Five Nights at Wario's: Christmas Horror (v2.0 IN PROGRESS)

My gameplay of 5/20 mode in his version 1.1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FOxs4NlXOk

My gameplay of night 5 in his version 1.1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93DZq1wIYfU

Does this game need an introduction, it’s a horror I would even need to ask that on Christmas…anyways my review.

Night 1-4 are HORRIBLE and genuinely the easiest FNaW nights I have ever played in my life. Because the AIs are so slow, no one will attack you EVER. Same with Night 5 except Mario is actually a threat so you have ONE mechanic that can physically kill you. It doesn’t help that the characters are also prone to going backwards a lot. There is also no Night 6 which I’m fine with.

Before I talk about the All Max Mode, let me actually explain the mechanics.

Wario will enter from the left side and you have to turn around to the cams in order for him to go away. I guess I should mention here that I like the concept of the cameras here, they are FNaW 4 based and are not too annoying to navigate, except for one problem. They take up more than the whole screen, meaning you’ll have to turn left and right in order to see the damn thing but maybe this was to make the game harder idk. What makes Wario’s mechanic so lazy is that I’m pretty sure even if you look at Wario, he will eventually go away but your exposure will go up a bit from that. It basically means he’s only a threat if your meter is really high which it won’t be unless Mario is getting to you. He doesn’t even properly disappear, his sprite stays there but you know he’s gone because the bar will stop going up after a few seconds lol.

Waluigi is basically the same except he’ll come from the right and you’ll need to use the alarm, so he’s actually a threat unlike Wario (not talking about the low AIs).

Luigi will enter your room if you don’t use the radio at all but here’s the thing. If you keep it on the whole night, you don’t have to deal with Luigi completely, and Mario is now made easier. Truly peak. 

Peach will attack from the right and you have to shock her on a cam in order for her to go all the way back. Again, she’s only a threat in the All Max Mode and she was actually my one and only death during the All Max Mode and the entire game as a whole.  

Mario will appear in your room, either the left or right. Left is radio, right is alarm. Pretty simple but he does bring up your exposure really fast so don’t treat him like a joke. He is the only character who’s a threat outside of the All Max Mode but he only shows up in Night 5 zzz.

Also side note, I read the posts for this game and apparently the initial release build was unbalanced and buggy, so I respect Iaon for fixing the game, even if it is way too easy now. I’d choose that any day over making it an unbalanced unbeatable mess that I would’ve been much harsher to.  

I beat the All Max Mode on my second try and it is the only night where Wario, Waluigi, Luigi and Peach are actually ever gonna attack you.

The trophy for this game is taken straight from FNaW 2 and I couldn’t have asked for anything better.

Just like the rest of the visuals in this game, the jumpscares are…interesting…Mario sends you to the shadow realm.

Luigi turns his head away as he reaches his hand out which I thought was pretty funny, he’s aurafarming.

I was able to get Wario, Waluigi and Mario’s jumpscares at the same time when messing with what jumpscares I wanted to see. It was chaotic. 

There was a minor glitch where sometimes I couldn’t move from left to right during gameplay but I only got this after beating the All Max Mode so idk lol. 

Peach’s AI starts at 1 while the others are 0 in the Custom Night menu, that’s strange.

Within the game itself, there is no story but Iaon did release a Google Document called “David’s Journal” (the protagonist).

Link here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LeoUP23OFi36g9etEZV8681wDSCZ9E9GZ8IpICRq4pU/edit 

This recites the events of Christmas Horror with much more detail and some weird oddities. Like he says that the radio would occasionally break and would need fixing, that never happened in the game?!? Unless it was purely a story detail and not a mechanic planned. These also take place in December 2017, is this supposed to somehow be after the Bad Ending of FNaW 3?

The second set of days describe nightmares David is having with white glowing eyes peering at him and running away from unseen creatures. I assume these are the VIRUSes. And I love the idea of them showing up in nightmares, maybe Gray City has something to do with this? It is unknown if the OG Christmas Horror was supposed to have a second mode with this concept but the remake by D_perk (Bloodied Rains) does have a Standard Mode, ???, and ??? in the first Demo so who knows, maybe one of those is this idea with the VIRUSes, the GameJolt page screenshot of VIRUS Wario backs this up. We’ll see :)

I would rank this game below Tartiston’s The Return of The Nightmare. 

Overall, this game is pretty poopoo ngl but I respect the effort and underlining story. Plus Iaon went to make much better games like FNaW UltraCN give bro a break. And now he’s involved with the remake by D_perk which looks wayyy better.

Hope you took this review well Iaon 💙💙💙

any progress updates on this game?

The game selflocks you on the menu how to play part 2