How Good is FNaF Secret of the Mimic?
Secret of the Mimic released recently and is a very solid experience. It’s a smaller, more focused experience similar to RUIN, although I don’t agree with the $40 price tag. They’ve definitely made a lot of improvements to the gameplay loop, but is it enough? Let’s talk about that, because I don’t wanna draw this intro out any longer. PREMISE In this game you control Arnold, a Fazbear technician who’s been sent to Murray’s Costume Manor to retrieve an animatronic Edwin Murray was contracted to work on for Fazbear. It’s an endoskeleton that is supposed to be able to adapt to any costume and become any character. However, Edwin has gone silent and thus, everything he worked on for Fazbear is now theirs, and you’re sent to retrieve it. You have to enter the manor and find out as much as you can while managing to avoid The Mimic. There’s a bunch of mail you can read too, deepening the lore but that’s far beyond the scope of this vi...