /s

[@breadaholic6445]

@@billcipher8645 what's wrong with pastra?

[@The1CactusGhost]

@@billcipher8645 Yes. However even Pastra disliked the game. Hello Neighbor didn't even make it to the lowest of low. How sad.

[@reportedbooch697]

Hello Neighbor is when executives tried to speed run the success of FNAF in like three months and Ebegged MatPat.

[@gregorymirabella1423]

Ebegged

[@thesteelsquid863]

Ebegged

[@MALware7170]

eggbegged

[@thegamerfe8751]

@@MALware7170 egg

[@notsogreatplays2404]

@@thegamerfe8751 beggedegg

[@sproospring]

this game is one big 'we are generally content with the game as it currently stands' moment

[@revivesyourgolder3130]

The only difference is that the devolopers are not content,

[@LucreciaCrescentIsBestGirl]

“All of this just works.”

[@pitiedlobster6504]

What's even worse is that the neighbor didn't even say hello once

[@thestallioncreatura]

cant believe they false advertised

[@lucasthomas1496]

Well I think it's called hello neighbour as in saying hello to the neighbour which the main character doesn't even do so it's still false advertising

[@gleed33]

8:32 The Four stages of Grief. Anger (Agony from playing the game) Relief (Thinking the worst is over) Pride (Feeling clever for getting through) Depression (Realizing there’s another stage)

[@shamefulaccount4892]

I was so surpised no one else pointed this out----

[@rickygamingproductions]

His Emotes shuffled between Anger, Happiness, Smug and awkward fit all of those stages

[@appelofdoom8211]

Denial: It can't be that bad

[@130_]

Pretty sure you mixed up the 5 stages of grief with the 7 deadly sins

[@gleed33]

@@130_ Aw crap you’re right, thanks for pointing it out

[@AgentOcto]

7:30 "Play against an advanced AI that learns from your actions" *Proceeds to get stuck in the stairs running for all eternity*

[@Garbo_trashcan]

This game is so bad that it doesnt even go back to being ironically fun but holy shit the 'physics' in this game are hysterical

[@larrymantic2635]

Same.

[@Neonlight3934]

Not really, It that's so bad It does a full 360° instead of 180° and just stays bad.

[@benro6564]

If I made a game with the crazy jumps this one has, I would never patch it out that's hilarious

[@syppy7416]

the physics and bad AI almost make it worth it

[@bungofungus]

be glad you didn’t have to do a glitchless for this

[@Kylel0519]

I mean you win by simply not opening the game.

[@therealmonke561]

@@Kylel0519 just imagine you open the game and it fucking crashes when trying to load the main menu

[@bungofungus]

@@Kylel0519 refund% speedrun WR

[@JUMPYCOOL]

I might try it

[@Sageknot]

ok so phisnom hear me out for 100k

[@snoupster]

To give them the benefit of the doubt, maybe the AI of the neighbor does learn from your actions. but we will never fucking know because he can't figure out how to walk in his own house

[@ujiarchive]

He does tend to camp certain areas more if he catches you there several times, he can even fully board off a window if you break it too many times. But other than that, they reduced him to placing cameras and the occasional bear trap.

[@rickygamingproductions]

@@ujiarchive I think the Houses should have remained small because, The house in Act 3 Is Mickey Mouse Clubhouse sized. His AI probably wasn't built for this house. In smaller houses we can see the "Learning Smart" AI more.

[@manzanito3652]

​@@rickygamingproductions Everything about this game seems to work better when the house is small. Why did they decide to make a bigger house?

[@Space_Cowboy.22.]

​@@manzanito3652 idk, padding the runtime of the game I guess?

[@Chillipeffer]

@@manzanito3652 spectacle? more puzzles? an attempt to over exaggerate the game to make it appealing? all three?

[@JRexTheKing]

Phil. Please. Never put us poor little blobs through another traumatic experience like that. We weren’t created to endure such hardship.

[@zafool4997]

You’re a skylander tho

[@JRexTheKing]

@@zafool4997 you’re clearly new here. The blobs represent the chat.

[@fiendish9474]

That Act 3 house looks like something Phineas and Ferb would make in their backyard

[@georgemeyers7172]

"I know what we are going to do today! Let's make a giant house that is complete and utterly annoying because we felt like it!"

[@Random-tq9xq]

And drived our sister insane

[@snipergames15theinhuman97]

MOOOOOOM! Phineas and Ferb have built a giant house that is complete and utterly annoying to navigate in!

[@nikoskonstantinidis4069]

@@snipergames15theinhuman97sure Candace

[@snipergames15theinhuman97]

@@nikoskonstantinidis4069 but Mooooom, you have go home and take a look at it

[@JollyGiant64]

I remember when this game first started development. The dev posted their progress on Tumblr, and it was so fascinating how the neighbor interacted with the environment and the player, it looked really exciting. Then tinyBuild got ahold of it and it all went to shit so that they could turn it into "OMG so freaky!!! 😱😱😱 lore????? 🤔🤔🤔 Middle schoolers will love it!!! 🤑🤑🤑 MatPat talk about our game!?!?!? 🥺🥺🥺"

[@ujiarchive]

That's right, basically all HN fans just hate tinyBuild for everything they've done to the franchise.

[@riflezen6049]

>runs onto tv >evaporates >tries again >finally realizes his dream of becoming an astronaut

[@chaosinc.382]

"This game fell from grace? IT HAD A GRACE?!" I howled with laughter at that one

[@davidsanchez4929]

What's sad is that Phil was so confident that he can finish the game in time for a refund until act 3. At least we got to meet Ted the TV.

[@Jeeb3D]

The game has so many bugs that it’s easier to compare it to malware than a functional game

[@rafsandomierz5313]

That's not definition of malware but alright, this game is rather definition of unfinished concept demo due to that devs lack skills in the certain areas of their job or boss doesn't pay them enough money to fix it. 😁

[@oksure9261]

Hey, at least malware is functional.

[@uncroppedsoop]

@@rafsandomierz5313 uhm ackshully (3 nerd emojis, sorry I'm typing this on my old computer)

[@GhastNekoMancer]

i feel bad that DAGames took time out of his life to dedicate a song to this game

[@motivatedman9730]

It was in the alpha days like around alpha 2 (or maybe 3) when indie horror games didnt have a proper name (when people didnt have standards)

[@zafool4997]

I don’t. Even if it’s connected to the trash heap that is Hello Neighbour, Get Out is still a fun song to vibe to, and telling it from Mister Peterson’s perspective was a good shake up compared to the other songs made by other creators such as Fandroid and JT Machima that had it from the PC’s perspective.

[@aguy4326]

You could always pretend it's a song about squidward

[@tiktok-mc2nq]

​@@aguy4326 WHY EXACTLY???????

[@aguy4326]

@@tiktok-mc2nq spongebob brakes into his house A LOT so you could pretend squidward has finally had enough and sings his frustrations

[@Hashten]

I remember watching a bunch of Mat Pat livestreams of them playing different versions of this game throughout its development. It always felt like they were creating a bunch of different games rather than just changing an existing game. Watching this video, it looks like they just took all of the different versions and put them up on steam for $40

[@Neonlight3934]

Except the first one. Which was probably the best one and that I would call a decent Game. The other ones make me question what the hell were they thinking.

[@thesolidestsnake]

@@Neonlight3934 the first one was really the only time they used their amazing idea. It was a horror game about breaking into a house, but you were the intruder. It was like Don't Breath before Don't Breath was even made. You go in expecting being the predator but you are the prey

[@benro6564]

I promise at some point Indie horror wasn't this much of a dumpster fire. It's sad because there are plenty of indie horror devs making quality and ambitious projects like Zeekerss but they get overshadowed by mascot horror of the month

[@tiktok-mc2nq]

What is zeekerss?(that name sounds interesting

[@GardenVarietea]

​@@tiktok-mc2nqZeekerss is a developer of some interesting pixelized Indie Horror games, the two being It Steals and The Upturned; It Steals is sort of like a PAC-MAN - style maze in which, as it is put by Pastra, "The monster hides from you", meanwhile The Upturned is a bit more of a story while consisting of frantic terror blended with lots of goofies and a physics system basically like Hello Neighbor's but without being able to break the entire game in half.

[@tiktok-mc2nq]

@@GardenVarietea that sounds interesting I might check these games later

[@Angel_Kittichik]

As much of a joy it was to watch Phil suffer through this. . . the suffering was probably too much by the end of it. I was still happy to have seen it live though!

[@benro6564]

People compared this to Post-shift 2 in chat, but Post-shift 2: 1. Is a free fan game 2. Actually does attempt to tell the player what's going on, albeit in an insanely obtuse (and sometimes straight up inaccurate) way 3. Is actually scary, or at least way more than HN

[@benro6564]

@@nahuelamonte9991 5. Rjac didn't beg matpat on twitter to analyze footage frame by frame

[@e.l.studios455]

post shit 2 lied though, there were many times were a mechanic was just flat out the opposite of what it said to be or wasnt explained at all.

[@benro6564]

@@e.l.studios455 yeah I forgot to mention that

[@revivesyourgolder3130]

@@nahuelamonte9991 Nikita kolesnicov crying in the corner because his first pc game is being milked to death by his dumb publisher

[@real8294]

"Play against an advanced AI that learns from your actions."

[@tiktok-mc2nq]

Security breach moment

[@MrToasterrrr]

I can’t believe the developers of Hello Neighbor thought the giant Rube Goldberg machine house in act 3 was a good idea.

[@larrymantic2635]

That was quite dumb.

[@eldritchabomination9726]

A Rube Goldberg machine house could be fun, just not in this game

[@Fazkrueger]

No I.Q. nor thought process on their part.

[@comixproviderftw_02]

Hello Neighbor… A game that had an interesting premise, that would end up failing because of the developers were too busy trying to chase the FNAF trend.

[@ujiarchive]

Rather ironic if you think about it, considering it was in production a few years before FNAF.

[@reptilechurrasquero9048]

A.k.a. most indie horror

[@benro6564]

@reptilechurrasquero9048 yeah I miss when indie horror was populated with games like Limbo that tried to be unique. There are still people making bold and ambitious indie horror games tho, like Zeekerss. However, these are mostly overshadowed by mascot horror

[@reptilechurrasquero9048]

@@benro6564 yeah, also you bringed up some childhood memories when i played limbo, didnt thought it was an indie horor but still is a great game

[@sensevison1464]

the fnaf trend?

[@rotten7777]

Phiznom`s little hair mouth laughing with him brings me so much joy.

[@fern8336]

What do you mean? That's his real mouth

[@rickygamingproductions]

@@fern8336 Nah it's a face he has. His tweet about the design that was new at the time, its a face on the top of his head

[@cgkase6210]

No, no, Phil you see The AI learns from you Because you were breaking the game, it learned to break the game too! It's actually really smart in a stupid way! Edit: Just realized that the entire section starting at 12:20 was for nothing because he says in Pastra's vid he had to turn off the power to the freezer and wait for it to melt. Ow.

[@PurpleApocalpyse]

Back in 2017, someone at my school used to lie about being a Hello Neighbor game dev. He would brag about it saying shit like “I was actually the one who came up with the idea”. At the time I can see why he thought it was cool, but now it’s just hilarious to me that someone lied about making THIS. The glitchy hell that is HELLO FUCKING NEIGHBOR.

[@billcipher8645]

Maybe that kid was ahead of you. He was aware it was a buggy mess only a child developer could make, he made it very believable

[@BigZeroo]

maybe he was and that's the reason the game fucking sucks in the first place

[@MrcreeperDXD777]

I wouldnt be surprised if he didnt lie honestly

[@libraeevee9467]

Hey send him the results and say ‘explain the glitches then’ I wanna know his reaction to the results

[@brawler5760]

To answer your question Phil, yes. The game did have a grace, during its first alpha.

[@e.l.studios455]

still wasnt good though

[@HyperrealisticLuigi]

The alphas were awful

[@Garbo_trashcan]

it was an alpha so of course it sucked but thats the worst part THE BEST VERSION IS THE FIRST ALPHA

[@brawler5760]

@@Garbo_trashcan Yeah that’s the unfortunate part…

[@acronym.4328]

More specifically, the Pre-Alpha.

[@neru1584]

I like how the neighbours ai broke when the trashcan was thrown at him, he got brain damage lmao

[@xxferalfreakxx]

Bold of you to assume he didn't already have brain damage lmfao

[@MayliSong]

“An advanced AI that learns from your actions” Well, he learned from Phil how to OOB at least?

[@skrumbl3186]

I dont mean this as a insult whatsoever, but Phisnom just has a exhaust pipe laugh

[@unrealcrafter2671]

It's sad how the game turned out. It was so promising in the beginning but things just kept getting worse

[@SpiffoGaming]

I hope some team with true passion makes a real game with this concept and shows the world what dynamic ai actually is

[@K1ttyGam3r]

@@SpiffoGaming I’d actually be down with a Hello Neighbor: Rewritten. Better AI, more comprehensible but actually interesting lore that’s not just there for the sake of it, not absolutely bullshit gameplay, and last but not least, actually. Fucking. Scary. Basically the pre-alpha but with a bit of a glow-up and a bit more content.

[@hexelss]

@@K1ttyGam3rsounds good, is there any way to download it?

[@K1ttyGam3r]

@@hexelss The pre-alpha or the Rewritten? Because for the former I have no idea and for the latter it doesn’t exist

[@hexelss]

@@K1ttyGam3r damn, was talking about rewritten btw

[@hectorplay8199]

Imagine if Hello Neighbour and Poppy Playtime did a crossover to create the greatest piece of corporative garbage the indie scene could ever see.

[@senorsnout4417]

I mean...Poppy Playtime, for all its faults, actually has a fair amount of polish and visual fidelity for an indie game (despite being mechanically uninspired and artistically derivitive), and HN at least wants to *try* to do interesting things (despite being technically incompetent and unfocused when it comes to an artistic vision). So I feel like whatever those two teams made would at least be interesting from an academic standpoint, though not an artistic one.

[@WhosKitzo]

garten of banban

[@noahmaldonado5461]

Garbage of banban has beat them to the punch

[@elampersick]

They did it with Bendy tho

[@lucaschannel726]

Add Garten of banban and you have a recipe for disaster

[@chickenking67]

My sister got this game on Xbox. When Act 2 rolled around, she couldn't figure it out. We still dont know how to complete Act 2, because she ended up beating it by accidentally walking into something and the physics launched her into space where she hit the cutscene trigger. Truly, this is one of the games of all time

[@ruttsuco.804]

I still think it was crazy how you were able to speed run the first two acts of this game in an hour and a half, ignoring 99% of what they intended you to do

[@nikoskonstantinidis4069]

speedruns in game: do pro tips to complete the game in style speedruns in hello neighbor: CRUSH THE HELL OUT OF THIS GARBAGE

[@minicher7984]

I’m convinced hello neighbor is actually just a parody of the horror genre

[@revivesyourgolder3130]

The alphas say otherwise

[@Sleeper_6875]

What confuses me is that this game was clearly made by people who have thoughts and I don’t understand how people could make something this incoherent

[@vibevizier6512]

Corporate.

[@JustBreadL]

When I saw Phil finish the first 2 act very easily on stream I just think that he will breeze through the game . Then act 3 came along and boy I was wrong.

[@tonysonic456]

1:59 Literally the best joke I've heard from Phil.

[@larrymantic2635]

Lol

[@Ciel1820]

Almost cried laughing when Phil started singing the Omori ending song as he jumped off the map

[@arrontheprotogen9276]

Timestamp??

[@Ciel1820]

@@arrontheprotogen9276 11:53

[@VJArt_]

It had a grace in its like 1st few alphas i think, when the focus was the ai, but it quickly focused on the lore and expanding the house, without updating the AI of the neighbour

[@PetrolHeadMotorsport]

0:37 We are happy with the state of Phisnom as it is

[@larrymantic2635]

Truly content with it

[@hdanimatesorsomething]

I don't know if it was just me but when I did the school level I just sat in a locker for probably around literally 30 minutes and the mannequins pulled a neighbor and left, I just walked to the end

[@MrShadic140]

I like how youtube says "yes, this is FNAF" in the description

[@CozyCamper007]

4:56 man literally went "wait wtf how did he do that?"

[@Charahuman213]

He's so perplexed 😂😂😂

[@EdwinFDavis7]

When you remember the glitches more than the actual game

[@adzesom]

It had a grace with it's concept of the ai trying to adapt to your attempts to breaking in but later because it's a kids game they just decided to chase lore and fill the game with puzzles instead of improving the ai. Real short lived grace tbh bugs and exploits are super hilarious to watch. Also i really like the new sprites

[@superspun9944]

Welcome to hello neighbour... the game where 90% of “puzzles” can just be skipped... unless you’re playing act 3, we don’t talk about that... monstrosity

[@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225]

The final scene of the game can be skipped entirely; Phil just makes a beeline for the exit door, completely ignoring the set piece where Mr. Peterson surrenders himself to the Shadow monster.

[@tailzgimer1726]

When the alpha's are better than the final you know you did something wrong

[@GhostlyBanes]

this really was the game ever like really it was the game to truly ever exist

[@peety0792]

"Welcome to the mickey mouse clubhouse" God, that is the best and most accurate explanation for act 3 ever made

[@thestallioncreatura]

TRUE

[@SusumuChan]

the scream of sheer joy rapidly turning to terror as the character was flung to his death just had me in tears.

[@revivesyourgolder3130]

Hello Neighbour most know as the game that had a interesting concept that ended up getting ruined by its publisher for trying to chase the fnaf trend

[@The_RMan]

I expected a lot... Phisnom singing "My Time" was the only unexpected thing

[@istabbedpurotodeath]

8:32 bro went through the five stages of grief 💀💀💀

[@vulpinitemplar5036]

It's grace was like the playable proof of concept way back in the day, if I recall correctly tiny build brought it off the original devs for one reason or another.

[@Axolotl720]

I’m shocked that this game didn’t win Game Of The Year. Literally 1984

[@Mr.NobodyOfficial]

I enjoy your laughter at clipping objects, I as well find it hilarious too, as well as random flinging objects and other bugs. I once figured out that if you clip an object into the neighbor’s front door perfectly while he’s outside, once he tries to go back inside he will constantly attempt to open the door but it won’t move, so you’re free to wander without being bothered.

[@lingybalinka1339]

Personally offended that this didn't include the TV arc

[@goofyahh7044]

Even back then, when the full version of this game was first released, I thought jt looked like they just strung all the demos together and called it the final game.

[@revivesyourgolder3130]

Act 1 and 2 were added last minute for lore Act 3 was supposed to be the only house you would had to explore Kind of funny

[@TheWizardMus]

It's so weird seeing the maybe lone example of a game getting worse with more development time. Like the original betas were actually interesting

[@Sir_Bone-Head]

This was a game I actually had a bit of interest in when it first was announced. A game where the AI gets smarter and learns how to deal with you sounds interesting, but as things progressed, it just continuously fell apart. They always added onto the building, but never improved the AI ever. From what I recall, people even told the devs that they didn't want the more extravagant looking house. I don't know man, I think what best sums up my feelings on this game is the series of videos John Wolfe did. Interested at first, jaded by the end.

[@this-nerd]

Is this what you repeat when you finish in the bedroom? "You big Hello Neighbor Lore, BIG LORE! It's the end. Big ending, mysterious big ending, BIG END! It's over." 🐵🔥😂

[@larrymantic2635]

“I’ll fill you on the lore, if you know what I mean.” - Anyone who would legit use that saying.

[@indobones1236]

Honest to God The soldier scream at 7:02 makes it so much fucking funnier

[@riddlebrooke68]

And the crit sound at the landing “MARKET GARDEN!?!”

[@mawrak]

This game had a grace in like pre-alpha/alpha 1 versions. It was actually great back then, simple but fun, with actual learning of player actions by AI and much less broken game overall.

[@comradejux]

6:46 phisnom trips over a tv and fucking dies💀

[@ariesdemiurge]

This game is the epitome of "I expected nothing, and I'm still disappointed."

[@RandommBoyo]

Thanks for including the clip of Neighbor getting yeeted, made me roll in tears.

[@AbandonedHub2]

8:39 take a shot every time you see a clock during this entire hell section

[@LunyBasy]

Thank you Ted for making this game not that painful

[@asrieldreemurr007]

"THIS GAME HAD A GRACE?? WHEN??" the alpha builds. Legitimatley, the finished product is worse than the EARLY DEVELOPMENT STAGES

[@spanoguy2283]

I hope someone that lives near phil heard him yell "MY NEIGHBOR'S SUCKING ME!" and had no idea this stream was going on

[@ChromaAqui]

11:54 Ok. The "Oyasumi"ing off the hill broke me LOL

[@joel9104]

As someone who really loved the original concept and the first few alphas, seeing what happened is like having a son and seeing them wreck their lives with drugs and alcohol

[@DRFT9]

i swear everytime i see this game its something completely different

[@Emihana]

Hello Neighbor always made no sense to me, glad to see you point out how bad it is.

[@szkraft220]

i watched the stream VOD and of my gosh its actually unreal how much use he got out of Ted the TV and yet there was still struggle... how are you even supposed to beat it on your own its not like yume nikki or smth where "finishing" the game or seeing a certain event isnt actually the goal, this is a singleplayer game ment to be beaten by the person playing... so... why...

[@sidneytaske7222]

I'm surprised you got 16 minutes of content that wasn't boring

[@Pinkels]

Imagine a Glitchless Run of this game Physically impossible.

[@revivesyourgolder3130]

I did it once Honestly i can say once you memorize all the puzzles and know how the game works, it really isint that bad to play

[@themetalmario77]

3:23 Perfect transition

[@bluewind7988]

You know you've made a bad game when Security Breach looks more fun to play.

[@ujiarchive]

And somehow Phil still hates Security Breach more!

[@bepisthescienceman4202]

At least security breach tells you what you need to do

[@BlackBlade2938]

@@bepisthescienceman4202 Does it?

[@HyperrealisticLuigi]

@@bepisthescienceman4202 Does it really now

[@bepisthescienceman4202]

@@BlackBlade2938 to a certain extent, it has the objective reminders and the puzzles most of the time aren't batshit insane

[@foxxyfoxagirl1854]

I'm so ashamed that i used to mod this game. I am so glad I am away from this hell after all of the content they cut in Hello Neighbor 2

[@matttale7918]

I like how this starts as just Phil laughing at the game, to experimenting with terminal velocity, raging at the convoluted bs the game forces you to doing, to just being kinda done with everything Never change

[@supersmashseandx1991]

This is just the playable version of graphic design is my passion

[@Dabber.vision]

This game is so spoopy but not for the reasons the developers intended

[@TheBeastlySort02]

I love how at 8:32 Phil went through like eight different emotions at once

[@frukola64]

I remember that the devs would leave lore and a full on town in off limits parts of the map instead of actually fixing the game

[@Raelycta]

I’ve been genuinely trying to understand this game’s story (a foolish mistake) since the release, as I’d figured it would be fun to dissect it like fnaf back in the day It’s been 6 years and I still have no fucking idea what this game is about lmao

[@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225]

The gist is that Mr. Peterson, the titular Neighbor, had two kids. One day while his kids were playing, the son accidentally causes his sister to fall to her death. Peterson decides then and there to take his son and lock him away like an animal in his basement for the rest of his life. For fear that the police would take his son away for causing his sister's death. because I guess he either doesn't understand what an accident is, or he genuinely believes his son would really murder his own sister in cold blood because he's a shitty father. But none of that really matters all that much, because the story is way more focused on the player character, and how getting caught up in Peterson's secret destroyed his life. By Act 3, Peterson isn't even physically present anymore, the only traces of his existence being the run-down skeleton of his former home. Maybe the police did end up learning what he was doing to his son? Maybe the paranoia got to him and he killed his son and himself? Maybe his son killed him and escaped? Who can say? The point is that Peterson's little more than a ghost at this point. Basically, all of Act 3 is the PC working through the trauma Peterson inflicted on him all those years ago, in a twisted nightmare version of Peterson's house. Ending with the PC, through great perseverance and care, overcoming the same fear that Peterson ultimately gave himself up to, and breaking free from his trauma.

[@Raelycta]

@@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225 That does clear up some doubts i had, thank you, it also explains the seemingly pointlessness of act 3 in the story (i really just used to think it was filler, but now i can kinda see what they were going for?). You did a better job at summarizing the general story than a bajillion of videos i've seen on this game lmao, thank you so much.

[@EdwinFDavis7]

I'm still find it weird that THESE where the people that was going to help yandere dev with yandere simulator.

[@vibevizier6512]

No fucking way,

[@ujiarchive]

Sort of. They sent one programmer over, but Yandere Dev, being the hugely incompetent moron he is, refused to let the programmer program anything, instead confining him to little inconsequential features. In the end, tinyBuild broke off from him.

[@EdwinFDavis7]

@thebcplayer I wonder what would happen if he took the code would the game be good OR BAD because we all know tiny build isn't the best company to look at for "ADVANCED AI"

[@ujiarchive]

tinyBuild doesn't develop Hello Neighbor, nor are they responsible for the AI. They have a separate branch in the Netherlands called Eerie Guest Studios for that, they simply purchased the original team from Dynamic Pixels and rebranded. This is probably a programmer they sent over from one of the other branches they have.

[@EdwinFDavis7]

@@ujiarchive yeah after hello neighbor 2 being a BIG let down for me because I saw the announcement trailer IT LOOKED BETTER THAN THE FINAL VERSION. I waisted 60 dollars on a game that isn't finished and can be finished in 2 minutes.

[@lerdeldrinboiYT]

"IT HAD A GRACE!? WHEN!?!?" Well Phil, the early alphas (pre alpha, alpha 1 and alpha 2) were actually pretty good. They also felt more like full games than this pile of shit. But then the creators got greedy and later alphas got worse and worse and became the full game which is a nightmare.

[@Crayveee]

I recommend playing the alpha versions of the game those were the days when the neighbor was actually scary and they only cared about making fun sneaking neighbor game instead of a puzzle simulator

[@Vineepool]

I think the beginning with the avatar glitching was foreshadowing for what hell would occur.

[@Welrd_name]

Ted was the MVP of this stream

[@Jack_Woods]

Even back when every let's player played the early builds of this game I would enjoy the idea that this was going to be better with more time and effort to polish the mechanics, and get a more pleasing artstyle than these generic jagged cartoony objects that constantly get in the way Then it continued to not improve but just add things until now it's an official release and it still feels like a beta build

[@pinkfeiry]

I shall never forget the legendary bouncy TV

[@zekeram129]

AH ACKNOWLEDGEMENT WHAT THE FUCK DO I DO SHIT SHIT SHIT What I meant by "fall from grace": The reason this game got popular in the first place were the initial public alphas, where the neighbor's AI was actually, y'know, _interesting._ The adaptive AI and atmosphere was the entire reason big names even played it. Then the devs decided it'd be a great idea to repivot their entire game to ride the fad out indefinitely. And the game went from interesting to "oh god where did this all go wrong" Hence we're stuck with a broken mess whose initial selling point was completely forgotten about, and whose new plot is built exclusively to cater to MatPat and no one else. Funny part is, not even MatPat cares.

[@revivesyourgolder3130]

Honestly the guy who created hello neighbor Nikita Kolesnicov said that he had only worked in mobile games before and that Hello Neighbor was his first Pc Game It was just a bit of change of the direction, the preasure of time (and lack of time) and fearing to disapoint people that brought the game to shit,

[@saudispopit3602]

The developer should call it "hello bugers"

[@D0ASKE]

i read this as hello burgers at first

[@saudispopit3602]

@@D0ASKE yeah because the game has so many bugs so thats why i said that