My Ruin Experience

My Ruin Experience

I just finished my first playthrough of FNAF Security Breach: Ruin a few hours ago, and I'd like to reflect on my experience. I still have a ton that I need to go back and do, but I think I still got enough out of it to comment.

Needless to say, spoilers ahead. Continue at your own risk.

What I Liked:

The mechanics. Though short and simple, the Faz-wrench and Security Node puzzles are fun. The AR mask is also a really cool concept, and it opened the door for some unique gameplay and exploration.

The autosave between key checkpoints. Hallelujah.

The AR aesthetic. Holy crap, I love it. It's so trippy and dreamlike, and NEON. Totally '80s retro-futuristic, totally radical.

The character designs. My favorites are Ruined Freddy, the little Music Men with the rabbit ears, and MXES. Ruined Freddy is both horrific and strangely adorable despite having no head. I like how he chomps with his stomach like it's a mouth; it's a fun call-back to Nightmare Fredbear. And he has a gift box in his stomach. The implications of that give me the creeps. The rabbit Music Men are just cute. I hate them, but they're cute. And MXES? That's just an awesome design. Way more imposing than Glitchtrap (though Glitchtrap did work, just more as a psychological/lore thing than an outright threatening design).

All the crazy visual details and Easter eggs they put into AR mode. My favorites are the giant endoskeleton in the daycare theater and the huge bowling balls in Bonnie Bowl.

Roxy's dynamic with Cassie. I hope we get to see more of it in the future. It's just too precious.

Monty's backstory as told through the cardboard cutouts on the gondolas in Gator Golf. Just...adorable.

The part where Monty's swimming around in water and you need to hop on crates to dodge him. That was just cute. He was like a real gator. I have no idea how he didn't immediately short out, but still. Cute.

The horror of Cassie being confronted by the Mimic, not Gregory. I totally saw it coming, but it's still terrifying from a psychological standpoint.

What I Disliked:

The loading time. I think it was just because I have the PS4 version, but it took FOREVER to load the game both on startup and every time I died and wanted to retry. I hope the load times are optimized in the future.

The linearity. Once you leave one section, there's no going back; there isn't even a post-game where you can go back and do stuff. You're especially out of luck if you're on an all-collectibles run.

The lack of direction in some parts. I got stuck in so many places for such a long time because it was unclear where I was supposed to go/what I was supposed to do. Looking at you, catwalks and beauty salon.

MXES showing up at the absolute worst times and leading you to your death not out of personal failure, but out of misfortune. It got annoying after my 10th death in the Monty Golf catwalks.

Those dang Music Men, especially the ones in the bowling lanes. They were annoying to deal with. Doable, but annoying.

The stupid endoskeletons. I didn't like them in the base game, and I don't like them now. They really get to me. (I know. I'm a huge coward.)

All in all, I got about as much as I hoped for. I still have to get the rest of the endings, but this was some great DLC. It cements Security Breach as one of my favorite games in the series, and it gives me hope for whatever else Steel Wool has to offer.

Going on a Trip!

Hey, guys! I know I'm not the most frequent poster ever, but I still wanted to let you know that I'm going to be away for a few days. I'm going on a trip to Cherry Springs State Park, one of the best dark sky zones on the eastern half of the U.S.! My telescope is definitely going to get some good usage. I'll take lots of pictures to share when I get back, too. :)

SMOL SPLINTER!!!

More Indie TMNT designs for Splinter, Shredder, April and Casey!

See the designs for the turtles here

The Littlest Stink Bug

I found this baby stink bug at work today. It was smaller than my pinky nail.

It even had a bit of an "uvu" face on its back. I almost feel bad that I had to destroy it.

Almost.

It's still a very invasive species where I live, so I did my due diligence and terminated it before it could grow into its full-size, disgusting potential.

I've closed my bloodbath patreon

Hi gang :D Not a serious announcement and it's pretty obvious but I just wanna clear it up because some people are probably still waiting for bloodbath. I probably wont be updating the series anymore (if I do, it's not going to be anytime soon.) It's a simple case of falling out of love with drawing tmnt art. I still hold the franchise very close to my heart, but alas interests move on. Just wanted to give an update since this is my main art account and not a turtle blog like @bloodbath-au is. If you want to still find the Bloodbath comic pages, I've uploaded most of them to AO3 here: BLOODBATH AO3 LINK

Anyways now you know if I start posting non-tmnt art on this account what's going on :) thank you for the support on Bloodbath it's been one of my favourite projects to ever work on, hopefully I'll be able to post more info on parts of the story I had planned on the bloodbath blog when I have more free time if you still want to keep in touch my new twitter is artmadeinhell can you guess what my new phase is

We're in the home stretch, everyone! 8 hours until Ruin releases!!!