YMMV / One Night at Flumpty's

• Awesome Moments: The home stretch of Flumpty Night in the third game. At this point, the masquerade has come down and Flumpty's now openly flaunting his before-implicated Reality Warper nature to continuously break the rules of his own game, contributing to the Wham Shot just before the night begins to reveal what his words at the night's beginning meant: at the end of both games until now, he's been cheating you by erasing 6 AM from existence every time you get there. But as you arrive at 5 AM once again, despite knowing you're playing a game rigged against you, "Eleggtroswing" starts playing for the final hour as you keep pushing against this impossible situation to overcome him no matter what new cheating measure he throws against you. And come the Hard-Boiled Mode's ending, you finally wear him down so much he finally lets 6 AM arrive.
• Awesome Music: Both themes for Flumpty Night are incredible for different reasons. Eggs and Beckon give you the sense that Flumpty is no longer playing around and he is more than happy to show you the full extent of his powers. Eleggtroswing meanwhile is an catchy and more upbeat tune not only meant to lighten the mood a bit but also give you the final stretch to push on an little bit more.
• Creepy Awesome: All of the antagonists are this to some extent, but the most prominent examples would be Grunkfuss, the Redman, Golden Flumpty, Flumpty, and the Eyesaur.
• Creepy Cute:
  • Just looking at Flumpty through the cameras makes you smile a bit, doesn't it?
  • The characters for the most part do look adorable when they aren't screaming in your face. The credits of the three games emphasize this.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • The death screen of the first game show the protagonist's eyes in a pan, in a manner resembling frying eggs. In the second game, your eyes get sliced in an egg slicer. In the third game, your eyes get cracked like an egg.
  • In the second game you can find dead characters from other franchises. Of note is a Freddy Fazbear head mounted on your wall which plays the same honk noise from the first four Five Nights at Freddy's games when you click on it.
  • The newspaper the Beaver's reading also has some moments. For example, casually mentioning you're a survivor of the apocalypse Flumpty somehow caused, Flumpty going on how the value of life is important then randomly shooting a guy in the head, Flumpty casually going on about swallowing a human baby whole, and something about drugs and explosive tongues.
• Demonic Spider:
  • Eyesaur in the second game's Hard Boiled Mode. In normal mode, it's already difficult to keep track of and makes your Exposure meter rocket when it spots you, but it usually only appears once towards the end of the night. In Hard Boiled, it activates much earlier, attacks more often, and because everything raises your Exposure meter faster in Hard Boiled, getting spotted by it is a guaranteed One-Hit Kill (and if it isn't, it makes it so that the next attack is guaranteed to kill you, meaning you have to play the rest of the night perfectly).
  • Grunkfuss is this in the third game's Hard Boiled Mode. Thanks to his lethal hatred of being flashed at, you can't afford to be risky with your camera flashes especially if you can't find him. Often you are left with a choice: Do you take the risk of flashing with the likely outcome of Grunkfuss being there, or do you wait for Grunkfuss to leave while you sit there in dread? This is especially frustrating when Eyesaur decides to make its appearance. A later update alleviated this slightly, as Eyesaur will not attack if Grunkfuss is in the hallway.
• Good Bad Bugs: Not so much a bug as a design oversight: as with its predecessors Foxy and the Beaver, the Owl's attack is triggered either by viewing a specific camera while it's attacking, or after a significant time delay. Because closing the vents in this game doesn't consume power, this means that if the Owl disappears from its usual spot and the vent you check isn't the one it's attacking from, you can simply close the other vent and wait out the time delay. This has the effect of spacing the Owl's attacks much farther apart, giving you more time to monitor the other enemies and reducing the threat it poses (though since the vent it chooses is random, it's still a guess as to whether or not you can exploit it effectively).
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In the first game, you can see a map of Utah in the office. Initially, it started as a random thing Jonochrome drew in, but the Five Nights at Freddy's book series is set in Hurricane, Utah. And there's evidence showing that the games are set there too.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Had One Week at Flumpty's been completed, Golden Flumpty would have crossed it by being revealed to have manipulated Flumpty into committing all his crimes.
  • If him causing the literal apocalypse isn't enough, then Flumpty definitely crosses it in the third game when he horribly kills his own gang.
• Nightmare Retardant:
  • The sound of the jumpscares in the first game aren't that scary. Fridge Brilliance kicks in when you realize that the game is supposed to be a parody of Five Nights at Freddy's, and since the jumpscare noise from the first game sounds so similar to the noise in this, it would be safe to assume that the latter is a parody of the former. (Admittedly, the whole game is made to be a mixture of humor and horror.) The second game makes it more frightening by playing a Scare Chord.
  • Flumpty's jumpscare in the first game. It's less of a Nightmare Face and more like he's just really angry with you.
• Older Than They Think: While most of the characters in the series are actually original to it, it's not uncommon to see fans who believe that Flumpty and Birthday Boy Blam also came from the games. In reality, they originated from an Internet comic strip made by Jonochrome and his friends.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: On November 8th, 2021, series creator Jonochrome got exposed for grooming a 13 year old girl, with screenshots containing very creepy and manipulative behavior. Because of this happening shortly after the release of One Night at Flumpty's 3, the game quickly dwindled in popularity afterwards, with Jonochrome leaving the internet claiming to seek therapy.
• Squick:
  • The game over screens for all three games, which show your eyes being prepared like eggs. Fried in the first game, sliced up in the second, and cracked in the third.
  • What they did to poor Piglet in the second game. He's still alive, somehow.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel:
  • The second game has gotten major praise by adding unique features, such as the exposure and light switch mechanics, your laptop running on a battery and needing to recharge, and the vent covers to keep the Owl out, plus the fact you actually see the characters moving when they peer into the room, which adds to the tension.
  • The third game has also proved to be a very good game, including various new mechanics like the use of a camera to deal with the enemies and the return of various mechanics from the previous games in the Flumpty Night.
• Tear Jerker: Despite all of the bad things he has done, Flumpty saying goodbye to the player and leaving after beating Hard Boiled Mode in the third game is surprisingly moving.
  Flumpty: I'll miss you.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Some fan artists have percieved the Owl as a girl, despite every character including him being officially referred to with masculine pronouns. That being said, some have intentionally done this to diversify the cast further.

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