Yui has gone missing and the spirits are restless. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
Companies seem to relish the opportunity to bring older games to the Nintendo Switch. One of those companies is NIS America, as it has already brought Disgaea 1 Complete and Disgaea 5 Complete to the platform. Now, it is doing the same thing in October 2018 with Yomawari: The Long Night Collection, a compilation containing Yomawari: Night Alone and Yomawari: Midnight Shadow. But what are these games? What should people know about them?
Yomawari Midnight Shadows is available on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita now. Here is a short review from Jake Smith.
TSA writes: "I absolutely love atmospheric horror, but I have a hard time dealing with horror games or films that rely on frequent jump scares and nightmare inducing imagery. For me, the sweet spot of horror lies somewhere between silence and scare. A good horror game can throw sudden audio queues or surprising imagery at you, but it needs to be earned, and should punctuate the experience, not define it. The ideal horror game, for me, will leave your heart rate high and your sense of ease low, long after the credits roll, and all without using a single sudden banshee screech."
