![]() Both stories share similar protagonists, locales, story beats, and themes-the idea that some ghosts and spirits are, in fact, misunderstood is visited in each chapter-and introduce a bestiary that's alternately bizarre, gory, and borderline adorable. In Midnight Shadows, the second and more captivating narrative, another young girl seeks out her best friend, who's gone mysteriously missing. Along the way she runs afoul of angry demons and ghostly monsters. In Night Alone, the first tale, a young girl searches her town at night for her absent sister. Inspired heavily by urban myths and folk tales, Night Alone and Midnight Shadows are both solid tales of terror and treatises on Japanese cultural anxieties. These everyday, innocuous fixtures of suburbia turn menacing at midnight, as the darkened streets and pathways fill with apparitions and demonic forces. Both take place in quaint Japanese towns, flanked by woods, fields, industrial zones, school yards, mountains, and shopping districts. They're uncanny, haunting, and allegorical. The dark, tragic tales of Night Alone and Midnight Shadows are just what you'd want from ghost stories. It's far from perfect-gameplay across both titles is shallow and there are a bunch of cheap, frustrating deaths throughout-but interesting stories, striking artwork, and a large assortment of collectible tokens help paper over any cracks. A bundle containing Yomawari: Night Alone, which debuted on Vita, and Yomari: Midnight Shadows, previously on Vita and PS4, The Long Night Collection is a satisfactory package for fans of spooky action-adventure games. ![]() With Halloween fast approaching, the release window for the horror compilation Yomawari: The Long Night Collection couldn't be better. ![]() By Evan Norris, posted on 23 October 2018 / 3,424 Views ![]()
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