Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach (Zero Punctuation) 

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Yahtzee on Fnaf 1: It’s not my cup of tea but I can see why people like it. Yahtzee on security breach: I am filled with so much hate I don’t know if I can properly express it.

You know it's going to be riveting when Yahtzee says "I want to hurt it."

I think the funniest part about Security Breach is that one of the antagonists is a security guard named Vanessa, and there's another antagonist who is a woman in a rabbit costume named Vanny, and it's treated as a major reveal that they are the same person.

This felt like an angry 2014 episode, beautiful from start to finish.

The FNAF franchise occupies such a specific niche it could release anything, and the fans would still find value in it.

The fact that this game became a meme factory literally minutes after it dropped tells you all you need to know about why it was made.

This game is so broken that watching speedrunners rip it to pieces has been more entertaining than the actual game. Did you know you can skip cutscenes by turning the voice volume to 0? .. I'm not kidding.

3:30 some of my favorite ZP moments are when something so shocking happens even the imps have to break character and take notice.

“I JUST ASKED IF WE WERE GONNA REVIEW INSCRYPTION” Yahtzee knows us too well

Watching markiplier suffer through this game tells you all you need. The part where it took him 45 MINUTES to find the exit in the laundry area, not because he's bad at the game but because it was so poorly located, is indicative of this game's many issues.

He briefly talks about the endings but regrettably he didn't dig deep enough into the madness of the endings. First of all, the ending looks like it skipped three or four scenes that are meant to build up to the climax. Then, midway through the climax, it abruptly switches from a visually impressive CGI cutscene to a comic strip that slides along the images of what happens next. It reminds me of a Key and Peele skit where it is a high fantasy music video that uses its budget halfway through and suddenly everything drops to its barest quality possible. It's such a bizarre choice, at the top of the entire game which is a series of bizarre choices, that it borders on satirical.

Fun fact: the game is so glitchy it is trivially easy to restore the save function. Go to the race track level and redo any of the objectives in there that you have completed. It will rewind time back before 6 am without undoing any of your other progress.

"Speaking of things that never get old..." "... is about children getting murdered." Well, I guess I'm never getting old either cause that shit killed me!

“If I suspect that jumpscares are lying in wait, I want to know that I can respond by opening fire, or legging it in the opposite direction.” Yahtzee Crowshaw - 2015 Not even both those things could stop his criticism.

Honestly the most impressive part was Yahtzee was (apparently) willing to trudge on through to different endings were it not for the ballsed up decision to disable saves in the final stretch of the game. I still wanna know why they made that decision honestly. It doesn't really align with any sense of difficulty I know which makes me think the person who made that decision is either a twat or has no idea what makes good game design. Difficulty is in itself difficult to objectively describe, but can be boiled down to, in my opinion "An expansion or inversion or twist on the core of this game's basics" It adds something, tests something or throws something on its head. Taking away saves doesn't do that, it shoves a niche challenge mode down the throats of most players who don't care about that sorta challenge. What next oh dear Security Breach designer? "To get the true ending to Elden Ring you need to pull off a soul level one no hit run of all previous Soulsborne games."

I was really hoping he'd be one of the folks who powered through to true ending, just so he'd piss on it. It's dragging back in the tangled lore from the other games and ruins what would have been a great start for a new chapter of the series. Also worth mentioning, Fred at some point mentions "the indicator on your map" to suggest there's supposed to be objective markers, but there isnt one. The game feels like it has all the right ingredients, it just put them in a septic tank instead of a bowl.

It is nice to see that the devs are at least going to make saving after 6 am possible in their next patch... but the fact the game is even in this state where some of these things were considered to be "good ideas" is baffling.

That's going to be my headcanon from now on. Nobody taught this kid "Stay put if you get lost," and every time he bumps into one of the animatronics in the dark, he has a PTSD flashback to Markiplier (my over-reacting letsplayer of choice) playing FN@F 4 and has a fatal heart attack.

When even the FNAF cult agrees with Yahtzee, you know the devs really cocked it up.

The ending of Yahtzee’s review of Cyberpunk 2077 comes to mind “Sure, there's a theoretically nice plate of steak fries here, but it's partially buried in potato peelings, and I don't understand why you peeled so many more potatoes than you actually needed. Also, not to make a fuss, but I ordered a salad!”

As I understand it, _Security Breach_ genuinely _was_ unfinished -- the game's development ran over-time and over-budget, and got pushed back enough that the series' creator felt compelled to create a freeware side-scrolling beat-'em-up with the game's animatronic cast just to _apologize_ for the delays. In the end, they had to rush it out the door before it was ready, and ye _gods_ does it _show._

Ok i can't get over how accurate that "are you embarrased about the good ending?!" Line is xD the endings were all p bad

I wish Yahtzee would bring back reading fan's mail and making fun of them. If not for every game, just this one time for the FNAF fans. I would love to see that.

I've loved the FNaF series for a long time and I'm super into the lore. But this review is 100% justified. The game was so broken. I was so excited to see this video pop up because I wanted to hear you shit on it like it deserved.

"Whichever neon haired dropout has the most amusing scream this week." Man just described modern RU-vid and Twitch Letplays in a single sentence. Yahtzee is a legend.

I have the same feeling towards Security Breach that I did with Detroit: Become Human. Looks genuinely impressive & the art direction is incredible! *...just a shame about literally everything else.*

how you managed to even get to the end is an impressive feat by itself I salute you Yahtzee

It's funny you mention being embarassed by the good ending, because the endings are pretty half-assed (or unfinished, to be more charitable). Getting the "true" ending is buggy as shit, so a lot of people end up just flailing about until the game just sort of gives up and plays the ending. Even with lore knowledge, the true ending is pretty disappointing imo.

FNAF is a series where the games take a back seat and what most people are interested in are the supplementary material. FNAF is sold on its lore, personality, and Fandom memes/rule 34. Most people who say they're fans probably haven't played past night 3 of the first game before giving up and binging matpats theory videos. It's a shame cause FNAF started out amazing, unique idea, popularized the whole "Indie game with super dark backstory hidden behind layers of Easter eggs." Thing but it just went on and on and on. The main villain has died three times already, you'd think by that point they'd just start a new series in the same universe or something but no.

The developers "Take a look at the beta build, I think we have the foundation of a great game here" The publishers "Looks good, ship it out!" The developers "But this is the beta build, there's still a lot of content to add and finish" The publishers "Great work I love the efficiency. you've already started making the DLC"

You know all those collectables you were too busy to find ALL of? Y'know how it would be nice to collect them now? HAVE FUN DOING IT EVERY SINGLE TIME!!!

Props to Yahtz for having the fortitude to reach an ending at all. I only got a few minutes in before I realized "Oh fuck me, this is another one of those generic "run and hide" survival "horror" games, and not even a well designed one" and that was pretty much it for me

"I'm gonna wake up with one fewer chickens and a priapism" absolutely took me out. I was taking a drink of my beer when that was said and I shot beer out of my nose at HIGH velocity.

“Maybe Gregory has watched streams of the previous games as well.” The sad thing is that in universe, that is possible.

3:32 made me do a double take since I listen to these at work. I was like no way I heard that right and thank god the animator/editor noticed his comment enough to show it. Truly one of his best wtf moments.

Depressing, the way Cawthon somehow managed to consistently fail upward for years without learning anything along the way.

Every stream I've seen of Security Breach ended with the same general vibe: streamer is intrigued early on, asks many questions, game starts doing its thing, games starts to become grating (take your pick: glitch, game being aimless, frustration, exhaustion from the shitty jumpscares), streamer either stops playing or plays a different, usually better, game. I don't think I've seen anyone finish the game on stream, and this is pretty noticeable when most streamers *finish* their other games.

"Are you embarrassed of the true ending?" Yes.

1:57 "......or whichever neon haired dropout has the most amusing scream this week." Good on you for giving that shoutout to Markiplier!

Everytime I hear about a new FNAF game, my response is always "Is this still a fucking thing?"

I'm glad someone had the balls to tear this game a new one. I was watching an LP of it and the guy playing sounded audibly exhausted by the end of it. It makes me a bit sniffy though as games like these are exactly the reason in my mind why the indie horror scene is so fucked right now - instead of focusing on making good games, devs focus more on the tired jumpscary spooky lore shite that made the first fnaf game reasonably good

The funniest part about that conclusion that they're just trying to see if they can get away with pissing let's players off now is that it actually worked on the self declared king himself. I'm pretty sure Mark spent more time ranting about the map layouts or the janky mechanics or how the game was making him feel stupid for not being a Tzeentchate Alpha+ Level Psyker that also has a Library Card hand issued by Ceogorach and just instinctively knowing where everything is, than he did even noticing that anything other than Vanny and the Map Bot was supposed to be scary for longer than 2 seconds after the first time it gets you.

Considering Markiplier uploaded multi-hour long videos trying to figure out what the fuck to do, I would say your theory about intentionally annoying content creators has some good standing.

FNAF is literally the embodiment of "Step 2: ???, Step 3: Profit" Scott didn't make the game like how people assume, being just a streamer bait game. He threw it at the wall to see if it stuck, and he just so happened to graze the right skin layer with his oil drill and it blew up. I applaud his work, tbh. He was struggling financially so much at that point that he and his wife sat down to watch the numbers rise. That probably felt really nice for him, and that in and of itself makes me smile.

Supposedly some former Pixar artists worked on the game. Explains why it looks so good and has a cool setting but fails as a game

1:50 sounds like Yatzhee at least respects Inscrpytion, thats good to see.

At least the artists get some acknowledgement. They have gone absolutely berserk in rendering the environment visually stunning and filled to the brim with easter eggs, references and the likes to the point it is almost insulting that such work was done, for a buggy poorly designed mess of a game like this...

Oh boy. Before even _starting_ this video i already know how much Yahtzee is going to rip into this one. I am a big fan of the series, played it on release and it breaks my heart to agree that it is a total trainwreck in nearly every imaginable way. The visuals look great, assuming they load in ahead of time, and the voice acting is pretty good, but that's about as much praise as even i can give it. Went into this game with excitement, went out of it feeling completely empty. It really makes me question as to what it was that went so horribly wrong during development. It's clear that the developers cared a great deal about the series and the VR game they made before this was pretty good, so this is not the result of plain laziness or greed, but _something_ had to be the cause behind all this.

So, as I recall, at least in the first 2 games (which is about how long the series remained interesting to me), the animatronics didn't attack kids because they were possessed by the ghosts of children murdered by a psychopath employee wearing one of the suits. The only exception being "the bite of 87" which I guess was explained that some bullies tossed another kid's head into an animatronic's mouth. When did this change? When did the games stop trying to paint a mystery for theorists to wrack their brains piecing together? The mystery was the most fun thing about the games.

Yahtzee is absolutely spot on in the "influencer reaction shots" point. Seems to me this game was made with RU-vid in mind first with any sort of fun gameplay taking a far second string.

Say what you will about the game, but watching Markiplier scream helplessly at Freddy as Freddy runs by because of bad path finding while being chased by all the other animatronics was comedy gold.

I agree with Yahtzee so much here! I used to be one of those annoying 9-year old's that was obsessed with FNaF. When I heard they were making SB, I played all of the old ones again. Those 2 days I spent playing every FNaF game was more fun than the 7 hours I had on SB. SB is a buggy fucking mess. They made the plot even more confusing than it was after 4. The characters felt dull and the only characters I liked was Freddy, and the day care attendant. I had more fun dicking around with the Freddy noclip bug than actually fucking playing the damn game. I can understand how people loved the old FNaF games, I did as a kid. I even still think the old ones are still good, they still scared me sometimes. I never got scared in SB. It felt so boring and dumb. The villain, Vanny, has more screen time in the fucking trailer than the actual game. I was expecting this to be like a new chapter in FNaF. But nope! Funny purple killer from 4 fucking games ago is still the main villain. I just feel sad, watching SB. The first time FNaF, a game from my childhood. A game me and my friends would annoy our moms about 24/7. The first time it gets a big release, it's a fucking dumpster fire. I hate people saying, "oH iT wILl gEt pAtcHeD, DoNt worRy!!1!" I'm tired of waiting for games to get patched into a good state! I just wanted a good game! But instead, Steel Wool gave us this dog shit.

*Zero Punctuation prog rock concept album of the week:* *Dual Laser Guns And A Maserati* by the *Neon Haired Dropouts* (tracks include *The Sweetness Of That Victory* )

Now might be good time to remember that Scott created FnaF as an artistic Hail Mary because his other games weren't so good.

I love it when Yahtzee can really sink his teeth into something like this

"Are you embaresed of the good ending" Yes, they propably are, it is bad

I have been a fnaf fan for a long and I think it's fair to say everyone agrees this game isn't finished. It's a real shame as there is clearly work put into the visuals with amazing graphics and really good animations. I do think the old games still hold a charm to them that make them worth playing even solo as they could be challenging and still creepy. I do think this one being so rushed is a shame, even more so when you watch the trailer and see how much was cut out.

Whoever thought that DISABLING SAVING THE GAME was a good idea, needs to be fired. Out of a cannon. Into a PIRAHNA PIT.

Markiplier - the poster boy for FNaF - even looked to be tired of this game when I made myself watch him play it. Looked frustrating as hell, and even he seemed to have to push himself to play more. It was surreal.

The devs saw Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon and said "yep, this is the perfect atmosphere for our horror game"

I also don't agree with the designs of the animatronics in Security Breach! A big part of what made FNAF so effective was looking at these broken, decrepit machines that, even when in perfect upkeep, still could and LOOKED like they could bite your entire head off, and realizing "Holy sh*t, they let CHILDREN play with these???" None of that in Sec Breach! Perfect, pristine, not even a STAIN on the surface! At one point you actually GET IN Freddy, a moment that in any other game would be DEATH, and safely pilot him around without a care in the world! The only remotely threatening design is that off the Sun/Moon one, and other than that it's like getting threatened by a f*cking DISNEYLAND MASCOT

Honestly, the biggest plus for me from this game was DJ Music Man. Wish he was incorporated a lot more, that's for sure.

It is gratifying to see how many people didn't like security breach, I thought it odd that I was the odd one out. Cool look and I love Monty gators style but the game lost where it was going pretty quick. Half the story just pops up out of nowhere

0:40 that's the hardest part. Every year I get older but these FNAF fans stay the same age

I don’t remember the last ZP that was like this. Just 6 minutes of Yahtzee ranting. And not even the fun ranting where it’s “Haha look at how bad this game is. Here’s a knob joke.” Just straight anger and vitriol nonstop and the video’s like a minute longer than his normal ones. Not even Hunt Down the Freeman provoked such a reaction lmfao

"the game never really establishes that the animatronics are hostile, we just take that as read" Fricken' a to that, it was frankly my biggest problem with this scizhophrenic game. You have a new protag who has no connection to the series cause its a soft reboot or something, and you don't even bother to establish the basic building blocks on why you shouldn't trust the staff. You don't get an in-universe explanation for why he doesn't trust them until after it's too late, so you just spend a game with a kid running away from people who as far as you, the player, can tell are "just trying to help". And then at the very end of the game he brings up disappearences? why doesn't he say that at the start? and when did freddy find out about them? And on that note, at what point does freddy go from "the robos are my friends, we all want to help, don't hurt them" to "you aren't safe here, my friends are trying to kill you" Bugs can be perserved through if you at least have a game with a comprehensible storyline

I love FNAF, and I fully agree, security breach has SO many goddamn issues not to mention from all accounts the whole game was scrapped and restarted some point relatively close to the launch of it just to make a more kid friendly game, I really hope the next game is better and has more thought put in

"It's very bad and I want to hurt it!" Don't sugar coat it, tell us how you really feel.

Fuck, I wasn't prepared for that last line. The delivery is perfect.

Horror and fear in general is largely composed of our fear of death, which is why it's so hard to instill fear in a medium where if you die you just start over. Gamers want to avoid dying not because it's scary, but because it's annoying to have to start over.

My fear is that Security Breach actually WAS finished and that was exactly what they wanted it to be.

as kind of a fan of FNAF, everything you said was spot on, especially about the community. they'll eat whatever as long as it says FNAF. I was inmenselly dissapointed with this, especially since VR game was quite well, looked good and had interesting/fun stuff don't even bother with this

I’m getting a strong “Bottom 5” feeling from this review.

"If I don't get closure on this I'm going to wake up one morning in the chicken coop with one less chicken and a priapism" Is a line that will not leave my head and I demand that it begins to pay rent.

Things that would make the game better: 1: Spawn in the animatronics farther away from the alerted security and staff bots. 2: Slightly faster sprint recharge. 3: More varied death animations. 4: The ability to save the game after 6 am. 5: Fully animated ending cutscenes 6: Freddy runs to your current location instead of the last location you signalled him at. 7: General bug fixes.

For Yahtzee: People like it because both memes and lore... And that's close to it. Pretty much everyone has agreed it's not that scary, and it's not that well designed, and the bugs don't help, but the long-running lore reveals and the huge memes made off it (not to mention the memes) have kept it from death so far.

every gameplay i've seen of it i was like "oh this looks great! It's so broken and a slog though."

This review is super accurate I do wanna recall something about the game's entire plot and design being reworked in the middle of development? You can see some stuff from the trailers just completely absent in the game as well. I'm not really informed on whatever actually happened, but I'd assume its got something to do with the creator of the series getting death threats to his family over something on twitter and then leaving the franchise. In any case though, when a game goes through something like that, this is basically what you're gonna get. A buggy unfinished mess that has to be released anyway to be able to cover development costs. That being said, screw whoever decided that you shouldn't be able to save anymore after reaching 6AM, you can't excuse that garbage piece of game design away with production hell.

ZP's Worst Game of 2022, as summed up by Yahtzee: "Considering I gave Carkplace: Titshaker a prize, it shouldn't surprise you to hear that I feel a bit out-of-touch with the kids. I cannot comprehend how anyone can look at Security Breach and see anything but a horrendously badly thought-out six-lane pile-up of a game, riddled with terrible design decisions and misplaced effort, held together about as efficiently as a swarm of angry wasps in a fishing net. But the popularity of Five Nights at Freddy's mystifies me generally, so maybe I'm the wrong demographic; maybe this is like complaining that there's no driving philosophical theme at the heart of Peppa Pig's Pumpkin Party."

The reason why it gets positive reviews is relatively simple, you just gotta remember when FNaF 4 came out and let you move point and click style it was the hugest fucking thing the franchise has ever seen. The bar is that low.

Glad to see someone actually critique the game. I thought i was going insane that no one else thought the game was bad.

Not relevant to the video. Just wanted to say I really enjoyed your new Audio Book :D

Security Breach does have a serious problem with telling you things. For example, did you know you can upgrade Freddy's battery life, the Flashlight's battery life, Gregory's sprint speed, stamina metre and lower his detection radius? I sure as hell didn't, because at no point in the game are you told that you CAN upgrade yourself, or where to go to find some upgrades. To make matters worse, one of the battery upgrades for thr flashlight is *before* you get the flashlight in a place *absolutely no-one* would think to look in a place you can only visit *one time* in an open world game.

This is why I prefer to watch other people play such games on YT rather than buying them myself. Why waste money getting frustrated at a screen when I can enjoy watching other people do it? Cuz every time a FNaF game comes out, you just know there's gonna be tons of big youtubers playing it to hell and back just for the sake of keeping up the status quo.

Holy shit! I've just come from watching some of the decade-old ZP's and now I'm back in the present day the assets are so crisp! If Yahtzee wanted me to appreciate the work he did tarting up the look of ZP then colour me appreciative!

2:09 God damnit yahtzee you didnt need to bring back those memories... Its just too soon...

Holy shit pacman IS 40 years old

*Zero Punctuation emo rock album of the week:* *Banal Observations Of The Patently Obvious* by the *Painless Decapitations* (tracks include *Why Have You Brought Me To This Place* )

Ever since he said "I want to hurt it" I have repeatedly used that phrase multiple times in reference to other shit indie games

The franchise should have ended after Pizzeria Simulator

My theory is that it still has a very positive rating on Steam because the internet is major horny for the wolf animatronic.

Nothing says a good horror game like a needlessly limited save system where you die and lose all your progress 30 minutes back.

This was the most entertaining ZP episode in recent memory. I love hearing about the horrendously bad games.

The previous games were done by one fucking guy, this one had a whole development studio behind it. That's saying something.

You know the cult gamer group theory explains why some series never die despite going nowhere but down an elevator shaft.

Since I'm a sane person and don't follow big name streamers on twitch, the release of this game would have completely passed me by if it hadn't been for the absolutely insane deluge of fanart for the furrybait wolf character. Go ahead and try the NSFW challenge looking up Roxy, see how long it takes.

This is high-quality vintage Yahtzee! "I want to hurt it!!"

Oh, replaying for good ending... ***** Disciples: Liberation did this after 40+ hours of (by that time quite boring) tactical combat: hey do this whole thing again for 1 whole new dialog line every 2-5 hours, and a secret bossfight!

"I am still stricken by an acute fear of having happy birthday sung to me in a restaurant." Me too man, me too...