Two games in and we’ve already potentially hit the peak of the series
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is a fantastic follow up to the first game, the game is more challenging, more varied, more tense, and overall just more fun to play, while also greatly expanding the lore of the series and just all around giving people a really damn good experience.
Let’s start off with the general gameplay, and this time there’s a hell of a lot more to it, you’re far more vulnerable this time thanks to the fact that there are no doors, and your only means of protection is a Freddy mask, but luckily the Freddy mask makes the animatronics confuse you for one of their own, so I guess you can just wear it the whole night………one problem though, foxy, he can see right through your disguise and will kill you even with the mask on, so you have to flash the flashlight on him a bunch of times to make him go away, so now you’re thinking “ok, just a little hurdle, but I can still stay in the mask most of the time” yeah no, that’s where the music box comes in, you gotta go on your camera and wind this music box up a bunch, this leaves you vulnerable on the cameras and can lead to many deaths either from a surprise animatronic appearance or the puppet coming out herself.
Another thing this game does expertly is the sound design, listening out for an animatronic entering the vents or the hallways, hearing how close balloon boy or mangle are by their audio cues, it’s all used very well and adds another layer of strategy to the game.
All this feeds into a great gameplay loop that doesn’t really overstay its welcome, and it leads to a pretty tense and scary experience, I’ll still admit that the jumpscares themselves are goofy, the atmosphere succeeds in making you feel fear, so thankfully the jumpscares can be kinda excused.
Now let’s talk about some lore, this game greatly expands it with some reveals and answers for the first game’s questions, but also adding more mysteries for us to solve, firstly this game marks the very first appearance of the one, the only, William Afton, known only right now as the purple guy, murderer of the children, the death mini games each help to emphasize the tragedy of Freddy Fazbear’s pizzeria and the absolute monster Afton is, in one mini game he kills a girl who would later possess the puppet and put the five children’s souls into the animatronics, in another you can see Afton watching foxy run to the dead kids, in anther he can very rarely pop up and dismantle Freddy, it’s a great way of setting him up, I’ll say for now he’s a phenomenal antagonist.
This game also shows what we can only say was a theory in the last game, that being the children’s souls possessing the animatronics, we now know why they attack, cause they mistake you for Afton.
I love how the lore is built up in this game, and with how much build up Afton is getting, I feel he’s soon going to take center stage in a game……….wink wink nudge nudge
Overall, FNAF 2 is a fantastic entry in this series, building and expanding everything almost perfectly compared to the first game.
Now onto FNAF 3
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is a fantastic follow up to the first game, the game is more challenging, more varied, more tense, and overall just more fun to play, while also greatly expanding the lore of the series and just all around giving people a really damn good experience.
Let’s start off with the general gameplay, and this time there’s a hell of a lot more to it, you’re far more vulnerable this time thanks to the fact that there are no doors, and your only means of protection is a Freddy mask, but luckily the Freddy mask makes the animatronics confuse you for one of their own, so I guess you can just wear it the whole night………one problem though, foxy, he can see right through your disguise and will kill you even with the mask on, so you have to flash the flashlight on him a bunch of times to make him go away, so now you’re thinking “ok, just a little hurdle, but I can still stay in the mask most of the time” yeah no, that’s where the music box comes in, you gotta go on your camera and wind this music box up a bunch, this leaves you vulnerable on the cameras and can lead to many deaths either from a surprise animatronic appearance or the puppet coming out herself.
Another thing this game does expertly is the sound design, listening out for an animatronic entering the vents or the hallways, hearing how close balloon boy or mangle are by their audio cues, it’s all used very well and adds another layer of strategy to the game.
All this feeds into a great gameplay loop that doesn’t really overstay its welcome, and it leads to a pretty tense and scary experience, I’ll still admit that the jumpscares themselves are goofy, the atmosphere succeeds in making you feel fear, so thankfully the jumpscares can be kinda excused.
Now let’s talk about some lore, this game greatly expands it with some reveals and answers for the first game’s questions, but also adding more mysteries for us to solve, firstly this game marks the very first appearance of the one, the only, William Afton, known only right now as the purple guy, murderer of the children, the death mini games each help to emphasize the tragedy of Freddy Fazbear’s pizzeria and the absolute monster Afton is, in one mini game he kills a girl who would later possess the puppet and put the five children’s souls into the animatronics, in another you can see Afton watching foxy run to the dead kids, in anther he can very rarely pop up and dismantle Freddy, it’s a great way of setting him up, I’ll say for now he’s a phenomenal antagonist.
This game also shows what we can only say was a theory in the last game, that being the children’s souls possessing the animatronics, we now know why they attack, cause they mistake you for Afton.
I love how the lore is built up in this game, and with how much build up Afton is getting, I feel he’s soon going to take center stage in a game……….wink wink nudge nudge
Overall, FNAF 2 is a fantastic entry in this series, building and expanding everything almost perfectly compared to the first game.
Now onto FNAF 3