I wouldn't trust Did You Know Gaming. I remember GoldenYuiitusin telling me that apparently, they're easily fooled by what appear to be documents about considered characters for Smash 64 when they're actually opinion polls made by fans.
I enjoy their videos and their facts were spot on here. The problem is the comments. Boy, Im getting cancer from looking at them but I cant stop...
Its all "FNAF SUCKS", "FNAF IS THE SCUURRIEST GUEIMI EVERRR S2", "ALL FNAF FANS ARE NINE YEAR OLD *******", "I LOVE THIS GAME, SCOTT MARRY ME" and pointless arguments where no one from both sides bothers using facts to back these same arguments up.
And then you have sane people. Few, few sane people.
I enjoy this game. Its pretty well made by a game who was developed by a single person. Is it the scariest game ever? No, in my opinion. But we all are different. We are born with different views on what's scary and what's not. You might say the horror comes from jumpscares, but I digress. It instead comes from the rising tension and sense of helplessness and insecurity. The jumpscares are there to punish you for doing your job wrong. If you are seeing them so often that they become overused, then it's your fault that you are bad in this game if you're seeing them that often (or maybe youre just attempting 20/20/20/20 mode). No horror game is without jumpscares. Silent Hill had them. Resident Evil had them. Amnesia had them. Outlast had them.
Jumpscares serve for both keeping you on your toes and scared of running into them again, resulting in the already mentioned tension. "Does Five Nights at Freddy's rely on them a lot for horror?" Yes, actually. "Is that ALL the game got?" No, of course not! It also relies on your sense of danger, insecurity, and helplessness.
These things are making their ways towards you. They will get to you eventually. You cannot run from them or kill them, only delay the inevitable enough until the clock chimes at 6:00 AM or until you die.
This is what I think that makes FNAF a good game.
Hell, the first game has no animations at all! Its just 800 STILL PICTURES, amazingly enough.
Tl;dr an essay about FNAF, and why I think its a good game. If you arent interested, ignore it.