The killer player (who is randomly selected from those who volunteer, or if no one does, from everybody) gets their choice of spawning as one of three diverse maniacs with significantly different playstyles: Strangler, Slasher, and Giant. While I came across a number of people who prefer to play as the students, in my experience the killer is by far the coolest of the six playable roles. Upgrades definitely make things easier when confronting the killer, but I appreciated that collecting scrap didn’t feel completely necessary to success – otherwise it might’ve created a situation where the killer could focus on booby-trapping known scrap locations. 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. “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. The setup doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but Last Year mostly nails the execution. 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.
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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.Its novelty doesn’t come from its premise, which is rather cliched within the horror movie genre it emulates. 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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