Hello Neighbor blows.

My son has begged me to get Hello Neighbor off Steam because my sister in law sits him in front of some over-reactive man children playing video game shows on the Roku between school and pick-up. The reviews checked out as relatively safe for kids and the price was right so I agreed. He's mostly been doing B&E capture the flag and bringing random possessions from the guy's house to the PC's house and been having a lot of fun that way. After watching this for a bit, I asked him if he wanted to try to achieve some of the goals of the game and goddarn, the puzzles and solutions make no darn sense.

The main goal is a door in his kitchen, and you're shown the key to it is kept upstairs, but there are no accessible stairs to the second floor in the house. There's a door with another lock that they haven't given any clues to where the key is. We could try meticulously searching the house, but we're spending four minutes at a time hiding in fricking armoires while the neighbor dashes back and forth around the house. My wife's currently putting him to bed, so I checked out a tutorial video and the solution pissed me off to no end. You apparently climb the scaffolding outside the house, smash in the window with some garbage, get a car key up there, get a magnet from the car trunk, and USE A FRICKING MAGNET TO PULL A LOCK PICK YOU CAN BARELY SEE OUT A WINDOW FROM OUTSIDE THE HOUSE. Needless to say, this is an r-slured solution to a locked door puzzle set in a house that's supposed to be lived in by a human.

I think if he's playing this I can probably show him the Looking Glass Thief series, he may get a kick out of it.

After this and Bendy I'm thinking getting games hyped up by Reaction Bros is not a good way forward. I'll have to talk to Auntie about maybe keeping him from watching thirty year olds open mouth gape at terrible games.

Thank you for reading my rant.