outlast if it happened in chuck e cheese and was rushed out for the holiday season so parents would buy their tweens and early teens the new fnaf game at launch

hilariously glitch-drunk and determined to ruin it's own atmosphere, fnaf: security breach seems to be held together by hopes, dreams, and maybe a little bit of chewing gum as a back up. controls are too sensitive or too unresponsive. you can break the AI, or use it to break the game. security breach regularly interrupts itself, freezing cutscenes to deliver information in an obtrusive manner. it feels like watching someone argue with themselves, and thoroughly disrupts any attempt at atmosphere. i haven't touched a fnanf game in literal years, and seeing the animatronics move around and talk like people saps all the unease out of their presence. they are, more often than not, comical to witness. it's consistently bizarre, if nothing else.

the real kicker is that it's not scary, nor is it particularly clever. even if it had been complete upon release, every detail fine-tuned to perfection, it would have drifted somewhere toward mediocre at best. there is nothing about this that sticks out other than the fact it's a tried and true mess.

anyway, i laughed so hard when roxy cried about not being able to catch a 12 year old on foot that i slapped myself

Reviewed on Jan 17, 2022


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