10 Huge Gaming Moments That Didn't Matter At All
9. Upgrading Freddy - Five Nights At Freddy’s: Security Breach
Despite its runaway success, buoyed by popularity amongst big YouTubers, Five Nights at Freddy’s is a franchise often dismissed as being a cynical rehash of the same jumpscare mechanics.
As time has gone on, the franchise has gone through a fair few reinventions, but none have strayed as far from this initial formula as the latest entry: Security Breach.
Unlike the previous titles’ static setting, Security Breach casts the player as Gregory, a young boy trapped in an aggressively 80s Mega Pizza Plex. Gregory finds himself alongside a Freddy Fazzbear animatronic, whose refusal to murder the little lad is deemed to be a ‘malfunction’.
The player must navigate the Pizza Plex whilst being stalked by the other animatronics, eventually dismantling them to upgrade Freddy with their harvested parts. After Freddy’s second upgrade, the clock immediately darts to 6am and the game’s final escape sequence begins.
After all of that hassle for the second upgrade, with a grand total of one sequence to use it, you’ve got to wonder what the big deal was in the first place. Granted, players aiming for 100% or ‘True’ endings can return to harvest the third part in a lengthy post-game sequence with NO SAVE POINTS, but more casual fans will largely take the chance to finish the game and enjoy one of three endings depending on progress.