Did FNAF RUIN Live Up To The Hype? (An In-Depth Review) 

I love how they made Monty into a feral beast. Like, he was already rabid when he was shattered, but he's just straight up feral in RUIN, and I love it.

speaking on Monty’s design, i love that he’s now comfortable walking on his arms, compared to how he drags himself across the floor when he’s first shattered. it shows how long he’s been broken

In the daycare section you are supposed to enable generators so that Moon stays paralyzed and still (he hates light) and you are able to reboot them

Same, I wish FNAF had kept a more realistic story and style, with the creepy old atmosphere it had in the first games, but I still love it

One of my problems with ruin is that the "entity" is almost entirely harmless by itself. Also the ai does teleport, if you keep the mask on around the "entity" for too long he will summon a animatronic to instantly kill you

The Entity has a completely different design that was cut from the game and it looks amazingly terrifying. I assume they changed it because the Entity wasn't supposed to be an physical being but just some code

The coils also prevent you from taking OFF your mask, which can be stressful when a certain someone shows up as it adds a timer to your otherwise easy puzzle. The mask in general also really reminds me of the segments in a hat in time where you needed the dweller mask to be able to make objects solid or the reverse.

i would argue in security breach they're not supposed to be scary as a baseline, they're mascots for a huge franchise, I know it's a horror game but it makes sense in universe. That's why it's a lot more impactful seeing them in ruin because now they can go all out on the scares and horrors since the pizzaplex is ruined.

Fun fact about chicks bakery, it’s actually in the base game but the storylines never have you go there, and unless you are trying to get all gift boxes and notes you’d have no reason to go out of your way to find it unless you stumble across it. The bakery was just… there.

I actually really like the Entity’s design, i enjoy its more hare-like face and lanky arms and body, and i’m a big fan of the 8 bit aesthetic it’s going for. Also i really like the idea of it simply being a security programme just doing its job

One of the only good things SB did was giving the animatronics significantly more personality And my fav part of ruin is expanding on that, with Roxy

The daycare had so much missed potential. It would have been awesome to have to turn around and flash him with the light while looking for the generators to make him go away/stun him. Too bad he just stands there though.

Sad that people arent talking about the game as much now, just like bendy and The dark Revival

The reason i love the new fnaf lore is because missing children possessing robots thing has ended in fnaf 3 when all the souls were freed and ucn completely finished off MCI so bringing back children possessing robots would feel forced since the children were freed

16:24 The “new area” is actually the ruined version of the bakery from the base game, I know that you are never forced there and that some people don’t even know that it exists.

Honestly, I'm fine with where FNAF is heading right now. The futuristic approach is a great way to continue the story after the events of the Pizzeria Simulator without repeating the plot all over again (Killer goes on a rampage, children possess animatronics and get their revenge, killer remembers that dying is gay TWICE in a row until the FNAF 6 ending, killer is tormented in his own purgatory and the children rest in peace; now his legacy is passed over to his future "self" aka the mimic)

The atmosphere is a big improvement compared to Security Breach, but I feel like they overdid it with the puzzles. I just personally didn't find having the same like 4 puzzles make up basically the entirety of the game that interesting.

I did find the AR parts of the game strange, but we have to remember that this game now takes place in the future, so who knows what kinds of technology exists.

13:46. Its not a glitch. He doesn't attack. He only kills you if you go to him before shutting off generators. The only threat is the entity but he's not hard to deal with

27:14 ever since Silver Eyes the books have been canon to an extent though. After all we would never know who Henry and Afton are without them, making scenes like the ending to Pizza Sim feel lackluster. The only major difference is now they take place in the same universe instead of some weird alternate one.

As a whole, I’m gonna say no. As a fan of Roxy? Yes. She had a layered personality already which is what made her #1 to me, and Ruin expanded upon it and showed what she may have been like if Afton/Vanny hadn’t hacked them

To remind you, Willie the purple-guy Afton made robots with sentient AI at very least 1989. So, if this franchise has hyper-technology blame Scott for being a Sci-Fi geek. That's his thing not "spooky posessed".

I actually love the Entity design. It just feels so ominous, towering over us and just staring at you, reminding you to take the mask off. Also he looks like a much more animal-esque than every other Afton desing. While Glitchtrap was close, Entity is no longer human. This, to me, looks like Afton finally got rid of his mayor holdback : his dead body I personally loved Ruin, I think that it could be my favorite or second favorite FNaF game Edit : tought he was Afton, my bad

It isn't needed to have the game being "grounded". To remind you, robots in this world have reached such point of sentience that they act like people. That's something we haven't got right NOW.

Bro that animation of the prototype freddy standing up at 3:33 has got to be my favorite cutscene in the dlc. It’s actually unnerving so I love it

at 7:31 i must say fnaf was always unrealistic with its tech. by fnaf 2 we had facial id systems in fnaf 3 we had springlock suits that storywise happened years before fnaf 1 and 2 in fnaf 4 we know that the Nightmares are not real thatnks to N. Freddy's lines in ucn so the sound illusion discs from sister location and the books are real and again those events story wise happen years before fnaf 1 and 2 ever happen. this series has *always* had science fiction in it. it never was really rooted in reality. steel wool just decided to take what they we given and go buck wild with it

I don't know if it's because I was too negative about security breach and therefore I expected absolutely nothing of this game, but I was really impressed by it. As I said, I don't know if it's because I was expecting it to be terrible from the beginning but I was really pleased and shocked by the end. (Honestly, I'm mostly surprised that the game was playable)

I just like to think of the more modern installments in the series as a sort of fresh new chapter in the lore. The whole murdered children stuff is somewhat over and closed while a new era of the franchise us beginning. It just makes me have a way more positive outlook on steelwools games.

Definitely has good potential for future installments. As mark said in his Lets play... When DOES Ruin take place, the amount of wear and Age on the location doesn't match up with the age of Cassie.

Literally walking through physical objects and the trippy AR rooms aside, I feel like the technology of the V.A.N.N.I mask could work in the real world. Similar to how V.R works. You have your mask and you have the controller, then you have the V.R objects connected to a network in which you use to secure things digitally instead of physically. Convoluted way of security? Yes. Huge potential for hacking? Yes. Cool asf? *YES*

Security Breach is starting a new chapter in its storytelling. With the final death of William, the first part of the story is finished. The Mimic seems to represent the 'remnant' (pun intended) of Afton to bridge these stories together. Though, I can definitely understand why people prefer the original games since FNAF is moving away from the paranormal and into artificial intelligence.

Interestingly enough during the ending elevator Audio 28:23 you can hear a small tone after Gregory says that the Mimic is free, we could assume that thats maybe the point the Mimic gets back the controll and starts lying with Gregorys voice again, the sound is also similar to the end sound of the Speaker

I wasnt attacked by the daycare attendant either. I legitimately think it was just supposed to be a lore scene and not much else.

I find it interesting how you considered that mask's powers to be technological. When I played, I assumed it was paranormal considering that you can walk through walls and teleport (kinda like Golden Freddy in FNaF 1 + 2), especially when Cassie would say something is wrong and Helpi would gaslight her into thinking it was normal.

I agree with basically everything you've said, the only thing that I'd say it's wrong, it's when you said that it isn't a good thing that people need to use the book to get some answers or to understand some plot point. So, I don't disagree with the statement itself, but with the assumption that you need to have read the Tales from the Pizzaplex to understand the mimic, the mimic in game and the one in the books are clearly two different things with two different stories, and the game does a good job in my opinion explaining to people who haven't read the book, what the mimic is and how it works, even better, they don't have to tell us, we see it during the game, the audio Glitch, the mimic gaslighting us and the end where the mimic first tries to trick us again and as soon as that doesn't work, it tries to attack us, the only thing we don't get is the story behind all of this, but other then the fact that I think that's something they'll touch on in the next games, candy cadets explains the basics

I'd say that the moment with Cassie deactivating Roxy is much more powerful than you give it credit for. You claim that "this huge moment for the character didn't actually matter at all." Well, it wasn't a huge moment for Roxy. It was a huge moment for Cassie. She believes that in order to save a close friend, she has to deactivate her favorite animatronic, the one person who had helped her feel comfortable during all of those birthdays when the other kids never came. Yes, the weight goes down a bit when Roxy comes back, but considering that she was betrayed by the Mimic, and seemingly by Gregory (theories so far say that it wasn't, though) in the true, Roxy still comes back to save Cassie, who could have been mad after Cassie basically betrayed her. Plus, at the end of the true ending, sitting in the dark, Roxy's voice can be heard as she approaches Cassie, seemingly to save her. In other words, the moment remains strong, so long as you focus what it meant for Cassie over Roxy.

Watching Ruin for the first time i was honestly majorly impressed! Steel Wool has improved massively with this dlc and seems to have really been listening to us. I'm beyond pleased with it and am sooo excited for the future of fnaf!!

The illusion discs is the thing that really killed it for me. There is no need for illusion discs. Like just have some hallucinogenic gas being pumped into the vents for fnaf4 with the crazy nightmare animatronics (since *apparently/allegedly* they were just bare endos with illusion discs, nightmare being 'malfunctioning' which is why he's /kinda/ transparent with a visible endo inside? Idk). There are absolutely no other points in the games that those even existing would be necessary. The fourth closet book/s was a joke, they were just bad overall, ruined Baby and does nothing for the actual FNAF canon. The entire fourth closet thing just feels like a weird almost red herring for literally nothing, just to include and shove down our throats the concept of illusion discs. It's just nonsense material adjacent to FNAF- but not actually FNAF.

Also remember that "the entitiy" or "mxes" is actually a good guy programed to keep the mimic hidden, so its not an antagonist (also he/it is a gigachad).

I do agree that Ruin is a HUGE step up compared to Security Breach in terms of quality. The game has very few laggy areas (I only ever encountered one instance of lag in my game which lasted only a few seconds), the textures and designs are more thoughtful and finished, and the like. My main problem is that FNaF used to be a horror game. Ruin has almost NO active threats throughout the entire game. There's only two I really consider as active threats. The mini-music-men, as they're integral to completing the node in Bonnie Bowl and actually can kill you if you don't understand them (or their teleportation glitches out between Mask and Maskless). And Freddy. Which is where you and I will disagree again, since you spoke of the Freddy chase being so lackluster. I felt the opposite. The Freddy chase sequence is the ONLY sequence in the entire game where the animatronic chasing you is ACTIVELY pursuing you during the entire chase. Mimic doesn't move for around 10 seconds if you just stand still, and won't attack you as long as you're moving essentially. Monty never really chases you, opting instead to either be in scripted events or in water, which you can just walk in and he can't catch up. Any other sequence can be done just by running through it. The linearity actually made the gameplay on level with base Security Breach, as the computers with intercoms are unnecessary. Take the first Monty section, you can just walk through it without touching the cameras and you won't see Monty, at all, until the scripted portion where he runs across the room. In the Roxy section, the camera is only really used to get Roxy to open a door. And the section with Eclipse isn't a glitch, it's intended that he doesn't attack you and only the Entity attacks you. Which is worse because the Entity is the only thing keeping you from being in your mask, but DOESN'T present as an actual active threat the entire time because of how slow it is. While Security Breach is certainly not a perfect game, even on second and third and extra playthroughs, there is potential for a sense of tenseness. The animatronics actually chase you (even if the AI is REALLY stupid), dying actually sets you back, and the gameplay can be taken a couple different ways post first play. Ruin is basically cheap scares and scripted sequences disguising itself as a game. The lack of any active threats at any given moment is only offset by how beautiful the game is, ya know? That doesn't mean Ruin wasn't a step up, but I think Steel Wool took a step up and then sideways. While the atmosphere certainly gives a better horror aesthetic, there isn't really a single tense moment. Whereas Security Breach has potential to be tense, Ruin just kinda... doesn't. The music and sounds make the game feel more tense than it actually is, like the Mimic chase sequence. I won't comment on the weird changes made and how different the new games are to the old ones, that's a topic for another time, but the gameplay itself is never really that engaging. It's doing the same nodes repeatedly. Also I forgot to mention, there is a third place with active threats and that would be the endoskeletons right after Daycare. They should get a mention because they do become a threat for that one little section, Idk why I forgot that section existed.

I personally thought there was so much potential for tension filled moments and areas (as the locations were scary) but the vanny mask imo removed all tension when it's put on and its very incentivised to wear it more often than not. I also agree with the concept of it being too far beyond reality to enjoy it. But I do give credit to the dlc for being far far better than the base game.

Something I find interesting about the ruin tronics is that we wouldn't find them nearly as appealing if Steel Wool hadn't used what they had in SB, they used some of the strangest decisions they'd made in the past to make their descent into disrepair look that much better

8:46 For my part, given the strange deformations on the surfaces of the objects that we can cross, I think that they are not real objects, but probably some kind of illusions / holograms, similar to what could produce the " Illusion Disc" from the books (in our case, it would be an equivalent in games). As for the Mimic, I don't think the one in the DLC is the same as the one in the books, especially because of the big difference in appearance between the two. But hey, that's just my opinion.

Candy cadets death is the saddest part of ruin

On the lore side, I'm with you Gameplay wise it is a step up, Ruin isn't a buggy mess

Honestly, I mostly like what they did with this DLC, especially for the first one that's not a Halloween special, I like the most that you feel how the environment that formed after the events of the main game has gotten so bad that it affects both physically and mentally the animatronics, Monty has gone from a Rockstar with anger issues and a desire to drive to an aggressive animal that can only scream and hunt you at all costs, Roxxie, although he doesn't seem to have suffered as badly, you can tell that the situation didn't help her at all, and she became more desperate than ever to have at least some of what she had, and Chica? She is just the same, but she already didn't have much personality, although it has many good things like those shown in this video, it also has a lot that drags down this DLC, mostly because it has a lot of unanswered questions not just lore wise like why was everything abandoned? Why Roxy, Chica and Monty weren't just repaired? Why literally left everything in Mall was left to rust and nothing was just salvaged? and The Mimic is no exception to all of this, when exactly was build? Who build it? Was always here? Is it meant to be the Endoskeletons from FNAF 1 and 2? Is it meant to be Yenndo from FANF SL since both have yellow eyes? In the books the Mimic is just a robot build to copy and learn stuff, that's why when it was destroyed it learned to destroy, so it wouldn't have made sense when Roxy tried to protect Cassie to stop and analize the action? Or when Cassie runs away from it to also run away? There are a lot that of important stuff that need an answer and i just hope the next DLC/Game will give some, even with this game literally having the same boring and stupid ending like many indie horror games have recently

Tbh I really loved this DLC. Even tho I'm not a big fan of the AR, compared to SB it's a masterpiece, even if it's not as good as the OG ones. Edit: I like how they also made Freddy an enemy.

The dlc was fun, and I like a lot of aspects of it. I honestly feel like the end kinda felt rushed a little, and I just hate how they didn’t give the animatronics any kind of redemption arcs, except Roxy (but not a big one)

I know he got electrocuted, and not many people like him, but, I want monty to come back for the next pizzaplex game.

The bunny thing, which is actually called MXES, is most likely a protection system, since it tries to stop people from getting to the Mimic, which is the ACTUAL main antagonist. William Afton didn't make an appearance at all in Ruin, but i mean it would've kind of RUINED the story (See what i did there)

I love ruin jumpscares, especially chica & Roxy’s. Honestly I think they outmatch the og jumpscares of the franchise.

I like to think that we can’t actually go through objects and that it’s just the chip in our brain making us think there’s an object to trick us into using the mask. But I totally agree security Breach ruin was a great game but they whole mask mechanic kinda made me upset it’s cool and all but I liked to more realistic way the original games were.

I would argue that William coming back in SB wasn't as bad as so many people make it out to be. Sure it kinda undid that perfect ending in Pizzeria Simulator, but when you think about it, if William died in FNAF 6 his "I always come back" line would be kinda stupid since at that point in the series he had literally only come back twice.

I've always liked security breach graphics and everything the dlc made me so happy I was mad that this game was buggy but I loved the normal security breach

ngl, my biggest complaint with Security Breach Ruin wasn't even the fact I had, and have, no idea who the Mimic is; it was the fact that the Mimic, and even Gregory at the ending chase, knew exactly where you were at all times. No, seriously. This is a major plot hole in this that makes the whole DLC come crashing down. The Mimic is trapped behind a concrete wall outside of the V.A.N.N.Y. Network as well as having only the walkie talky it threw down as the only connection to Cassie. Yet, throughout the game, is able to tell ***EXACTLY*** where you as the player are and how to handle everything in the area. That's not even talking about how it managed to contact Cassie from outside the Pizza Plex to begin with on a walkie talkie while blocked by MULTIPLE walls that would dilute the signal given out. If that wasn't bad enough, after every single node was disabled, (and let's ignore how it's somehow able to tell that all that was left was the NEXUS machine for a moment, I won't even begin to try and comprehend how the fuck that works...) Gregory is able to do the EXACT same thing the Mimic did to our walkie talkie in reverse, managing to get a perfect signal despite where we are, and then give us precise, exact instructions down to the very second. There's no tracking device within these walkie talkies, so... HOW THE HELL DO THEY KNOW!?!?!?!?

The game play is linear. Of course most horror games are but this one was more so. It took a very long time to release considering that linear games are typically shorter. Also accounting for the fact that they reused most assets and created a few new animations. I think they did a great job with mechanics but wished they offered more variety. Puzzles didn't get any harder. And I didn't feel as chased as the last game. It was simply walking simulator for me. Plus, MXES should attack more often. You could get away with completing a puzzle in time while he's there. Then taking the mask off last second. The story dissappointed me. Not with the fact that it had strayed so far from what it originally was. I actually hadn't considered that. I hated the fact that it was so predictable. Even a year ago people were so accurate in their predictions of the story. Saying that it wasn't Gregory. The story added very small things but they didn't feel grand. The MXES program is new. The mimic is new to the games (not books). This was purely to appeal to those who read the books, which is the correct way of approaching it. But like you had mentioned, why would you need outside sources to understand whats going on? Especially with all the virtual reality stuff, ans teleportations. And caves with glowing mushrooms and mini waterfalls. How would anyone who hadn't read the books know what's goin on?

The one ending where Cassie decides to hide in a "safe spot" is a really messed up one

There’s a lot of discussion on if Gregory is actually the one to drop the elevator and they use the weird noise before he says “I know you did it for me” as proof for the theory that the mimic took over the speaker, but Cassie never said she was trying to save Gregory, just that it sounds like him. Gregory would have no way of knowing that was how she was lured into freeing the mimic

The character with the most missed potencial in both the main game and the dlc seems to be by far Monty, He was a brand new character, with tons of potencial, but got the short end of the stick because the direction where he was being taken was unknown by steel wool. The opinion in the community with him is pretty split, some like him some don’t, but I feel like he gets a lot of unnecessary hate, We get so little of him in the main game, we are barely shown his issues, traits and personality and his traits because he genuinely doesn’t appear much, and on the rare occasion that he does it’s a chase or a sequence that doesn’t have us learn a thing about him. Chica is one of the animatronics we get a bit of in SB, but from all the stuff we get from her, she still feels simple, Roxy and Freddy got the most, and it clearly shows seeing how the community got attached to them and felt like they were memorable, Chica didn’t get as much, but she didn’t need it, because what she had to offer didn’t require what the others did, people treat her like just another chica variant and she might be less memorable than other chicas who had way less of a spotlight, when that could have gone towards Monty, it felt like steel wool didn’t exactly know what to do him, and that makes me feel quite bad for him, I hope justice gets done for him soon.

the dlc feels like a completely new game in every single way ngl

Bonnie's appearance makes me thing even more that Monty is the one who decommissioned him. While it was never outwardly stated, it was heavily implied that he did, and the damage to his body (especially his chest) is very obviously slashing wounds, probably from claws. A very cool Easter egg.

once you’ve played Ruin once and remember where all the nodes are there’s almost zero threat in the game. i like SB better just bc there’s more replay value. i think ruin improved on looks a lot and certain gameplay aspects a bit but not as much as i would have hoped.

How long do you guys think it will take for someone to start sending strongly worded hate mail towards Steel Wool Studios’ developers?

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Ok, does it really matter that the mimic came from the books? This series has been dropping randomish new characters literally since the second game, why is the mimic so different? Sure, we get backstory on the mimic in the books, but it’s also completely unnecessary for it’s role in ruin. It is what it is here: a robot that tricked Cassie into releasing it. And besides, if you give 5 tokens to Candy Cadet, he basically tells you a story tangentially related to the mimic anyway, all in game.

"I need everything to be realistic in my unrealistic game with killer possessed animatronics" 🤡🤡🤡

Like how Eclipses “safety mode” consists of him tossing this child out alone into this crumbling building full of murderous animatronics

Yes i do agree it does ruin it that roxy demise was very short lived but to expect her to help and protect was a unexpected i think that adds more to the character that she still wanted to protect her

I liked ruin but hated the repetitive nature of this game. Like the stupid nodes that are around every corner and are almost comically placed so that just as you finish the last node you see the next one. Another example is the loop of the game which halfway through gets boring. I know some people like the nodes but I think they are a boring way to open up the map. They could have put switches and a console and changed very little gameplay wise.

I’m mixed on it personally. I think surface level I enjoyed it but the more I sat down and thought about it I just really didn’t care for it. Maybe I just had the wrong idea but wasn’t this supposed to help wrap up the story to security breach? All it felt like it did was just raise more questions. The mimic is honestly the most boring animatronic they’ve had in a long while, like phantom animatronic level for me. It’s just an endoskeleton with a lil extra stuff that mimics voices. Which if we didn’t have ai voice technology in real life then cool interesting new tech. But no, it already exists so it doesn’t feel like some crazy revelation. And probably my least favorite part was the Vanny mask as a whole concept. I’ve already been pretty against the stuff that jumped the shark like remnant and that sort of thing, so having a mask that literally phases you through objects is definitely too far for me. And I’ve even seen people theorize that it’s actually teleporting you inside an alternate virtual world then phases you back out when you take the mask off which is just way way too advanced tech for the series imo. But we’ve been heading in this direction for a while so I guess I just need to accept that fact. Gameplay wise was also the same. At first I was really into it but then the puzzles started dragging a bit doing the same thing over and over, and just testing out and seeing how little of a threat anything really is just kinda sucked any tension out of me just like the original game.

7:30 "So unrealistic" dude. M(o)th(e)rf(u)cker. They had walking robots IN THE 80'S!! We still to THIS DATE can't make a bipedal robot stable to walk. FNAF 2 animatronics had such a complex AI to strategize against the night guard and they had access to POLICE DATABASES. So, this isn't so "far-fetched" for the franchise. And I ignore the books at least those that don't affect the games themselves.

Most of the books have always been a staple in figuring out the deeper meanings in the franchise ever since Sister Location was announced so it's become a pattern and a slow development into a new ideas whether or not it's enjoyed.

I really liked ruin freddy, it's a great twist on freddy's design and mechanics to make him scary, removing his head removes that freddy's face we can fall back on, and turn what was once our safe space, into his main weapon is very clever, i don't get the presence though, maybe it's to evoke the time freddy gave us the fazwatch, but ether way, i love that design, sure, remove all that and it's a bit goofy, but is that was the case, we'd have a different design

İ think this dlc was like carving a bigger mine of questions. Nothing much got answered and so much questions popped up. We surely need a other game but im not sure if that Will happen

To respond to some of your questions, the books don't seems to actually be canon, but rather follow a similar story to the games. The mimic from the books and the one from the games aren't exactly the same, with the books mimic using a tiger animatronic suit and have a different costume. The secret scooper ending seems to be telling us that they aren't the same, showing the mimic using a similar costume to what it used in the books, but not the same costume. The other ending canonicity is fairly well agreed on at this point, the scooper and "brazil" (that's what its called in the files) endings being non-canon while the betrayal ending is. The purpose of the brazil ending is to give us confirmation that the canon SB ending is the princess quest ending (in case people were unsure after the rest of the game) while the scooper ending is to show a disconnect between the books and the games. The betrayal ending is likely the one that we will have going forward into the next games. The betrayal ending also implies that roxy and cassie are still alive by playing a voiceline of roxy saying "cassie" after the credits. Also it seems like the weird way gregory is talking in the ending (he talks as if he hadn't been there for the start of the conversation) is implying that the mimic had blocked out real gregory again and was the one who dropped the elevator (further supported by grosgory starting to act weird again right after the speaker seems to cut out for a second).

Quick note, in the games there are two versions of the Mimic (the one seen in the ending), The animatronic version, and the virus. The mimic virus is code taken from the Mimic's programming and essentially acts in the same way. However, like how the Mimic can intercept radio signals, the mimic virus can intercept thoughts and implant ones into people's heads. This is why glitchtrap exists. Glitchtrap is not afton in any way, but instead the mimic virus seeing the pain, agony and memories of Afton when his chips are scanned into the code of the game. In reality, afton is dead and rotting in UCN.

I completely agree that stuff should have been shown through and not through the books, but... I really like the concept of the Mimic, I feel like them adding it to the games fixes some stuff lore wise and puts it on a better path for the future. As a older guy myself, I do get where you are coming from with some stuff but I strangely kinda like it and have more hope for the future games now.

I want to say just because you loved FNAF as a child should not mean it should remain a kiddie game. If anything FNAF should be growing with its audience and it hasnt this has always bothered me and restrains the game too much. I think its very poor story telling to have required the book to understand the ending. I really really wish they had done more with repair idea shown in Eclipse and Chica that really wouldve been something amazing and sweet. But they pull out half way though and just never quite deliver. That makes me quite sad but it seems to sum up how i feel about Steel Wool as a studio. Cheers to them for making me love Roxy even more though

"Everything should be explained in the actual game." Bro lore-wise, the FNAF games have NEVER been fully explained in the games. You always needed one of the books, even back when FNAF 4 was supposed to be the end.

Was it much better than SB? Yes, definitely. Was it good, measuring objectively? Oh HEAVENS no. The gameplay boils down to completing comically simplistic children's puzzles, occasionally avoiding an animatronic that is both slower than you, and not able to track you.

There are quite some things that I loved about Security Breach: Ruin. One of those things being the jumpscares.

In my opinion, it did not at all live up to the hype 💀

You know, as dumb as the AR world sounded towards the story. I think it serves as a great art style I love seeing the contrast of the worn down, dirty, abandon pizzaplex to see it in a new light where it was alive, full of life place it once was

one thing i really wish was different was the motive. it was very obvious from the very start that gregory isnt actually in danger and that it was a trap, so it doesnt really motivate the player to actually try to save gregory. i wish they either made gregory more convincing and less vague or went with a different motive all together. maybe something like a grown up gregory realising something about the pizza plex or william afton and going back to encover the truth in its entirety could be cool? idk thats just how i feel tho

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Like most people I'm just disappointed because I went in expecting answers and closure, instead I got cliffhangers and sequel teases. FNaF is starting to feel like a plot made entirely of loose ends at this point.

Ruin basically just banks on every cliche in the Mascot Horror book to be scary, and yet Poppy Playtime and Garten of BanBan are somehow the issue to people.

To answer the question of why Chica would eat pizza, the theory is that Chica is kinda like a walking trash can Ex: child has some pizza and is full, Chica walks up and asks if child is gonna finish that, child responds no, Chica eats the pizza, plate, and box, child laughs. That’s just my theory though

25:16 I mean the whole point of MXES is that he isn't actually the villain he is just a security program trying to prevent the mimic from escaping so it makes sense that he isn't supposed to be super scary. It does negatively effect the horror though but imo its mostly because MXES isn't a threat throughout the whole game outside of calling animatronics you can straight up ignore him in a lot of situations.

Honestly, I consider anything after fnaf 6 more like an alternate timeline of sorts. Afton's ending was perfect and he was the perfect villain for the game. Whether he's left dead or brought back like in the new games, it's not going to have the same impact as the original 6 games did. Og fnaf was like lightning in a bottle, I don't think there's anyway to keep it going while making it feel the same and yet not over done. I like to think of the first 6 games as the true fnaf story and the new games as well as the books as more fun content from its universe.

Fun Fact: The ending where you put the mask on and see gregory on a hill is called "The Brazil Ending" in the files according to AstralSpiff.

I think that the mask doesn’t let you phase through objects. Since Helpi installed himself into your eyes it could just be an illusion

We actually have the first entity design in the game. Its way scarier than the final one. You should check it out.

I'd argue that it's better when characters from the books get moved into canon, Just because you personally don't read the books doesn't mean nobody else does, and finding out about the Mimic in Ruin makes reading the books more interesting. Besides, The Mimic is only in It's own story and the epilogues.

There’s a secret way to fix Chica! If you go to Chica’s Bakery and look around for the Chica’s Feeding Frenzy arcade machine and beat it, you will obtain a “speaker box” as Cassie calls it. If you then wait for Chica to come stomping into a bathroom and lie down in a corner, you can repair her. Btw who’s your favourite FNAF character out of the whole series, and who out of Security Breach/Ruin?

I dont know if anyone else noticed but the mini music men at 19:35 most of them have accessories to make them look like the animatronics

I wouldn’t say its “good” but its definitely alot better story and how well its put together

Always love to see you upload. Great videos 😃

I liked the base game in general. With all the graphics on their ultra settings, the game world is beautiful. And the open world version of the map was great to explore

The Roxy thing wasn’t sad. The character meant nothing to me.