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Soooooo... Funny story. I can't download Ruin. It's in the PS4 store, but it's just inaccessible even though Steel Wool said it would be live half an hour ago. I stayed up late specifically for Ruin, too. :/
We're in the home stretch, everyone! 8 hours until Ruin releases!!!
My Ruin Experience
I just finished my first playthrough of FNAF Security Breach: Ruin a few hours ago, and I'd like to reflect on my experience. I still have a ton that I need to go back and do, but I think I still got enough out of it to comment.
Needless to say, spoilers ahead. Continue at your own risk.
What I Liked:
The mechanics. Though short and simple, the Faz-wrench and Security Node puzzles are fun. The AR mask is also a really cool concept, and it opened the door for some unique gameplay and exploration.
The autosave between key checkpoints. Hallelujah.
The AR aesthetic. Holy crap, I love it. It's so trippy and dreamlike, and NEON. Totally '80s retro-futuristic, totally radical.
The character designs. My favorites are Ruined Freddy, the little Music Men with the rabbit ears, and MXES. Ruined Freddy is both horrific and strangely adorable despite having no head. I like how he chomps with his stomach like it's a mouth; it's a fun call-back to Nightmare Fredbear. And he has a gift box in his stomach. The implications of that give me the creeps. The rabbit Music Men are just cute. I hate them, but they're cute. And MXES? That's just an awesome design. Way more imposing than Glitchtrap (though Glitchtrap did work, just more as a psychological/lore thing than an outright threatening design).
All the crazy visual details and Easter eggs they put into AR mode. My favorites are the giant endoskeleton in the daycare theater and the huge bowling balls in Bonnie Bowl.
Roxy's dynamic with Cassie. I hope we get to see more of it in the future. It's just too precious.
Monty's backstory as told through the cardboard cutouts on the gondolas in Gator Golf. Just...adorable.
The part where Monty's swimming around in water and you need to hop on crates to dodge him. That was just cute. He was like a real gator. I have no idea how he didn't immediately short out, but still. Cute.
The horror of Cassie being confronted by the Mimic, not Gregory. I totally saw it coming, but it's still terrifying from a psychological standpoint.
What I Disliked:
The loading time. I think it was just because I have the PS4 version, but it took FOREVER to load the game both on startup and every time I died and wanted to retry. I hope the load times are optimized in the future.
The linearity. Once you leave one section, there's no going back; there isn't even a post-game where you can go back and do stuff. You're especially out of luck if you're on an all-collectibles run.
The lack of direction in some parts. I got stuck in so many places for such a long time because it was unclear where I was supposed to go/what I was supposed to do. Looking at you, catwalks and beauty salon.
MXES showing up at the absolute worst times and leading you to your death not out of personal failure, but out of misfortune. It got annoying after my 10th death in the Monty Golf catwalks.
Those dang Music Men, especially the ones in the bowling lanes. They were annoying to deal with. Doable, but annoying.
The stupid endoskeletons. I didn't like them in the base game, and I don't like them now. They really get to me. (I know. I'm a huge coward.)
All in all, I got about as much as I hoped for. I still have to get the rest of the endings, but this was some great DLC. It cements Security Breach as one of my favorite games in the series, and it gives me hope for whatever else Steel Wool has to offer.
Piggybacking off of this post, here's the trailer!
I don't even have a VR headset, and I'm hyped!
‘five nights at freddy's: help wanted 2’ will be released on december 14, 2023
read more about the upcoming title here: blog.playstation.com/2023/11/20/five-nights-at-freddys-help-wanted-2-seeks-new-employees-december-14/
here’s my french atempt at Sun (yes I missed some bits of his dialogue, but I got cut short by “wondering about your sanity” and complaining parents, even though I was inside my outside workshop)
I NEED a Fredbear’s Family Diner game.
PLEASE STEELWOOL 🙏
I Am In Possession Of The Five Nights At Freddy’s “Character Encyclopedia” Should I Share It With You?
Share Meaning;
Taking Pictures Of The Pages,
Little Suspicious Lines Of Text,
Just Posting About It In General.
Wait… holy cow are we actually gonna get something scary?
this looks soo cool!
Steel Wool's announcement is: Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret if the Mimic!
"To see the future sometimes you need to understand the past. A brand new original nightmare in the Five Nights at Freddy's universe!"
(Source: https://x.com/SteelWoolStudio/status/1820867578824372555)
‼️ RUIN SPOILERS ‼️
Why Fronnie is canon and we WILL see them reunite in Security Breach 2/sequel
• “- LOVE Freddy”
• Bonnie’s entire vanity station is filled with Freddy Merch, NO ONE ELSE AND NOT EVEN HIMSELF LIKE THE OTHERS
• Freddy clearly cared DEEPLY about him and couldn’t even bring himself to visit Bonnie Bowl again
• The vent leads RIGHT to Fazerblast…like cmon
• They went out of their way to design Bonnie, also leaving him in a state where he can easily be repaired in the secret room (when you find him) . There is no way we just find him and that’s it
• They did this knowing it would drive shippers crazy. Let’s be real the fnaf community is filled with so many wonderful LGBTQ+ creators, Scott knows this. It’s time we finally get our gay robots we all dreamed of to celebrate our identity’s.
So yeah , I actually prayed to find Bonnie in this game and since Fronnie is my fave ship, my life has meaning again
"Ruin" is ruinING my life :D
[[Guys if we keep making Fronnie posts they'll see how much it means to us and they'll have to make these two reunite in the future 0-0]
How I sleep knowing that Fronnie is canon
In celebration of YouTooz making a Glamrock Bonnie plush!
One thing that I hope happens if FNAF ever gets a FNAF WORLD 2 made is 1 of 2 things:
1) A pixel / olden style game, like 8-bit.
2) It starts off very light and kid friendly.- soon becoming darker. You slowly see the reality of what’s going on, perhaps focusing on one particular person. Maybe it could be more psychological horror based- maybe the player starts to see glitches, hears auditory hallucinations (or whispers from ghosts maybe) or even breathing down their neck.
A few ideas could be:
A deceased child: Perhaps this child soon feels something /wrong/ in the place where they are playing the arcade scene, as depicted by the game. The atmosphere gets darker- they start to hear things telling them to leave or run- or maybe they witness something they shouldn’t have. Similarly to the dog game in pizza sim- maybe it could end with an image of the child staring at the arcade machine- something lingering nearby in the background.
A disgruntled (Surviving) Employee OR a child who survived Afton: Maybe they go back and play this game for nostalgia reasons- or maybe to try and find clues to what happened to them.
The man himself (William Afton): I feel like Afton is heavily overused in the series- BUT recently i have started to enjoy his character more- mainly because of the song “Terrible things.” Maybe we see his mental stability slowly hit rock bottom after his children die- turning to horrible and desperate measures to try and get them back.
Afton’s Wife: This one i find the least likely. But- maybe she watches her husband delve into madness- maybe even witnessing his crimes and being killed on accident - or to stay quiet. Maybe she assists with his crimes, maybe she cannot handle the loss of her children and goes down a dark path herself. Or maybe she tries to get him help- ultimately becoming another victim. We never knew much about her, and i think it would be interesting.
Could also be interesting to see this from the perspective of a witness of the bite of ‘83 or ‘87 but i’d be more interested in the ones above. Seriously please let me know your thoughts
Well, it finally happened! The trailer for Fnaf ruins is out! How much I plunged into the past when I watched the trailer, remembering how the security breach came out! Let's just say thank you to Steel Wool for working hard for us and just enjoy the fanart from our favorite artists! 💜😌
HELP WANTED 2 PAX RUNDOWN (SO FAR):
All info obtained from someone who went to pax and recorded themselves there. Filming of the booth is allowed but filming of the minigames is prohibited.
The HW2 demo has 3 minigames available, similar to the HW1 PAX demo. These games are titled:
Breaker room
Carousel
Bonk-A-Bon
Each visitor can only pick one minigame to play before they need to leave. The streamer in Freddit, Chillyshiba, chose Breaker Room. The others have a little less concrete info from what I can tell, but I'll still write what I've got.
Breaker room is pretty self explanatory. It's the SL breaker room level, but apparently a little different. Something about shooting him with a megaphone?
Carousel is the most interesting to me-its apparently the scariest, and apparently the main foe is Eclipse! Which explains why he's a set piece in the surrounding booth.
UPDATE: CAROUSEL actually has Moon
The last one is Bonk/Whack-A-Bon, which is probably just what it's title says-whack em down like whack a mole.
UPDATE: I was mostly right about this one, but Helpy is apparently included in the array of hittable little dudes.
The booth itself is also cool as hell.
And that's all I've got for PAX for now. I decided to make a bit of a post on it on tumblr because I've realized that a lot of this info is split between Twitter and discord and I want to spread the word more.
my biggest regret as a token collector is being unable to get the faz token
Well, I decided to reblog because:
1. I drew a partial canon... Probably??
2. I am INCREDIBLY proud of this work! No, seriously, I'm not that good at drawing on paper, especially when it comes to something destroyed :_)
Well, it finally happened! The trailer for Fnaf ruins is out! How much I plunged into the past when I watched the trailer, remembering how the security breach came out! Let's just say thank you to Steel Wool for working hard for us and just enjoy the fanart from our favorite artists! 💜😌