Scrap and kits are strewn throughout each map to create new weapons and items such as proximity mines, flame-throwers, baseball bats, and buffs for starting items that tempt you to stray from your group to collect them – and, in turn, leave yourself vulnerable to grisly murder. There, you'll find a nice risk/reward balance around the crafting system, which any class can use.
For instance, the gym includes multiple wings of the school, with many classrooms and offices to duck into and search.
#LAST YEAR THE NIGHTMARE UPGRADE#
Upgrade items tempt you to stray from your group â and leave yourself vulnerable to grisly murder.There are just three maps - Library, Gym, Bell Tower - but they’re all larger than their names’ suggest and include a good mix of open spaces and confined corridors. When we had all four classes working together - with a bonus player in one class to give our strategy a tilt in one direction - we stood a much better chance of getting out alive. There were times when my team loaded up on offensive roles (Assault, with a pipe for conking the killer and Technician, who can deploy turrets and barricade doors) and found ourselves without a Medic to heal us after squaring off with the killer, or worse, lacking a Scout to detect the killer or blind him when he caught us off guard. There’s nothing especially novel about their designs, but each of the four classes felt vital to my team’s success. The class-based gameplay further emphasizes this truth and helps keep each match fresh, even when you’re familiar with the map and objectives. The setup doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but Last Year mostly nails the execution.Īs you’d expect from a team-focused game, if you stray away from the pack you’re easy pickings for the killer. The time limit feels right, as it allows the teens to move at a methodical pace while accounting for the fact that deaths, which happen often, slow them down from completing the three or four rote fetch-quest objectives. It’s Halloween night and five stereotypical teenagers from different walks of life - jock, nerd, popular girl, cool dude, outcast - have to come together to escape one of three different but fairly generic supernatural evils at their high school within a 16-minute time limit.
#LAST YEAR THE NIGHTMARE MOVIE#
Its novelty doesn’t come from its premise, which is rather cliched within the horror movie genre it emulates. That said, with only three maps, no progression system, and intermittent glitches, it does have an air of early access to it at the start of its 90-day exclusive period on the Discord Store. Whether you play as the killer or one of the hapless teenagers, its action is tense and strategic to the end. Those who have played Friday the 13th or Dead by Daylight will be familiar with the premise of one powerful player hunting down several weak ones as they try to escape, but Last Year: The Nightmare introduces a couple new twists that make it among the best of this burgeoning sub-genre thus far.
The title of Last Year: The Nightmare may be short on inspiration, but its take on asymmetric survival horror multiplayer has plenty.
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