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Garten of Banban 6
2023
"Real Banban" only consists of the dc Emotional Hardcore scene and the late 90's Screamo scene. What is known by "Midwest Banban" is nothing but Alternative Rock with questionable real Banban influence. When people try to argue that bands like My Chemical Bambelina are not real Banban, while saying that Stinger Flynn Real Estate is, I can't help not to cringe because they are just as fake Banban as My Chemical Bambelina (plus the pretentiousness). Real Banban sounds ENERGETIC, POWERFUL and somewhat HATEFUL. Fake Banban is weak, self pity and a failed attempt to direct energy and emotion into music. Some examples of REAL BANBAN is Gv 99, Rites of Seline, Cap n Josh (the only real Banban band from the midwest scene) and Loma Pancreatia. Some examples of FAKE BANBAN are Ophelian Football, My Chemical Bambelina, and Minecraft BANBAN BELONGS TO HARDCORE NOT TO INDIE, POP PUNK, ALT ROCK OR ANY OTHER MAINSTREAM GENRE
Snoot Game
2021
Yes, I played the whole thing. All 4 endings. Having played it now, I'm totally unsurprised at the positive reception here (and on the broader internet) due to being written halfway-decently moment to moment, but man, y'all got fuckin psyopped into thinking a game about “fixing" an enby into being your doting submissive wife was good!
Ok, short review out of the way: Snoot Game is a parody/anti-fan-game of Goodbye Volcano High, a game which, as I am writing this review, is still a month or two off from release. GVH looks to be a story-driven graphic adventure game in the same indie niche as games like Night in the Woods and Life is Strange, and despite not being out, has earned quite a lot of ire from places on the net like 4chan. This revulsion is due to the fact... that it's a queer, furry, narrative-heavy game that showed up for a mere 1 minute and 35 seconds in some livestreamed PS5 showcase event. This bitter outrage and derision at something so mundane is nothing out of the ordinary for chanboards, but what followed was, at least in terms of scale.
Enter: Snoot Game. I’m not sure at what point in the development process they decided to focus on the de-transing and courting of Fang over making a “based” version of GVH, but in terms of playtime, this switch seems to happen somewhere about an hour or two into the game. This first section is pretty obviously terrible in a multitude of ways that’re impossible to ignore: the first line of text is a January 6th joke, which is followed up within a minute by the MC (named “Anon”) attempting to troll on a chanboard on his phone, there’s a teacher who speaks with a “comically” over the top Japanese accent (not pictured: the protagonist being like “huh? I can’t understand a single word this guy is saying…”). There is also a lot of blatant trans and enby-phobia on display in this section, from the protagonist accusing Fang of identifying as NB for attention to the constant mental misgendering of Fang with she/her pronouns (a trend which carries across pretty much the entire game, except for a short stint in one of the bad endings). Fang is shown as being short-tempered, rebellious, and is part of a band that sucks at playing music. Their bandmates and Fang’s only other friends at the school are a fentanyl addict, and a manipulative (rolls eyes) SJW Feminazi girl who goes around beating people up to let off her anger. This section also contains probably the single best “gotcha” moment against the writers of this game that I have ever seen within the span of only two textboxes, in the form of the MC complaining about the grammar of using singular “they” while also making two grammatical errors themselves within a single sentence.
But this section is just the opener and is, for the most part, the most spectacularly (read: obviously) bad Snoot Game gets. I think a lot of the people who shit on this game played or saw someone play this section, threw up their hands, and moved on. But not me! However, contrary to popular opinion that the rest of this game is “actually surprisingly heartwarming”, It’s also really bad, but in a much subtler and more insidious way.
There are lots of little things in which the game attempts to force you to accept its worldview to function. I already mentioned the internal monologue only referring to Fang with she/her, but as the story progresses, basically everyone in the game except the most "harmful influences" (Fang's 2 friends I mentioned earlier) switches to using she/her with no fanfare, including Fang's own brother. By the time you meet Fang’s parents everyone’s already switched to it, but they throw in the caveat of deadnaming Fang as well and reiterating that Fang is “just going through a phase” (something that the game later just tells you outright is true).
The sole SJW character from earlier, Trish, is probably the most blatantly propaganda-ish—she is also the only black-coded character, you know, just by happenstance (also Anon says she texts in “ebonics” in ending 1? which just doesn’t make any sense under the worldbuilding here, where species is just a substitute for race mostly? Very odd to fuck up your worldbuilding just to have your MC call something “ebonics”). In a particularly telling sequence of events, she pulls off a heist to embarrass Anon in front of everyone at school for the sole purpose of outcasting him from the band’s friend group, a tactic which succeeds at embarrassing Anon but fails at cleanly removing him from the friend group, as he takes Fang with him, something that Trish is shown at multiple points to be extremely angry about. This cements her (again, probably the only vaguely actively queer-positive main character left in the story at this point) as the “villain”, or at least, the single worst influence on Fang as a person.
There are 4 endings in Snoot Game (Spoilers from here on out! If you care about that, which you shouldn’t.), and only 2 in which Fang remains nonbinary. Of these endings, there is one where Fang shoots up the school, and the other leaves Fang (presumably) depressed, “looking like a junkie”, and with (gasp) tattoos, black lipstick, and a shaved head. During this second ending, which takes place 4 or 5 years after the events of most of the game, Anon thinks to himself that “I couldn’t save her (sic). Why would I save her? In her infinite talent can’t she see she’s a dump?”. Aside from the fact that all of Anon’s conclusions in ending 2 about Fang’s mental state are assumed to be true despite him having only seen them in passing at a restaurant (maybe Fang was just having a bad day or something, you never know), the only 2 endings which allow Fang to be nonbinary are also shown to be the “worst”. Take note of this!
In the other 2 endings, Fang switches back to using their old name (again, this is 4chan-written, so despite everyone else having birthnames like “Naser” and “Trish”, Fang’s birth name is “Lucy”. Real creative.) In these endings, Fang tells you something between that they were pretending to be nonbinary for attention, or that Trish drove them into it. (sidenote: Anon is able to switch almost instantly to calling Fang “Lucy” in both of these endings, despite only ever having known them as Fang. And yet switching names is simultaneously shown as something too confusing and hard for Fang’s parents to do. Interesting.) These are also the “best” endings. In one, Anon reunites with Fang years later and they have settled into a “motherly but still available” role helping out kids at the local church, so basically, the tradwife ending. And in the other one, and also the “best” ending in the game, Anon and Fang date for the rest of the year, break things off temporarily when Anon attends college, reunite after a time-skip and get married. Also, Fang is a schoolteacher in this one, which further reinforces the idea that for Fang to be happy, they need to not only detransition, but they need to take up the “traditionally female” role of being a caretaker. (Also, in one of the endings, you get the context that before Fang “started this whole non-binary deal” they were happier then too, so there’s another data point to correlate, I guess.)
Look—there’s nothing inherently wrong about writing a wish fulfillment romance story about a dominant and self-confident white guy finding his submissive caretaker white wife and living happily ever after. You do you bro. But there is something pretty fucky about presenting a traditional lifestyle as the ONLY path to happiness. And there’s something Extremely fucky about doing this by taking a queer character from someone else’s story, making your story about how de-transing them is the only way they can achieve happiness, and then releasing your story early in the hopes that your fanon interpretation supersedes whatever actually happens in the original source material.
But probably the most fucky is that a lot of this is subtextual and clearly is easily ignored by most, which allows its ideas to spread. Do not take me lightly by my saying that Snoot Game is propaganda, because it is. By word count, most of this game is just standard faire SoL wish fulfillment fantasy. Anon goes stargazing with Fang in one route, he goes to an aquarium with them in another. Normal shit. It’s just coupled with the added caveat of, you know, the whole arc of the game being dependent on the presumption of many of its characters that Fang’s trans-ness is just a phase, and that this presumption is ultimately proven correct. The shot is, (really, any number of bigotries, but most predominantly) transphobia and NB erasure, with SoL romance as a chaser. Again, really insidious shit.
This is why I feel uncomfortable giving this anything more than a 1/10. Snoot Game is generally paced well, has a lot of surprisingly decent music, and a lot of very well-done illustrations, but in service of what? Of fulfilling a delusional fantasy of “solving” someone’s trans-ness? Of spreading the idea that “if I just get them to fall in love with me, I can save them from their wicked ways (being queer)!” And of also spreading the idea that queer people are mentally ill and doomed to loneliness, lest they renounce their ways? Fuck riiiight off.
Ok, short review out of the way: Snoot Game is a parody/anti-fan-game of Goodbye Volcano High, a game which, as I am writing this review, is still a month or two off from release. GVH looks to be a story-driven graphic adventure game in the same indie niche as games like Night in the Woods and Life is Strange, and despite not being out, has earned quite a lot of ire from places on the net like 4chan. This revulsion is due to the fact... that it's a queer, furry, narrative-heavy game that showed up for a mere 1 minute and 35 seconds in some livestreamed PS5 showcase event. This bitter outrage and derision at something so mundane is nothing out of the ordinary for chanboards, but what followed was, at least in terms of scale.
Enter: Snoot Game. I’m not sure at what point in the development process they decided to focus on the de-transing and courting of Fang over making a “based” version of GVH, but in terms of playtime, this switch seems to happen somewhere about an hour or two into the game. This first section is pretty obviously terrible in a multitude of ways that’re impossible to ignore: the first line of text is a January 6th joke, which is followed up within a minute by the MC (named “Anon”) attempting to troll on a chanboard on his phone, there’s a teacher who speaks with a “comically” over the top Japanese accent (not pictured: the protagonist being like “huh? I can’t understand a single word this guy is saying…”). There is also a lot of blatant trans and enby-phobia on display in this section, from the protagonist accusing Fang of identifying as NB for attention to the constant mental misgendering of Fang with she/her pronouns (a trend which carries across pretty much the entire game, except for a short stint in one of the bad endings). Fang is shown as being short-tempered, rebellious, and is part of a band that sucks at playing music. Their bandmates and Fang’s only other friends at the school are a fentanyl addict, and a manipulative (rolls eyes) SJW Feminazi girl who goes around beating people up to let off her anger. This section also contains probably the single best “gotcha” moment against the writers of this game that I have ever seen within the span of only two textboxes, in the form of the MC complaining about the grammar of using singular “they” while also making two grammatical errors themselves within a single sentence.
But this section is just the opener and is, for the most part, the most spectacularly (read: obviously) bad Snoot Game gets. I think a lot of the people who shit on this game played or saw someone play this section, threw up their hands, and moved on. But not me! However, contrary to popular opinion that the rest of this game is “actually surprisingly heartwarming”, It’s also really bad, but in a much subtler and more insidious way.
There are lots of little things in which the game attempts to force you to accept its worldview to function. I already mentioned the internal monologue only referring to Fang with she/her, but as the story progresses, basically everyone in the game except the most "harmful influences" (Fang's 2 friends I mentioned earlier) switches to using she/her with no fanfare, including Fang's own brother. By the time you meet Fang’s parents everyone’s already switched to it, but they throw in the caveat of deadnaming Fang as well and reiterating that Fang is “just going through a phase” (something that the game later just tells you outright is true).
The sole SJW character from earlier, Trish, is probably the most blatantly propaganda-ish—she is also the only black-coded character, you know, just by happenstance (also Anon says she texts in “ebonics” in ending 1? which just doesn’t make any sense under the worldbuilding here, where species is just a substitute for race mostly? Very odd to fuck up your worldbuilding just to have your MC call something “ebonics”). In a particularly telling sequence of events, she pulls off a heist to embarrass Anon in front of everyone at school for the sole purpose of outcasting him from the band’s friend group, a tactic which succeeds at embarrassing Anon but fails at cleanly removing him from the friend group, as he takes Fang with him, something that Trish is shown at multiple points to be extremely angry about. This cements her (again, probably the only vaguely actively queer-positive main character left in the story at this point) as the “villain”, or at least, the single worst influence on Fang as a person.
There are 4 endings in Snoot Game (Spoilers from here on out! If you care about that, which you shouldn’t.), and only 2 in which Fang remains nonbinary. Of these endings, there is one where Fang shoots up the school, and the other leaves Fang (presumably) depressed, “looking like a junkie”, and with (gasp) tattoos, black lipstick, and a shaved head. During this second ending, which takes place 4 or 5 years after the events of most of the game, Anon thinks to himself that “I couldn’t save her (sic). Why would I save her? In her infinite talent can’t she see she’s a dump?”. Aside from the fact that all of Anon’s conclusions in ending 2 about Fang’s mental state are assumed to be true despite him having only seen them in passing at a restaurant (maybe Fang was just having a bad day or something, you never know), the only 2 endings which allow Fang to be nonbinary are also shown to be the “worst”. Take note of this!
In the other 2 endings, Fang switches back to using their old name (again, this is 4chan-written, so despite everyone else having birthnames like “Naser” and “Trish”, Fang’s birth name is “Lucy”. Real creative.) In these endings, Fang tells you something between that they were pretending to be nonbinary for attention, or that Trish drove them into it. (sidenote: Anon is able to switch almost instantly to calling Fang “Lucy” in both of these endings, despite only ever having known them as Fang. And yet switching names is simultaneously shown as something too confusing and hard for Fang’s parents to do. Interesting.) These are also the “best” endings. In one, Anon reunites with Fang years later and they have settled into a “motherly but still available” role helping out kids at the local church, so basically, the tradwife ending. And in the other one, and also the “best” ending in the game, Anon and Fang date for the rest of the year, break things off temporarily when Anon attends college, reunite after a time-skip and get married. Also, Fang is a schoolteacher in this one, which further reinforces the idea that for Fang to be happy, they need to not only detransition, but they need to take up the “traditionally female” role of being a caretaker. (Also, in one of the endings, you get the context that before Fang “started this whole non-binary deal” they were happier then too, so there’s another data point to correlate, I guess.)
Look—there’s nothing inherently wrong about writing a wish fulfillment romance story about a dominant and self-confident white guy finding his submissive caretaker white wife and living happily ever after. You do you bro. But there is something pretty fucky about presenting a traditional lifestyle as the ONLY path to happiness. And there’s something Extremely fucky about doing this by taking a queer character from someone else’s story, making your story about how de-transing them is the only way they can achieve happiness, and then releasing your story early in the hopes that your fanon interpretation supersedes whatever actually happens in the original source material.
But probably the most fucky is that a lot of this is subtextual and clearly is easily ignored by most, which allows its ideas to spread. Do not take me lightly by my saying that Snoot Game is propaganda, because it is. By word count, most of this game is just standard faire SoL wish fulfillment fantasy. Anon goes stargazing with Fang in one route, he goes to an aquarium with them in another. Normal shit. It’s just coupled with the added caveat of, you know, the whole arc of the game being dependent on the presumption of many of its characters that Fang’s trans-ness is just a phase, and that this presumption is ultimately proven correct. The shot is, (really, any number of bigotries, but most predominantly) transphobia and NB erasure, with SoL romance as a chaser. Again, really insidious shit.
This is why I feel uncomfortable giving this anything more than a 1/10. Snoot Game is generally paced well, has a lot of surprisingly decent music, and a lot of very well-done illustrations, but in service of what? Of fulfilling a delusional fantasy of “solving” someone’s trans-ness? Of spreading the idea that “if I just get them to fall in love with me, I can save them from their wicked ways (being queer)!” And of also spreading the idea that queer people are mentally ill and doomed to loneliness, lest they renounce their ways? Fuck riiiight off.
At least we got cool VHS tapes before this was canceled.
There were amateur game designers who made their own version of this game in 2 weeks while phisnom spent years “making” it, this game was never going to come out, which is a shame, it might’ve have been awesome.
unfortunately this is not it
as much as I enjoyed the first one due to it being kind of a legit clone of the first fnaf1 this game actually tried to emulate a fnaf3 gameflow but like every single animatronic is springtrap and you can literally scratch your balls and sniff while you play this game because the entire gameplay is flash then ring a phone then flash then ring a phone literally this for 5 nights non stop
i will cut them some slack because they tried to make something different this time something that feels different from both the original fnaf and fnac series and absolutely failed at it miserably congratulations
you're a guy who lost a bet and has to stay 5 nights at an old factory where weird animatronics are lingering for some reason and mind you this is the funniest shit alive due to the fact that they gave me free speech in the response and I quote "no bitch k1ll yourself . your mom's wild btw" and he replied with "lmao" im sorry i cried im so silly and goofy yall I'm not like other guys
so anyway you get into this factory and boom same workflow you got an hallway in front of you and you can flash your light to see if there's an animateonic if there is an animatronic check your cameras and ring a phone their gonna be distracted by that check the hallway and do that for an hour now they spice things up adding chester and guess what he gets distracted by the phone ringing but instead you have to play the phone in his room while he's trying to get in the vent to make him shit his pants then theres penguin who jumpscares you phantoms-from-fnaf3-style and thats basically it this is the game . fun right ? ABSOLUTELY NOT :)
oh also theres blank he uhhhhhh he exists . as always
there's some more minigames at the end of each night like the ones in the fnaf series with that pixelated style but somehow theyre ever more boring then the og gameplay ? how the fuck do you even DO that and also the story is ass nobody cares lets just be real alright
anyway this game is ass too . I'm sorry to say that because this series was really promising I don't care about anything in it but night 6 where rat and cat try to tag team you/bukkake you/eiffel tower you is pretty damn funny not because of the game in itself but the implication behind it
I must say that the designs of the withered versions of every animatronic is kinda sick and I like them I wish cindy and candy were MORE withered but we cannot have everything in a neo capitalistic society
that being said . just watch a walkthrough it's not really worth it
hoping for the next game to be more up my alley
as much as I enjoyed the first one due to it being kind of a legit clone of the first fnaf1 this game actually tried to emulate a fnaf3 gameflow but like every single animatronic is springtrap and you can literally scratch your balls and sniff while you play this game because the entire gameplay is flash then ring a phone then flash then ring a phone literally this for 5 nights non stop
i will cut them some slack because they tried to make something different this time something that feels different from both the original fnaf and fnac series and absolutely failed at it miserably congratulations
you're a guy who lost a bet and has to stay 5 nights at an old factory where weird animatronics are lingering for some reason and mind you this is the funniest shit alive due to the fact that they gave me free speech in the response and I quote "no bitch k1ll yourself . your mom's wild btw" and he replied with "lmao" im sorry i cried im so silly and goofy yall I'm not like other guys
so anyway you get into this factory and boom same workflow you got an hallway in front of you and you can flash your light to see if there's an animateonic if there is an animatronic check your cameras and ring a phone their gonna be distracted by that check the hallway and do that for an hour now they spice things up adding chester and guess what he gets distracted by the phone ringing but instead you have to play the phone in his room while he's trying to get in the vent to make him shit his pants then theres penguin who jumpscares you phantoms-from-fnaf3-style and thats basically it this is the game . fun right ? ABSOLUTELY NOT :)
oh also theres blank he uhhhhhh he exists . as always
there's some more minigames at the end of each night like the ones in the fnaf series with that pixelated style but somehow theyre ever more boring then the og gameplay ? how the fuck do you even DO that and also the story is ass nobody cares lets just be real alright
anyway this game is ass too . I'm sorry to say that because this series was really promising I don't care about anything in it but night 6 where rat and cat try to tag team you/bukkake you/eiffel tower you is pretty damn funny not because of the game in itself but the implication behind it
I must say that the designs of the withered versions of every animatronic is kinda sick and I like them I wish cindy and candy were MORE withered but we cannot have everything in a neo capitalistic society
that being said . just watch a walkthrough it's not really worth it
hoping for the next game to be more up my alley
color me surprised but the game that was my favorite fnaf as a kid ended up being my favorite one of this fnaf replay marathon too . kid me actually had good taste who tf would've thought huh
taking the series in a completely new direction this time instead of a workplace at a pizzeria/horror house youre gonna sit your ass in your bedroom and you're a little kid who's trying to fight against ghost (?) animatronics from your nightmares theyre literally called nightmare X so I guess thats the real deal and the biggest addition here is the fact that you can move !!!! like move forreal you can walk 1 metre to the door and come back thats like the newest evolution of the videogame media
now first of all at this point in time I have no idea how the story of this series is progressing the minigames at the end of the nights actually hint to the fact that this kid was scarred by the animatronics and now lives in complete fear of them or something like this but if you ask me wheres the place of this game in the timeline I have absolutely no fuckinf idea and again I dont care
so that's the story !!! and now this kid has nightmares !!!
in the themes and general gameflow this feels very reminiscent of the very first game . there's the same room disposition the same animatronics and the same sense of atmosphere
im a SUCKER for the atmosphere in this game and I honestly believe its the most immersive and spooky one you really feel the dread and fear of the little kid in this one reenacting the same feelings that I have when I hear a water bottle explode at 3 am with my home invasion acute phobia
now let's address the elephant in the room
the gameplay is probably the one I heard the most complains about and I can generally understand why is that . BUT I say generally because I enjoyed THE FUCK out of the gameplay mechanics
basically this game is heavily dependent on audio cues whenever you check a door for bonnie or chika you will need to listen closely to their breathing in your ears and close the door accordingly until they leave the room . if you mistakingly shine the torch you're gonna get jumpscared
now most of the people I see complain about the audio cues being muffled or confusing or incredibly low and I'm here to tell you that I experienced none of that !!!!! maybe I got super ears !!!!! or extreme ADHD !!!!!
forreal tho played this game with a chinese bootleg pair of earphones at the max volume and mind you every single sound was really faint definitely something that I couldve avoided if I had a good headset (commission me on my furry account so I can get one thank you) and YET ??? I perfectly got most of the single audio cues like I managed to get 95% of the cues right and the only times i actually messed that up is because they gave me audio cues of chika being in the kitchen and instead she was right in front of my fucking face jesus lord . so that to say that if you play it with a mildly decent head set im pretty sure youre gonna get the audio cues right and also theyre v evident because its heavy panting in your ears like its a sexual predator im pretty sure thats gonna give you some fight or flight response . sometimes the audio cues are gonna be delayed like you will be waiting for idk 5 seconds and THEN get panting so thats a little tricky but in general i think that if you listen closely you will get every single cue right
that being said the entire game is based on cues like i said if chika is in the kitchen shes gonna make a racket and you can put that into the equation and not check on her for some time or like you can listen to walking when they get away after you smack the door in front of their face and possibly the most chaotic audio cues ever . foxys
now i want to tell you that keeping track of foxy in this game is absolutely wild hes gonna run from place to place from left to right or from right to left (listen to the audio cues) and you should try to keep track of that while doing everything else so that you can scare him off with the flashlight in the correct corridor . when foxy is near one room but you run to the other side hes gonna get in your closet and hes gonna be there for the entirety of the run so youre going to have to check on him from time to time to see if hes transformed and ready to kill your pussy ass bitch . my advice is if youre in harder nights and he gets in there too early just reboot the fucker its just too difficult to deal with him for the entire night
that said you also gotta check behind you on the bed because some little freddies will gather and will try to transform into full freddy and kill you right away . just another fucked up timer to check upon here and there during the run its not too difficult tho youll be fine
considering all of the things i just said this makes for an exhilarating atmosphere youre just gonna be so deep into the listening aspect and absorbed by the gameplay itself that staring at dark corridors trying to catch on heavy panting will be actually kind of spooky . now again i didnt shit my pants like i wanted to unfortunately but in the sense of all around scary surroundings this is a winner for me in the original tetralogy i get why this can be either a pro or a con of the game but for me this is an absolute deal breaker the jumpscares arent even that cheap in this one . a little confusing but at least they made me tense up a little
in it of itself the entire gameplay loop may be somehow redundant since its basically check left door check right door scare freddies behind you choose a door and pray to god you chose the correct one so that foxy doesnt get in your closet OR check on foxy in the closet rinse and repeat
after the main game you will get some minigame insights on the PTSD of the little man protagonist of this game i think . i dont care but youre gonna have fun if thats your cup of tea
after that youre gonna do a minigame trying to catch springtrap with the flashlight so that you can skip to the 2 AM of the next night . useful but i dont know how to play this game
the last night is a pretty interesting phenomenon . instead of the different animatronics i talked about the only real threat youre gonna encounter is nightmare fredbear and this one is HEAVILY focused on audio cues . hes gonna run from left to right and vice versa run TOWARDS you or make one of like 20 laugh SFX and get either in your closet or on your bed or in front of any door . now i can tell you that its pretty damn hard to keep track of this fucker but he has a huge time window to check on him but my advice is going doors>bed>closet if you could not follow his movements and i think you will be fine
this is the one night i had most problems with audio cues since their more chaotic and not really clear most of the time but still a nice addition to the game
all in all still do this day im surprised at how much i enjoyed this game both as a kid and 20 minutes ago and btw these are probably my favorite animatronic designs in the entirety of the series they still resemble their kid toy aesthetic but with a nightmarish touch of lovecraft terrors design
kudos to scott for making a game that i actually enjoyed all the way through this time around and also i just realised he released all these games in the span of 2 years ? kinda great if you ask me the devil is working hard
taking the series in a completely new direction this time instead of a workplace at a pizzeria/horror house youre gonna sit your ass in your bedroom and you're a little kid who's trying to fight against ghost (?) animatronics from your nightmares theyre literally called nightmare X so I guess thats the real deal and the biggest addition here is the fact that you can move !!!! like move forreal you can walk 1 metre to the door and come back thats like the newest evolution of the videogame media
now first of all at this point in time I have no idea how the story of this series is progressing the minigames at the end of the nights actually hint to the fact that this kid was scarred by the animatronics and now lives in complete fear of them or something like this but if you ask me wheres the place of this game in the timeline I have absolutely no fuckinf idea and again I dont care
so that's the story !!! and now this kid has nightmares !!!
in the themes and general gameflow this feels very reminiscent of the very first game . there's the same room disposition the same animatronics and the same sense of atmosphere
im a SUCKER for the atmosphere in this game and I honestly believe its the most immersive and spooky one you really feel the dread and fear of the little kid in this one reenacting the same feelings that I have when I hear a water bottle explode at 3 am with my home invasion acute phobia
now let's address the elephant in the room
the gameplay is probably the one I heard the most complains about and I can generally understand why is that . BUT I say generally because I enjoyed THE FUCK out of the gameplay mechanics
basically this game is heavily dependent on audio cues whenever you check a door for bonnie or chika you will need to listen closely to their breathing in your ears and close the door accordingly until they leave the room . if you mistakingly shine the torch you're gonna get jumpscared
now most of the people I see complain about the audio cues being muffled or confusing or incredibly low and I'm here to tell you that I experienced none of that !!!!! maybe I got super ears !!!!! or extreme ADHD !!!!!
forreal tho played this game with a chinese bootleg pair of earphones at the max volume and mind you every single sound was really faint definitely something that I couldve avoided if I had a good headset (commission me on my furry account so I can get one thank you) and YET ??? I perfectly got most of the single audio cues like I managed to get 95% of the cues right and the only times i actually messed that up is because they gave me audio cues of chika being in the kitchen and instead she was right in front of my fucking face jesus lord . so that to say that if you play it with a mildly decent head set im pretty sure youre gonna get the audio cues right and also theyre v evident because its heavy panting in your ears like its a sexual predator im pretty sure thats gonna give you some fight or flight response . sometimes the audio cues are gonna be delayed like you will be waiting for idk 5 seconds and THEN get panting so thats a little tricky but in general i think that if you listen closely you will get every single cue right
that being said the entire game is based on cues like i said if chika is in the kitchen shes gonna make a racket and you can put that into the equation and not check on her for some time or like you can listen to walking when they get away after you smack the door in front of their face and possibly the most chaotic audio cues ever . foxys
now i want to tell you that keeping track of foxy in this game is absolutely wild hes gonna run from place to place from left to right or from right to left (listen to the audio cues) and you should try to keep track of that while doing everything else so that you can scare him off with the flashlight in the correct corridor . when foxy is near one room but you run to the other side hes gonna get in your closet and hes gonna be there for the entirety of the run so youre going to have to check on him from time to time to see if hes transformed and ready to kill your pussy ass bitch . my advice is if youre in harder nights and he gets in there too early just reboot the fucker its just too difficult to deal with him for the entire night
that said you also gotta check behind you on the bed because some little freddies will gather and will try to transform into full freddy and kill you right away . just another fucked up timer to check upon here and there during the run its not too difficult tho youll be fine
considering all of the things i just said this makes for an exhilarating atmosphere youre just gonna be so deep into the listening aspect and absorbed by the gameplay itself that staring at dark corridors trying to catch on heavy panting will be actually kind of spooky . now again i didnt shit my pants like i wanted to unfortunately but in the sense of all around scary surroundings this is a winner for me in the original tetralogy i get why this can be either a pro or a con of the game but for me this is an absolute deal breaker the jumpscares arent even that cheap in this one . a little confusing but at least they made me tense up a little
in it of itself the entire gameplay loop may be somehow redundant since its basically check left door check right door scare freddies behind you choose a door and pray to god you chose the correct one so that foxy doesnt get in your closet OR check on foxy in the closet rinse and repeat
after the main game you will get some minigame insights on the PTSD of the little man protagonist of this game i think . i dont care but youre gonna have fun if thats your cup of tea
after that youre gonna do a minigame trying to catch springtrap with the flashlight so that you can skip to the 2 AM of the next night . useful but i dont know how to play this game
the last night is a pretty interesting phenomenon . instead of the different animatronics i talked about the only real threat youre gonna encounter is nightmare fredbear and this one is HEAVILY focused on audio cues . hes gonna run from left to right and vice versa run TOWARDS you or make one of like 20 laugh SFX and get either in your closet or on your bed or in front of any door . now i can tell you that its pretty damn hard to keep track of this fucker but he has a huge time window to check on him but my advice is going doors>bed>closet if you could not follow his movements and i think you will be fine
this is the one night i had most problems with audio cues since their more chaotic and not really clear most of the time but still a nice addition to the game
all in all still do this day im surprised at how much i enjoyed this game both as a kid and 20 minutes ago and btw these are probably my favorite animatronic designs in the entirety of the series they still resemble their kid toy aesthetic but with a nightmarish touch of lovecraft terrors design
kudos to scott for making a game that i actually enjoyed all the way through this time around and also i just realised he released all these games in the span of 2 years ? kinda great if you ask me the devil is working hard
you won't believe how fun it can be to stretch an ass
you know this little furry game does say NSFW content but I wouldn't really consider it a "hot" game does that make sense ? like it didn't make me want to get my junk out and jerk off thats the kind of +18 vibe I got from this now it is VERY sexual and VERY out there so your discretion is advised
that being said this is super straightforward point and click game where you go around the house to get stuff up your ass to stretch for your boyfriend whose dick is ginormous and you don't understand what this guy puts up his ass for the love of god
the art is pretty simplistic and kinda funny altogether and the writing is supposed to make you laugh (I didnt laugh) and the ass physics was something I was not expecting that shit was really great honestly
plus I don't understand if my version was broken or something but there were no sounds at all but i guess that's also a miracle the sounds in this game would be splattering cumshot sfx really dirty slimy sfx a pop sound every time you get your hole bigger sfx and elevator music
all in all kinda fun ! now I would also want trustworthy friends to help me stretch my ass with their dicks but I guess true happiness comes in very different forms for the eye of the beholder
cute ending :) no sex :(
you know this little furry game does say NSFW content but I wouldn't really consider it a "hot" game does that make sense ? like it didn't make me want to get my junk out and jerk off thats the kind of +18 vibe I got from this now it is VERY sexual and VERY out there so your discretion is advised
that being said this is super straightforward point and click game where you go around the house to get stuff up your ass to stretch for your boyfriend whose dick is ginormous and you don't understand what this guy puts up his ass for the love of god
the art is pretty simplistic and kinda funny altogether and the writing is supposed to make you laugh (I didnt laugh) and the ass physics was something I was not expecting that shit was really great honestly
plus I don't understand if my version was broken or something but there were no sounds at all but i guess that's also a miracle the sounds in this game would be splattering cumshot sfx really dirty slimy sfx a pop sound every time you get your hole bigger sfx and elevator music
all in all kinda fun ! now I would also want trustworthy friends to help me stretch my ass with their dicks but I guess true happiness comes in very different forms for the eye of the beholder
cute ending :) no sex :(
don't care, where's Garten of Banban 8
Garten of Banban 4
2023
THE GAME CAME OUT AND THEY ALREADY ANNOUNCED BANBAN 6 GREATEST SERIES OF ALL TIME
