 4 REVIEW aka. FNAF FROM THE ADULT PERSPECTIVE - PART IV: THERAPY!!!! I NEED THERAPY!!!! |
  It was the summer of 2015 and 33 year old me had just gotten into this crazy game franchise. The first game I ever owned - this one, Five Nights at Freddy's 4 - and what a note to start out on because this is the one that still, even to this day, my heart rate starts racing higher when I'm about to click on that icon, to me, FNaF 4 was truly terrifying.
This was also the first FNaF game I gave a serious play to. It brought back up certain childhood fears I used to have of being alone, in the house at night, with nothing but a flashlight. Cawthon, in my eyes at least, was a master of creating the right atmosphere, and he really captured that 1980's house, late at night, somewhat caught in a Nightmare just realistic enough to question if this is really a nightmare, or reality and things are truly this horrid. Night one hit, of course, I just wandered up to each door and listened, nothing there, I wandered around the room and looked around. 2 a.m. strikes, and now my flashlight flickers, I make it through the night, hearing the breaths of Nightmare Bonnie on the left side - then night 2 starts - and I can hear a dog bark, Cawthon speaking in toungues backwards in the background, I go to the door, I hear nothing, I hit the light "BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!" - I just became a midnight snack for Nightmare Bonnie....and now I'm pulling a Kramer guitar headstock out of my back like a dull bayonet!THE HISTORY OF FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S PART IV: THINGS ARE GETTING A LITTLE WEIRD FNaF 4 was released in the summer of 2015 for PC, Android, and on Steam. It started off being called, yet again "the Final Chapter", implying to me that Cawthon was getting a little tired of his runaway franchise, and honestly, he succeeded to make one of the most ungodly terrifying video games I've ever made. Yes, this made this now 40 year old man fly out of his chair like BlasphemousHD does! And I'm not even hamming it up. The game was "crap" to some, like PewDiePie, but to others, like me, Markiplier, and BlasphemousHD, was ungodly terrifying, at least for awhile. However, this is when the franchise started to jump the shark and crack a bit. If it had been something like, someont took home the animatronics mascots for repair, and it was just the kid's nightmares, or maybe the animatronics came to life at night and were setup for halloween, it'd be more believable. But of course, this is FNaF, a storyline that simple just won't do. However, this game's story made it a tough figure out and raised more questions and solutions to the lore, which is when we started to see some of the fanbase drop off a little bit. This was also just as the media hype train, talk of a movie, and other things started to happen, so this was truly when FNaF had come of age.PLOT: 8/10 GRAPHICS: 9/10 SOUND: 8/10 GAMEPLAY: 7.5/10 OVERALL |
