Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach (NSP, XCI) ROM + v0.2 Update

Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach The latest addition to the popular horror game franchise loved by millions of players worldwide is this game. In this game, you take on the role of Gregory, a young boy who becomes trapped overnight in Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizzaplex.  This is a 2021 first-person survival horror video game developed by Steel Wool Studios and published by ScottGames. It is the ninth main installment in the Five Nights at Freddy’s series and the eleventh game overall, taking place after the events of Five Nights at Freddy’s: Special Delivery. The game differs from other installments in the franchise, featuring only one night instead of five and having free-roam gameplay. The player takes the role of a young boy named Gregory, who must evade hostile animatronic characters and a night guard in a large shopping mall, unveiling its morbid secrets while trying to survive until morning.

GAMEPLAY

The player takes control of a young boy named Gregory, who is locked in the “Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizzaplex”, a large shopping mall filled with virus-infected pursuing animatronics and must complete numerous missions to survive the night to escape. The 1980s glam rock-styled animatronics found throughout the mall include Glamrock Freddy, Glamrock Chica, Montgomery “Monty” Gator, Roxanne “Roxy” Wolf, the Daycare Attendant, the Glamrock Endoskeletons, the Wind-Up Music Man, and DJ Music Man. Gregory will also encounter other types of enemies, such as Vanessa, the mall’s security guard who also turns out to be Vanny, a corrupt woman in a rabbit suit; and the S.T.A.F.F. robots that can alert enemies to Gregory’s location if spotted or offer him a map if the S.T.A.F.F. robots are a mapbot.

Unlike previous iterations where Freddy is a prominent antagonist, Glamrock Freddy helps Gregory evade his fellow animatronics. Freddy has a compartment in his stomach that is “reserved for oversized birthday cakes and piñatas” that Gregory uses to hide in. While inside Freddy’s “birthday cake hatch”, Gregory can see through Freddy’s eyes and can use him to get past most other animatronics without trouble; this will not fool the enemies Vanny and the Attendant’s Moon form, however. Also, Freddy has limited battery power, and if he is low on it, he will need to recharge at a charging station, as he will malfunction and kill Gregory if he is inside of him when his power runs out. Freddy receives hardware upgrades throughout the game’s progression and can acquire two extensions to his battery life as well as the ability to overload voice-activated locks and stun other robots, break open chain-locked fences, and locate collectible items.

Freddy can also give Gregory advice, shortcuts, or warnings about the challenges and enemies he will face in the mall. All enemies will get stronger as the night progresses, so the player must adapt to their surroundings to survive. Gregory can hide to avoid enemies or knock over objects to distract them. Running drains stamina and if it is low, Gregory will not be able to move fast. Some confrontations will require the use of strategy to avoid being caught. Gregory has a flashlight that he can use to see in dark places and carries a device called a “Faz-Watch” on his wrist, where he can access the missions, camera system, and his location in the mall, as well as communicate with Freddy. However, the flashlight has limited power and needs to be recharged frequently.

Two kinds of weapons can be used to temporarily stun some enemies: the “Faz Camera” and the “Fazerblaster”. The Faz Camera can stun all susceptible enemies in front of the player, but it has a lengthy recharging time between uses. The Fazerblaster can be fired more frequently than the Faz Camera, with six shots before needing to recharge, but only stuns one animatronic or S.T.A.F.F. and only with a successful shot to the head. Multiple paths and endings are depending on the choices made throughout the game. Office escapes are also featured. Unlike previous games, this game allows free roaming and combat, features boss battles (with some being optional), and instead of five nights, the entire game takes place in a single night that lasts six in-game hours, with time only progressing alongside the story. Minigames are also featured as arcade games.

PLOT

In Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizzaplex, a large shopping mall centered around its animatronic mascots, Glamrock Freddy, Glamrock Chica, Montgomery “Monty” Gator, and Roxanne “Roxy” Wolf are getting ready to perform for an audience. During the performance, Freddy suffers a technical malfunction and shuts down, collapsing on the stage and cutting the performance short. Freddy awakens back in his room in Rockstar Row, where he discovers that a young boy named Gregory is hiding inside his stomach compartment. Vanessa, the female security guard and only human on staff for the night, orders all animatronics and employee robots—most of which have mysteriously become aggressive unbeknownst to her—to search for Gregory.

However, Freddy’s malfunction and Gregory’s fear of Vanessa cause him to disobey her orders and instead guide Gregory to the lobby, only for the mall to lock down for the night, trapping Gregory inside. Freddy continues to help Gregory survive the night until they find another way out or the front doors re-open at 6:00 a.m. After eluding Vanessa and the animatronics and taking refuge in a security office, Gregory manages to gain access to the mall’s surveillance system. To obtain high-level security badges to access certain areas of the mall, Gregory enters the mall’s daycare and encounters the Daycare Attendant in his friendly but overbearing Sun form. A power outage forces Gregory to confront Sun’s hostile alter ego, Moon. Gregory manages to restore power to the daycare, but Sun kicks Gregory out for turning the lights off and alerts the animatronics of his location before he is rescued by Freddy.

Gregory is captured by Vanessa and is later confined in a party room. Suddenly, Vanny—a woman in a white patchwork rabbit costume who was likely responsible for reprogramming the animatronics to kill Gregory—approaches him, and he escapes before reuniting with Freddy. Gregory and Freddy venture into the basement, where Moon ambushes them and captures Freddy. Gregory proceeds throughout the basement and avoids animatronic endoskeletons, before finding Freddy being interrogated and threatened by Vanessa.

Vanessa states that there is no record of Gregory in the mall database, and accuses Freddy of colluding with Gregory. Once Vanessa leaves and he frees and repairs Freddy, Gregory is faced with exploring the atrium’s attractions to battle either Monty for his claws or Chica for her voice box to upgrade Freddy with, acquiring a tool that can temporarily disorient animatronics and S.T.A.F.F. along the way. After installing Monty’s claws or Chica’s voice box, Gregory evades the large DJ Music Man and forcefully takes Roxy’s eyes to further enhance Freddy.

Shortly after the ocular upgrade is completed, 6:00 a.m. arrives and the mall’s doors open, but Vanessa broadcasts a message urging Gregory to meet her for a reward. The “reward” is revealed to be several recorded messages of Vanessa and an unknown person undergoing therapy sessions. Gregory has the choice of either leaving the mall, staying to continue exploring the mall’s secrets and trying to solve the remaining mysteries, or confronting Vanny, who was also responsible for several missing children cases within the mall.

The game has six different endings, each of which depends on Gregory’s actions throughout the game and how he exits the mall. The two most notable endings are the “Burntrap” and “Princess Quest” endings. In the “Burntrap” ending, Gregory and Freddy choose to continue exploring the mall, discovering the burned-down ruins of the old Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza diner (likely the version from the first game).

A springtrap-like animatronic, named Burntrap (implied to be the semi-reconstructed remains of the original Springtrap, once again possessed by the vengeful spirit of William Afton, and the influence behind Vanessa’s actions as Vanny) awakens and attempts to possess Freddy, but is thwarted by Gregory. Gregory and Freddy escape the collapsing mall as Burntrap is dragged away by an amalgamation of animatronics, “The Blob”.

In the “Princess Quest” ending, Gregory completes two “Princess Quest” arcade cabinets before choosing to confront Vanny. Vanny sends several S.T.A.F.F. to attack Freddy, forcing Gregory to flee to Vanny’s office. There, Gregory completes the last Princess Quest arcade cabinet, revealing that Vanessa and Vanny are the same person. Completing the game frees Vanessa from her Vanny persona, and she, Gregory, and Freddy’s still-functional head leave the Pizzaplex. Both endings appear to be canon in the Ruin DLC as they seem to have been combined.