For most ghosts this isn’t too big a deal, seeing as walking speed is just barely quick enough to keep her out of their grip, but there are a few encounters where this mechanic is maddening. When running her stamina bar shrinks down at a pace that’s determined by how frightened she is, and when her heart is pounding with fear it dissipates almost instantly. She mostly runs away from the ghosts, but hiding in bushes and signs works too. The nameless girl isn’t entirely defenseless, but it’s close. It’s dangerous out there, but the occasional Jizo statue acts as a temporary checkpoint (not, and this is very important, a save point, despite the text saying “quick save”) on the many, many times you get the poor girl killed off. All the horror staples make an appearance- creepy schoolgrounds, haunted downtown area, shadowy shrines, abandoned factory, windswept rice fields, and plenty more all crawling with an assortment of the hostile undead. It’s a mix of wonderful ideas, janky execution, emotional moments, and plenty of jump scares, set in a desolate open-world town and its surrounding areas. Yomawari: Night Alone is a strange stealthy nighttime horror-adventure. The ghosts are pure Japanese in origin, making them infinitely weirder than the “glowing translucent people” of western mythology, and when the sun sets they turn the town into a freakshow of shadows, specters, multi-legged demons, possessed items and other surprises waiting to jump out at a young girl who just wants her sister back. When a young girl first loses her dog and then her sister disappears while looking for it, she has just the right combination of those two emotions to head out into the darkness after them. The shadowy dead stalk any who cross their paths, making going outside a task for only the bravest or most desperate people. The town at night is empty, but its darkened streets aren’t completely free of activity.

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