Five Nights at Candy's 2 is a sequel... it certainly is a sequel.
FNAC2 is regarded as the worst entry it's overall story and gameplay doesn't really make any sense logically.

The game features both boring and repetitive tactics where you essentially have to focus on not getting attack by the animatronics in an abandoned... office or factory.

The characters feature a new withered look however a big criticism I have is that while some of the animatronics clearly look like they've been through hell:

Penguin, Chester, and Blank (to a lesser extent)

You then have Candy and Cindy which they look withered but they have the texture of which their plastic continue to look good and shiny which doesn't make sense and collides with the overall idea of a withered toy animatronic.

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The game has pretty dumb story, where you character loses a bet and has to spend 5 nights at this abandoned animatronic warehouse however it's really unclear if it's a factory, a parking lot, a warehouse, or an office space. The overall design of the location collides making you think it could honestly be a office space with a parking lot in the middle and not even close to a warehouse.

The game looks bland as hell in terms of having nothing really connected with that of the CANDY BRAND in except for kid drawings that don't really fit, as they would fit more within the actual Candy's Burger and Fries Restaurant.

There are moments where the story shows us aspects of the past and it does get interesting literally at the bonus night 6, as the other nights the are most boring and repetitive nights with nothing interesting going on.

At the beginning of the game you get this friend that texts you and makes fun of you and you think:

"Oh they're my phone guy, they might give me hints and tell me some tips about how to deal with what animatronics... right?"

Nope literally every night starts off as bland and boring as possible where you sat on the office desk and you just look through the camera and try to avoid Candy, Cindy, and Blank.

Night 6 is when they reintroduce the RAT and they introduce a new companion, the CAT.

The story is crap as it's barely a story, and the gameplay isn't much better.

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In this game you have to deal with 6 characters and 1 nuisance character who doesn't jump scare but instead hinders your ability to continue with the night.
These characters being:

1- Wither Candy - Broken version of Candy from FNAC 1 who starts off on one of the cameras, and you have to lure him away from the main office middle area by using the phones to lure him. Rinse and repeat throughout the entire night.

2- Wither Cindy - Broken version of Cindy from FNAC 1 who starts off on one of the cameras, and you have to lure her away from the main office middle area by using the phones to lure her. Rinse and repeat throughout the entire night.

3- Wither Chester - Chester from FNAC1 however he lost his eyes and has a couple of arm and leg plates missing. Through the nights he appears in, he'll bang on some vents attempting to get in... the way you get rid of is... USE THE PHONES AGAIN to lure him away. When I say it lures him away, it makes him run away to... somewhere and throughout the night he'll continue to do the same thing over and over again. Rinse and repeat, it's not that different from Candy and Cindy apart from the banging he makes.

4- Withered Blank - an even more withered version of Blank as he was pretty withered in FNAC1 but now he's worse looking. Same mechanics as Candy and Cindy where he gets lured away from a near by phone call. However the difference is that he disconnects a phone if he happens to be in a camera with a phone on it.
So say he appears in a room where you rang it to get rid of Candy or Cindy or Chester, if Blank enters that room he disconnects the phone leaving it unusable for a short period of time. It's really not that different from Candy or Cindy though, again another case of rinse and repeat with no real variety other than he can occasionally disconnect the phones.

5- The Penguin - Withered version of the cutesy penguin from FNAC1 except he is missing his eyes and mouth, and has dust and scratches on him. He never appears physically in the game... he appears on the camera.
... this guy legitimately makes the game not scary... but a rage fest. This character makes the game hard as if you accidently find him on the camera which will show a black screen with his face on it. HE WILL CRASH THE CAMERA forcing you to reboot it, which allows for one of the animatronics to get up close and personal and sometimes even kill you.
You could say, "but the mechanic is suppose to make is so that the game is longer and more difficult so you have more obstacles to overcomes"
That's fine except if you play on 7/20 mode you're forced to have constantly pray that the stupid penguin doesn't wreck your night since he will ALWAYS crash the screen and not only that but the rebooting time takes forever ruining your night.
It almost feels like a last minute obstacle with sharp difficulty spike because most likely Emil knew the game was a bit too easy.

Keep in mind Penguin is my favorite character because of how cute he is, but jesus is he unbearable and annoying in FNAC2


6 - The RAT - The RAT reappears from FNAC1 with a bit more withering in terms of missing arm fur and leg fur, but for the most part looks the same as in the first game.
He plays exactly the same as Candy and Cindy however appears more often in the central hallway meaning you have to lure him to random rooms. You then have to also deal with the same mechanic as Withered Penguin, where RAT will appear on the screen with a black background and crash the screen. The mechanic is the same as penguin and equally as annoying.

7- The CAT - this is a newcomer animatronic and the companion of RAT, in the sense they both physically appear like they're from the same era. CAT is actually the very first incarnation of CANDY, from a time long ago. CAT along with RAT only appear on NIGHT 6 and 7. His gameplay is essentially like the RAT, Candy, Cindy, and Blank, however he also has urge to enter vents like Chester. If he successfully enters the vent he will kill you... but again just lure him away from the the vents with the phones and you'll be fine. But again he uses the same mechanic as RAT, Candy, Cindy, Blank, and Chester, RING THE PHONE IN ANOTHER ROOM AND THEY'LL GO TO IT.

The only interesting aspect of the entire game are the designs of RAT AND CAT as the withers of the regular animatronics look a bit bland.

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The final task of the game is to get beat 7/20 mode which has the first 3 hours making you deal with CANDY, CINDY, CHESTER, BLANK, and PENGUIN. The last 3 Hours, has you deal with RAT and CAT which is a major spike in difficulty when they appear. If you get through 7/20 you unlock a bonus minigame/postgame where you get a 16 bit minigame.

Here in the minigame you get to see a old location called "RAT AND CAT THEATER" where an incident occurs. This is expanded on in FNAC3 but here it's just as a teaser. This also confirms that RAT and CAT play a similar role to that of Fredbear and Springbonnie however the difference isn't that RAT AND CAT are both victims as oppose to how Fredbear and Springbonnie are opposing forces in a battle of a victim and a killer.

It also confirms that essentially CAT essentially is the first variation of CANDY, and RAT became a obsolete creepy character. Since the incident that occurs there leaves a bad name for the brand, the company sell off the brand to ROWBOATICS and they rebrand to CANDY's BURGER and FRIES, leaving RAT and CAT to rot.

Only discrepancy is that RAT appears in FNAC1, and CAT doesn't which obviously could imply that CAT was at the warehouse way before RAT, but even then it's just strange why RAT would be in FNAC1 if that was the case.

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Still the story is basically nonexistent except for the post minigame. The gameplay is just not fun, and the overall feel in terms of esthetic is a bit bland. The character withers are not that good as they feel like those photoshop pictures of the FNAF2 Toys, the only characters who are legitimately scary are RAT AND CAT as their eyes are hollow and pitch black and they have this terrifying expression on their faces.

Honestly I would just watch the Markiplier let's play of this rather than having yall play it yourself.

Reviewed on Jan 31, 2023


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