Your small size is never more apparent than when you come face-to-face with the creepy Mr. These children are very clearly smaller than the world around them, with the art and environmental design leaning in to emphasize that at every turn. Take the game's scale, for example, which sees you embody the shorter statures of a team of children that you'll dynamically switch between during gameplay. It's a fantastic dichotomy that's conveyed effectively by the move into VR. It's clear that despite the creepy subject matter, the studio wants you to still feel a sense of child-like glee as you play. The cute character design is cohesive with their expressive animations, which together convey the different personalities of the largely-mute cast quite well.
Exploring the game's opening areas, I was struck by just how visually playful it felt – especially given the dreary, oppressively-dark aesthetics that normally dominate the survival stealth genre. While the overall release is not without problems, the world of Search and Rescue immediately pops to life with strong use of color and a well-defined cartoon art style that does a lot to establish the game's charm early on.
Luckily it's evident from the get go that a lot of care and passion has been poured into bringing Hello Neighbor to life in a new immersive format. Given Help Wanted was a huge success on Quest, it would be understandable to have high expectations for Search and Rescue, which similarly marks a first foray into VR for another hugely popular horror franchise. Hello Neighbor: Search and Rescue brings the flatscreen franchise into VR for the first time, offering some engaging and spooky stealth survival sequences marred by slightly sketchy performance on Quest.Īvailable now on Quest, PC VR and PSVR 2, this VR entry in the Hello Neighbor franchise comes from Steel Wool Studios, the studio behind the popular Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted VR release from a few years back.
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