My Friendly Neighborhood Review (Yannick Noix)
Very short, yet great "horror" game.
See it as a short Resident Evil with very few jumpscares and more like a mysterious atmosphere.
It's not that scary but It feels like an old game, set in old times. And I mean it in a good way. You're not taken by hand with tiny dots and landmarks, you just need to find your way with a gameplay highly similar to Resident Evil.
The combat is classic but the puppets' design is great and better than mascot horror nowadays because the puppets look very friendly and good (not like twisted characters as you often see in this highly saturated mascot-horror genre). They're only twisted by their behavior and dialogs, which I found very refreshing.
The story is nice, with a beautiful message that needs to be in more media than just this small game.
Duration is a bit low though, I'd have loved more content and 7 hours for 28$ seems a bit much but I had a very FRIENDLY time, so you can take this recommendation.