Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach (2021)

What a weird-ass game. Absolutely riddled with bugs and glitches (I really thought people were exaggerating about that... nuh uh), makes decisions that retroactively fuck with the timeline and events of previous games, they completely dropped the 'animatronics are possessed by murdered children' concept and seemingly went the route of 'animatronics are actual sentient beings' weirdness, and it's just not scary. I mean, FNAF isn't generally scary aside from in the literal jumpscares sense, but this one felt very sanitised and for-kids in a way the others didn't.

The whole Vanessa/Vanny thing was so bizarre and badly explained, especially the whole "Gasp! Vanny... like Vanessa! And Bunny! But gasp! Now there's two of them in this ending!" shebang. The fact that the endings were just a slideshow of half-drawn images was so ridiculously funny to me, like they didn't even bother to finish the climax of the damn game and just left their imageboards from the planning stage in. Did anyone keep a straight face when that popped up for the first time?

As for positives, let's see. I think the general idea had potential - I actually really dug the intro at the beginning with the concert and the sabotage/hack interrupting it. The colours and settings of the game were pretty great - not sure I like them in FNAF, but I like them (the bright lights, the funplex, the minigames, the vibrant face paint) in general.

I'll also admit that Moon section had me tense.

Five Night's at Freddy's: Security Breach is a fun and lovable mess. There's a lot of stuff in this game that makes it so unforgettable and enjoyable. But unfortunately, it was hardly ever intentional on the Devs part

I have an interesting history with FNAF. Like a lot of people, I was playing them back when they were impossible to skip. A time when you couldn't go through YouTube without seeing something related to the series. Game Theory... Markiplier... It was a cultural phenomenon.

However, my interest in the series died around when Sister Location was released and I haven't really been keeping up with the series since. But for some odd reason, Security Breach caught my interest and I decided to check it out with my girlfriend as I thought it would be way more fun with company.

The premise is a huge step away from what made the original games a hit. It's a first-person free-roam survival horror game now and I actually really liked it. You play as Gregory, a 12-year-old kid stuck in "Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex". With the help of Freddy Fazbear, you explore the gigantic world to find a way to survive and escape.

What the game gets right is that the presentation is pretty well done, for the most part, there were times where it was genuinely anxiety-inducing, and the controls work well.

Now what this game fails at is what easily makes it so fun to me. For some reason... the game is worth 80 Gigs which basically ate my computer storage so deleting it when I was done was great. But this game has a lot of performance issues. The framerate is never consistent and dips constantly, parts of the map don't render, texture issues, and a bunch of glitches and bugs. What made it so fun was how funny it was. The Security Guards which my girlfriend and I named "Steve" would consistently clip through walls and somehow find us randomly, Roxy, the animatronic with the best eyes would always lose us even if we hid in front of her, and many more that made the game such a treat to play

If you want a well-made, polished experience... Don't play this. But if you want to laugh for hours on end over Roxy being an absolute dumbass and many more. Stick around... Just be prepared to sacrifice 80 Gigs.

3/5

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