8/8/24
Today is Five Nights at Freddy’s 10th anniversary, and I’d be remiss to not talk about how the game has impacted me. It’s one of my favorite games, but not really because of its gameplay or story or anything, hell I’ve never even beaten one of the games. It’s one of my favorites because I feel like it was the first time I really faced a fear. I was legitimately terrified of it as a kid, I couldn’t handle horror well. But little by little I exposed myself to it more, and I started to get less scared of it. I realized that I actually liked horror a lot.
It's funny how a game that I've only played a little bit of and actually don't really like that much gameplay-wise had such a big effect on me.
I think it sort of represented a transition in my life where I faced my fears much more often, and started enjoying things I used to be needlessly scared of.
I'm very glad the game existed, I'm not quite sure if I'd have the interests I have today without it.
