how did they make Secret of the Mimic just a worse Poppy Playtime? I don't think I've played a more boring game in years. And there's a lot of stuff that you can tell is shitty on purpose to be made for VR, something literally nobody plays

what were they THINKING?!

please talk about this game with me anons I just played it and I didn't like it.

>>715219036 (OP)
So what's the secret, huh?

>>715219036 (OP)
>Secret of the Mimic just a worse Poppy Playtime?
Poppy has the Grabpack to play with for the more boring puzzles, but besides that and jumpscares Secret is better in every department.

>>715220274
https://youtu.be/hYM2Sd5CD-M?si=XbavXJe6930TCuhF&t=40

>>715220878
Thanks, anon.

>>715220274
how these games keep getting made

>>715220776
I do not agree at all. The mimic's patrol stealth sections are super boring, the setpieces aren't particularly memorable, and the plot is so slow-burn and disconnected from everything else that it's just a slog to get through. Just hour after hour of trudging back and forth through hallways before a 10 minute chase sequence.

The only good part I think is that very last bit, from the tiger section to the freddy's mockup to the house, and even the house drags like hell after a while.

Plus the Mimic is an INSANELY boring character.

>>715219860

I didn't like it either. I had huge hype for it thinking it would be a better Security Breach, I thought Jackie had amazing design there are so very few games with clown or circus theme.

But whole game was a massive disappointment, it only got good near the end when you get to interact with Chica, Bonnie/Freddy and actually get to see the "secret of the mimic".
WHole game is just a linear mess with Poppy playtime boring chases and such disappointing hide and sick in extremely small areas. The mimic was so underused for this shit, they could have had us guessing at all times which costume has the mimic inside rather than "enter room, mimic activates, go press FA LA LA, LA LA LA" song board.

And i will never stop seething that they retconned the whole lore to make Edwin the creator of everything.

>>715221201
It took me a while to realize the song boards were a distraction mechanic because they gave me the biggest Poppy Playtime flashbacks of anything in the game.

>they could have had us guessing at all times which costume has the mimic inside
the wild thing is that it seems like the environments are designed for this? but that's not how the game works at all. If it was like an Alien Isolation thing where the Mimic was always active and could hunt you it would be so cool, but I think Steel Wool are just not very good developers.

It was also weird how underutilized the characters were? Especially after Security Breach leaning so hard into the animatronics as characters with personalities, here the Mimic is literally just a silent wandering jumpscare machine.

the Pizzeria Mockup part was really cool though so it's darkly funny that that part is also home to a gamebreaking softlock bug that makes you restart your entire saved game

Edwin made the Mimic. And the Roxxy. And the Foxxy. And the Chica. And the Monty. And the doggo. And the DJ. And the Puppet. And the Balloon Boy. And the Candy Cadet. And the clowns. Edwin made it all. For all we know. Edwin made you.

>>715221724
>Chica
That was a different entity entirely who also worked with MCM for their advertising before then merging with Fazbear around the time the mock up location was built.
>Puppet
iirc she got literally nothing from this game. Not so much as a reference or call back. Seems like she was purely Henry's creation.

Also people act like Fazbear and the other companies didn't at least oversee and provide plans for their orders, in fact that's where most of the friction came with Edwin ignoring customer demands. At the very least Henry and William were there when the plans for the Fnaf 1 costumes were drafted.

>>715222319
>That was a different entity entirely

WRONG. You're told in the game that Chica Party World needed a mascot so Edwin's wife designed Chica and Cucpake and Edwin created them. They are 100% Edwin and Fiona creation.

>iirc she got literally nothing from this game.

1. Puppet is a he, not a she
2. You literally hear Puppet winding box song when you open Jackie's box. Let alone noseless Jackie looks like puppet.

>and the other companies didn't at least oversee

Except you're told the only Fazbear cretions are Bonnie and Freddy out of the cast. Everything else, Foxxy, ROxxy, Monty, Dog, Big Top, Candy Cadet, etc. are all Edwin 100% original creations.

>>715222556
>1. Puppet is a he, not a she
this is very stupid. Girl ghost should be girl puppet.

>>715222580

A ghost doesn't change the gender of an animatronic. Bart Simpson is not a woman because he's voiced by one. Charlie being the ghost who went inside Puppet doesn't turn Puppet, a male animatronic, into female.

Arnold is confirmed a lazy black guy who just wants to smoke crack and shit be lazy

I don't get why they turned FnaF into this dumb "hide in closet" type of horror game anyway. The classic gameplay is what made FnaF stand out from other horror games but now the whole thing is just gone. I guess there's only so much you can do with the formula to make it feel fresh and fun, but SL managed to keep the "soul" of the games while doing something different, and it was fun there. Just do something like that again.

>MCM owns Foxy
>Company only falls into Fazbear's hands after Edwin's death
>Yet Foxy appears in the mock up pizzeria

Charlie was the only thing keeping the plot together

Clussy

>>715222778
already had this mechanic with pulling the mask down sorta

its just not a good game

MY NAME IS EDWIN
I MADE THE MIMIC

>>715225329
IT WAS DIFFICULT
TO PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER

>>715225329
my name be Etwin D'Murray y'all I be dressin like a pimp

>>715220274
There were actually two mimics.

>>715227401
she was just a computer though

>>715222778
They're using the IP to capitalise on a market of "survival horror games" for kids still too young to play the regular survival horror games.

>>715220274
The secret is everything in this damn stupid fucking franchise is a repeating plot to revive or even recreate some random kid that got ran over and died.
Basically, "I want another David."

The mimic and the subsequent mimic virus is kind of a shit storyline to follow up from Slick Willy Afton's wild ride, but all would be forgiven if this somehow leads to the events of Desolate Hope and Scott just stealth drops Desolate Abandon.

>>715229821
>Desolate Hope and Scott just stealth drops Desolate Abandon.
Just fucking give it up man, no one would care if it's not FNAF.
Hell barely anyone cares if it's FNAF anymore.

>>715230117
LET ME LIVE IN MY DELUSIONS DAMN IT!

Mimic is a lame antagonist and a downgrade from Afton and Vanny

>>715230501
>Afton
Yes
>Vanny
Eh... I wouldn't go that far.

>>715222736
I wish the guy had more dialogue. I wanted to hear more of his thoughts on the crazy shit going on around in that place.

SHE'S THE BEST!!

>>715230532
Vanny was cute at least. Mimic is just a lame looking robo exoskeleton.

>>715228263
She used to be the robot, then she got moved to the computer so that the robot could be the son.
Remember, she used to do things like help with birthday parties.

>>715231245
>Becomes so popular in her debut she is made an ally and gets more influence throughout the series timeline
She really is

FNAF has completely lost it's core identity.

Poppy Playtimes fanbase is much less autistic
But still autistic

>>715226519
MY NAME IS DAVID
DAD
I WANT SOME ICE CREAM
DAVID
THAT IS MY NAME
DAVID
I WANT ANOTHER
DAVID
WHERE IS MY BAAAAALLLL?
I'M RUNNING OUT ON THE ROAD
THERE ISSSS A CAAAARRRR?
AND IT IS GOING TO HIT... ME?
AHHHHH

>>715231245
>Pirate Roxy
>Cowgirl Roxy
>Glamrock Roxy
She’s the best in every flavor. Radiating so much coolness that it’s practically blinding!