great survival horror and what you would call "mascot" horror. i really appreciate the fact that this game didn't tried to have deep lore and stuff like that and this game didn't tried to blend into fnaf or poppy playtime type of games. for me "my friendly neighborhood" is how you should do mascot horror games – fun and wholesome while also having tense moments.
save rooms and inventory management really got me a feeling that i'm playing some old school horror game and i mean it as a compliment. level design in this game is also great in my opinion. there's a lot of backtracking but i wasn't annoyed becouse of that – all of these levels are so well designed that i didn't minded walking again to some places. my only complaint is combat, it felt a little clunky at times but at the same time i was really obsessed with these guns shooting with letters. this idea seems unserious at first but it blends great into the actual world of the game. puzzles were also well done – not to easy nor to hard, especially i really loved that one with board game, it was just excellent in my opinion.
"my friendly neighborhood" isn't a big aaa game or something that will blow your mind but it still manages to give great and memorable experience. a lot of people say that mascot horror genere is dead but it isn't and this game is a proof of that. mfn shows that there still can be awesome mascot horror games that aren't a cheap ripoff of what we've seen before. this game is really a breath of fresh air and i wish that more people would've played this.

This caught me at a great time I really had a blast playing this game. It plays like a low budget Resident Evil which is a total positive in my book, it especially takes a lot of inspiration from RE7. You wander around the studio complex avoiding the puppets, solving puzzles, filling in the map as you find items, and managing your inventory. It doesn’t hide its clear inspiration and just embraces it, and even has some fun references. The game is definitely not scary but it has a cool vibe and the plot, while pretty thin, is actually pretty charming which I didn’t expect. I felt compelled to do all the optional content to make sure I got the true ending because I wanted to see a good ending and it was well worth it.

I was surprised by My Friendly Neighborhood: delighted to find an array of tightly-designed classic survival-horror systems that knocked me on my ass more than thrice. The attention to design detail took me back to the likes of Code Veronica, where Resident Evil placed a slightly higher priority on puzzle solving and multi-complex backtracking.

Played on the Survival difficulty — one step above normal — I found this precise level design that delivered a perfect blend of exploring every nook for ammo, piecing-together puzzles across the interlinking map, and the careful resource management of combat scenarios (where you ask if it’s better to shoot or run). I even got that sort of perverse-joy when I died after not saving for nearly an hour. Like, “Alright, let’s go!” Of course, I proceeded to make that same mistake a few more times at different intervals in a way that managed to elongate my five-hour run into nine hours, but I was happy (and very tense).

The Neighborhood might not make everybody want to be a neighbor, but the precise love for the “behind the scenes of Sesame Street” evoked a deep sense of affection for this lifelong Muppet fan. Each set piece evoked a unique sense of time and place just outside the margins of some of my oldest memories. It’s unlike anything I’ve played in another mascot horror game — or any other game at all. It’s not quite gonna earn a ton of nine-out-of-ten scores from most critics, but I think Destructoid got it right when they gave it an eight-point-five.