Bad as that is, though, there’s a far worse secret the player knows that Haru doesn’t overshadowing the horrors walking the abandoned nighttime streets. The town at night is nothing like the safe place the two played together in during the day, and the ghosts and haunts walking its streets are as dangerous as they are creepy. Haru has no idea her friend was taken by a spirit, but she does know she wants Yui back so sets out to find her. Haru and Yui had been watching the fireworks from atop a hill outside town, but the shadowy wooded trail home got weirder and creepier as they walked until eventually they get split up. An unnamed town in Japan has been transformed by nightfall into a haunted playground and Haru’s concern for her lost friend has left her no choice but to go out searching. 2017 is definitely a year horror fans will remember fondly.Yui has gone missing and the spirits are restless. I’m also looking forward to NIS’ next small project like this. I like that the team took a lot of the feedback from the first game to heart to make this one longer and fix some of the gripes many people had with Night Alone. Yomawari: Midnight Shadows is a very good survival horror game and a great complement to The Evil Within 2 this month. These result in far too many cheap deaths forcing you to replay sections. I’m not a fan of overdoing a single mechanic and there are far too many jump scares here to the point where things feel a bit cheap at times. Jump scares aren’t something new in horror games. They’ve done an amazing job with the atmospheric sounds here. Playing this with a good pair of headphones and with the lights either turned off or your eyes glued to the screen is how you should play this. While I do enjoy discussing music in games, the discussion here will be about the audio design and how great it is. I love the hand-drawn feel and chalk writing style that is seen through dialogue boxes and the UI.
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A lot of the screenshots you take will be wallpaper worthy and Midnight Shadows looks great on both PS4 and PS Vita. The 2D sections in particular have a lovely parallax effect in the environment and the colour choices are very good. The tonal difference between the chibi nature of the character design for the girls and the dark overall feel with various monsters coupled with the fantastic audio design makes for an unforgettable experience. When a game does well, sequels usually have a higher budget and that is pretty evident here. You also solve a few small puzzles through interacting with objects in the environment.Your aim is to run away or hide from enemies because death is instant and you will die a lot.
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There’s a lot of trial and error with learning enemy patterns and exploring.
The moment the atmospheric music switches to the heartbeat sound, things are going to get bad very quickly. There still is a stamina bar at the bottom of the screen that drains as you try and run. The monsters are horrific and pretty damn grotesque in some cases.
Your flashlight is basically your only friend in the night and the team at NIS went the extra mile this time with their horror design. There are some 2D exploration segments but it is basically an isometric survival horror game. This is an isometric game for the most part. The setting here being a rural town involves a lot of trees and dense forests. The town here is much larger and there have been a few quality of life improvements to checkpoints and saving making them not as annoying as in Night Alone. Night Alone will definitely be one of the scariest games you play and the sequel while not requiring any knowledge of Night Alone, will basically destroy you the more you play. While you’re introduced to the controls here, there’s a scene involving a noose right from the get go. While it begins with an innocent trip to the mountains to watch the fireworks festival, Yui and Haru get separated. Yomawari: Midnight Shadows (Shin Yomawari in Japan) is a bigger and mostly better experience with a few annoyances.Īs with Yomawari: Night Alone, Midnight Shadows starts off with quite the traumatic scene. NIS is back with another survival horror game from their new Yomawari franchise and this release has hit PS4 in addition to PS Vita and Steam. This year has been fantastic for horror fans with the likes of Resident Evil VII and The Evil Within 2.
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