Out of the 3 (!) Five nights Pollapo remakes from Smarted, this is by far the best as well as the most faithful.

Compared to both Five Nights Smarted and Six Hours Nightbound (🤮) FNXP has the closest gameplay to the original. It recreates the janky feeling the original had without much of the actual jank. For instance, the ship part is completely changed and now has more clear hitboxes. The wave at the end is also in slow speed and lasts a bit longer.

The visuals aren’t too much different from Pollapo’s original work either, being mostly minor touches such as subtle movements in the background or updated block design. Unlike Shit Hours Nightbound the level doesn’t randomly have pixel art blocking half your screen so that’s a bonus.

There’s two minor issues I have with this level though (nothing that lowers the score). Firstly is the endscreen. It feels excessively long and as if it was only there to pad this level out to 1 minute. I do like the almost “bloody” font used for the creator, verifier and Pollapo’s names, it fits thematically (since FNP is a blood-themed level). The second issue is the song. Like the original, FNXP uses {Midnight} as its replacement. This would be fine if Pollapo didn’t make the mistake of changing its offset to 38 seconds (36.8 seconds works 100x better!). This makes it so that the replacement song has poor sync, which isn’t Smarted’s fault so I won’t deduct any points.

Pollapo blood Power…. HaHa!!