I already knew I hated this one for a multitude of reasons, but I figured it was short and easy enough to just speed through and maybe have some fun recording it.
Anyway, to the point, good lord, this game is so remarkably nothing. To not say anything about the first night, which is quite literally nothing, FNaF3 has a singular game plan from night 2 onwards. There is no threat you should ever come across aside from Springtrap himself, and even if you do, none of them function any differently from one another. When you're not begrudgingly moving to the left side of the screen to fix whatever went wrong this time, you're sitting on one camera and pressing the audio button every time Afton moves away. Rinse, repeat, five times over.
The AI in 3 ranges from light speed movement through rooms and vents, killing you at 2AM, to 'I literally watched him crawl into the same locked vent four times in the span of 20 seconds. On night 5.' I just find it really difficult to take this thing seriously, there's nothing to fear with this one.
And I think that's the biggest problem. There is nothing to fear. Springtrap will make his presence obnoxiously known through loud ambience once he's close enough, will peek his little head in through the door when he's about to strike, and then gives you a feeble cat hiss once he finally makes it in. Every scare in this game uses the same weak noise, dampened a hell of a lot more by the fact that it's all telegraphed for a solid 3 seconds at least. The only thing that can come close would be Phantom Foxy, who will randomly (I assume?? I still haven't figured everything out about him) appear in the office off to the side, but will still just awkwardly stand there as long as you don't scroll far enough. Foxy is legitimately good thinking from a gameplay perspective, players will scramble to the other monitor to fix an error, and he's there to catch you for moving too sporadically. He's cool! I saw him a total of once.
The best thing Five Nights at Freddy's 3 had to offer was lore. Cool story, doesn't change the fact that I'm snoozin'. 4/10 game.
Anyway, to the point, good lord, this game is so remarkably nothing. To not say anything about the first night, which is quite literally nothing, FNaF3 has a singular game plan from night 2 onwards. There is no threat you should ever come across aside from Springtrap himself, and even if you do, none of them function any differently from one another. When you're not begrudgingly moving to the left side of the screen to fix whatever went wrong this time, you're sitting on one camera and pressing the audio button every time Afton moves away. Rinse, repeat, five times over.
The AI in 3 ranges from light speed movement through rooms and vents, killing you at 2AM, to 'I literally watched him crawl into the same locked vent four times in the span of 20 seconds. On night 5.' I just find it really difficult to take this thing seriously, there's nothing to fear with this one.
And I think that's the biggest problem. There is nothing to fear. Springtrap will make his presence obnoxiously known through loud ambience once he's close enough, will peek his little head in through the door when he's about to strike, and then gives you a feeble cat hiss once he finally makes it in. Every scare in this game uses the same weak noise, dampened a hell of a lot more by the fact that it's all telegraphed for a solid 3 seconds at least. The only thing that can come close would be Phantom Foxy, who will randomly (I assume?? I still haven't figured everything out about him) appear in the office off to the side, but will still just awkwardly stand there as long as you don't scroll far enough. Foxy is legitimately good thinking from a gameplay perspective, players will scramble to the other monitor to fix an error, and he's there to catch you for moving too sporadically. He's cool! I saw him a total of once.
The best thing Five Nights at Freddy's 3 had to offer was lore. Cool story, doesn't change the fact that I'm snoozin'. 4/10 game.
Weatherby
7 months ago