Between Me And The Night is a game that challenges some tough subjects, mental health is not something that many developers delve into. It's a shame that clumsy and vague puzzle design hold the game back. It's worth a few hours of your time if you don't mind. Between Me and The Night - full release update v1.1 now available NEW - Improved the inventory system by removing object size limitation and increasing the number of slots to 6. NEW - Additional graphical feedback during the clock event. NEW - Additional text clues for some objects.
A match made in heaven?
Surrealism and horror are two of my favourite things, and the fact that they go so well together makes it a crime that more games don’t combine them. Between Me and the Night is a game that does combine the two, and although it creates a good atmosphere and has some decent art direction, it stumbles on its gameplay. It’s essentially a 2D adventure game, which transforms into a poorly conceived action game for brief periods. The majority of the game takes place inside a spooky house where you play as a young boy, and things clearly aren’t as they seem. I wanted to love it, but came away feeling frustrated.
A control scheme from hell
First of all, let’s talk about the odd control scheme. The keyboard and mouse controls were so obtuse that I didn’t understand them even during the tutorial when the game was explicitly telling me what to do. Switching to a gamepad made things a bit easier, but moving objects around is unnecessarily fiddly. You move around normally in real time, but to use an object in the environment or pick it up, you have to enter a special mode which brings up a cursor. This allows you to interact with things, but only if they’re within your close vicinity. For some reason you also have to keep the button held down while you’re moving the cursor around.
Picking an item up sends it to your inventory, but you’ve only got five slots, and even if you’ve got a slot free you can’t carry more than a few items of a certain size at a time. This is frustrating, particularly when you can pick up a good number of items in the game that are essentially red herrings. Thankfully, you can drop something from your inventory wherever you want, but if it turns out you did actually need it later, you’d better remember where you left it. Now, if you want to use an item from your inventory on something in the world, then you have to grab it in the special mode, drag it to where you want by holding down the Use button and your mouse or analogue stick. Why the decision was made to go down this road rather than just a traditional point and click interface, I don’t know. As it is, there’s just too much you have to do to perform a simple action.
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In purgatory
Between Me and the Night’s style saves it somewhat. Visually it’s a fairly colourful, papercraft world, and although it’s 2D, there’s some depth to it. You can move furniture around and climb up on it to reach higher places, or you’ll reveal objects that are hidden behind others. The character designs are good, the protagonist with his shaggy red hair, shorts, and t-shirt, and his seemingly absent family cast shadowy figures as he explores the house. There’s also a fairly quick day / night cycle, which changes the look and feel of the house drastically in the few minutes that separate each time of the day. Lights will be turned on and off, and a dark creature stalks the hallways that you’ll have to avoid for fear of being sent back to your bedroom.
This enemy is a pretty scary the first time you encounter him, but as soon as you realise he’s pretty easy to outrun and outsmart, and that all you’ll really lose is time if he catches you, he becomes more of a nuisance than a threat. You’ll be able to hear him nearby as you move between rooms, but he seems unable to move between them himself. So if you spot him, all you have to do is run to the nearest door and go through it. Then you’ll simply tap your foot and wait impatiently for the sun to rise and for him to blink out of existence. There are other dangers you’ll encounter, and the more surreal ones of these are the most interesting part of the game, but they’re fairly few and far between.
No sign of paradise
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In the end, it’s just some weird design decisions and the abstract nature of a surrealist game mixed with the obtuse nature of classic adventure games that let Between Me and the Night down. There is certainly some promise here, but it’s just far too frustrating to play, and the lack of a mid-level save is crazy in a modern game.Following this guide should unlock all 18 achievements in a single playthrough.
The numbered points progress the story.
The bulleted points are side-tasks related to achievements.
The bulleted points are side-tasks related to achievements.
It shouldn’t take more than two hours.
Tutorial
- Walk/run right.
- Down the stairs.
- Push the block right offscreen.
- Push the chair under the key, climb on the chair and grab the key.
- Run right, downstairs, then use the key to open the door and exit the tutorial.Cyberduck 6 7 1 download free. Finish the tutorial. Future dj pro 1 7 2019.
- Interact with the TV.
- Go right and move aside the stack of boxes blocking the wardrobe.
- Open the wardrobe.
- Interact with the bed. Take the NES from the shadow.
- Slide the chair right and climb up on it to reach the controller on the shelf.
- Use the NES on the TV; the controller on the NES.
- Interact with the TV to play the game.
- Get to level 3 (and game over on level 3).
Complete level 3 of Generic Knight. - Follow the monster downstairs.Upstairs
- Switch the light by the monster on.
- Follow it into the nearby room.
- Walk into the arcade machine.
Otherworld I – A Whole New World
Enter the Otherworld for the first time.
- There is an achievement for not getting hit by enemies on this level (1/2?)
- But it’s buggy, I didn’t get hit by enemies on Otherworld I, and didn’t get the achievement until Otherworld II.
- Run down the stairs; right across the bridge; defeat the enemy.
- Keep going right past the gate and up the stairs to a lever.
- Activate the lever; keep running right until you can enter a tree.
House II – It Was My House
- Don’t get caught by the big grey roaming monster on this level.
- It spawns only at night.
- Be very careful when transitioning rooms.
- It can be avoided by entering/exiting rooms, going up/down stairs or distracting it by switching on a light.
- You can safely run past it while it’s absorbing light.
- Pick up the two grey knights and the green soldier.
- Go downstairs.Upstairs
- Move aside the green cabinet and take the vinyl behind it.
- Walk past the cabinet and return the green soldier.
- Run back right and down the stairs you come to.
- Note the cassette + player under the stairs. Ignore it for now and enter the first door on the right (kitchen).
- Sit down at the table.
- Move a chair right; stand on it to reach the cupboard and take the cat food.
- Move a chair left and take the grey knight on top of the fridge.
- Exit the kitchen.
- Run left past the cassette and return the three grey knights.
- Now you can pick up cassette #1/6.
- Run right past the kitchen and into the next door.
- Open the toy car on the bookshelf, take the keys inside.
- Exit the room and keep going right.
- Open the trunk with the keys you just picked up. Open the toolbox, and take the bolt cutters.
- Move away the stack of boxes on the right and take the jerrycan that was behind them.
- Run left now until the you reach the living room.
- Use the cat food on the bowl and push it towards the cat. Interact with the cat when you can.
- Pick up the green soldier from on top of the fireplace.
- Return upstairs, on the right is a green cabinet with another green soldier.
- Enter the bathroom (door by the cabinet) and examine/take the medicine #1/3.
- Go back left and return the remaining two green soldiers.
Put all the soldier and knight toys in their respective bases, in the House. - Run past the cat to reach the yard.
- Place the hanging clothes in the laundry basket.
- Open the shed on the left with the bolt cutters, use the gasoline on the mower, and move it right.
- Defeat the lawn mower by running against the suction of its blades, and interacting with the blue pipes it spits out to throw them back. Repeat three times.
- Go upstairs.Upstairs
- Run right. When you are attacked by the head, just run left away from it.
- Enter last room on the right (past the bathroom). It’s your parents’ bedroom.
- Open the cupboard drawer and take the record player.
- Go downstairs.
- Use the record player you just picked up on the amplifier between the speakers in the living room, then use the vinyl on the player.
- Interact with it to turn on the music.
- Go upstairs.Upstairs
- Enter the second room from the left on this floor (where the ghost was before) and pick up cassette #2/6 on the shelf.
- Run all the way right onto the balcony.
- Push the large vase and pick up the clock hand.
- Go to your parents’ bedroom. Pick up the clock hand on the vase.
- Go downstairs.
- On the way back downstairs, listen to both cassettes.
- Use both clock hands on the grandfather clock in the living room.
- Push the statues together until they embrace.
- Go upstairs.Upstairs
- The door by the stairs is now open. Head inside and into the arcade machine.Finish the house level.
- If you didn’t get caught:
Complete the house without being caught by any ghost.
Otherworld II – New Challenges
- Don’t get hit by the enemies on this level (2/2?)
- As mentioned above, this achievement is buggy. I did get hit on Otherworld II and still unlocked the achievement upon transitioning to the next area (step 4 below).
Don’t get hit by enemies while in the Otherworld.
- Same deal as before. Make your way right.
- Interact with the symbol, defeat the enemies that spawn to open the gate.
- Keep going right, destroy the smaller crystals to remove the larger one.
- Enter the tree.
- Make your way up the stairs and enter the doors.
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- Walk/run all the way right and look beside the plant for poster scrap #1/5.
- Enter the first foreground door from the right.
- Outside, pick up poster scrap #2/5 on the windowsill by the red trashcan.
- Go right to to your backpack.
- Follow the girl to the storeroom.
- Use the two poster scraps on the poster.
- Pick up the book on the floor as well.
- Exit the storeroom and enter the staff room (far left of this floor), and pick up BOTH keys and the hall pass from the shelf.
- (When you see it) let the roaming teacher catch you.
Let the Keykeeper catch you while holding the hall pass.- Return to the storeroom and unlock the cabinet with the key. Don’t take anything yet.
- Run left until you see a first aid box (its by the staff room). Pick up the Instant cold.
- Enter the library (door by the lockers), return the book to the top shelf and pick up cassette #3/6.
Upstairs - Run to the far left. Pick up the key.
- Open the lower left locker for poster scrap #3/5.
- Unlock the lower right locker for cassette #4/6.
- Leave both cassettes here for now to free up some inventory space.
- Enter classroom B and pick up another locker key.
- Also in classroom B is poster scrap #4/5.
- Enter the girls’ bathroom and examine/take the medicine #2/3.
- Unlock the locker here with the new key and take the cartridge.
- Return to the storeroom and place another two poster scraps.
- Take the charger from the cabinet.
- Use the charger + cartridge on the Game Boy.
- Interact with the Game Boy and complete the 1000 knights level.
Get to the end of 1000 Knights.Upstairs- Pick up the two cassettes you left.
- Go back downstairs to the staff room and listen to both cassettes.
- Back upstairs, go to the very right and see the crow fly with the camera up to the roof.
- Unlock and enter Classroom D.
- Pick up the bottle of Zinc (Zn).
- Use the Instant cold and Zinc on the chemistry set on the first desk.
- Interact with the chemistry set to start a fire.
- Head up to the roof.
- Run to the left and pick up the camera.
- On the right end of the roof is poster scrap #5/5.
- Return to the storeroom and finish the poster.
Complete the Thunder Rangers poster in the High School.Upstairs - Enter Classroom C and pick up the photography books on the last desk.
- Enter Classroom A and approach the girl on the desk.
- Run back downstairs…
- …and all the way left to where you started this level.
- Enter the last door on the right and walk into the arcade machine.Finish the high school level.
Otherworld III – Once More With Feeling
- Again, keep going right attacking whatever’s in your way.
- Interact with a lever, and defeat the new wave of enemies to open a new path.
- Keep going right, enter the tree.
- Make your way up all the stairs and enter the doors.
- Go left away from the girl and enter the door.
Apartment – This is My House
- Walk left. Open the fridge and take the tomatoes.
- Take the bread.
- Use bread + tomatoes on the cutting board.
- Interact with it.
- Push the fridge left to block the door.
- Run right and pick up cassette #5/6 on the shelf.
- On the same shelf are four broken objects: broken controller, broken record player, and two broken speakers.
- Place the four broken objects in the trash bag in the kitchen area.
Clean up the broken objects in the apartment.- Exit right to the bedroom, then into the bathroom and examine/take the medicine #3/3.
Find the 3 strange medicine bottles. - Pick up the controller from under the bed in the bedroom.
- Go back into the living room and use the controller on the NES.
- Interact with it for a short scene.
- Pick up the key that appears on the TV.
- Open the wardrobe in the bedroom.
- Pick up the camera.
- Pick up cassette #6/6 as well.
- Go to the kitchen and listen to both cassettes.
- (The relevant achievement will unlock in the credits.)
- Interact with the window between the kitchen and sofa to break it.
- Interact with it again to climb out.
- Climb up to the roof.
- Walk to the very left end of the roof.
- Don’t jump off and instead take the sword.Finish the apartment level.
Otherworld IV – Everything Falls Apart
- Run right and into the tree.
- Climb up to the top to begin another retro game.
- Jump up the platforms – avoiding enemies and spikes. Don’t go too slow either or the demon will catch you.
- Once you reach the top, the final sequence will play.
- During the credits:
Finish the game.- If you listened to all 6 cassettes:
Listen to all the cassettes.
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