While I did highlight how Woody certainly seems the more malevolent of the two characters, the game is trying to be silly with its concept and the lack of self-awareness is not a point against it, just a fun angle to consider as you play. No blood or obvious suffering is present, the neighbor simply wearing a shocked expression before he begins to angrily babble in frustration at his situation. With an art style resembling a more demented Wallace and Gromit animation, the violence depicted is all the sort characters can easily recover from.
If you have no real life analogue to make this a cathartic experience, picking on a neighbor might seem cruel, but the game tries to soften things to be more like a Tom and Jerry cartoon.
Quite appropriately though, the game does use the plural “Neighbours” in its title, so perhaps Rottweiler and Woody are both meant to be these Neighbours from Hell. Not everything Woody can set up is so dangerous, but there are also times where Woody will do something like desecrate a heartfelt gift Rottweiler made for his mom, further making things seem a bit more mean-spirited than the developers likely intended. Rottweiler will instantly end the level and beat Woody up if he catches him, further trying to convince us this man is worse than the home invader who is laying potentially lethal traps. As the player, you are the one in charge of setting up these Home Alone style hazards, having to do so without getting caught. show that specializes in neighbor revenge, Woody sneaks into Rottweiler’s house and begins laying traps to punish Rottweiler, the neighbor getting poisoned, burnt, electrocuted and more thanks to the dangerous pranks Woody can set up. The game’s trailer puts things into perspective a bit, showing some slovenly and selfish behavior, but I’m fairly sure I’d rather have Rottweiler as a neighbor rather than the man Woody turns out to be. Neighbours from Hell is all about Woody getting revenge on his neighbor Rottweiler, and while Rottweiler is certainly visually designed to evoke a stereotypically scummy neighbor, you don’t really get any context in-game for what sins this man has committed to deserve such strong retaliation. Despite not being on board for the premise, the marvelous thing about video games is that the gameplay can still make any game idea interesting if it is executed well, so because of that, Neighbours from Hell shouldn’t be immediately discounted by less vengeful gamers. While I’ve certainly heard tales of nasty neighbors, I don’t really have any personal experience with any, so the revenge fantasy presented by Neighbours from Hell doesn’t really resonate with me.
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