Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach - Before You Buy

Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach (PC, PS4, PS5) is a big new game in the longrunning FNAF series. How is it? Let's take a quick look.

[Vailskibum]

I don't care about FNAF much, but I started playing Security Breach and it's actually a really well done environment

the bugs suck tho

[merritt]

Yeah the way the animatronics warp directly to your location when a security bot finds you is kind of dumb. Would've been a better mechanic to just have the animatronic rush straight to your location instead, giving you time to try to get out of there but also making it to where you have to hope you're not going to run into the animatronic while it's rushing to the location you were found in.

[holodoctor]

It sounds like the security robots should have been on a slow consistent path. That’s one of the best parts of sneaking games. The animatronics on a random path (like alien isolation) is great, but the security robots shouldn’t behave this way.

[supercenafan]

The only problems I have is the optimization and bugs in the game. I’m on PS4 and I noticed the game not running at 60 fps and the arcade section it makes it even worse. Then the teleporting animatronics when spotted by the help bots are really annoying to me. But I do like the game overall they just need to patch this game a lot

[rosskwolfe]

I can't get over how you pronounce "bear" as "bar". You must have REALLY loved the Davy Crockett song.

[residentidiot]

The full 3D stuff is near, but I still miss Scott’s art style.

[austinbean]

Falcon is the only person I hear consistently mispronounce character names “fazbar”

[duckypiee]

My only problem with this game is the AI. You can just go into a hiding place mid-chase and the animatronic will lose interest. Other than that, very solid game.

[davidmoney]

It’s crazy how it goes from an actual horror event to a fun to play game

[_Samm]

I like how you basically use Freddy as Power Armour in this game

[mojjekswe]

Falcon saying "fazbar" is scarier than the game.

[beautifulmanstan]

As a long-time fan of the series, my main issue with this game is that it doesn't really feel like a fnaf game; It's missing a lot of the traditional hallmarks. You'd think they'd try and combine them with this 'regular' horror game formula, but they just completely buy into the overplayed elements of free-movement horror games, and don't even do it that well. Like, who's the audience for this? Where's the ridiculously challenging hard mode? Where are all the cool minigames, like midnight motorist? Where's the endless charm? Where were the shocking and climactic endings that had interesting lore implications?

[resurrection]

My 6-year-old son is forcing me to play this with him and to be honest I'm kind of enjoying it 😂 I did not expect that since I have not played any of the previous games.

[SoranotRoxas]

Finally! A Five Nights game Im *ACTUALLY* considered buying. I loved Alien Isolation when it came out and I think this is a reasonable way the series should go.

[Datboi_]

What a coincidence. I was literally just watching Markiplier play it about 45 minutes ago.

[nicholasmiranda]

I feel like I am the only one that was disappointed with this game lol. It just wasn't scary at all. It was a good game, but it wasn't a FNAF game. The gameplay is good and is a unique spin for the series, but everything else is just lacking. The story, animatronics, and atmosphere are just lacking. I am sure there's some secret lore hidden in the game that I didn't find but the main story itself is just uninteresting. I genuinely don't understand if this was even supposed to be a horror game. It seems like they wanted to make a more story driven game instead. I was not scared of anything when I played it. The open world was just tedious at times too. For example that one mission where you go to the docks for LITERALLY NO REASON AT ALL was infuriating. The whole game felt like I was playing that one annoying ass sister location minigame. In all honestly, I just don't think this game was made for me. It was made obviously pandering to one specific side of the fandom, but to be fair the series has been going in that direction for a while now so I am not surprised. Nonetheless, while it wasn't my cup of tea, there are some diamonds in the rough here and I can see it being expanded upon in future games. I just don't think I will personally be buying them anymore. But who knows, now that the fandom chased Scott away we may not even be getting more games

[Luki-]

SPOILERS AHEAD, BEWARE
Also, it's all my own opinion, you can share your own opinion too, and all i'? Talking about is focused on the current version of the game. (sorry for typing so much even tho i didn't play the game)


So, from what i have *watched* (not played cause i literally can't, no pc, no ps4/ps5, nothing to play or even a way to buy it), the game really isn't that great for a game that took 3 whole years to make

First problem that i spotted right away: Bugs, lots and lots of bugs, ranging from little ones like freddy getting stuck somewhere to literal progress breaking ones like what happened to fusion in his playthrough, he upgraded freddy with chica's voicebox and then the game simply wouldn't check the mission as complete and you wouldn't be able to progress, this happened in other parts of the game

Second problem i spotted: the lack of things to do, because literally all you can do is roam around the pizzaplex collecting useless items (will talk about that) while trying to progress the story, complete missions and find endings, the only things you can do besides those things is play the princess quest minigames to unlock that vanny ending, you can't interact with the environment, like play an arcade, flush a toilet, talk to some random robot, race in roxy's raceway, play golf on monty's golf or anything like that, even tho the game is an "horror" game, these little details take away all the immersion you have and make the game just another random one in the middle of hundreds

Third problem i spotted: useless items, like, come on, you get posters, figures, sodas, candy, plushies but you can't even use them for something? Also, there's the map you get, basically useless, cause it doesn't tell you where you need to go, where you are and what's the name of the places

Fourth problem: story progression, it is a mess, first of all, the entire game is set on a single night even tho the franchise's name is FIVE NIGHTS at freddy's, then you just start on freddy's room with no explanation, then you're already wandering around the pizzaplex, even tho you aren't even allowed in there, then after that suddenly you're doing random stuff like getting a camera, or a fazer blaster, then suddenly you need to destroy monty that appeared for like, 5 minutes? Bruh, not even gonna talk about the lack of reasoning behind everything that is happening, like, why is freddy really helping us? Why is vanny there exactly? How the fuck did gregory enter the pizzaplex/inside freddy's chest, *why does vanny only appears in some endings and basically 2 times in the entire game*

Fifth and final problem (cause i'm already tired of typing lol): not being able to save after you choose stay in the pizzaplex, seriously, that's just dumb, why wouldn't you be able to save when basically you're "halfway" through the game (the progression is too confusing to know where you are exactly) and need to do 700 other things, like (again) in fusion's playthrough, he had to go through all of the fazer blast section and chica's decomission section without dying with a buggy freddy, buggy missions and a weird story progression? Jeez, that is not fun at all, like, maybe they could've just added a hardcore mode where you can't die once or it's game over, while in the normal mode, you can save anytime you want and can, simple

Now, even tho i said all of these things, i liked the game a little bit, there are many aspects in which i praise steelwool, scott and the rest of the team for, like, voice acting is top notch, the graphics are pretty good (even tho you can't really see them since it lags everything when you use the ultra settings), the animatronic and pizzaplex designs are amazing, i really liked the main freddy crew's designs, and the pizzaplex is amazing, and i liked the endings even tho they are pretty much just weird (like, how tf did freddy escape the pizzaplex even tho he's a robot programmed to not leave)

With all of that said, the game deserves a 5/10, great concept, great designs but poor execution, i just hope the patches, updates and new stuff they eventually add will compensate the money you spent in the game thinking it would be amazing

[EkimF]

For anyone who wants to make the game "scarier" for themselves I'd recommend you play this in VR. The immersion really brings this game up higher

[ftrwrwbg]

I can honestly say I have never heard Fazbear Pronounced in any such way

[stevekim]

Personally I feel like the most important problem with this game is that you have way too much freedom in the game. At first it was straight foward knowing what to do but as the game progresses you are just free to roam around and because of this you dont know where you are supposed to go. When I played this, the hardest part was looking for the items when you dont even know where you are going and the place is literally 4 story building. I became bored at the latter half of the game and the horror factors of the game gets repititive and boring. It would be better if the game restricted our paths or made it easier for us to find rooms or items