Allow me to begin this review by admitting to you that I am not a Five Nights At Freddy's (lovingly referred to as FNAF) fangirl. Truth be told, I know as much about the franchise as most casual gamers who don't play the games do, and I learned about it by watching Markiplier playthroughs or listening to my kids babble on about it. My personal, hands-on experience with any of the games has been limited to playing the very first installment of FNAF for research to surprise my FNAF-obsessed son with a special birthday cake. The game was fun for sure, but definitely too high-stress and claustrophobic for my liking. My preference has always been the wide-open worlds of games like Fallout 4 and Red Dead Redemption, or the gameplay of Tomb Raider or Bloodborne. Being trapped in a single room fighting off the unseen terrors of the outside world, only to be slapped in the face, time and again, with failure, is what I do on a daily basis as an illustrator and parent. I play games to escape that reality, so the FNAF franchise has just never really interested me.
