My Night Job (Video Game Review)
My Night Job throws players into an abandoned mansion full of various monsters with the job of saving a hundred survivors. It is a dark, eerie night and your mission seems simple enough--defeat some baddies with a full arsenal of weapons at hand--and do it all before the whole mansion comes crashing down. The perfect job, right?
The game gives you over 60 weapons to battle the incoming creatures of the night including dishes, chainsaws, shotguns and even random children's toys. You're surrounded by an environment that is something straight out of a cheesy eighties horror movie oozing with pop culture goodness. There are only two ways you can fail: your health bar is depleted (with no extra lives) or the monsters destroy too many rooms.
In My Night Job, you step into the shoes of a long, gray haired man who looks like a janitor. He is just sitting in his recliner watching the old boob tube when a commercial comes on--dollar signs flash before his eyes and thinks he has the perfect opportunity to make some killer cash. After accepting the job from a slimy corporal and his Resident Evil Umbrella-like team, your character appears outside the mansion with only two objectives. The player must rescue 100 survivors while defending all rooms--seems easy enough?
My Night Job feels a lot like Zombies Ate My Neighbors, which is one of the main reasons I wanted to play it. You have a wide array of survivors to rescue that includes cheerleaders, crazy cat ladies, frightened fat kids, butlers, killer clowns and more. Some of the survivors have weapons and can help you in your job while others are completely useless. After collecting so many survivors, you can then take them to the helicopter pad to have them rescued from the mansion. Each time you successfully rescue a survivor, you receive rewards that consist of health, weapons, ammo or money. Also, rescuing certain survivor types can give you special new abilities, like the Nurse gives you an extra life. 
The longer you play My Night Job the harder it gets. It will get more difficult to find survivors and weapons while multiple rooms across the map will start to glow red. In order to keep the game going then you must keep the rooms from blowing up. Basically, a horde of monsters will start to gather in certain rooms, the more there are in the room then the more danger there is of losing that level. For some odd reason, when a ton of monsters get together, they start jumping up and down in the room causing it to crumble. The room meter starts out green, then turns yellow and finally red. You have to get to each room before it is completely destroyed in order to keep the game going to rescue a hundred survivors. There are eleven monster types that includes zombies, gargoyles, and even eerie looking ewoks.
My Night Job is insanely difficult but still manages to be incredibly fun and addictive at the same time. The beautifully drawn environments are full of old-movie culture--like Trash from Return of the Living Dead, Slimer from Ghostbusters and the man-eating plant from Little Shop of Horrors. Horror fans will love every minute of My Night Job just from the old school gaming and horror movie references alone!
All-in-all, My Night Job is a great arcade-style game on the PS4, especially for the price. While it can get repetitive and could really have used some variety in maps, the game still manages to deliver a fun flashback to the good old days. To learn more, visit the official My Night Job website.
Score: 8 out of 10
Reviewed for PS4
Reviewed for PS4
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