My relationship with Five Nights at Freddy's

I have been into Five Nights at Freddys since 2016, right before sister location came out. I remember watching Markiplier gameplays as they released. I have watched every single FNaF game theory, most of them I have seen multiple times.

Not to brag, but I have had genuine fears of Spingtrap hiding in my grandmas kitchen at the ripe old age of 15 lol. You would think that 15 year olds would get over that fear but I was special. 

The more and more I come to learn and accept different parts of myself, especially the fact that I am probably autistic, certain things stand out to me about my childhood. Only recently did my relationship with FNaF come into investigation. 

My cousin is autistic and has FNaF as a special interest of his, and the way he expresses it always felt different from how I experienced it. So I thought that no way could it be the same for me. But seeing how I experience my special interests, it kind of became clear that FNaF was a special interest of mine. I am actually surprised I didnt realize it earlier. 

I thought it was just a hyperfixation that came and went that was always different from other hyperfixations. It sounded reasonable in my head! I didnt care for it as strongly as some as my other interests, yet that was kind of a lie. It was always in the back of my mind somewhere, even if I wasnt hyperfixating on it. I knew an absurd about of the lore and I took into learning as much about it as I could, hence my obsession with MatPat.

I always felt guilty considering myself a FNaF fan because I never cared much about actually playing the games. Horror really freaked me out, specifically the jumpscares. But the lore behind the game always really interested me. That is probably why I got into it soon before Sister Location came out (though FNaF 4 was super interesting to me with the 8-bit minigames). Sister Location is easily one of my favorite games from the franchise, and I really enjoyed the direction the games started going after that. 

The camera system always confused me, I dont know why. It was simple to seemingly everyone but me, so I never really attempted to play any of the original four games. But sister location? That was insane and so cool to me. It ran so much deeper and was so much more interesting than any of the other games, in my opinion. Which I am just finding out is a controversial take lol??

Now onto the MORE 'controversial' takes I have on FNaF. And by that, I mean my one opinion that most of the original fan base seems to disagree with (reminder, I have been into the game for 8 years now, so I consider myself one of the original fans)

I really enjoy Security Breach. Hot take! I know. But I also know the way I enjoy the games is different anyways. I enjoyed the characters so much, though everything I ever get into is more character based than gameplay based anyways, so that may be why. I rather enjoy the characters, and while I agree that the game is buggy and it isnt scary, I still enjoy it as a stand alone game! I even enjoy what it does with the FNaF timeline! 

Maybe my opinions dont matter on that part, but I really enjoy these games and what they have done for me :)