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Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is the sequel to the indie game Five Nights at Freddy's, developed by Scott Cawthon. The game was released on Steam on November 11, 2014, earlier than the original planned release date in 2015 as well as its second date on December 25, 2014 due to issues with releasing the demo. The mobile port for Android was released on November 13, 2014. A version for Windows Phone, was published on December 05, together with the first Five Nights at Freddy's.

The player plays as security guard Jeremy Fitzgerald, instead of Mike Schmidt from the first game. It features six brand new enemy characters as well as redesigned versions of the original four enemy characters from the original game. Unlike the first game, there are no doors to close; instead, the player must put on a Freddy Fazbear mask to avoid being killed by most animatronics.

Gameplay

As in the first game, Five Nights at Freddy's, the player must survive a night shift at Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria, from 12 A.M. to 6 A.M. game time (usually 6-8 minutes), without being attacked by any of the animatronic enemy characters (11 in all) that wander from room to room. The player cannot leave the security office, but can track the animatronics' movements via a network of surveillance cameras placed throughout the building. The office has three entrances, a hallway and two side air vents; in a departure from the previous game, none of these can be sealed off to block enemies from entering. Each vent is equipped with a light that can be used to check for any characters that are about to crawl into the office.

The player can put on a Freddy Fazbear mask to ward off approaching animatronics, and a flashlight is available to check the hallway and darkened areas of the camera feeds. Unlike the other animatronics, Foxy cannot be fooled by the Freddy mask, and will only eventually leave if the player shines the flashlight repeatedly on him while he is standing in the hallway. Although the power supply for the cameras and vent lights is unlimited, the flashlight does have a finite battery life; if it runs out, the player becomes vulnerable to attack. In addition, a music box has been placed in one room and can be remotely wound up through the camera interface. The player must keep the box wound and playing all night in order to avoid being attacked by an enemy that appears when the music stops.

Unlike the first game, after the player is killed, there is a chance that rather than the Game Over screen, one of four low-resolution minigames will appear (often dubbed "Death Minigames"), with instructions given at the start of each. These minigames provide insight into the backstory of the events that have given the restaurant its troubled reputation.

The game consists of five nights, increasing in difficulty. Completing all five unlocks an even more difficult sixth night, which in turn unlocks a "Custom Night" upon completion. In the Custom Night, the player can adjust the AI difficulty of the individual enemy characters or play one of 10 pre-set challenges.

Plot

The main character, who is later revealed to be named Jeremy Fitzgerald, has started working as a night watch security guard at the family restaurant Freddy Fazbear's Pizza in the year 1987. Phone calls left by one of the employees (soon to be the next security guard) explain that the animatronics are able to roam around at night. He also introduces a special character, known only as the Puppet, who can only attack Jeremy if he fails to keep a music box wound. He lets Jeremy know about some mechanics that used to be available in the previous game that are now different. For example, he explains that there are no more doors and that the player has unlimited power in the restaurant, although he is not comparing these events to the restaurant in the first game but rather the original restaurant "Fredbear's Family Diner" which closed for unknown reasons (but it is hinted to be because six children were murdered by a man in dressed in purple). Since there are no doors, Jeremy is supplied with a Freddy Fazbear mask to trick the animatronics into thinking he is an animatronic himself. On the fifth night, he gets a call stating that five kids have been murdered with the reasons unknown. The player is told that the killer wore what was described as a "spare yellow suit ". The "Bite of '87", an attack on a patron by one of the animatronics that injured the patron's frontal lobe, which was hinted at in the previous game, is also mentioned as occurring during the events of Five Nights at Freddy's 2. On the sixth night the man on the phone, sounding extremely upset and disturbed, calls and warns Jeremy that "none of them are acting right". In the custom night level, Jeremy is replaced by a character named Fritz Smith as Jeremy gets promoted to the day shift for completing the game; Fritz manages to survive by manipulating the animatronics' AI and is later fired on the same day for "tampering with animatronics" and "odor".

Reception

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 received generally positive reviews from critics. Omri Petitte for PC Gamer gave Five Nights at Freddy's 2 a score of 70 out of 100, commenting that what he wanted in the sequel "was more mind games and more uncertainty. I wanted the plodding animatronic suits to find me and rip my face off in new and interesting ways. I wanted working legs. What I got was a horror game dipping heavily into deception and subtlety, a wonderfully cruel cocktail of supernatural mystery and jolts of panicked adrenaline. Enjoying the good parts, though, comes with a cost of a frustratingly steep difficulty."

References

1. "Five Nights at Freddy's 1 and 2 creep their way onto the Windows Phone Store". Windows Central.
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External Links

• Official website
• Five Nights at Freddy's 2 on IndieDB

• Indie video games
• Psychological horror games
• Windows games
• Android games
• 2014 video games
• Point-and-click adventure games
• Video games featuring anthropomorphic characters