its very upsetting that this game came out the way it did because if you look past the awful optimization issues, bugs, glitches, bad graphics, and frame rate issues (which is a LOT to look past i know) the game is genuinely pretty fuckin good

it has its issues still like i dont care about the team star story like at ALL, some of the gym challenges fucking blow, and some of the story beats couldve had more build up without going out of your way to find it. But outside of that you have a good mainline pokemon game with probably the best story since gen 5's black and white.

i wish i could say its a home run for the series but sadly it is extremely held back from being fully complete.

im not even gonna bother giving this a fake 5 star review for the joke because this genuinely should never have became a popular series even if it was for ironic reasons

every entry is devoid of any effort or creativity to the point where it's infuriating. it only exists to take advantage of the younger horror audience obsessed with shit like bendy or poppy's playtime to make money.

the modeling work is abysmal and any and all actually decent looking models in the games are all from either the unreal asset store OR are from other people. animations look like they were made in mere minutes. the story of the main protagonist looking for their child, even though it is a bland concept to begin with, it all gets thrown out the window for dogshit filler that just feels like empty nothingness with dialogue that all sounds like chatgpt generations

nothing can convince me that ANY thought was put into ANY of these games. they are worthless and i long for the inevitable future where it is all forgotten and nobody will feed into no effort garbage like this anymore. not even for the joke

i never in my life expected this game to be a top 3 game for 2023 but here we are

steel wool meant to impress with this one, the animations are stellar, there are very little unoriginal minigames unlike the first one and even the ones that are supposed to be based off of previous games are insanely different and stuffed with new mechanics that makes it so much more fun and interesting

the game looks phenomenal compared the first one with infinitely better lighting and modeling work, it was incredibly easy to get immersed with how great the atmosphere is.

my only major gripe is one that applies many, if not all fnaf games, the story is confusing

i didnt beat every minigame yet but i got to the first credits sequence and was left really confused by the cutscene that played before it. the game obviously has a lot of ties to RUIN but it makes it very unclear as to how.

i have a lot of nitpicks as well but they are in a really small amount so it doesnt mean all that much to me

help wanted 1 was my favorite in the entire series so seeing this blow the old one out of the water in almost every way possible leaves me incredibly hopeful for the future of the steel wool fnaf era