Scared Sheetless: Scary Game Review with James Paradie: Five Nights At Freddy's

Security at a children's pizzeria has never been scarier.

What's up, guys and gals? Welcome back to another Scary Game Review with your brave watcher, Scared Sheetless. Today I am reviewing Five Nights At Freddy's. Concept of the game is simple, you take a security job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. A fellow guard (known simply as The Phone Guy) who is on his last week, calls you to give you the rundown of the strange occurrences that have happened over the years. These include: a man dressing as the pizzeria's mascot, Freddy Fazbear, killing five children; the rotting smell of the "reanimated carcasses"; The Bite of '87, where an animatronic bit the head of someone, thus resulting in that poor soul to lose their frontal lobe (still alive, though. I guess that's ... good?)

These bad happenings is the reason why the owners of Freddy's are selling the pizzeria and closing it down at the end of the year. They have shut down the animatronics during the day to not cause harm to the customers, but at night, they go into "free roam mode." Goodie for you.

Gameplay SEEMS simple. You check out the security cameras to make sure the animatronics are staying in place. Once they begin roaming, your only defense is lights to see if they're outside and two steel shutter doors to keep them out. There is a catch (as always), you have a limited power supply. Depending on the night and how much energy you are consuming, the power can drain very quickly. Power runs out? Say goodbye to the lights and shutter doors. Oh and unless it's near closing time, you're fucked.

Since the game is short (depending on how many times you die and get stuffed into an animatronic body) I don't think I need to give a full analysis review like some other games.

There is no bad to this, it's a clever game. When I first watched this, I was thinking that this was going to be one of those horrible indy games that "great commentators" (it's in quotations for a reason) like Markplier or PewDiePie play just so they can make stupid noises. But no, actually, it's very effective. Simple, but effective. You will be on the edge of your seat whether you play or watch.

I highly recommend anyone who wants a scare to play or watch this game. I have inserted the Night 1 and Night 2 gameplay below of HarshlyCritical (one of my favorite video game commentators) playing the game. His reactions are pretty damn funny.