The first thing any fan Five Nights at Freddy’s What you know is that the series has a long, extensive and often complicated lore. As of 2014, the first FNAF The game took the Internet by storm with hints of a tragic story hidden behind animatronics and game files. The rise of popular YouTube channels exploring this tradition has increased the allure of fan communities.
The first Five Nights at Freddy’s the game was an overnight sensation, mainly due to what appeared to be a deeply hidden story behind the killer animatronics roaming an old restaurant. However, after the first three games seemingly wrapped up the story of the original animatronics and their murder, tradition has become unnecessarily confusing.
Vague FNAF Lore brought attention and fan theories
The first three games had the strongest and simplest stories
What did the first FNAF game so fascinating to players in 2014 was that it had knowledge that players needed to discover through careful investigation and analysis. Taking a deeper look at the game’s features, such as the startled screams that turned out to be a child’s screams and glowing teaser images to reveal hidden clues, were part of the fun early lore. Fans began looking everywhere for hints about what was coming in future games or what had happened at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria, especially in regards to 1987’s Bite.
The initial tradition was relatively simple. Some children were murdered in the 1980s by a serial killer and now haunt an abandoned pizzeria where a security guard (the player character) must continue working to pay the rent. Early theories used the limited information to speculate that Phone Guy or the Security Guard were the killers, especially since this would potentially explain why the Guard returned night after night. This simple but a little vague the lore brought attention to the series and created numerous fan theories.
FNAF’s greatest strength has turned into its greatest weakness
Complicated plots confuse fans
The biggest problem for Five Nights at Freddy’s as a franchise is that rarely, if ever, confirms which information is truly canon for tradition, what is a red herring or what should be completely disregarded. Any fan who wants to create a clear timeline of what happened to major characters like the Afton family, or who owns any animatronics, must rely on an increasingly shaky mountain of evidence as more games, books, and other media are released. released. .
The fun part of the past FNAF games that’s it they included new secrets to discover and more dots to connect. The problem now with newer games is that each new piece of content introduces more FNAF questions than answers. For example, Michael Afton, son of William Afton, is the player character in FNAF spin-offs Sister location and Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulatorand potentially FNAF 3. The problem is that Michael was killed by the scooper in Sister location and is somehow still alive later to be the player character in Pizzeria simulator.
There’s no clear answer as to how he came back to life (or even possessed his own corpse) so he could burn down the pizzeria with his family’s spirit inside. The series is unlikely to give a clear explanation about how Michael is still active after being used as a skin disguise for several combined animatronics, so fans should come up with their own story to explain this. This type of tradition is emblematic as most of the tradition FNAF goes back to the first three games.
Even the creators of FNAF don’t seem to know the answers
Constantly changing the plot midway
The issue with Five Nights at Freddy’s as a franchise is that its creator also doesn’t seem to know what the answers arechoosing to keep asking more questions for a never-ending story. Since the first games in the series, the ending of each sequence has suggested what could be the end of the entire story. Five Nights at Freddy’s 3with its focus on Springtrap, it’s especially guilty of this, as it’s the final game in the first trilogy and should most likely be the final chapter.
The end of FNAF 3 has two possible outcomes, depending on whether players successfully finish all of the 8-bit minigames in the main game. Minigames reveal the story of Springtrap/William Afton and how he was killed by his own suit after being cornered by his former victims in the back of Fazbear’s Pizza. If players don’t finish the minigames and figure out what happened, they will get a bad ending.
The bad ending of FNAF 3 shows the heads of each of the main animatronics, including Golden Freddy, with their lights still on. This indicates that the spirits inside are not at rest, and their full stories have not yet been discovered. The good ending shows the same heads, but with the heads darkened to show that they are no longer possessed. Ideally, this would mean that the story is closed and the original spirits are at rest while their entire story is uncovered. The problem was that games kept coming out, remaking the endingand the tradition only got more complicated from that point on.
As games continue to be released, even in a more modern environment like in Security breachthe confusing tradition becomes even more complicated. Major new age villains like Glitchtrap appear to be a continuation of Springtrap, but previous games have confirmed that his spirit is decidedly in hell. This means that players have no clear idea of who Glitchtrap is or whether he is connected to the series’ most iconic villain. There are no answers in Five Nights at Freddy’sjust more questions and it became more frustrating than fun.