Now, I know I'm going on and on about this game Five Nights at Freddy's, but I recently watched a video on Youtube about the game's back-story. The details were grisly, I'll tell you. Plus, the story seemed to be well-thought-out. However, I couldn't help but nitpick this story anyway. If you haven't heard the story yet, Google it or try Youtube before reading further in this entry.
Here it goes:
1. So the pizzeria is shut down because of one employee killing five children? If that's the case, why doesn't any establishment do the same whenever a employee misbehaves criminally? (Just refer to that one employee that was videotaped bathing in the kitchen sink at a restaurant that one time. I'm sure that was on the news for quite some time.)
2. The animatronics were being criticized by the customers, because of their foul smell, and the blood and mucus coming from their eyes and mouth. Shouldn't the company have the animatronics inspected? Chances are, that may be where the missing children were. I don't know; that seems like a no-brainer.
3. The story reveals that the animatronics are possessed by the souls of the children that were murdered in the pizzeria. The animatronics attack people. Why don't the animatronics hunt down their killer, instead of killing other people? People that have this night-watch job are dying, while the children's killer is sleeping comfortably in jail!!!
4. Again, the story says that the dead children's souls possess the animatronics; and yet the animatronics are now killing whoever has the night-watch job at the pizzeria. Why? That seems counterproductive to the dead children's unfinished business with their killer, while they're most likely still stuck in purgatory.
5. Was the pizzeria too dang lazy to clean their place up, as they kept getting complaints about the place's sanitation? They really let themselves go after that murder incident, didn't they?
6. If some fans believe that the voice of the recorded messages is the killer himself, and that he may have been the previous night-watchman before and during the incident... Could he be the one behind the whole animatronics-gone-deadly fiasco that this game is putting players through? (Just a theory.)
And now, to nitpick the game itself...
1. Why the limited power? The pizzeria must be too cheap to have running electricity.
2. Why is Camera 6 always down (except that you can only hear audio feedback)?
3. Why does Freddy the bear seem to appear in the office, even though the doors are closed? Wouldn't that technically mean that the game is cheating itself? (I believe that's cheating... or doesn't seem fair, at the very least.)
4. What's with the red cupcake in the office? (You know, the cupcake with the eyes...?) It has little to no importance to the game, instead to be one of the game's Easter eggs.
5. What's the purpose of having a squeaker on the pizzeria poster in the office? Does it summon one of the animatronics... or is that another Easter egg?
6. Why is there even an occupation as stupid as night-watchman for a wannabe-Chuck. E. Cheese restaurant? Couldn't the animatronics be used to scare off burglars at night? (This feels like deja vu.)
7. Is this game too stupid to know the difference between a male and a female.
For example, the bunny animatronic's name is Bonnie the Bunny. Unfortunately, the bunny is wearing a bow tie; so that's obviously a boy, right?! What about Chica the chicken? The game doesn't clarify whether the chicken is a boy or a girl either.
(I've seen many fan art fantasizing that Chica is a girl, but I just don't want there to be any future confusion or regrets. Well, by now, it's been clarified that it is a girl.)
Despite all the criticism here, I still think that Five Nights at Freddy's is still a great game. Last I heard, the sequel is gonna be more rough than the first...
Whatsoever Critic
Source: Five Nights at Freddy's
Courtesy: Scott Cawhorn
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