- "Five Nights At VenturianTale 2 has finally arrived! Play in our house and run from us at all costs! This intense action packed horror game will keep you on the edge of your seat at all times! Can you survive all five nights?"
- ―Official Description
Gameplay[]
Five Nights at VenturianTale 2 takes a notable leap from its predecessor in that it combines both free-roam and point-and-click elements. Like Five Nights At VenturianTale, the player must survive the night at VenturianTale's house from 12 A.M. to 6 A.M. without being attacked by the characters that roam around the house. As usual, the four characters are Jordan, Isaac, Bethany, and Cierra.
Unique to this game, each night has its own requirements and tasks that the player must follow to succeed. The player starts off in a bedroom, where their job is to explore each room and search for enemies. Except for Jordan, each character has two possible entry points in their room that the player must block off to prevent their attack. As they progress through each night, they are given more room to roam around, but also more enemies to deal with. More challenges are also introduced, such as managing a health bar and building up energy to enter a shelter of protection. Regardless, the player is required to block each character from entering the house, otherwise they will immediately kill the player or break into the house, in which in the latter situation, a warning telling the player to run will appear. Players must run away until the warning disappears. Failure to block off the enemies, run away, charge the health bar, or reach the shelter will result in a jumpscare, forcing the player back to the main menu.
The game consists of five levels referred to as "nights", increasing in difficulty. As with the first game, players have access to all nights at the startup, meaning that any night can be played from the start.
Development[]
Due to the success of Five Nights At VenturianTale, fans have asked Isaac to make a sequel to the game. However, Isaac himself never responded to these comments until January 27, 2017, when he posted the first hints of a sequel on his Instagram profile. Less than a month later, between February 10 and February 14, 2017, more pictures of the game's development were posted, including a preview of a jumpscare during night one. On February 16, 2017, a teaser trailer was posted onto the VenturianTale YouTube channel. As with the rest of Isaac's games, it was created with Clickteam Fusion 2.5.
Five Nights At VenturianTale 2 was released onto Isaac's Game Jolt account on February 17, 2017, marking his return to Game Jolt in two years, although the game itself was uploaded a day earlier. To promote the game, Venturian provided a gameplay for the VenturianTale YouTube channel, which was published on the same day of the game's release.
Reception[]
Five Nights At VenturianTale 2 generated positive reviews from fans. Many have commented on the game's uniqueness and terrifying experience, though others have commented about constant glitches and occasional crashes. As of November 2019, the game has 24.4k views, 248 likes and 283 followers.
Trivia[]
- This game marks Isaac Frye's return to Game Jolt in two years.
- This is the only game that has the option for players to play the game in fullscreen or widowed (only when downloaded).
- Five Nights at VenturianTale 2 is a free game and can be played on gamejolt.com or downloaded from the site, just like the rest of Issac's games.
- However, because of the file size, the game must be downloaded from the site to play the full version. The online version only allows the players to play the first two nights of the game.
- Like its original counterpart, the characters were created by reusing Bethany's deviantART pictures.
- The music heard on the main menu is "Wither" - (Aviria Theme), a track from the short-lived animated series Qeios.
- If an enemy is found or approaches the player, the sound used is the same sound heard in the original Five Nights At VenturianTale, which is heard when an enemy from that game approaches the player's room.
- The background sound during each night uses the bells heard in Brandi Says Hi.
- Strangely, the background sound does not loop for the whole night, meaning that it will not play again once it stops playing.
- Despite the name of the game, the majority of the pictures were taken during the daytime.
- In three pictures, Butter, a VenturianTale pet, is present.
- The Game Jolt description mentioned that filming the game is encouraged, a request fulfilled by multiple YouTubers.
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