Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach (Zero Punctuation)

[@theescapist]

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[@alex.g7317]

Hey! I’m the first comment! Yay!

[@georgespence6727]

what if the bugs were LORE.

[@alex.g7317]

@@georgespence6727 I wouldn’t be supersized if they pulled that card.

[@StarkSpider24]

Good work Yahtzee. Covered pretty much every issue I noticed about the game 👌

[@smilemore7431]

Yahtzee on Fnaf 1: It’s not my cup of tea but I can see why people like it. Yahtzee on security breach: I am filled with so much hate I don’t know if I can properly express it.

[@vladimirlestrad3120]

I remember Yahtzee saying that Fnaf 1 as a horror game was too much for him. Mostly due to his childhood fear of animal themed mascots ala Chuckie Cheezes, and that the jump scares made it more distressing than actually scary. Several years later and with Security Breach, Yahtzee ain’t falling for the same gimmick twice.

[@Dranlia]

In his post ZP stream he expressed confusion that people liked it.

[@abloogywoogywoo]

Me on Kingdom Hearts 1: It’s not my cup of tea but I can see why people like it. Me on Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory: ...please go away, this getting silly now.

[@sunlitsonata6853]

@@abloogywoogywoo To be fair, most series known for great soundtracks could benefit from a rhythm game. After 30 years it’s surprising there hasn’t been a single Sonic one yet. That it’s weirdly relevant to the plot even a tiny bit, is the crazier thing

[@abloogywoogywoo]

@@sunlitsonata6853 Maybe it's because, I can't stand Disney as a corporate entity anymore. And any IPs that crossover in their neglected IPs just screams of cringe.

[@15oClock]

You know it's going to be riveting when Yahtzee says "I want to hurt it."

[@KeithFraser82]

*"THIS HURTS YOU."* -Harbinger, Mass Effect 2

[@abloogywoogywoo]

Yahtzee's love is like his hate: caustic and burning.

[@danny_decheeto8300]

yeah that is a sure sign he hates it more than usual

[@memeticgenetic5160]

@@danny_decheeto8300 More like he hasn't reviewed a genuinely bad game in a good while and those grindy, middling boring games are all too common

[@dragonoverlord2010]

Those words had the feel of a dying man boldly declaring “I live again!”

[@owenpattaylor]

I think the funniest part about Security Breach is that one of the antagonists is a security guard named Vanessa, and there's another antagonist who is a woman in a rabbit costume named Vanny, and it's treated as a major reveal that they are the same person.

[@josephfox9221]

Dude spoiler alert warning!

[@HardTahc]

Except they might not even be the same, or maybe they are? It’s not even clear

[@owenpattaylor]

@@HardTahc my brother in christ, they are the same

[@HardTahc]

@@owenpattaylor It's not confirmed, though. One of the endings shows them as separate entities. Unless it's symbolic, which it could be! But there's also a chance it's not!

[@jmurray1110]

@@HardTahc it’s more likely that van you died but Vanessa’s soul is trapped in the pizzaplexmto burn the remanent out of her

[@kingsleycy3450]

The FNAF franchise occupies such a specific niche it could release anything, and the fans would still find value in it.

[@alldayagain]

Not an exclusive model to FNAF

[@uzqu2201]

FNAF is like Apple. They could release a potato and their fans would buy it.

[@yuggoth777]

"I carve statues out of my own frozen jizz"

[@Edagui97]

Didn't their RPG back in the day fail so badly they made it free out of shame?

[@myrixica4222]

FNAF fans mostly don't really care about the games, they care about the lore hidden within them. And if you're not into the hidden lore, and the puzzles to work it out and trying to put that whole picture together then yea, you're not really gonna enjoy the games.

[@CmdrVoltaire]

The fact that this game became a meme factory literally minutes after it dropped tells you all you need to know about why it was made.

[@paulrus-keaton439]

Actually, you can go farther than that from the toys that were released years before it came out...

[@thrownstair]

The outcome is a bunch more kids are going to become furries after seeing that wolf girl in the tank top, and so DeviantArt has another stay of execution.

[@ShenDoodles]

That's more down to the fact memes come out of anything popular combined with the younger fanbase. Resident Evil: Village had a similar place in meme culture.

[@csd1597]

They literally have 0 relation to eachother lmao

[@deusexmachina101]

@@thrownstair you really went from 0 to 60 on that one kid.

[@hoagielamp6543]

This felt like an angry 2014 episode, beautiful from start to finish.

[@azyrael96]

not that the new ones are not beautiful from start to finish, too. it is that level of roasting that we have not seen in quite a while, because more devs have figured out how to make good games, sadly

[@hoagielamp6543]

@@azyrael96 His battle toads review was pretty brutal, I think that was the last all-in hate review.

[@abloogywoogywoo]

I still have massive respect for him binning Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, I mean who f**k thought revisiting that goddamn dungeon with unkillable monsters on a time limit again and again was honestly a "gOod IdEa" and "fUn" for the player???

[@Cappytain101]

That seems accurate since the game itself feels like it’s from 2014.

[@philip2.2.12]

2009/7 were the best

[@Jack_Garland78]

"Speaking of things that never get old..." "... is about children getting murdered." Well, I guess I'm never getting old either cause that shit killed me!

[@drdca8263]

Oh, I misinterpreted that line until I saw your comment. I didn’t realize it was changing the meaning of “not getting old” from “not becoming tiresome” to the literal meaning of “no longer aging (because they are dead)”, And thought it was a joke about, never tiring of depictions of kids dying. Which, is a darker and less funny joke.

[@yidingliu8663]

@@drdca8263 The younglings would have agreed, if they could grow old.

[@jamesmccomb9525]

No worries about that, you're already an aged corpse as is.

[@samiscebba4332]

i spat my drink..

[@DaoYeLung]

Watching markiplier suffer through this game tells you all you need. The part where it took him 45 MINUTES to find the exit in the laundry area, not because he's bad at the game but because it was so poorly located, is indicative of this game's many issues.

[@Lolbama2012]

The game could crash every 5 minutes and they fnaf fanboys would still act like it's the greatest game ever.

[@Ward1706]

Even to the (self-proclaimed) king of FNAF, this was a bridge too far. Says it all really.

[@TreatSan]

Think part of the reason also lies in the Franchise design more then ust Bad Game design, Even in the face of Mark, he's not terrible at games, but he's known to take more 'obtuse' routes to get to the end, especially ing ames where the ideas/franchise was working on GEnerally Backwards ways to get from point A to B... The game gave no waypoints, made missions go backwards, and when he got lost, he pointed out taht the game oddly and kinda moronically made his goal more or less a stright foward path that he overlooked cause it's 'TOo obvious'... Though the Laser tag was redumlious beyond belife... The game is terrible for not explainning it, Mark not trying the turn in made sense since he's told to 'get a laser gun' but still kind've silly to not assume that he'll get rewarded with one, but on the same back of that actually Lining out in your objectives that the prize is a 'Gold Fazblaster' would've been better when you spend too MUCH time lining out half of the other Objectives, and another half is 'assumed' the player will just 'figure it out'.

[@coyraig8332]

Not even just the location. It would have been fine right there if the exit signs were actually used to mark the exits, and not 2/3 of the other doors

[@HoodWeegee]

Mark was extremely annoyed during his playthrough. And you can tell he's slightly to very sick of a game when he chooses to stream it over making episodes for it, but does it for his audience.

[@sninctbur3726]

“I JUST ASKED IF WE WERE GONNA REVIEW INSCRYPTION” Yahtzee knows us too well

[@juuchanIRL]

i really want that review to happen.

[@Zeratultheking]

It was honestly one of the few games paying full price felt actually worth it. Its how dull some new games have become, that a breath of fresh air of a new concept even reusing old concepts felt good. But the story sucks you in and makes you want to keep playing it!

[@НелиелОксингейл]

So did he? I really want to know what he can say about it, because there are a lot of places to roast, but I really liked that game...

[@Exile_Sky]

This game is so broken that watching speedrunners rip it to pieces has been more entertaining than the actual game. Did you know you can skip cutscenes by turning the voice volume to 0? .. I'm not kidding.

[@c.wubby.u861]

NANI?

[@Exile_Sky]

@@c.wubby.u861 It's true. Turn the "voice volume" down to 0 and it skips dialogue completely.

[@c.wubby.u861]

@@Exile_Sky I don't own the game but if i do get it (patched), that's a fun glitch to try out

[@philipkelly7369]

I mean in fairness watching speed runners tear a game to shreds is pretty baseline entertaining

[@TarlukLegion]

Honestly it seems so unrelated code-wise that I feel like that'd have to be intentional. "You're gonna turn down the voice volume to 0? I guess that probably means you don't want to listen to the cutscenes anyway, might as well skip them for ya."

[@Zayl1016]

He briefly talks about the endings but regrettably he didn't dig deep enough into the madness of the endings. First of all, the ending looks like it skipped three or four scenes that are meant to build up to the climax. Then, midway through the climax, it abruptly switches from a visually impressive CGI cutscene to a comic strip that slides along the images of what happens next. It reminds me of a Key and Peele skit where it is a high fantasy music video that uses its budget halfway through and suddenly everything drops to its barest quality possible. It's such a bizarre choice, at the top of the entire game which is a series of bizarre choices, that it borders on satirical.

[@samesensei2838]

the power of wings

[@shieldplus]

@@samesensei2838 Thank you for dropping that name, that was amazing

[@sirapple589]

@samesensei Of Redemption?

[@booksmeow1633]

There is an ending that is CGI. It is the true ending. They said they did the comic book endings so you know which was the real ending. I'm sure what really happened was they just didn't have the time/money to make them CGI since the game was behind schedule.

[@Zayl1016]

@@booksmeow1633 That would make more sense if the entire ending was done in comic book style, but it's literally right in the middle of the scene.

[@Dyneamaeus]

3:30 some of my favorite ZP moments are when something so shocking happens even the imps have to break character and take notice.

[@josephattwell1006]

Fun fact: the game is so glitchy it is trivially easy to restore the save function. Go to the race track level and redo any of the objectives in there that you have completed. It will rewind time back before 6 am without undoing any of your other progress.

[@Greywander87]

I think the worst part is that this is almost mandatory because of how glitchy the game is. You can do nothing wrong and still die, and having your last save be locked to only the game's halfway point means losing a lot of progress through no fault of your own. If they fixed the glitches so that any time you died was your own fault, then it might be more rewarding. The threat of lost progress is a strong motivator to take the game seriously and play like death has actual consequences. When you can just reload a save from two minutes ago, it's hard to feel like you're in real danger, and you can play much more recklessly. But if a death isn't your fault and you lose that much progress, that's a rage-quite in the making.

[@NeonIcyWings]

Honestly the most impressive part was Yahtzee was (apparently) willing to trudge on through to different endings were it not for the ballsed up decision to disable saves in the final stretch of the game. I still wanna know why they made that decision honestly. It doesn't really align with any sense of difficulty I know which makes me think the person who made that decision is either a twat or has no idea what makes good game design. Difficulty is in itself difficult to objectively describe, but can be boiled down to, in my opinion "An expansion or inversion or twist on the core of this game's basics" It adds something, tests something or throws something on its head. Taking away saves doesn't do that, it shoves a niche challenge mode down the throats of most players who don't care about that sorta challenge. What next oh dear Security Breach designer? "To get the true ending to Elden Ring you need to pull off a soul level one no hit run of all previous Soulsborne games."

[@Castersvarog]

The best example of this was Markipliers playthrough, you can practical taste his frustration with the lack of saving after 6am and he straight up uses glitches so he can save and doesn’t get thrown 6 hours worth of progress back

[@Kaleidio]

said mechanic is being patched out next update.

[@myrixica4222]

It was to try to capture the same thing the older games had where if you wanted the true ending you had to do some extremely complex difficult bullshit to get it.

[@SomeoneElseInTheComments]

I can understand it in the sense that it's designed to make the good/completionist ending(s) rare. We're used to completionism being easy, but I guess Steel Wool didn't want to do that - and that's okay.

[@icarue993]

I would say difficulty is changing variables to make it more challenging while still being fair. Generally this is to change health and defense of allies and enemies, but it can also be reaction time and invinsibility frames, like in Fallen Order. Disabling difficulty on itself is fine. Many games do this in hard difficulty. Well... they do: you "die = restart". Which would have been fine too... IF THEY STARTED WITH THAT FROM THE VERY BEGINING **WITH PLAYER'S CONSENT**. As it is rn is as if you were playing a game, and suddenly they ramp up the difficulty without you asking (Cough, Pokemon Brilliant Diamond cough).

[@jinjar7453]

I was really hoping he'd be one of the folks who powered through to true ending, just so he'd piss on it. It's dragging back in the tangled lore from the other games and ruins what would have been a great start for a new chapter of the series. Also worth mentioning, Fred at some point mentions "the indicator on your map" to suggest there's supposed to be objective markers, but there isnt one. The game feels like it has all the right ingredients, it just put them in a septic tank instead of a bowl.

[@BeefMeisterSupreme]

so resident evil village

[@akirathewildcard9625]

And judging from that line some of it was unsalvageable so they decided to just throw in what they had left

[@candlestone5397]

From what I understand, the ending is trying to put that lore to rest in a way. for one thing, how many times has springtrap/purple shirt been set on fire? at least twice, it doesnt work. also having a massive amorphous mass made from the tangled mass of the franchise and his victems appear and just take him away in an anticlimax is kinda fitting.

[@jinjar7453]

@@candlestone5397 but he died in that second fire. His past finally caught him and he was burned in a building specifically designed to kill animatronics, during a dramatic speech about how everything is finally over. We even got to see him in hell. Bringing him back just to immediately kill him by strangulation is an incredibly poor decision, not to mention unlikely. It's more likely that he'll be back, if burning didn't kill him I don't think the blob stands a chance. This is just set up for the next game/dlc.

[@candlestone5397]

@@jinjar7453 nothing is foolproof, especially since the Blob looks like ennerd but made of every animatronic instead of just a couple, kinda shows that the fire didn't work at all, Except for the puppet and maybe baby. Also in the true ending glitchtrap and Vanny are unaccounted for, which is concerning. Another thing to note is that starting in the vr game, the series had a soft reboot when it said that the previous games existed in universe, making everything in the past games iffy anyway. If there weren't youtubers like Matpat/game theory then this franchise wouldn't be half as interesting, understandable, or probably even exist.

[@beauboy3061]

“If I suspect that jumpscares are lying in wait, I want to know that I can respond by opening fire, or legging it in the opposite direction.” Yahtzee Crowshaw - 2015 Not even both those things could stop his criticism.

[@pokemonmanic3595]

The ending of Yahtzee’s review of Cyberpunk 2077 comes to mind “Sure, there's a theoretically nice plate of steak fries here, but it's partially buried in potato peelings, and I don't understand why you peeled so many more potatoes than you actually needed. Also, not to make a fuss, but I ordered a salad!”

[@michaciejka2839]

This is just fnaf 2077

[@Ward1706]

That’s not entirely fair on 2077 really, is it?

[@mrlaz9011]

"Wake the fuck up Gregory, we have a Mall to burn."

[@ramenbomberdeluxe4958]

@@Ward1706 Considering the game is nothing but broken promises, stripped features, and outright lies galore? I think the OP didnt do ENOUGH damage with their commment honestly.

[@dorianhinkle5595]

When even the FNAF cult agrees with Yahtzee, you know the devs really cocked it up.

[@guyferrari8124]

Just because we sacrifice a few virgin lambs every now and again doesn’t mean it makes us a cult!

[@helsin9758]

They don't lol. They're in comments disagreeing with him

[@funk.4480]

Naw, a hell of a lotta cult members still really like it and defend the actual game design (which is boring and bad but whatever) It’s mainly the BOOMER FNaF fans who liked the first three games the most who hate it (me!!!)

[@thehuman2734]

I think "preschool" would be a more accurate term to describe the fans that defend this game

[@playtimeplay4518]

there's really nothing going for this game except for "ha ha funny bugs"

[@DMMegsie]

It is nice to see that the devs are at least going to make saving after 6 am possible in their next patch... but the fact the game is even in this state where some of these things were considered to be "good ideas" is baffling.

[@BlazeStorm]

"Their next patch". That's also an issue, the game released 2 month ago and at the very least there hasn't been an update in the last 6 weeks

[@StardustLegend]

@@BlazeStorm they said that the February patch is going to fix a lot of the issues. I’m hoping it does because security breach is genuinely a game I want to play

[@Lolbama2012]

"Whichever neon haired dropout has the most amusing scream this week." Man just described modern KZbin and Twitch Letplays in a single sentence. Yahtzee is a legend.

[@BoardGamesBricksHobbies]

That quote was my absolute favorite bit!

[@fredwupkensoppel8949]

Homeboy created the PC Master Race as a throwaway joke. That's just how he rolls.

[@cancerino666]

@@Wiseman108 But it still encapsulates the media I'd say

[@wesleythomas7125]

That's going to be my headcanon from now on. Nobody taught this kid "Stay put if you get lost," and every time he bumps into one of the animatronics in the dark, he has a PTSD flashback to Markiplier (my over-reacting letsplayer of choice) playing FN@F 4 and has a fatal heart attack.

[@DjShadFox]

> Nobody taught this kid "Stay put if you get lost" It's sort of implied that Gregory is a homeless kid - in one ending he sleeps in the alley after escaping (which is weird by itself, seeing how lockdown was released at 6AM but whatever), and he wasn't registered in the animatronic database (meaning that he certainly didn't enter the complex the usual way). There are also multiple hideouts inside the complex indicating that someone was actually living in there full-time. That said, if the game can't be arsed to explain anything about the main character, why should we.

[@ShenDoodles]

SPOILER ALERT He is an orphan living in a cardboard box on the street, he doesn't have anyone to tell him that or the means to even watch Markiplier. Either way, he's the only FNAF protagonist to go "Wait, I don't need to take this, I can just fight back!" and use his wits to greatly damage the animatronics and harvest their parts to put into Freddy, the animatronic Yahtzee never mentioned helping you throughout the game. Come to think of it, there's a lot Yahtzee didn't mention, like the fact that the security guard who caused the whole mess is specifically looking for him and has sent the animatronics after him, and that Freddy keeps giving you pointers to escape before 6AM, something that proves impossible.

[@vashanoid]

Of course it doesn’t explain anything five nights games are basically spooky fun flash games but the piece it together yourself lore and characters is 90% of why people like the series

[@mothichorror446]

@@ShenDoodles...because all that is irrelevant to his overall experience of the game? If a game doesn't feel rewarding to play, I highly doubt that the player is going to be invested in the minutiae of the story

[@booksmeow1633]

@@DjShadFox It actually does explain stuff about him if you find the super secret hidden tapes and room where you hear his therapy logs. The game cut a lot of needed story content for LORE

[@jvoz671]

I wish Yahtzee would bring back reading fan's mail and making fun of them. If not for every game, just this one time for the FNAF fans. I would love to see that.

[@DeaconTaylor]

that was strong bad

[@thrownstair]

It happened one time I can remember for Smash Bros. Brawl.

[@CatgirlKazu]

I don't think FNAF fans have learned enough English yet to be able to write a coherent email

[@abloogywoogywoo]

The Brawl fans deserved it, because Brawl is a brainless overrated fighting game that lacks in substance and sometimes, multiplayer fun (which is supposed to be the entire damn point of the game Nintendo!). FNAF at least has charm, characters and story to it however.

[@tiraironsyde7251]

It would be funny. But I doubt many Fnaf fans know who Yahtzee is.

[@secretserenity44127]

I've loved the FNaF series for a long time and I'm super into the lore. But this review is 100% justified. The game was so broken. I was so excited to see this video pop up because I wanted to hear you shit on it like it deserved.

[@marinmarinhola]

The games peaked at FNAF 2, with Pizzería Simulator bringing it back briefly before it jumped off a cliff again (I don't count HW in this because it's just a rehash with 3D vr graphics, so it's as good as the game it's emulating)

[@SuchClowneryLuv]

took the words right out of my mouth 💕 the game felt excruciatingly unfinished

[@scrittle]

Scott never got cancelled, he resigned

[@EricTheKartoonKing]

Agreed. It’s really weird to me how other reviewers are being so… gentle? I assume to not incur the wrath of the fan base.

[@icarue993]

Im also somewhat deep into the lore, but I have never played a game (or read a book). I just watch Matpat's cliffnotes and theories.

[@Nitrinoxus]

As I understand it, _Security Breach_ genuinely _was_ unfinished -- the game's development ran over-time and over-budget, and got pushed back enough that the series' creator felt compelled to create a freeware side-scrolling beat-'em-up with the game's animatronic cast just to _apologize_ for the delays. In the end, they had to rush it out the door before it was ready, and ye _gods_ does it _show._

[@thekoifishcoyote8762]

I don't pity the developers. Did they really need to 3D model most of those collectibles? Did they really need to add upgrades? Did they really need both a laser gun and flash camera? Did they really need to make the pizzaplex a realistic scale? Not to mention the lack of asset reuse. It's an indie studio and even AAA ones reuse background assets. It's like they were trying to miss their deadlines.

[@Nitrinoxus]

@thekoifishcoyote8762 I can respect Scott Cawthon for taking his work seriously enough to not want to cut corners, especially considering how prevalent that is in the triple-A gaming industry -- but obsessing over an unrealistic outcome at the expense of the game itself is what sunk _Daikatana,_ and both Ion Storm and John Romero along with it, so one would _think_ that sensible project management would be the _first_ lesson indie devs internalize.

[@nerderiffic8682]

Ok i can't get over how accurate that "are you embarrased about the good ending?!" Line is xD the endings were all p bad

[@spenceduggs]

I have the same feeling towards Security Breach that I did with Detroit: Become Human. Looks genuinely impressive & the art direction is incredible! *...just a shame about literally everything else.*

[@ForrestFox626]

At least we got good Zero Punctuation episodes out of them.

[@Chris_Sizemore]

What was that about Detroit? I think I just saved $10. (Removes Detroit: Become Human from Wishlist)

[@KVWI]

@@Chris_Sizemore You can watch northernlion play detroit if you want to see what you saved money on, the playthrough is pretty funny

[@RufusOmega]

This is exactly my take on Mortal Shell, which I just tried out because it's cheap on PSN right now. It looks great and the animation is truly impressive; it's just a shame that all the actual game parts are terrible.

[@mistermann4163]

Well I don't really know the full story of the Development process. But the can say that the wrench that's in each game is different in that Scott was twitter mobbed which made him stop developing this game(mostly cause they went after his pregnant wife) about the near end with other people finishing it. Where as the wrench in Detroit is David Cage's existence.

[@Clara_Page]

The developers "Take a look at the beta build, I think we have the foundation of a great game here" The publishers "Looks good, ship it out!" The developers "But this is the beta build, there's still a lot of content to add and finish" The publishers "Great work I love the efficiency. you've already started making the DLC"

[@jammyweegit1144]

Considering Markiplier uploaded multi-hour long videos trying to figure out what the fuck to do, I would say your theory about intentionally annoying content creators has some good standing.

[@Ashurman666]

I don't blame him though, the game itself is incredibly poor at telling you where to go. There's no signs, no labels, the map is useless, no indicators whatsoever.

[@booksmeow1633]

@@Ashurman666 Outside of the overworld markers you shouldn't need that is the funny part. Every area is so poorly designed that most people can't think of better ways to design them outside of signs and labels. Like every section of the game needs a complete level design overhaul.

[@thedemoncat4624]

And honestly watching him get annoyed isn't all that fun. I just want to tell him to stop, it's okay, he doesn't have to finish this goddamn marathon slog.

[@weezact7]

@@thedemoncat4624 But that's how he gets PAID

[@Pineappolis]

@@weezact7 True but I see what... The Demon Cat means. (Sentences I didn't think I'd be typing this morning). I've not watched a _huge_ amount of his content, but Markiplier's brand seems to be a friendly, sunnily-disposed guy so it might have been better to just switch to a different game once it became apparent that he was just going to be frustrated forever.

[@ActuatedGear]

You know all those collectables you were too busy to find ALL of? Y'know how it would be nice to collect them now? HAVE FUN DOING IT EVERY SINGLE TIME!!!

[@MouseGoat]

Just do it before your last save lol

[@HellecticMojo]

@@MouseGoat that seems like an awful thing. Either the game isn't engaging or challenging enough that a a supposed horror game would let you just roam freely 100% collectibles or 100% collectibles is just an unreasonable challenge where you must get it all in a single go.

[@JohnnyThousand605]

Wait a minute; are you saying the collectibles only count for each play through? They don't carry over?

[@ActuatedGear]

@@JohnnyThousand605 So... You get to a point in the game where it stops letting you save. Any collectibles you missed in areas that you COULD have gotten and any collectables in areas you have not been to are no longer permanent. Everything you picked up up to your last save stays. That said, there are still a LOT of things you can't access at that point including the discs. Now, the discs would make for a fairly interesting "get them in one go" piece of lore as they are attached to a fairly well made secret, but upgrades and random collectables not being preserved is... well it sucks the big one, and it's dumb.

[@konnichi1wa]

@@ActuatedGear Except it was entirely possible to glitch out the game to a state where it would let you continue saving after the "point of no return"

[@DexterManning]

how you managed to even get to the end is an impressive feat by itself I salute you Yahtzee

[@dreadpiraterobertsnumba5]

Yeah. I'm feelin' quite saulty, too. I'm genuinely bemused as to why anyone still likes this game series. Also wasn't expecting to see you here.

[@MrGamelover23]

He didn't get to the end, he quit at 6:00 a.m.

[@dreadpiraterobertsnumba5]

@@MrGamelover23 Technically, an end.

[@Szadek23]

well, the game is so broken you can speedrun it in under 10 mintues without much afford lol

[@WitchLunaEstrella]

It's funny you mention being embarassed by the good ending, because the endings are pretty half-assed (or unfinished, to be more charitable). Getting the "true" ending is buggy as shit, so a lot of people end up just flailing about until the game just sort of gives up and plays the ending. Even with lore knowledge, the true ending is pretty disappointing imo.

[@sebastiangibson9671]

I know when will he go to the retirement home with other old ass villains

[@fuzzyapplepie6940]

FNAF is a series where the games take a back seat and what most people are interested in are the supplementary material. FNAF is sold on its lore, personality, and Fandom memes/rule 34. Most people who say they're fans probably haven't played past night 3 of the first game before giving up and binging matpats theory videos. It's a shame cause FNAF started out amazing, unique idea, popularized the whole "Indie game with super dark backstory hidden behind layers of Easter eggs." Thing but it just went on and on and on. The main villain has died three times already, you'd think by that point they'd just start a new series in the same universe or something but no.

[@star8979]

what makes it even more agregious to me is the fact that the game previous to Security Breach was the perfect set-up for a new chapter and SB was supposed to kick-start/continue that new story but NOPE LETS BRING BACK THE MAIN VILLAIN ONLY TO KILL HIM AGAIN FOR NO GOSHDARN REASON

[@creeperhunterD]

FNAF 6 (Pizzaria Simulator) was actually pretty good if you ask me. But very few people have played it because it's hard to give a shit about the sixth FNAF game in a series where most people stop caring at the third one.

[@star8979]

@@creeperhunterD I've played it- havent finished it but I can agree that it;s pretty good! I like the whole combination of a tycoon, point and click, and an after hours salvaging! I think thats a clever spin on the formula... you are correct tho, I'm pretty new so I'm only getting into the games recently myself, but I imagine older fans of the series just watch videos for the lore or playthroughts rather than try it themselves... god knows I'm not even that interested in playing through the whole series or don't have time

[@williamgeorge3111]

My reaction to him coming back AGAIN was somewhere along the lines to "Are you serious?!". Afton should have just stayed dead.

[@ladyivyanna9612]

1:57 "......or whichever neon haired dropout has the most amusing scream this week." Good on you for giving that shoutout to Markiplier!

[@MisterVercetti]

Or Jacksepticeye or Dawko or Matpat or... hell, just about anyone who can still amass thousands of viewers by streaming this shit.

[@braedenmclean5304]

Krillian voice “SHOTS FIRED”

[@elinfini]

@@MisterVercetti _And_ have neon hair.

[@MissSallyB1]

@@MisterVercetti and yet they still have a shit ton more money than most of us...

[@Emmariscobar]

I'm pretty sure mark's hair has been just black for over half a decade at this point.

[@voltazurite1832]

Whoever thought that DISABLING SAVING THE GAME was a good idea, needs to be fired. Out of a cannon. Into a PIRAHNA PIT.

[@Nemmy-sys]

"I'm gonna wake up with one fewer chickens and a priapism" absolutely took me out. I was taking a drink of my beer when that was said and I shot beer out of my nose at HIGH velocity.

[@generalrubbish9513]

Props to Yahtz for having the fortitude to reach an ending at all. I only got a few minutes in before I realized "Oh fuck me, this is another one of those generic "run and hide" survival "horror" games, and not even a well designed one" and that was pretty much it for me

[@patientboat1979]

Kinda funny how the franchise started with being something different other than slender man copies, to literally being just that

[@LayerInfinity]

I'm glad someone had the balls to tear this game a new one. I was watching an LP of it and the guy playing sounded audibly exhausted by the end of it. It makes me a bit sniffy though as games like these are exactly the reason in my mind why the indie horror scene is so fucked right now - instead of focusing on making good games, devs focus more on the tired jumpscary spooky lore shite that made the first fnaf game reasonably good

[@icarue993]

Even Markiplier and Matpat were visibly and audibly tired (specially before the Saving glitch). They were not scared when they got jumscared, they were angry at losing progress.

[@mint5438]

I played it up to the half way point and actually couldnt be fucked to carry on with it any longer. Yet I cant bring myself to say that I hated it. I think the thing that killed it the most for me was a puzzle that involved a maze and I spent so goddamn long on that thing that I can actually say I spent a percentage of my entire playtime on it.

[@blahblahgamer827]

im not sure if you went to the fnaf reddit, almost every reviee/thoughts post in new was tearing security breach apart.

[@MisterVercetti]

I'm hoping this is the game that finally puts this Godforsaken series out of its misery - IMO, it should have ended a good six games ago. I'm seriously beginning to wonder if Scott Cawthon took a look at how the game was shaping up, saw the writing on the wall even at that point, and decided to abandon ship while he still had some shred of a reputation left intact before this game blew the whole thing to Kingdom Come. Streamers and KZbinrs are this series' bread and butter, so if even they were turned off by this game, I think it's safe to say the jig is up. Betcha Warner Bros. is seriously regretting the whole movie deal now that FNaF's reputation is firmly in the toilet.

[@LayerInfinity]

@@MisterVercetti He very much caught lightning in a jar with the first game when Markiplier did his playthrough of it. As much as I dislike the man for being a snake, I have to lend it to him that he milked the series extremely well and made a very lucrative venture out of what amounts to a college game development module assignment.

[@aphexpesuto]

Every stream I've seen of Security Breach ended with the same general vibe: streamer is intrigued early on, asks many questions, game starts doing its thing, games starts to become grating (take your pick: glitch, game being aimless, frustration, exhaustion from the shitty jumpscares), streamer either stops playing or plays a different, usually better, game. I don't think I've seen anyone finish the game on stream, and this is pretty noticeable when most streamers *finish* their other games.

[@slenderminion2229]

Oh boy. Before even _starting_ this video i already know how much Yahtzee is going to rip into this one. I am a big fan of the series, played it on release and it breaks my heart to agree that it is a total trainwreck in nearly every imaginable way. The visuals look great, assuming they load in ahead of time, and the voice acting is pretty good, but that's about as much praise as even i can give it. Went into this game with excitement, went out of it feeling completely empty. It really makes me question as to what it was that went so horribly wrong during development. It's clear that the developers cared a great deal about the series and the VR game they made before this was pretty good, so this is not the result of plain laziness or greed, but _something_ had to be the cause behind all this.

[@TheWrathAbove]

It's gotta be that the publisher underfunded and rushed the game out the door. It's a shame too since I think these devs really care about the license and were really trying.

[@Mas-cm6cy]

scott leaveing and due dates

[@slenderminion2229]

@@Mas-cm6cy Scott's cancellation happened too late in development for that to have impacted the game this much.

[@StardustLegend]

As another fan of this series who abstained from buying the game due to the bugs, I’m just hoping that the February patch will make it worth finally playing

[@masterchief8637]

From what I could gather (and keep in mind that this is all pure speculation) it might have been matpat that cause this. I want to make clear I like the guy but he did mention in a later video that a game he had theorized on had sent an email suspecting that he had a mole. Once said game was released, it came out buggy and broken. Mat also admitted that the game was a familiar franchise. My guess is that matpat may have inadvertently been the cause for security breach feeling so rushed and underdeveloped due to being so close to the original plan.

[@sonicshot55]

“Maybe Gregory has watched streams of the previous games as well.” The sad thing is that in universe, that is possible.

[@camoking3609]

You can pinpoint the exact moment the story of these games goes from borderline jumping the shark To straight up riding the shark into the sunset

[@uppishcub1617]

@@camoking3609 the games jumped the shark 5 entries ago

[@williamgeorge3111]

@@camoking3609 After UCN.

[@guyferrari8124]

@@camoking3609 It jumped the shark at SB but I still have a soft spot for that game

[@jparkerj20]

"Are you embarrassed of the true ending?" Yes.

[@chexmixkitty]

Say what you will about the game, but watching Markiplier scream helplessly at Freddy as Freddy runs by because of bad path finding while being chased by all the other animatronics was comedy gold.

[@therranolleo468]

Poor guy had to make 2 extra episodes just to get to the secret ending, the near to last episodes are just him bumbling around the game in death loop reseting him back to the choice cause the game wouldn't let him save

[@certifiedcunnysalesman2099]

very easily entertained person

[@Foxhood]

At least the artists get some acknowledgement. They have gone absolutely berserk in rendering the environment visually stunning and filled to the brim with easter eggs, references and the likes to the point it is almost insulting that such work was done, for a buggy poorly designed mess of a game like this...

[@reillycurran8508]

The funniest part about that conclusion that they're just trying to see if they can get away with pissing let's players off now is that it actually worked on the self declared king himself. I'm pretty sure Mark spent more time ranting about the map layouts or the janky mechanics or how the game was making him feel stupid for not being a Tzeentchate Alpha+ Level Psyker that also has a Library Card hand issued by Ceogorach and just instinctively knowing where everything is, than he did even noticing that anything other than Vanny and the Map Bot was supposed to be scary for longer than 2 seconds after the first time it gets you.

[@Eantrin]

Supposedly some former Pixar artists worked on the game. Explains why it looks so good and has a cool setting but fails as a game

[@wanderingrandomer]

Everytime I hear about a new FNAF game, my response is always "Is this still a fucking thing?"

[@mint5438]

People can say whatever they want about Fnaf, but I'm intrigued with Fnaf+ more than anything.

[@abloogywoogywoo]

I guess its bland to him rather than bad. But, that's his subjective take on it, because Security Breach is a well crafted game, if he put in on his Blandest games of 2022 he'd get laughed out of video games journalism and have adopt a similar format to that joke Jim (whatever he calls himself today) Sterling.

[@abloogywoogywoo]

@@jlev1028 What part of my comment sounds butthurt? Or are you projecting again?

[@MisterVercetti]

Based on the reception Security Breach has gotten by even the series' most dedicated followers, methinks it won't be a fucking thing for much longer.

[@ProcrastPerfection]

Furries keep it alive tbh.

[@christophermarroquin2496]

3:32 made me do a double take since I listen to these at work. I was like no way I heard that right and thank god the animator/editor noticed his comment enough to show it. Truly one of his best wtf moments.

[@mothichorror446]

Pretty sure he still does his own animatic/animation for these

[@draexian530]

Reminds me of the imps tryna visualize the ham for springs bed.

[@mistermaxie6487]

FNAF is literally the embodiment of "Step 2: ???, Step 3: Profit" Scott didn't make the game like how people assume, being just a streamer bait game. He threw it at the wall to see if it stuck, and he just so happened to graze the right skin layer with his oil drill and it blew up. I applaud his work, tbh. He was struggling financially so much at that point that he and his wife sat down to watch the numbers rise. That probably felt really nice for him, and that in and of itself makes me smile.

[@josephfox9221]

legit he made the game in spite because others said one of his previous games characters was creepy.

[@Subject_Keter]

I would feel weird if i became famous for doing something out of spite but Chica is scary, my gf wanted to dress as her... i told her n o o

[@mistermaxie6487]

@@josephfox9221 And I applaud it. Sometimes spite is a good motivator.

[@CidSilverWing]

@@josephfox9221 That would be Jim Sterlin who reviewed that lumbercamp beaver game he made and said the characters looked like creepy animatronics. Scott fell into deep depression but then he had a eureka, "Animatronics? Let's DELIBERATELY make a game about scary animatronics!", and bam, FNAF was born. But I'm quite sure Scott had little to no input on Security Breach, and it shows.

[@KeithFraser82]

*Zero Punctuation prog rock concept album of the week:* *Dual Laser Guns And A Maserati* by the *Neon Haired Dropouts* (tracks include *The Sweetness Of That Victory* )

[@jacobcox4565]

Things that would make the game better: 1: Spawn in the animatronics farther away from the alerted security and staff bots. 2: Slightly faster sprint recharge. 3: More varied death animations. 4: The ability to save the game after 6 am. 5: Fully animated ending cutscenes 6: Freddy runs to your current location instead of the last location you signalled him at. 7: General bug fixes.

[@rasta7655]

The devs saw Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon and said "yep, this is the perfect atmosphere for our horror game"

[@TheRandoMario]

My fear is that Security Breach actually WAS finished and that was exactly what they wanted it to be.

[@jiado6893]

Now might be good time to remember that Scott created FnaF as an artistic Hail Mary because his other games weren't so good.

[@HaloInverse]

As I recall (and this could an amusing but wrong legend), the inspiration to use animatronics as villains was the result of criticisms of the characters from his earlier games "looking like creepy animatronics". Instead of struggling to make his characters and animations _less_ janky and off-putting, he deliberately leaned into it _harder_ as a sort of "screw you I do what I want" to his critics, making the creep and jank the central focus of what became FNaF. Thus, a franchise was born.

[@smward87]

@@HaloInverse A franchise that should have ended at the first game and never been a franchise to begin with lol.

[@aydinmakesthings]

I agree with Yahtzee so much here! I used to be one of those annoying 9-year old's that was obsessed with FNaF. When I heard they were making SB, I played all of the old ones again. Those 2 days I spent playing every FNaF game was more fun than the 7 hours I had on SB. SB is a buggy fucking mess. They made the plot even more confusing than it was after 4. The characters felt dull and the only characters I liked was Freddy, and the day care attendant. I had more fun dicking around with the Freddy noclip bug than actually fucking playing the damn game. I can understand how people loved the old FNaF games, I did as a kid. I even still think the old ones are still good, they still scared me sometimes. I never got scared in SB. It felt so boring and dumb. The villain, Vanny, has more screen time in the fucking trailer than the actual game. I was expecting this to be like a new chapter in FNaF. But nope! Funny purple killer from 4 fucking games ago is still the main villain. I just feel sad, watching SB. The first time FNaF, a game from my childhood. A game me and my friends would annoy our moms about 24/7. The first time it gets a big release, it's a fucking dumpster fire. I hate people saying, "oH iT wILl gEt pAtcHeD, DoNt worRy!!1!" I'm tired of waiting for games to get patched into a good state! I just wanted a good game! But instead, Steel Wool gave us this dog shit.

[@Lord_Numpty]

Good sir, you calling it a game from your childhood just made me and so many other people feel *_old as the stones._*

[@gamepapa1211]

Yahtzee is absolutely spot on in the "influencer reaction shots" point. Seems to me this game was made with KZbin in mind first with any sort of fun gameplay taking a far second string.

[@patientboat1979]

I honestly believe that they paid KZbinrs to hide the bugs, like isn’t it strange that Cory never encountered a bug plus found every collectible on his *first* play through?

[@gamepapa1211]

Then they must have not paid Markiplier enough money, because not only did he point out all the bugs in his playthrough but he exploited the Foxy Raceway glitch to get the Save function back online again.

[@Arto257]

Markiplier - the poster boy for FNaF - even looked to be tired of this game when I made myself watch him play it. Looked frustrating as hell, and even he seemed to have to push himself to play more. It was surreal.

[@conkersuprfan]

as kind of a fan of FNAF, everything you said was spot on, especially about the community. they'll eat whatever as long as it says FNAF. I was inmenselly dissapointed with this, especially since VR game was quite well, looked good and had interesting/fun stuff don't even bother with this

[@ultgamercw6759]

I have been a fnaf fan for a long and I think it's fair to say everyone agrees this game isn't finished. It's a real shame as there is clearly work put into the visuals with amazing graphics and really good animations. I do think the old games still hold a charm to them that make them worth playing even solo as they could be challenging and still creepy. I do think this one being so rushed is a shame, even more so when you watch the trailer and see how much was cut out.

[@nuclear_mech_wizard]

I also don't agree with the designs of the animatronics in Security Breach! A big part of what made FNAF so effective was looking at these broken, decrepit machines that, even when in perfect upkeep, still could and LOOKED like they could bite your entire head off, and realizing "Holy sh*t, they let CHILDREN play with these???" None of that in Sec Breach! Perfect, pristine, not even a STAIN on the surface! At one point you actually GET IN Freddy, a moment that in any other game would be DEATH, and safely pilot him around without a care in the world! The only remotely threatening design is that off the Sun/Moon one, and other than that it's like getting threatened by a f*cking DISNEYLAND MASCOT

[@blackbirdfrost]

So, as I recall, at least in the first 2 games (which is about how long the series remained interesting to me), the animatronics didn't attack kids because they were possessed by the ghosts of children murdered by a psychopath employee wearing one of the suits. The only exception being "the bite of 87" which I guess was explained that some bullies tossed another kid's head into an animatronic's mouth. When did this change? When did the games stop trying to paint a mystery for theorists to wrack their brains piecing together? The mystery was the most fun thing about the games.

[@Greywander87]

I mean, MatPat has like three videos on Security Breach. There's lore and mysteries there, though with how much was cut from the game it's hard to know for sure if we have the whole picture. Also, while the current theories might have been truly surprising earlier on in the series' history, at this point it's a bit predictable. For example, many people, including myself, independently came up with the idea that Gregory is a robot. It's not the first time that a "human" child turned out to be a robot; it's happens I think twice in the books. And at that point, it's no longer really that surprising. I think from a lore perspective, Security Breach was a bit disappointing for a number of reasons, but at least there's still something there.

[@RHW42Archangel]

It is gratifying to see how many people didn't like security breach, I thought it odd that I was the odd one out. Cool look and I love Monty gators style but the game lost where it was going pretty quick. Half the story just pops up out of nowhere

[@Greywander87]

It had very good production values, which can be seen in the visuals and voice acting. The pizzaplex looks like a nice open space to explore. Sadly, the rest of the game design was not up to par. The pizzaplex is largely empty, so while it's cool to look around, there's very little to actually find. Glitches abound, including ones that can get you killed, which is tolerable up until saving gets disabled. It feels like a good chunk of the game is just missing, or unfinished. It seems like there's hidden lore, but it's hard to know for sure if what's there is accurate due to how much content was probably cut. Some of the bad design choices are also baked into the core gameplay, so probably not something a patch or DLC would fix.

[@Ruku032]

"the game never really establishes that the animatronics are hostile, we just take that as read" Fricken' a to that, it was frankly my biggest problem with this scizhophrenic game. You have a new protag who has no connection to the series cause its a soft reboot or something, and you don't even bother to establish the basic building blocks on why you shouldn't trust the staff. You don't get an in-universe explanation for why he doesn't trust them until after it's too late, so you just spend a game with a kid running away from people who as far as you, the player, can tell are "just trying to help". And then at the very end of the game he brings up disappearences? why doesn't he say that at the start? and when did freddy find out about them? And on that note, at what point does freddy go from "the robos are my friends, we all want to help, don't hurt them" to "you aren't safe here, my friends are trying to kill you" Bugs can be perserved through if you at least have a game with a comprehensible storyline

[@camoking3609]

This game is more unfinished then mangle

[@kbowman772]

Especially since I remember the original lore being that the kids were actually safe from the animatronics. It was the ADULTS who had to worry.

[@MegaZeta]

my problem with the series is that your comment is gibberish

[@Sul_Opreym]

I love FNAF, and I fully agree, security breach has SO many goddamn issues not to mention from all accounts the whole game was scrapped and restarted some point relatively close to the launch of it just to make a more kid friendly game, I really hope the next game is better and has more thought put in

[@ruggedlemmings9163]

"It's very bad and I want to hurt it!" Don't sugar coat it, tell us how you really feel.

[@simple-commentator-not-rea7345]

Horror and fear in general is largely composed of our fear of death, which is why it's so hard to instill fear in a medium where if you die you just start over. Gamers want to avoid dying not because it's scary, but because it's annoying to have to start over.

[@necromech_]

1:50 sounds like Yatzhee at least respects Inscrpytion, thats good to see.

[@jorcornel558]

Glad to see someone actually critique the game. I thought i was going insane that no one else thought the game was bad.

[@jordanj809]

I don’t remember the last ZP that was like this. Just 6 minutes of Yahtzee ranting. And not even the fun ranting where it’s “Haha look at how bad this game is. Here’s a knob joke.” Just straight anger and vitriol nonstop and the video’s like a minute longer than his normal ones. Not even Hunt Down the Freeman provoked such a reaction lmfao

[@NekoiNemo]

Well, duh. That one was a bad game. This one is just Yahtz getting pissy and vindictive because he went in expecting a basic easy jumpscare game, but it ended up requiring actually paying attention and learning mechanics, which he didn't do, and got frustrated at his own failure as a result. Well, either that or general vindictives toward the series in general due to it being seen as low effort but gaining a huge audience, and taking it out on this game (despite the game being perfectly fine)

[@NekoiNemo]

@Kingsune Have YOU played the game yourself? Because i did, an i speak out of the experience when i say it's "perfectly fine".

[@Dots321]

@@NekoiNemo no it’s not

[@drjian6852]

@@NekoiNemo I've played the game throughout it's entirety, as a FNaF fan for around 8 years. This game is the worst horror game I've ever played, next to hello neighbor levels.

[@RufusOmega]

@@NekoiNemo With comments like that I feel you should probably replace your avatar image with the "this is fine" dog meme, just so others can see how indoctrinated you are right from the get-go.

[@michaciejka2839]

"Are you embaresed of the good ending" Yes, they propably are, it is bad

[@icarue993]

But spaghetti freddy...

[@mayonnaise3959]

@@muffinchubby2352 how is afton fucking alive the mf is in hell

[@therambler5895]

For Yahtzee: People like it because both memes and lore... And that's close to it. Pretty much everyone has agreed it's not that scary, and it's not that well designed, and the bugs don't help, but the long-running lore reveals and the huge memes made off it (not to mention the memes) have kept it from death so far.

[@highjumpstudios2384]

Just the memes and lore? Are you sure that's the reason Rambler. Are you suuuuuuureeeee those are the main reasons?

[@therambler5895]

@@highjumpstudios2384 I don't really know what else there might be. The game so far has been relatively broken and unpolished. The bugs can be fun, and I know that the speedrunning community has been having some fun with it, the memes and the lore have been a big part of it. Maybe also the weird part of the fandom that still wants Ballora to step on them have been enjoying which of the 80's animatronics they'd like to step on them, but honestly, I'd be happy to call that part of the memes bit to help with my own personal sanity.

[@Thaumtron]

@@therambler5895 Hint: Anthropomorphic animals in revealing clothing

[@therambler5895]

@@Thaumtron Shit... Damn, u rite. Alright, so memes, lore, and the furry community.

[@highjumpstudios2384]

@@therambler5895 oh Buddy it's not balorra people want to step on them.

[@zackthejolteon]

This review is super accurate I do wanna recall something about the game's entire plot and design being reworked in the middle of development? You can see some stuff from the trailers just completely absent in the game as well. I'm not really informed on whatever actually happened, but I'd assume its got something to do with the creator of the series getting death threats to his family over something on twitter and then leaving the franchise. In any case though, when a game goes through something like that, this is basically what you're gonna get. A buggy unfinished mess that has to be released anyway to be able to cover development costs. That being said, screw whoever decided that you shouldn't be able to save anymore after reaching 6AM, you can't excuse that garbage piece of game design away with production hell.

[@mint5438]

Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm going off rumors cause I never looked into it myself, though it seems like something that could be completely true. But I think the death threats came because of something Trump related.

[@reninparker9822]

i think he got death threats for donating to conservative political parties

[@EvilExcalibur]

The guy donated to Trump's presidential campaign. That's it. People didn't care about context or his character as a person (Trump wasn't his first choice and he was also fond of donating to charities and financially supporting struggling indie developers) because of that and immediately started coming after him. In my opinion he did the right thing in bowing out the second that he saw the Twitter mobs amassing. Working on the games was getting stressful by that point too so the whole shit show really was the perfect excuse to do so.

[@DigiZees]

@@EvilExcalibur The biggest irony of that situation was the fact that most of the outrage was from the LGBT+ community who believed he was backing homophobic policies. What most people failed to mention is that the Dev has donated even larger sums of money to various LGBT charities than he did to the conservatives

[@TDShadow079]

I believe there was also something about the game either having a deadline shoved up, or their budget was being used too fast that they just ran out of money and development space to put it all together.

[@crackedemerald4930]

every gameplay i've seen of it i was like "oh this looks great! It's so broken and a slog though."

[@jordanspencer2157]

0:40 that's the hardest part. Every year I get older but these FNAF fans stay the same age

[@epicwaba6424]

I know, right? It’s strange. I was in middle school when I got into it, and I’m a legal adult now. But it seems to have shed most of its original fans like me and recruited a new legion of middle schoolers. I blame the fact that early FNAF wasn’t initially made with a young audience in mind. They just happened to hit that sweet spot of effective horror without explicitly shown violence that kids are drawn to. But at some point they realized that was the core audience and started trying to appeal to them. So the original fans like me outgrew it, and the only new people it could bring in were kids.

[@Nemmy-sys]

"If I don't get closure on this I'm going to wake up one morning in the chicken coop with one less chicken and a priapism" Is a line that will not leave my head and I demand that it begins to pay rent.

[@Ward1706]

I’m getting a strong “Bottom 5” feeling from this review.

[@Aabicus]

The devs thought they were safe by releasing in late December to avoid Yahtzee's yearly list, little did they know he'd just review it in February of next year

[@akane.sakurada]

The reason why it gets positive reviews is relatively simple, you just gotta remember when FNaF 4 came out and let you move point and click style it was the hugest fucking thing the franchise has ever seen. The bar is that low.

[@terratrox7180]

Fuck, I wasn't prepared for that last line. The delivery is perfect.

[@reynoldszelaya4559]

This is why I prefer to watch other people play such games on YT rather than buying them myself. Why waste money getting frustrated at a screen when I can enjoy watching other people do it? Cuz every time a FNaF game comes out, you just know there's gonna be tons of big youtubers playing it to hell and back just for the sake of keeping up the status quo.

[@angeldeb82]

ZP's Worst Game of 2022, as summed up by Yahtzee: "Considering I gave Carkplace: Titshaker a prize, it shouldn't surprise you to hear that I feel a bit out-of-touch with the kids. I cannot comprehend how anyone can look at Security Breach and see anything but a horrendously badly thought-out six-lane pile-up of a game, riddled with terrible design decisions and misplaced effort, held together about as efficiently as a swarm of angry wasps in a fishing net. But the popularity of Five Nights at Freddy's mystifies me generally, so maybe I'm the wrong demographic; maybe this is like complaining that there's no driving philosophical theme at the heart of Peppa Pig's Pumpkin Party."

[@XperimentorEES]

You know the cult gamer group theory explains why some series never die despite going nowhere but down an elevator shaft.

[@cereal_chick2515]

Holy shit! I've just come from watching some of the decade-old ZP's and now I'm back in the present day the assets are so crisp! If Yahtzee wanted me to appreciate the work he did tarting up the look of ZP then colour me appreciative!

[@KamenriderCrusher]

Ever since he said "I want to hurt it" I have repeatedly used that phrase multiple times in reference to other shit indie games

[@scoman91]

Since I'm a sane person and don't follow big name streamers on twitch, the release of this game would have completely passed me by if it hadn't been for the absolutely insane deluge of fanart for the furrybait wolf character. Go ahead and try the NSFW challenge looking up Roxy, see how long it takes.

[@kinoko6096]

I’m so glad someone’s being as harsh on this game as it deserves. Even as someone who has followed and enjoyed the fnaf series this is an absolutely garbage game, and I’m surprised more people haven’t been comparing it to cyberpunk 2077

[@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

Not relevant to the video. Just wanted to say I really enjoyed your new Audio Book :D

[@Midnight-Starfish]

I will always blame MatPat for that one video where everyone tried to find out the lore of a jump scare indie game about Chuck E. Cheese mascots. The first game was fine; it was tense and it was simple. Haunted pizzeria, done. But each game had to put in more and more mechanics, and vaguely tell the story little by little (which I honestly believe that Scott did so that he didn't have to write most of the story and steal ideas from others) with each release.

[@Ophiegasm]

Fuck I love Yahtzee. His review style is the best, most honest and funniest I've ever witnessed. We must protect this man at all costs.

[@sernoddicusthegallant6986]

2:09 God damnit yahtzee you didnt need to bring back those memories... Its just too soon...

[@TheVirusWar]

The only thing about this franchise I like is the lore that is presented by Matt from The Game Theorists. Never played any of them, never will. But I really like watching him dig out hidden stuff. I don't know if he's just brainstorming a lil' too much, or the lore writers are godlike, either way its fun.

[@KeithFraser82]

*Zero Punctuation emo rock album of the week:* *Banal Observations Of The Patently Obvious* by the *Painless Decapitations* (tracks include *Why Have You Brought Me To This Place* )

[@rylandmalcolm3825]

The one thing that the game supposedly dose well is the art design. The characters and setting all look genuinely appealing. This is great, fantastic, awesome... for any genre other than horror.

[@mayonnaise3959]

Well to be fair you can make these visuals work for horror like in bioshock

[@sapphirewingthefurrycritic985]

Steel wool is releasing a patch that fixes a lot of the more difficult bits like giving indicators for the generators in the daycare and one still working save point in the atrium for the ending to make it easier.

[@KeithFraser82]

I suspect Yahtzee's response to this will be something along the lines of "If you didn't want bad reviews, maybe you shouldn't have released a buggy incomplete game, you festering twerpwombles" followed by a rant about how back in the days before online updates to games, anyone releasing a buggy unfinished game would be fed to the man-eating laser sharks (or the laser-eating man-sharks).

[@OGNoNameNobody]

Yeah. Two *VERY* weird design choices in the end there; >An unlimited-ammo gun in a survival horror game. >No saving allowed after turning DOWN the 'bad end'ing.

[@davidriley8316]

It's lovely to have a game to hate. You ever rewatch a ZP twice in a row cause it was that good? This that ZP.

[@Vespidazed]

the reason you couldn;t stay in place is because at one point in game development scary rabbit lady would find you after you stayed too long sucking ur thumb. This forces you to move. The issue? Play testers kept getting caught and they never figured out how to implement it so this mechanic was scrapped so yeah it's weird Gregory just doesn't pick a hiding spot and swap every few hours.

[@tomasmcgrath5766]

Nothing says a good horror game like a needlessly limited save system where you die and lose all your progress 30 minutes back.

[@georgesears934]

(Looks at everyone holding up the early Resident Evil games as pinnacles of the the genre, wearing rose tinted glasses thick enough to stop bullets) Uh... yeah. What bonehead came up with that stupid idea?

[@Castersvarog]

Honestly it’s not even 30 minutes, it’s almost a damn hour or more

[@swedneck]

i guess they're banking on the cold dread you feel from the prospect of having to replay half an hour of a shit game somehow making up for actual horror.

[@HellecticMojo]

@@georgesears934 except RE was all about management of limited resources, not an arbitrary cut off of out of game mechanics. Saves were a resource in RE.

[@icarue993]

@@Castersvarog Its not as much if you saw it coming and plan ahead (So... not the first time you play this. Which is terrible design.). You could play all princess quests beforehand and take a specific path to get to Vani's room (which Yathzee might have taken...might). But yeah, bad design disabling saving. Its not hard, its annoying.

[@morgantodd3748]

It's not even pizza robots murdering children. It's some guy who worked at the restaurant murdering children. Which was good, has that undercurrent of "people like this are out there in the real world and you'd never know who is one until they're on the news", but from the fifth game on Scott Cawthon decided that a gritty plausible predator in some minimum wage low status job was too scary for the kids, so he transformed him, over the course of a single game, into an inexplicably Australian millionaire CEO mad scientist-occultist whose transformation into a pulped mummified corpse trapped in an iron maiden fursuit wasn't a karmic fate worse than death but a deliberate, successful attempt to become immortal and also become his fursona.

[@Rexxar244]

Holy shit pacman IS 40 years old

[@roxiep2010]

As a FNAF fan who is an adult: We know. We know it's terrible. We love the potential in the story and the fan fiction we all wrote in our heads around it. We also love to roast this game ruthlessly. It's like having an especially stupid puppy, we can't help but love it.