I’M BACK AND BOY DO I HAVE NEWS.
Well, it’s my first article of … the year, actually, but I’m back. Life’s been hectic, let’s not talk about it! Let’s talk about … Dead by Daylight.
Guess what? It’s happening! At long last, Five Nights at Freddy’s enters the Entity’s realm after years of speculation, fan propositions on YouTube, fan theories, strange leaks, and pining posts on Reddit. Five Nights at Freddy’s has finally made its way into Dead by Daylight. And honestly? It’s! About! Time!
So, who is coming to brutally kill us in an endless cycle of murder, torture, and carnage? Speculations about Springtrap have been circulating for a while. I imagine that he’d have an illustrious mori, in which survivors would be taken into the bowels of his spiny, spiky, mechanical guts and subsequently crushed like a man in an iron maiden. But enough about these glorious death fantasies.
Oh, wait, wait, I have one more. What if the mori ended in a classic FNAF jumpscare, with a face right to the screen? Okay, I’m done now.
THE KILLER?
All directions I’ve sniffed out have been pointing towards Springtrap. Although I am of the opinion that our original old boy, Freddy, would be a good classic choice, perhaps with multiple different cosmetics for other first-class killers like Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy? Or – hear me out – the ability to switch between animatronics as a power? Too much? Maybe … but wouldn’t it be cool?
Will our killer be a stealth killer? Most likely, knowing the vibe of the FNAF games. Perhaps the killer’s only auditory cue, other than the eventual terror radius (which better be creepy, carnivalesque, and mechanically clanky or so help me, Behavior!) will be ungodly robotic footsteps that will deliver us a giant mechanical bear.
How exactly will the killer work? Perhaps a power outage mechanic, where the killer becomes increasingly unhinged and unavoidable if survivors fail to activate the power switches? Do survivors get a special item, like a security camera?
PIZZA MAP?
Hey, writing about all this FNAF stuff is making me think about pizza now, and the fact that I’m writing this during a Comenian meeting wherein everyone is eating pizza is not helping.
We beg the question: What map shall we be blessed or cursed with? Personally, I’m hoping for the pizzeria. Oh, who am I kidding – everyone probably is. The flickering halls, kitschy posters, checkerboard floors, and the fun colors strewn about are just so memorable! I can just imagine that the place smells like rusting metal and rotting cheese. You know what I’m talking about? That weirdly strong and nostalgic cheese scent that emanates from places like childhood arcades and Chuck-E-Cheese?
TO CONCLUDE…
Well, naught more can be said except that we all await eagerly. The DBD fandom is teetering on the very edge for the fateful day on which the PTB will be released, and the servers inevitably break. Additionally, I am aware that I skipped over the Tokyo Ghoul DLC to write about the upcoming FNAF one. Frankly, I don’t care, and half of that is because I believe Kaneki Ken’s character model looks like a donk.
So, until summer, stay wary and watch out for any updates, DBD fans! Perhaps Behavior will throw something our way sooner than later …
