Not much of a FNAF Gamer, but I AM a Gooner, and I've been following SUNR4Y from a far lookout on my Twitter ever since their models reached their most recent design iterations, so I couldn't miss out on this game. Love Hyper-proportions and I won't hide it.
Aesthetic: I'll gladly admit- I wasn't expecting so much work being put into atmosphere, sound, world, etc. You can tell that it wasn't just the models of the girls that had time put into looking well. SUN wanted to make an actually decent product and give it out, and I'll give him major props for that. That Clickity-CLACK of all the sounds from technology in the 80s is in full-swing and I loved it! Felt nostalgic everytime I'd boot it up until I got reminded why I was playing this game.
Gameplay: I only have experience with 1 other FNAF game, I don't do well with jumpscares combined with methodical gameplay and usually ragequit, but I didn't with this game. I had a great time. I feel like the AI had a decent increase in difficulty throughout the nights, and Night 5 actually took me 1.5 days to beat (kept getting vent 50/50'd while trying to wind-up the mannequin and reboot my camera). I think that Night 5 is far as someone like me can go though. Even if I wanted to play Ladies Night, I wouldn't be exactly "playing" as much as I would basically be winding the mannequin and looking at the vents. I've seen the strats and they look boring, even if they are efficient.
Feedback: I personally would've liked a two things with the gameplay, as they would've helped me extremely guy who's kinda foreign to FNAF-gameplay, and an additional one just for my personal tastes
- "Meet the Animatronics!" menu on a fresh file. Until you Unlock the Extra's Menu, there's no actual way to learn the name of the Animatronics(Or dolls as they're called on by the Phone Guy) unless you're paying attention to the Phone Guy while trying to not get eaten alive. I even tried to look up their name on SUNR4Y's twitter, but they're given different names in comparison to the OG FNAF Characters, and Twitter's Search sucks, sooo I was out of luck. As a result, it made it difficult to know what animatronic he was talking about in the midst of everything, which sucked when he was talking about their counterplay. It would've been nice to have a "Meet the Animatronics!" or something Menu that basically gave you a short run-down with their names, a small pic, and how they can be countered.
- Phone Guy Subtitles. Goes with #1, if Phone Guy had subtitles, I could've been able to understand him properly and more easily recognize who he was talking about if his long calls. I would've honestly read them than listen to them if given the chance. By the time they'd begin moving on Night 3-5 I was too focused on trying to track them than listen to him.
- Lean more into the NSFW. Honestly was disappointed on the lack of Explicit NSFW. I'm being hunted down by these thick-ass animatronics, and there's barely anything explicit to be seen? The only time we see uncovered boobs are from Carmen/Chica. Annie/Foxy just points a gun at me. I signed up to get my face sat on by Marie and all she does jump down too look at me? The animatronics are clearly flirty/extra (Ex: Bjorna kisses you, Penny sticks her tongue out at the camera and makes you motorboat her in the Jumpscare), but I was expecting more. Maybe when Bjorna is in the office shaking her boobs, her shirt could've been down. When Penny would in the Staff Lounge/Cam 3, she could've been stuck in the vent with her ass out. If Carmen and Penny were both in the Main Hall, they could both be flashing the camera and sticking their middle fingers. Yeah Gooner wants goony stuff laugh at him- but I can't deny that I wanted alot more in that alley after seeing the stuff SUN would make on Twitter
All in all, SUN's got it. This was worth the wait and I can't wait to see what they do in the future. They've definitely come a long way from those initial FNAF-based models that they made years ago.