Fnaf World 2
Austin Vermont
I have been a fan of the "Five Nights at Freddy's" games since it first came out. At first I thought it was just a bunch of overhyped garbage, but when I actually looked into it I was hooked instantly. I had all the games 100% completed, and I had tons of merchandise, which I decorated my computer stand with. I was going through a very hard time in my life, but FNaF brought me comfort, especially Five Nights at Freddy's World, or FNaF World for short.
FNaF World is a cutesy RPG where you can play as all the characters, or "animatronics", a far cry from the rest of the series. It was panned at the start, but the cool thing was Scott Cawthon (the creator) kept updating it, making it better and better. I enjoyed it from the start. The cute characters, the bright colors, and the sheer positivity of it all was my drug, it hid the pain in my life. I played it obsessively, going through all nine worlds over and over again, collecting the 48 characters over and over again, and fighting for hours and hours. FNaF World was my safe space. But after what happened, what HE did, I can never look at FNaF World, or anything related to Five Nights at Freddy's again.
I was browsing GameJolt, looking for some FNaF fangames (I had already played all the good ones), and I saw that FNaF World had updated again! It was under Scott's official, confirmed GameJolt account, of course. I examined it and it said it was Update 0, which was pretty weird, considering it should have been Update 3 or something. But with Five Nights at Freddy's, you never know, so I didn't expect anything suspicious. I downloaded it.
It was much bigger than the previous updates. I was very excited! Scott must have added some really good stuff this time. I waited anxiously as Update 0 slowly but surely downloaded itself onto my computer.
Suddenly, I got a blue screen. Ughhhhh! My computer was crappy, but it didn't usually do this. I pounded the desk in anger. I hastily restarted the PC. When the desktop came up, I saw the FNaF World icon, but instead of the titular character's innocent and happy face, he looked sad and grimaced. The colors were paler. The name was "fnaf_world_update_0.exe".
This was pretty weird, but as Update 2 ended on a dark note, this wasn't very surprising. I double-clicked the icon and waited. It was taking a long time for the game to start up. After around eight minutes, my screen went black as the game started. The title slid across the screen much slower than it usually did, and it was in a different, creepy font. The slew of characters that then rose out of the title had fearful expressions, far from the happy-go-lucky faces they usually had. And instead of the bright sky background, it was a dark, stormy, raincloud background. Okay, this was pretty creepy. I was prepping myself for some jumpscares, FNaF's chief way of scaring the player.
I selected my profile and went to the character selection screen. Which was all empty, except for the eight characters you start out with. Ugh! I still had my own profile, but I lost my characters! I was very upset, considering some characters like Mr. Chipper, Spring Bonnie, and Coffee were extremely hard to get. But since this was a new update, I just went with it. I selected my two parties and started the game.
Every time you do anything major, such as change characters or enter a new location, a loading screen appears. It has the model of a random character and some text to go with it. For example, Classic Freddy would appear with "Back to basics!" above him as you waited for the game to load. However, this time, it was different. Instead of the blue background, it was pitch-black. Classic Freddy was looking directly at me, instead of sideways like he usually does. And instead of his usual text, it said "Don't trust him.".
My entire screen went bright-red, and a piercing, high-pitched noise erupted from my speakers. I rushed to mute them. A few seconds later, my screen was back to normal, with Freddy in the overworld at Fazbear Hills. Fredbear was down the path, he gave you objectives. I went to him.
"I can't talk now... Meet me at Choppy's Woods and go alone," he said ominously. I tried waiting at the end of his message to see if Fredbear Plush would appear with his secret message, but nothing happened. I clicked "OK" and the loading screen appeared yet again. It was Classic Foxy with "I'm sorry. Will you miss me?" He was facing me just like Freddy the last time, and he looked like he was going to cry.
The game resumed normally, with Freddy still at Fazbear Hills and Fredbear gone. I went into battle. I had Classic Freddy, Classic Bonnie, Toy Chica, and Classic Foxy in my first party, with Toy Freddy, Toy Bonnie, Classic Chica, and Mangle in my second. You could switch parties at anytime, or when your first team is killed. We got into a few battles on the way to Choppy's Woods, and eventually we encountered JJ, a character you could unlock by beating. We won easily, and I went to the character selection menu to put her in my team.
You can only have four characters per team, and we had eight characters total, so someone had to go. I got rid of Toy Freddy. He is easily the most useless character in the entire game. He doesn't have any good attacks, and he can't heal or debuff either. He was even more worthless than Phantom Freddy, a character who can't even directly attack. So I kicked him out and replaced him with JJ. Out of the corner of my eye, I could have sworn I seen the expression on Toy Freddy's icon change, but I exited the menu too quickly to look further.
We returned to the overworld. We went into Choppy's Woods, but right where Fredbear would usually be, was his dismantled corpse. Shocked, I went up to it. It changed to the little talking cutscene. Freddy had a look of horror on his face. Fredbear had been torn in half and all of his limbs were ripped off. Given the characters are robots, this wasn't as gory as you may imagine, but it was still very disturbing and shocking. "SAVE YOURSELF" was written in black liquid, supposedly oil, beside his corpse. After around ten minutes, Freddy slowly walked away, sobbing.
The overworld was different now. The Dusting Fields were dark grey instead of white. The melancholic tone if its theme was slowed down and had a much lower pitch, making it sound even more depressing. It seemed even Freddy himself was greyer and moving slower. I noticed he was weeping as he walked.
Then I heard a sound. It was the sound the game makes when a character falls in battle. But nothing else happened after it. I shrugged it off and encountered a random enemy. I switched to Team 2 to check up on them. JJ had her torso torn open and was missing a leg. I gulped. Not even my team was immune to whatever monster was killing these people. I quickly finished the battle. And then it suddenly went into an Atari-style minigame.
Bonnie was in the pizzeria which was the main focus of the first two games. It looked torn-down. I walked him around, navigating through rats and puddles of water. I went through several halls. There was a door with stairs leading down. I went down them, and instead of rats and water, it was giant spiders and blood. A small little word-bubble came out of Bonnie's mouth, saying "Foxy?". He repeated it every ten seconds or so. We walked through the claustrophobic basement, which was filled with spare parts and animatronic endoskeletons. There was an entry with no door, pitch-black inside. Bonnie went inside. Inside was Foxy's rotten corpse. It was decayed with some endoskeleton obviously visible. Bonnie took a deep breath, though it was hard to make out in 4-bit graphics. It ended, with red, glowing, 4-bit font letters saying "I WAS GOOD TOO" blaring out of complete darkness.
Then it went back to the overworld, Dusting Fields again. I checked the character selection screen. I went over Classic Foxy. His eyes were blank, he was lying on the floor, and his endoskeleton was visible, just like in the minigame. Foxy was dead. His icon was faded and I could not select him. I hovered over JJ and saw it was the same with her. Toy Freddy was missing, his icon just disappeared.
I gulped. I hoped I would encounter another character soon. This game was getting very sick. I doubt even Scott Cawthon would go this far. But I had to get through the game. I had to see why Scott would put such a sick side to this innocent game.
I went back to the overworld. The character this time was Classic Chica, and she said "Please protect us." I will, I silently promised her. When the loading screen ended, images which looked a lot like mutilated children flashed across my screen, though it was too late for me to process these pictures entirely. And we were back at Dusting Field, which had gotten even darker and the snow/dust was falling more heavily. To my surprise, the snowman boss wasn't there at the end like he usually was. I decided to explore a little. There was an odd stone with a shadowy Freddy dancing slowly and eerily on top of it. It never did anything, and was just a creepy background thing. I went up to it to see if anything changed. And sure enough, it did.
We were in a new, pitch-black world. There was nothing on the screen except for Freddy. He appeared frightened. I walked around a bit aimlessly, and then we got in a battle. We fought two... things. They looked like a mix between a real wolf and a mechanical canine. They were much more realistic than the cartoony graphics usual of FNaF World. They were very dangerous, and I just barely survived the encounter. When they died, they made the sound like the cry of a wolf.
When the battle ended, I was sent to another minigame. I was dreading what I would find in this one. I don't think I was playing as anyone. It was a cutscene. Shadow Freddy and Shadow Bonnie were dragging Classic Bonnie around in a black void. They eventually came to a throne. Fires started to erupt. Then Shadow Freddy took a hammer and pounded Bonnie on the back of the head. Then Shadow Bonnie took a knife and slit his throat.
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