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Yomawari: Midnight Shadows

Finally got this bad boy out of my PC. It remained to be one of the longest lingering games aside from Metro Exodus which I beat last year I think? Two years ago, I finished the first game and it was quite stellar. I do believe I started playing this series because of a thread here where I was saying that there weren't any good horror games left and someone corrected me by mentioning this series. So after beating Night Alone, I went straight for this game and

completely forgot about it for two years.

I would tell myself man it's probably because the game is so scary but playing it now I really don't know what the hold up was. Only reason why I picked it up recently was because of that 3rd game that just came out a month ago and I felt so silly that it was on my radar again.

Anyways, game's decent. Whatever steam I was gaining with when I played Night Alone, its completely lost here. Yeah, it was better with now checkpoints that allowed you to teleport and gave the ability to save anywhere. But it was also cheap at times; still relying on getting absolutely close just to detect ghosts, still dying from less impactful one hit KOs, still relying on the same old cues to add padding to the game. Impressive jumpscares though, I will give it to you. It had some soul-shattering stuff and one particularly 4th wall breaking one or two the latter being a minor event in the post-game that wasn't even easy to trigger.

I still got it to 100% completion at least, something I didn't do previously if only because I admired the Pokemon Gold and Silver nature of this game where you spend roughly a third of the game in its post-game, exploring the town from the first game where none of its spirits change and as a result still act unfair towards you by comparison.