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Fetch
by Andrea Waggener, Scott Cawthon, Carly Anne West
It's been a while since i read the first 3 story compilation of FNAF and i thought it was time i gave the second one a try. And like last time, i need to review it in three parts
Fetch: This one was okay. it was basically a story of a kid who finds a turned off dog animatronic at the abandoned fnaf location and it begins to text him and do evil things like kill dogs, bite off fingers, etc. The story in itself is fine. the main character isn't the greatest character ever, but he's not too bad. He just wants his crush to notice him and things get more than a bit out of hand.
The biggest issue i have with this story is that it takes too long for the dog to really DO anything EVIL like the dog really does 3 evil things and one of them is at the very very end. so basically it's 2 evil things throughout the majority of the book and the buildup is too long and the "payoff" was very anticlimactic and kind of meh. Overall, not a great story, but not TERRIBLE. 3/5.
Lonely Freddy: Okay, I have no problem in stating that this one is absolutely terrible. it's by FAR the worst of the three. Brother is mad at his sister for being perfect and getting all the attention. he comes with a convoluted plan to expose her for being a fake. stupid ending happens. That's pretty much everything. It's hard to say that this is a FNAF story because in this 77 page story, they don't even get into the FNAF location or do anything FNAF related for the first 40 pages. The first 40 pages are like a short version of "The war with grandpa" (god did i really make a reference to "the war with grandpa?) and it's mainly the MC's internal monologue about how he doesn't trust his sister but the two of them work together to try to switch the good and bad roles and show their terrible parents to love them both equally. It's a stupid story with a stupid ending. I found myself skimming through this one just to get it finished. I know it's horror, but it was done very poorly and the ending made no sense. 1.5 out of 5.
Out of Stock: I'm actually very surprised how much i liked this one. Easily the best of the three. When i first started it, i honestly didn't think i'd like it, but by the end i really was beginning to enjoy it. Short version, Boy who never has any luck really wants a plushtrap doll. it's sold out everywhere ala turboman style. finds a defective one, "Steals" it, (I put this in quotation marks as i don't consider it stealing since he left the money on the counter and it was only considered stealing because it was a defective one the store didn't want to sell) and takes it home. turns out the defective one is evil and tries to kill him and his friends.
Yes, it's not the most original premise on the planet, but what really sold it for me was the main characters. The reason why i enjoyed this was because Oscar and his friends were actually likeable people. they weren't jerks, they weren't "kids who had to be taught a lesson" they were actually just good kids. Oscar regularly helped his mom out at the old folks' home when she needed help because the dad was dead, and his friends were true friends who stick up and stand by him when he needs it.
This is a different kind of story. Rather than seeing a story where you want the bad kids punished, this is one where you're worried for the GOOD kids. and that was something that made it interesting to me. Overall, good wrap up to the trilogy. 4/5.
So that leaves us with a 3, 1.5, and a 4.
Overall, if they could have removed the second story and replaced it with a SLIGHTLY better one, i would have no qualms giving this a 3.5. However, with just how AWFUL the second story was, it's impossible to give it anything higher than a 3. It's a shame because Fetch wasn't bad and Out of Stock was honestly a GOOD story. Whoever wrote "Lonely Freddy" yeah...don't quit your day job.
Total score 3/5
Fetch: This one was okay. it was basically a story of a kid who finds a turned off dog animatronic at the abandoned fnaf location and it begins to text him and do evil things like kill dogs, bite off fingers, etc. The story in itself is fine. the main character isn't the greatest character ever, but he's not too bad. He just wants his crush to notice him and things get more than a bit out of hand.
The biggest issue i have with this story is that it takes too long for the dog to really DO anything EVIL like the dog really does 3 evil things and one of them is at the very very end. so basically it's 2 evil things throughout the majority of the book and the buildup is too long and the "payoff" was very anticlimactic and kind of meh. Overall, not a great story, but not TERRIBLE. 3/5.
Lonely Freddy: Okay, I have no problem in stating that this one is absolutely terrible. it's by FAR the worst of the three. Brother is mad at his sister for being perfect and getting all the attention. he comes with a convoluted plan to expose her for being a fake. stupid ending happens. That's pretty much everything. It's hard to say that this is a FNAF story because in this 77 page story, they don't even get into the FNAF location or do anything FNAF related for the first 40 pages. The first 40 pages are like a short version of "The war with grandpa" (god did i really make a reference to "the war with grandpa?) and it's mainly the MC's internal monologue about how he doesn't trust his sister but the two of them work together to try to switch the good and bad roles and show their terrible parents to love them both equally. It's a stupid story with a stupid ending. I found myself skimming through this one just to get it finished. I know it's horror, but it was done very poorly and the ending made no sense. 1.5 out of 5.
Out of Stock: I'm actually very surprised how much i liked this one. Easily the best of the three. When i first started it, i honestly didn't think i'd like it, but by the end i really was beginning to enjoy it. Short version, Boy who never has any luck really wants a plushtrap doll. it's sold out everywhere ala turboman style. finds a defective one, "Steals" it, (I put this in quotation marks as i don't consider it stealing since he left the money on the counter and it was only considered stealing because it was a defective one the store didn't want to sell) and takes it home. turns out the defective one is evil and tries to kill him and his friends.
Yes, it's not the most original premise on the planet, but what really sold it for me was the main characters. The reason why i enjoyed this was because Oscar and his friends were actually likeable people. they weren't jerks, they weren't "kids who had to be taught a lesson" they were actually just good kids. Oscar regularly helped his mom out at the old folks' home when she needed help because the dad was dead, and his friends were true friends who stick up and stand by him when he needs it.
This is a different kind of story. Rather than seeing a story where you want the bad kids punished, this is one where you're worried for the GOOD kids. and that was something that made it interesting to me. Overall, good wrap up to the trilogy. 4/5.
So that leaves us with a 3, 1.5, and a 4.
Overall, if they could have removed the second story and replaced it with a SLIGHTLY better one, i would have no qualms giving this a 3.5. However, with just how AWFUL the second story was, it's impossible to give it anything higher than a 3. It's a shame because Fetch wasn't bad and Out of Stock was honestly a GOOD story. Whoever wrote "Lonely Freddy" yeah...don't quit your day job.
Total score 3/5