Empathy in the Face of Hello Neighbor

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• JE

  @Jexonite · 11 days ago · pinned

  Hello Everybody! Thank you so much for watching this video! There are some things I&apos;m sure I missed but I wanted to keep the video on track with the story I thought would be interesting to tell! I tried to credit all of the gameplay footage I used in the description, but if I missed anything please let me know and I&apos;ll add it in where it&apos;s due! <br><br>This took wayyyyy longer to make than it honestly should have, but now it&apos;s out and I can finally go work on something else. I hope you&apos;re all doing well! Thanks for being here.

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• SH

  @sheppin_ · 3 days ago

  Honestly, I find it really heartbreaking that Nikita&apos;s idea for the story of Hello Neighbor 1 got canned. The generational trauma plotline just has so much depth, and I love stories that are personal to the artist. Even if I don&apos;t specifically relate to it, it just adds more soul

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• TH

  @thegoober3 · 10 days ago

  holy shit finallyyy a video on hn that isnt just saying &quot;the alphas were better&quot; and actually shows the development issues that led to the games ending up in that state

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• OA

  @oaoyal446 · 10 days ago

  The only hello neighbor &quot;documentary&quot; video that has actual research in it

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• JA

  @jaidenfelix6731 · 7 days ago

  Yo mama so empathetic that she says hello, to hello neighbor

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• LE

  @LemonLogan19 · 10 days ago

  Lets introduce our new villian, put him in a single cutscene, release a whole update with a whole section thats unironically a better game on its own that the entirety of the actual game and lock it behind a secret tunnel

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• SY

  @SYTBaconManTwo · 10 days ago (edited)

  I think it&apos;s funny how instead of just swerving around the guest our character decides to just do a left turn in the middle of the road.

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• GR

  @grandeturisto · 10 days ago

  Such a great in-depth video, man! Thank you for covering this extensive topic and thank you for believing in us.

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• TO

  @totallynotmichael1137 · 8 days ago

  I asked Alexus *ONE QUESTION*, and now my screenshot is in every HN2 video under the sun. I don&apos;t know how to feel about it years later.

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• SA

  @Saibellus · 3 days ago

  seems like at the start nikita had an actual story to tell, but a corporatized profit motive pushed him into a role he wasnt ready for and then punished him for that by meddling in his concept

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• US

  @uselessaccountvector · 10 days ago (edited)

  THANK YOU SO MUCH &nbsp;for bringing context to all this, especially nikita, its nice to see someone finally go in depth rather than juts surface level hate<br><br>by the way, an interview recently happened with nikita (entirely in russian) saying that the games story rewrite was texted to him in a paragraph, and alex had thought that the basement being a pantry wouldnt live up to expectations of the basement, so nikita was encouraged to change it to a story he had written in 1 paragraph.<br><br>he also said that the puzzles becoming convoluted was somewhat of his own fault, stating that for hn1 he had always wanted a sense of community coming together to solve puzzles, like children at the playground saying &quot;did you figure this out?&quot;, but youtubers were solving the puzzles so quickly and people were copying the youtubers so much that he made the puzzles increasingly more convoluted

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• SL

  @Slatelovesfilm · 10 days ago (edited)

  The sad thing about Nikita is that he seems to have a genuine artistic vision for the franchise. He&apos;s just not competent enough to pull it off. But maybe he&apos;s learned from everything and Hello Neighbor 3 will be great.

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