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