YMMV / Dormitabis

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Did Garvey really regret killing Peter or, considering his indifference towards John, was he pretending to feel sorry? And if the former is true, was Peter the only one of the Write brothers who accepted Garvey?
• Angst Aversion: The tone of the original game is essentially pitch-black, with its Rape as Drama, grimdark aesthetic, twisted character designs and overtly dark story, which may disturb some viewers rather heftily. The remaster dials this back significantly.
• Audience-Alienating Premise: Blackout's original idea of a Darker and Edgier, Bloodier and Gorier take on the main Scott Cawthon lore of FNaF has definitely not boded well with the majority of fans of the original franchise, to understate it. The protagonist being Dead to Begin With and the original story of the villain containing Rape as Drama involving a teenage girl was already controversial even without the following information that would be released about the creator later on.
• Broken Base: The game seems to have split the fandom down the middle. Some think it is one of the most disturbing FNAF fangames yet and was worth the wait. Others say it is a confusing, overly-edgy mess that should have been cancelled.
  • The rape has this too; is this a typical example of Rape as Drama or is it unnecessary and only serves to emphasize how utterly morally hopeless Garvey is?
  • The designs for the animatronics are either praised as being genuinely terrifying, or criticized as oddly textured digital disasters.
  • The remaster, though, is generally agreed to be a massive improvement over the original in every way.
• Critical Backlash: As a result of the game's controversy, there is an audience of Five Nights at Freddy's fans who criticize the original game for its content and are believed to be blowing its flaws completely out of proportion compared to its qualities. Newcomers mostly agree to the game still having quality despite said controversy surrounding it. However, this defense does not stop the criticism from happening.
• Fandom Rivalry: Due to Nocturnum, developer of the final version of Five Nights at Treasure Island, exposing Dormitabis developer Blackout for his crimes and causing Blackout to go radio silent, the two communities are constantly rivalling with one another.
• Funny Moments: A very morbid one — the bad ending states that John is a "brat, scum and a waste of air" — but note that this text is bordered in purple. Brighten the picture and you'll see Garvey at the top-left corner. Meaning this: He probably defiled John's grave because he was that angry over failing to kill him again.
  • Another moment happens in Night 12, specifically after you've made it to 6 AM. The camera freezes on a close-up of the cartoony clock face, with the hour hand planted on 6. After a while, a faux-Jumpscare happens with the iconic "honk" you'd get for pressing Freddy's nose as the hour hand pulls on the clock's tongue.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The game's controversial inclusion of Rape as Drama became ten times more disturbing once news broke out that the game's creator was guilty of pedophilic acts.
• Moral Event Horizon: If Garvey somehow did not cross this upon murdering 11 kids, he somersaults right into it upon raping a teenage girl for his own amusement. It's telling that the remaster excises this detail entirely.
• Narm: The Purple Man's name is Garvey Write.
  • Garvey's dialogue may also come off as this, sounding less like a murderous lunatic and more as a tryhard teenager saying the edgiest things he can think of.
  • The animatronics themselves can be more silly than morbid to some, with details such as Soulcage and the B.O.A. holding their giant bodies on tiny legs, Molten Evil's hilariously edgy name, and Havoc Chica's walk cycle looking remarkably like a morning power walk.
  • Whenever AMIREAL changes location, he says aloud which camera he's on, resulting in a good amount of his nights consisting of hearing random numbers spoken in an unfittingly dead-serious tone of voice.
• No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: Despite the perpetuated controversy surrounding Dormitabis due to information regarding its original creator, the people who constantly draw attention to the reason for that controversy paradoxically only end up giving it publicity for new players, who will either agree to the controversy, dismiss it completely and just like the game as it is, or like the game specifically for what people dislike it for.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: Many years pass since the game's original release, but with the original game's use of Rape as Drama alongside what Nocturnum of Radiance Team exposed about Blackout, the game's original developer, one is more likely to see the controversy surrounding the game be brought up than the contents of the game itself. Actually, it's so controversial that merely saying anything that isn't condemning its original creator is considered the wrong thing to do by the FNAF community.
• The Scrappy: While Garvey Write in the original is designed for the purpose of being hated, he isn't just hated; he's the most hated character in the whole game, and not just because of the fact that his backstory has Rape as Drama, but because he's the character that the game's controversy stems from. It's not so much that Garvey is disliked because he's morally bad character wise, it's that he's considered shock value and therefore isn't given enough character to be considered an authentic Hate Sink.
• Scrappy Mechanic: In the original version of the game, muting the phone call at the start of the night can sometimes instead give you an easter egg that mutes all audio until you either die or beat the night. Though the first time this can be a decent form of Black Comedy, a player doing many attempts on a particularly difficult night is likely to react to getting this easter egg with frustration, as not being able to hear audio cues practically dooms the player to failure. Thankfully, the remaster did away with this easter egg, instead making it a part of the story and removing the audio muting aspect.
• Special Effects Failure: If Molten Evil spawns in the player's office, the player sees him if sat by the computer. If the player runs to the other side, however, he completely disappears, though still active.
• Squick: The original game's Rape as Drama plot point with Garvey is highly regarded as the most disturbing part of its lore, and is precisely what has led it to become Overshadowed by Controversy.
• That One Boss: Garvey is far and away the hardest enemy in a game that is already difficult on its own. He starts the night via disrupting your monitor's camera systems, making it difficult to search for him. The method of keeping him at bay is to click on the vent he is in (indicated by a red square representing him moving through the vent), then going to the other side of the office and looking over at the doorway the vent leads to, where he will appear. Then you must stare at him and not look away once until he leaves — all of which you seem to have only a very strict time window to do. And when you're not doing that, you have to keep an ear for his laughter and voice, whether it be coming from left, right, or center. The thing that really makes this hard? You have to keep your eyes on him as much as possible or else the screen will slowly dim — and when it fades to black completely, then he will kill you immediately.
• That One Level: Nightmare, the eleventh night, is considered the hardest night in the game. Every enemy is active, including Golden Call and AMIREAL, leading to numerous unfair scenarios where the enemies will gang up on you and kill you. The worst part? The night ends with you fighting Garvey again, with little warning beforehand.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: While the original franchise is hardly tame to begin with, it at least has comical moments and doesn't veer off into dark territories too openly. Actually, it's more about trying to encourage sympathy than it is anger or fear concerning the backstory. As for this game, on the other hand, the entire thing is pitch black, the Body Horror is absolutely disgusting, there's way too much swearing, the main villain Garvey is a real Knight of Cerebus compared to other renditions of William, and the player is never alive from the start and is in fact in a distorted purgatory of his life in the real world.

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