CASE 2: Animatronics Survival

Okay, I will be as strict to the facts as possible. This review so far is not a good one. I will keep my emotions separate. Chapter 1 is so nauseatingly frustrating. It literally made me not want to play this game. Breakdown as to why: Here's how my playthrough went. After 30 minutes of struggling to figure out what to do for the first room and where to go from there. I.E. finding the side door that had no hud marker, no character voice over. Or any details whatsoever to lead to that room. I find the tablet. Body gets dragged away. OooOOooOooh spooky! Okay. Find the Tablet. First big bad animatronic introduced. I see the cabinet meant to be where you hide. Which on a whim, doesn't matter to the damn thing. After 20 minutes of rinse and repeat attempts getting found *every* single time, or trying to run away from the cat for a man that clearly has the legs the size of toothpicks, and the stamina of a person on this is my 600 lb. life with asthma. I manage to get to the office and hear the intimidating threat from the formless orchestrator of the whole problem. OoooOoooOoohh. Okay, despite those set backs. I'm still kinda interested. Maybe it's me right? Skill issues? Sure let's go with that. Until the literal Terminator cat has a keycard to access the generators taped to it's tail in the warehouse. Now, it's simple right? Just follow the bot along it's patrol path. Oh, no, no, no noooo. Not only can it see in the dark, see your flashlight from 3 hallways away. But also has impeccable uncanny ability to tell when you're standing again 3 hallways and two closed doors away while you're in the dark with your flashlight off. But it's always faster than you. Phew. Finally, made it after repeated trial and developer error. I got up to where I got the crowbar when I died to the owl which you need to look at it, without looking at it. Isn't that a great concept? Just like Slenderman, you need to look in it's direction without looking at it. Oh by the way, you're in a room that doesn't really have any actual items to hide behind to not look at it, while looking at it. After I died to that because how the hell was I supposed to know? I get the pleasure of a maddeningly Sisyphean task of running like hell to the generator room hearing this absolute marshmallow of a human being prey to whatever gods they worship for the lack of stamina they possess. Playing where's Waldo with a Fuse which by the way has a broken spawn under the pipes that prevents you from even grazing your little digital fingers across it. To turn on the power. To then *try* to run like hell to the security office to plug in the borderline if not completely useless tablet this man feels so desperate to cling to. Then I need to scurry back to the warehouse where ofc, the crowbar that is needed doesn't spawn there until I plug in said useless tablet. After an hour and a half of agonizing redo's because of buggy Animatronic AI, broken item spawns, and just abhorrent ai patrol pathing. I can say, I'm done. I will vehemently urge my friends to refuse the gift I gave them and get a refund for this incomplete buggy game. If they fix the issues where the AI has terminator's infrared vision dimmed a little so it doesn't go through no less than 3 sets of walls to see me go from permanent crouch simulator to just standing to try and make some progress. Then yeah, I might consider repurchasing the game. But until then. Stay away. 1.49 is frustratingly to much to play for that level of aggravation.