Look Outside

Hey, you. Yes you, reading these reviews. Play this game already, don't ask questions. Just shut up and do it.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love this game. i picked it up and couldn't put it back down. the art is gorgeous with some seriously creative monster designs, and the overall experience of exploring the apartment, unlocking new areas and discovering the secrets in each dungeon, was so fun and absorbing. i recommend going into this as blind as possible.

Amazing art, story, dialogue, writing, insane soundtrack, and easily the best depiction of cosmic horror i've ever seen in any form of media. 10/10 would look outside again

Yep! I’m one of the jerks who doesn’t think this game is worth the hype. It's a shame, too, because this game has a lot going for it. The bizarre, but frightening concept, leaves you alone in an apartment building trying to navigate a disturbing and changing world around you. The game combines cutesy elements of an Earthbound-like RPG, along with vile body horror ala John Carpenter's the Thing. Along the way, you come across numerous characters and monsters that are either forsaken or possibly salvable with your intervention. This game is not afraid to throw tough moral choices your way, and some experiences are truly scarring and disturbed. It's easy to see why it resonates with so many people. It's a real drag, because it felt like it was right up my alley. I’m used to difficult survival horror games (i.e. Darkwood, Visage, Lone Survivor, Alien Isolation), but the difficulty spikes in this game are too imbalanced or ill-planned to make it worth completing. In my playthrough, I have found myself "soft-locked" with little resources and no power in my building. If I want to get the power back on and actually continue exploring any new area, I have to go through two tough bosses (Olm and Electrophage), and whatever other difficult creatures and hazards between them that are going to try and kill me as well. I'm leaving the comments on this review, so feel free to tell me to get gud, or that I have a skill issue--However, I’m currently playing this game along with Resident Evil 9, and am kind of amazed at how much better that game is at balancing difficult gameplay while not making you feel completely helpless. Both games punish you hard if you make a mistake, but I am at least able to learn from them in RE9. In Look Outside, I don't even know where I've gone wrong. Either I've invested too much in a dungeon I didn't need to explore, or spent too much on items I didn't need, and after 15 hours of playtime, I don't feel willing to suffer anymore of this game's strange indignation as to why. I've read some forum posts that contend that the game needs to be played multiple times to be enjoyable. If you had the fun and patience for this game, I'm glad, but holy hell, I can't imagine the need to self flagellate myself anymore than I need to for this. I'm happy this game has an audience, but this game is a hard pass for me.

My review will mean nothing and nobody will ever look at it. BUT, this is truly a wonderful game, the combat feels good and is fun, the encounters are always tough enough to make you have to actually apply strategy, the art is absolutely astounding. The interactions you get between characters is fun and lets you better understand them. Multiple playthroughs are warranted due to different party members you can get and builds. Overall, 10/10

Exploring is fun. Finding party members is fun. Collecting items is fun. Beating bosses is fun. Leveling up is fun. Dying and losing almost an hour of progress due to a terribly designed map is really really really really really really really really really really really really really not fun. "It's supposed to be hard!!!" is not and never will be an excuse for bad game design. Give the player a limited use flashbang to automatically escape a fight, or an item to teleport home that needs to recharge, and I would have been much more forgiving with this review, but Look Outside absolutely does not respect the player's time, and even sets them up to fail because it's "le hard unforgiving game xXXDD" in the most crude and insulting way possible. It's a waste of time and a waste of a concept.

非常好的游戏，内容丰富到令人震惊，在这个精致小巧的游戏里我感受到了最极致的堆料，常常想要感叹制作组的肝还好吗？ 怪物种类花样繁多，每到一个新地区都是全新的怪物类型，每种怪物都至少有两个立绘，使用的招式各不相同；boss战更是多如牛毛，很多地区甚至只有一连串的boss战，我体感有特殊立绘和技能的boss的种类比小怪还要多；NPC全都能杀，塔塔开！塔塔开！只要你想，就可以亲自成为这整栋公寓楼里最恐怖的生物。 队友不管数量还是质量都有保障，打完游戏一看玩家社区，你们的队友我咋有大半都没见过？这个NPC还能招募？队友有个人任务，有队友之间的互动，有对玩家行动的反应，甚至有队友和主角的暧昧剧情，这是有队友的游戏最基础的，那我说假如队友可以陪你打游戏，甚至跟你一起跑团呢——这、这我哪见过啊，这是我能在几十块的游戏里玩到的吗？ 可遭遇事件的数量极其丰富，不管是在家里窝着还是在公寓楼里冒险都能遭遇新事件，在外面探险可以不断碰到新事件很正常，但主角家门口也总是络绎不绝不断有人摁门铃，很大一部分队友甚至只能在家呆着等他们自己上门，不过主角在家也不是闲呆着，可以浇个花上个网打个游戏做个饭洗个澡喂个蟑螂，所有这些行为都不仅仅是打发时间，而是会对接下来的生存产生至关重要的影响。由于每周目只能游玩固定天数，所以想在一周目内体验完全部游戏内容可以说是完全不可能。 剧情的可以说各种口味都有顾及到，各个结局中既有不少克苏鲁味非常正的因为好奇看到了超出理解范围之物而发狂的结局，也有在我看来有点奇异搞笑但估计更符合大众喜好的赶走怪物守护世界结局，甚至还有非常纯爱的爱他就成为他的时尚小挂件结局。不过我最喜欢的还是蘑菇那张地图和某个游戏里对jrpg的全方面吐槽，可以说被jrpg毒害过的人都笑出眼泪了，不能给自己起名但是可以给自己的宿敌起名可还行。顺便评价一下角色塑造的话，那可以说是相当真实，不得不说这个游戏里的怪物都比我之前玩的某些游戏里的人类有活人味，并没有什么天生坏种，只是一群被生活逼入疯狂的可怜邻居，虽然外表丑陋且恐怖，只需要努力向他们展露善意，就一定也能看到他们怪物躯壳中隐藏的善良（但如果还是被发疯的邻居一拳囊死了这不怪我）。 有低难度模式也是很好评的，就适合我这种只想看剧情的玩家，不过其实低难度还是要资源管理的，各种医疗资源我全程都不怎么够用，指望杀穿公寓楼并不现实，灵活走位避免不必要的战斗才是上策。 BGM，带感，无需多言。 美术，肝爆，狂乱，震撼，无需多言。 虽然没有官中，但民间汉化是很好的，请玩。