Editor's Review:
Five Nights at Freddy's 3 is a fantastic horror game. You will serve as a night guard in a restaurant. And the security room is filled with weird and scary animatronic robots. Your task is to watch the security cameras and make sure that everything is under control. It seems that this is not an easy task. But once you step into this room, you will notice that it is too easy for you to lose your self control. In this haunted place, you have no backup and you have no allies. You are totally on your own. To survive five nights, monitoring the security cameras and sealing off the vents will protect yourself from being attacked by the animatronic robots. You can never know for sure the exact whereabouts of these monsters. The only thing you need to do is to try and catch some details through the audio cues about the monster's movements and behaviors. If you have no former experience of playing other Five Nights at Freddy's series, you may feel terrified. You have no clue about what you should do next. All these monsters are roaming around the restaurant. And you can never predict when they will attack. So you will always feel pressure and fear. But if you can come up with some clever and seamless strategies to deal with those monsters, you will eventually conquer them.
The resources are limited. So this adventure is mostly about relying on your wit and intelligence to conquer all these animatronic robots. As soon as the robots take any moves, you must make your decision really fast. There is no time for you to waste. If you hesitate even for a second, you will be killed by these monsters. And you will be forced to start from the beginning. Even if you have already played many horror games, you will not get bored with this game, because it includes a new feature called phantom animatronics. You will experience different and unexpected jump scares. The appearance of the phantom animatronics adds an extra layer of fear. Sometimes, you may keep making the same mistake, which can be really frustrating, and which can turn this adventure into a nerve-racking ordeal. So before you start each adventure, you should be mentally prepared to face any kind of jump scares. The whole atmosphere of this game is really terrifying and spooky. With the perfect sound design and eerie lighting, you will always feel that you are in a really dangerous and mysterious place. And you are constantly surrounded by invisible ghosts. But you always have different ways to diminish your fear. For instance, you can breathe deeply and you can just gently embrace the fear that you are feeling. There is no use for you to fight against your fear. Actually, you will have a better performance if you can successfully dance with your fear. If you can successfully manage to form and create the mechanism of comfortably and patiently dealing with the sense of fear in this virtual world, you will have a better ability to cope with your real-life fear. This adventure will fully activate all your senses.
If you play this game for a very long time, your instinct will be activated to naturally deal with the unexpected and dangerous situations. It is inevitable for you to be faced with all kinds of dangers and difficult situations in real life. But it is impossible and unimaginable for you to be isolated in a haunted house. But in this virtual world, you have this good opportunity to test your extreme of dealing with danger and difficulties. This sense of horror will seize you. But it also gives you a great sense of excitement. Once you start, it is really hard for you to stop. On the contrary, you will just seek to experience a deeper sense of horror and greater excitement brought to you by experiencing scary scenarios in this haunted world filled with invisible ghost. Obviously, it is difficult to have all these monsters under control. But it is also human nature to hunt down the physically more powerful creatures by using intelligence and wisdom. So based on your past experiences, you will find your own trick for defeating all the animatronic robots. And strangely, you will find that you can see things clearly and you can learn a lot through fear because in this dangerous and horrible place, there is no safe place for you to hide yourself or for you to avoid your true feelings. There is even no time for you to think and hesitate. So playing horror games is a wonderful way for you to touch the true feelings buried at the bottom of your heart.
And by playing similar horror games, you will realize that sometimes you can be both so fragile and so brave at the same time. It is such a heroic thing to embrace your fear and try to make the right decisions in this horrible world. By directly facing your fears, you may immediately understand why a certain type of person or situation will always irritate you or make you feel so afraid. Based on this, you will also figure out your own personality. To some degree, this haunted place and those horrible monsters are just a kind of mirror that will reflect your true inner world. If you constantly feel unsafe and terrified all the time in real life, you may feel to complete your task. But if you have this ability to make full use of your fear to your own advantage, you will have great excitement. If makes you feel that nothing can control you. As human beings, we feel fear and anxiety because of our past experiences and our former knowledge about the particular actions and behaviors of these monsters. But if you can get rid of all your original thoughts and ideas about these monsters, you will have a wonderful performance. And you will enjoy yourself a lot. By changing your perspective, you will always find something more about these monsters. And you will realize that they are not that kind of scary. This is not because you finally find some weak point of these monsters. The truth is that you finally find the strong power contained inside you to deal with your external fear. The power of facing and eliminating fear from the outside world or stimulated by the outside accidents can only be derived from within.
So if you truly pay attention to each of your thoughts, your decision and your feeling, no matter how fleeting they are, you will find so much about your inner mechanism of coping with fear activated or stimulated by tragic accident or unexpected situations. You will understand that you unconsciously transfer the fear toward someone or something in real life to these animatronic robots. And this is also the exact reason why the fear of these monsters can always seize you. And why surpassing and conquering the enormous fear always bring you such a great excitement. It is so easy for you to become addicted to this feeling of conquering your deeply-rooted fear. You will become insatiable when it comes to experiencing this kind of wonderful feeling of conquering your fear without showing any sign of cowardice because in real life, you are vulnerable and you do not have effective means to get rid of or deal with your fear, but in this virtual world, you can do something about this fear. Through trials and errors, you will eventually eliminate this fear that tortured you again and again. Even if you are alone and you have no backup, you can prevent the fear of being dominated by these monsters. This great excitement is the ultimate enjoyment. It is different from the enjoyment or excitement that you get from getting a promotion or earning a reward for better working performance. This excitement is from transforming the most vulnerable part of you into the strongest part. Actually, it is also a healing process. Although this kind of healing derived from playing horror games is not 100% healthy. But it will temporarily shift you into a totally different world where you will no longer feel powerless and stagnant. This sense of fear will always give you momentum to search deeper and deeper into your mind and your unconscious domain. In this dark and horrible space, you will have the darkest moment and you will be tormented. But if you can conquer your own fear, you will realize that all the outside fear are just illusions and monsters made of paper. After you conquer your inner fear, you will be invincible in front of these animatronic robots and you will start a wholly new chapter of your life!