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FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: ULTIMATE CUSTOM NIGHT
And then, just like that, in 2018, with far less fanfare that previous releases, we got what I'd been wanting for years - Five Nights at Freddy's: Ultimate Custom Night. A FNaF title not about the lore, not about a story, or complicating it any further, but rather, a game where we just do the core gameplay, and can customize it to meet our wants and desires.

In Ultimate Custom Night, you get to pick from 50 Scott Cawthon/FNaF pivotal characters including the original Bonnie, Chica, Freddy, Foxy from the first game, the toys, the withered animatronics, the nightmares, phantoms, 2 versions of Springtrap, the rockstars, the Medeocre Melodies - and ALL of em' have comments about your performance in-game after you lose a night, whether it's Nightmare Fredbear sounding like James Earl Jones, or a super-long epilogue from everyone's favorite friendly, yet long-winded Rantconteur - Mr. Hippo. The game got it's share of fans but is one of the less talked about of the franchise because it has far less to do with the convoluted lore and story than other installments tend to. It was sort of a nice way for Scott to tie up loose ends a little before handing the franchise off to Steel Wool and other studios to make more AA grade releases without him needing to be involved in every aspect at such a prominent level.

Ultimate Custom Night has a high replayability value due to the sheer amount of combinations of characters you can play against, and the varying AI levels, and at least 3 different "locations" in which to play. That said, it seems to have lost it's steam.
Ultimate Fever Dream: One of my Favorites
This game earned the title of Ultimate Fever Dream because, due to my wife's fear general hatred of this franchise (which is funny as SHE introduced me to it), when I bought it on Steam in July 2018 (as soon as it came out), I played it on MUTE! Playing this game on mute is frickin HILARIOUS! Espcecially with all the characters dimed out. You have just random, wanton, insanity showing up on screen, and there's no telling what will happen? Nightmare Baloon Boy is going to eat ya? Are you going to miss the Parrot because of a Egg Crate with a Foam Hand? Nightmare Bonnie is in the hall and Withered Chica is poking her head out of the vent eerily only to get wiggle-stunned by Toy Bonnie in a few seconds? I mean, muting it makes it a comedy.

But what's also cool is you can take a serious attempt at playing it like I did, and really learn each character's mechanic very well. IT seems the key to this game, is not necessarily to learn how to act against ALL characters all at once (impossible), but figure out which characters are cancelled out by other characters when enabled in higher AI modes. You can spend the night having a drill with Freddy Fazbear wandering the halls, or deflecting Mr. Hippo lest you suffer the wrath of a 20 minute monologue about his Friend Orville, Birds, Rye Bread, and which day of the week it was.

And since the game has no lore, and no reason to make you think any of these guys are "gud guays" as some of the kiddos write on the "intrenetz", I don't have to suffer the irritating wrath of Millennial Parents in my social circle either asking if I'm a creepo, or if I'm mentally stunted because their damn kid has a plushie of Chica! C'mon you assholes, give me a break!