What Exactly Happened in Five Nights at Freddy's 4?

What Exactly Happened in Five Nights at Freddy’s 4?

Many a FNAF fan rejoiced when the fourth instalment of this devious franchise was released early. Many of these same fans then finished rejoicing after they’d experienced the game and sat with a confused look on their face, myself very much included in that. Being the last instalment meant many were expecting some answers to the many questions. What we got however was more questions, however Scott Cawthon has said himself he’s happy with the game and the Halloween dlc won’t be adding to the story so somewhere in there are the answers. Time to try and find them.

 

Any time when discussing FNAF 4 there’s always something looming overhead which I’ll get out of the way. Fredbear and his chomp on the child’s head, is this the famous bite of 87. Short answer no … I think. Even when I first saw the night 5 cut scene my eyebrows were raised, I thought something wasn’t quite right and there’s a lot of evidence saying that this cannot be the bite. Firstly and most obviously the child dies after night 6. We hear the heart monitor flat line which surely means the child’s death. Phone Guy tells us on night 1 in FNAF 1 (The only mention of the bite throughout the series interestingly) that the victim survives. FNAF 1’s year is vague but it is later than 1987. The child could have been in a coma (Although phone guy never mentioned this) for all that time and eventually passed after FNAF 1 but this seems unlikely.

 

There’s more too, the bite has to have taken place before FNAF 2 due to the presence of Fredbear and Spring Bonnie. However this isn’t possible due to one more damming piece of evidence. The bite of 87 is the reason animatronics cannot walk around during the day as said by phone guy on night 1 of FNAF 1. Fredbear bites the child while on stage performing (Not moving around) and in FNAF 2 phone guy tells us the animatronics can walk around during the day meaning this ‘bite’ cannot take place before FNAF 2.

 

I’ve seen many theories where people try to prove loopholes to make this event the bite of 87. There are many theories like this out there, saying that maybe the child died after FNAF 1 or that Phone Guy in FNAF 1 said that people can live without a frontal lobe and didn’t actually specifically refer to the victim and they can walk around in FNAF 2 because they’re toy animatronics. They’re well put together and interesting theories and they had me believing something like this to when I started putting this together put unfortunately I just don’t think it’s possible. Maybe it was the intention for this to be the bite of 87 but it’s just not possible when following the events of the previous games.

 

So what did we actually see? A spring lock failure is what springs to my mind. Terrible puns aside we already knew there was an incident with “multiple and simultaneous spring lock failures”. The bite in FNAF 4 fits the description and also explains how the purple man wore the spring Bonnie suit safely for all that time, the problem was with Fredbear. However if this is the case and this was the reason the spring suits we stopped being used by the pizzerias then what happened to this child. From the night 6 cut scene in FNAF 4 it seems highly probable he became a recurring figure in the series. There are multiple theories. Firstly and perhaps the obvious idea is Golden Freddy due to the Fredbear plush and obvious link to Fredbear in general. The problem with this is Golden Freddy was bought to life by the Puppet as seen in the FNAF 2 mini game Give Gifts, Give Life. The Puppet is strangely not in FNAF 4 (Although I think he’s in the locked chest) and it’s the Fredbear plush that is scene saying he’ll put the child back together. Even this however is not cut and dry as it could be the older brother saying this to the child who is at this point slipping away for good.

 

So maybe this child is the Puppet? The problem with this is the Take Cake mini game in FNAF 2 where we see a crying child being murdered followed by a jump scare by the Puppet. I think we all agree this is the first event we know of in the timeline (When else could it be) and if the Puppet ins’t being created here why the jump scare. Some think this is Fredbear being created and not the puppet but I do not believe this to be true and the proof lies in Golden Freddy.

 

Are Golden Freddy and Fredbear the same entity? Sort of but not really. Fredbear is a physical animatronic as we know but notice how we never see the physical animatronic after the event we see in FNAF 4. Instead we get Golden Freddy who can go through closed doors and seemingly teleport. He’s been speculated to be a hallucination in the past but I think he’s a ghostly entity. The Puppet in the Give Gift mini games is seen putting the bodies in the suit but we don’t see this with Golden Freddy and the fifth child. What happened I think is the dead child’s soul was bought to life in the form of a ghostly version of Fredbear that we all know as Golden Freddy. Watch the Give Gifts mini game this is clearly what happens.

 

Another issue I’ve had with placing this child as an animatronic is that the animatronics all want revenge on the man that murdered them right? Isn’t this why they attack night guards in the first place. Remember what phone guy said in FNAF 2, they react to the kids’ just fine but when they encounter an adult they just stare. The FNAF 4 child has no reason to attack adults and night guards after being killed by Fredbear but due to the final cut scene we know he’s likely around somewhere as an animatronic. The answer I think lies in Nightmare, the brand new animatronic. It’s a dark version of Fredbear which sounds awfully familiar. FNAF 2 has a dark version of Golden Freddy, the infamous Shadow Freddy. Shadow Freddy doesn’t kill the Night Guard, he sits around in the parts and services room and leads Animatronics to purple guy which leads to the children’s souls being released.

 

In my previous theory (Which is linked below, a lot of it still holds strong) I suggested Shadow Freddy and Bonnie were early renditions of phantoms. Where my new idea leaves shadow Bonnie is unknown to me but I think most logical evidence points towards the child in FNAF 4 becoming Shadow Freddy.

 

So who actually was this child before his unfortunate demise? Many have suggested he’s purple guy’s son and there is evidence to support this. We know purple guy works at the pizzeria (we see him helping someone into Spring Bonnie in what looks like a safe room. This would explain how the child keeps ending up at the pizzeria, how he has all the toys and how he has access to the mangle in the other room. The house layout is also very similar to the office and corridors in FNAF 1 and the pizzeria we see in the game I think was before the one in FNAF 2 opened which happens to be the same building used in FNAF 1.

 

The problem with this I have is how the Purple Man murdered the children for the revenge of the death of his younger son. Firstly, his older son was one of his children, if he cares so much about his child to murder in revenge why would he actually kill another child of his own. Secondly, the murder in the Take Cake mini game has a child completely unrelated to that incident so why murder that child (This murder took place before the events of FNAF 4) and finally more murders appear to take place in FNAF 2 which would mean the purple man continued murdering children after taking revenge.

 

There’s one more point I wanted to discuss, the Fredbear Plush. At first I thought it was an imaginary friend type thing as it spoke to the child but as the game went on it seemed very apparent it was possessed. The question is possessed how or by who. The only answer I can come up with is it’s the Puppet talking to the child through this plush. However I admit that is a bit of a stretch as is quite a lot of this theory, honestly I’m still not sure if I missed something that proves Fredbear’s bite was actually the bite of 87. For the record I’m not claiming this is a bite of 83 rather that it was a spring lock failure took place at some point.

 

So that’s what I’ve got, I’m working on a complete timeline so if you enjoyed this look out for that and if you think I’m wrong tell me why, I doubt anyone could figure out this lore without help. Finally check out the previous theories linked below for the identity of the purple guy, on that FNAF 4 changes nothing.

 

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So let's talk the Five Night's at Freddy's 4 Trailer

So let’s talk the Five Night’s at Freddy’s 4 Trailer

Well that’s not what I or indeed anyone was expecting. In fact the trailer just brings more questions, however what can we pick up from what we saw? I’ll discuss that today.

 

The first and obvious thing that’s different and unexpected is the location. It’s a house. No one saw that coming so what exactly is going on. The red text in the trailer at one point says “What did you bring home?” however I doubt it’s as simple someone took some killer animatronics home with them, so what exactly is going on here? It seems likely the protagonist of this game will a child as it looks to be taking the scary monster under the bed and in the closet approach.

 

In the trailer we see most of the known animatronics from this game. Bonnie of course is there, he seems to be the focus of these things since all the way back when we first saw the FNAF 1 trailer so it’s fitting we see his jump scare. We get a glimpse of Chica and Foxy, we see this plush trap thing on the chair in the hallway and mini Freddy’s on the bed. The trailer had quite a creepy feel and ambience and while don’t actually see the puppet many people are comparing the music we here near the start to him and even if they’re unrelated we all know he’ll have a big role to play. So who’s noticeably missing? Freddy of course. Sure we see the mini ones but where’s actual Freddy? What’s being hidden from us here?

 

What does this trailer reveal about the gameplay part of the game? Honestly it’s difficult to say, from the different camera angles we see it looks like we may be able to move around the house. The issue is whether all these clips are even from the game itself or whether there’s just strangely placed cameras around the inside of a house (Although that one seems unlikely). It appears that closing doors will be an important feature again and Bonnie and Chica seem to come for you from different doors with Foxy in the closet in the room you’re in. On top of that the mini Freddy’s seem to be on the bed behind you which may be a reason for not simply closing both doors to the room and crying in the corner until all the scary monsters go away. I certainly wouldn’t want to lock myself in a room with Foxy.

 

As we all know these games often leave very carefully placed things to get us thinking about the lore. These games are built on their lore really so what do we find here. The scene in the trailer that stood out to me personally was near the beginning. The camera pans across a room with some very intriguing items. There’s a purple robot with a strange crank like object in its hand, a phone with eyes and of course, a fan. Naturally parallels have been drawn with the purple robot and purple man and wait, there’s a nearby phone, OMG PURPLE GUY IS PHONE GUY CONFIRMED. Okay … maybe not, the interesting thing for me is they both appear to be looking up at the closet. If the mechanics of this game are similar to the other, the presence on the fan would suggest this would be ‘the office’ of this game.

 

I think this purple robot could be why the purple man appears as a purple man in the FNAF 2 and 3 mini games. The mini game are supposedly just representations of the actual events in these games lore of course. I assume from the layout and camera angles that we’ll be playing as a child in this game (Although with the FNAF series you often cannot assume anything) so how is this character relevant in the grand scheme of things. Honestly, I have no idea how to piece all this together, we simply don’t have enough information, however at a guess I would say this child must have had a bad experience with a Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria and may have even seen the purple guy. Nightmare seems to be a prevalent theme with the teaser images so could this game be a nightmare based on a person’s real fears of the restaurants.

 

This is all speculation of course, we don’t know where this house is, who lives inside or when this game takes place in the timeline. It’ll be interesting to see what answers we get and discovering what happened in these games and maybe finally we’ll see whose theories were correct (Check out my own in the links below).  In the meantime what did you think of the trailer, leave a comment below.      

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What exactly happened in Five Night's at Freddy's part 2 - Answering those all important Questions

Answering those all Important Five Nights at Freddy’s Questions

 

Today’s the day I attempt to solve Five Night’s at Freddy’s. If you haven’t read the first part of this theory, I recommend you do, while not 100% necessary it will give more context to what I’m saying here (Here’s the link http://thecoolstuffblog12.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/what-exactly-happened-in-five-nights-at.html ). I’ve scoured everywhere from YouTube to Reddit to my highly impressive brain and these are my findings.

 

Firstly, who are shadow Freddy and shadow Bonnie? They seem really important but not in an obviously apparent way.To cut to the chase I think they are the phantom versions of Freddy and Bonnie and here’s why. Firstly, a phantom for Bonnie and Freddy are noticeably missing from FNAF 3 and while there is a phantom Freddy, after looking at its design closer I am convinced that it is actually a phantom of Golden Freddy. From the shape of the head, its golden tinge, the missing ear and even the slight tilt of the head there are too many similarities to ignore. Some people believe the Freddy that appears to the left of your office occasionally is Golden Freddy however due to its colouration it is more likely shadow Freddy.

 

It is my belief that both the phantom and shadow animatronics are apparitions created by the puppet. Don’t forget that the puppet doesn’t just want to kill the purple guy, this is a tormented child’s soul looking for vengeance. He attacks both Jeremy and Fritz in FNAF 2 and is in control of the animatronics that attack Mike in FNAF 1. It therefore makes sense that the phantom animatronics in FNAF 3 contribute to the player character, a night guard’s death as for years the puppet has been on a crusade to save the children from what he thinks as a child are evil night guards. Think about the behaviour of the shadow animatronics, in FNAF 2 both of them randomly appear and crash your game, which likely mean they kill you, a night guard. In FNAF 3 shadow Bonnie takes cake to a child to free his soul and shadow Freddy leads the animatronics to be dismantled, ultimately leading to the children’s souls being released. They’re helping children, just like the puppet would.

 

The only issue with this idea is the withered look of the phantoms in comparison to the clean looking state of the shadow animatronics. Here’s the thing though, the phantom animatronics were created by the puppet at a point where he intended to burn down the building, they’re apparitions of the future state of the animatronics we see in the box of spare parts looking completely fine in the office. The shadow animatronics meanwhile we created years before this plan of burning the building, long before the animatronics were scattered and dismantled. It should also be noted that aside from the withered nature of the phantoms the shadow animatronics and phantoms do share many features including the distinctive white eyes and ghostly appearance making many believe they are simply hallucinations, however I think prove they are creations of the puppet's doing.

Another difficult to place animatronic is Golden Freddy. It’s pretty much accepted that the fifth child was stuffed into the Golden Freddy suit however I don’t believe this is the case, at least not exactly. When we hear of an unfortunate incident involving multiple spring lock failures in a spring lock suit I think this was only the Golden Freddy suit that went wrong. The killer seems to have used the Spring Bonnie suit safely on multiple occasions and it only kills him when there’s rain on the ground to loosen the locks. The Golden Freddy spring suit however I think was the one involved in the incident all the way back in the original pizzeria location killing an innocent employee. The killer took the Spring Bonnie suit knowing it was okay to use and the Golden Freddy suit was hidden away. The Golden Freddy we see is an apparition, created by the Puppet. This is the ghost of the fifth murdered child in the form of the ghostly Golden Freddy. This explains his strange behaviours throughout the games, from his ghostly attacks and his disappearing when you touch him in the Save Them mini game as well as the lone endoskeleton that can be found in FNAF 1 and 2, it used to belong to Golden Freddy who is now out of commission and hidden away somewhere for good.

 

Golden Freddy is the lost soul of the fifth murdered child but unlike the others he’s not haunting an animatronic that is still in use, rather taking the form of a decommissioned and dangerous spring lock suit after being formed by the Puppet. Remember in the Give Life mini game in FNAF 2 we don’t see the puppet stuff this final child into a suit like the other 4, rather Golden Freddy’s head comes at you from the dead child, showing us how the Puppet bought this terrifying golden bear, this ghost to life.

 

The bite of 87 is a huge incident in the timeline and yet we have had very little revealed over the three games. It is scarcely mentioned however I think the key to figuring out what happens is in FNAF2. The likely victim of the bite is Jeremy Fitzgerald as at the end of night 6 he is moved to day shift with the restaurant being shut the next day with no more night shifts after this day shift in which Jeremy was guarding over due to the now obviously apparent danger. Jeremy being the victim would also explain the November date on his pay check despite being welcomed to his new summer job on night 1, he was in hospital in critical condition and thus didn’t receive his pay check until months later. This also shows us the phone calls from FNAF 2 are likely recorded the day Jeremy receives them. Before the new FNAF 4 teaser images I would’ve said the biter is almost certainly Mangle due to its larger jaw, sharper teeth and jump scare where it attacks the top of the head. However the FNAF 4 teasers do seem to be hinting at the nightmare animatronics having a role to play in this strange incident.

 

So that’s one more question answered leaving only one. The big one. The identity of the purple man. I’ll start by addressing the elephant in the room, phone guy. Many believe the phone guy is the culprit and honestly a lot of evidence does point at him HOWEVER I have the proof of this guy’s innocence in the murders and it comes from the FNAF 3 mini games where purple man dismantled the animatronics and then is crushed by the spring Bonnie suit. FNAF 3 has both good and bad endings that I’ve already mentioned. Since neither has been declared canon the events of the timeline must take place in a way for both to be possible. This means the FNAF 3 minigames must take place AFTER the events of FNAF 1? Why? Firstly we see the animatronics who are not withered being dismantled. In FNAF 1 the animatronics are in full working order and are not damaged, showing us that these events need to have taken place after FNAF 1. Also the building we see is in disrepair, there are leaks in the ceiling and rats on the floor. However the animatronics have already been moved there, showing us this is after the building was repaired and re-opened. The buildings damaged state shows us this is after the building was abandoned and after the restaurant shut down, therefore this must have taken place after the FNAF 1 building was abandoned and therefore phone guy cannot be the killer as we know he was killed by the animatronics before the events of FNAF 1, while purple guy dies in these mini games after FNAF 1.

 

The difficult thing is that the purple guy may be someone we’ve never met. However if it is someone we’ve met in the games the most evidence points towards none other than FNAF 2’s custom night guard, Fritz Smith. I have evidence and I hope you'll be convinced. Firstly the murderer must have been present in FNAF 2, the Phone Guy mentions the building is on lock down, especially to former employees. The next clue comes from Fritz’s pink slip after he’s fired. It says he is employee number 3. Who are the previous 2 employee’s? We know there’s a day shift worker and many would assume Jeremy Fitzgerald is the other. However we know Phone Guy was an employee of this location as he must have worked there to record his messages. This means that FNAF 2’s custom night takes place before the other 6 nights. I think that Fritz Smith takes the night shift of the night after the now day worker quit due to 'conditions' as phone guy puts it.

 

We also know Fritz can tamper with animatronics due to the reasons he is fired. This would explain the strange item in his purple guy’s hand in the save them mini game as well as disabling Freddy and being capable of dismantling the animatronics in FNAF 3. This could also explain the aggression from the toy animatronics who remember are not possessed by dead children, he tampered with their facial recognition software so they would react to any adult (They attack Jeremy Fitzgerald in night 1 and presumably the day shift worker), not just him. Remember he was arrested as a suspect for the first missing children incident and would thus be on a criminal database like the one the toy animatronics are linked too. Him working in the FNAF 2 location would also explain the badge on purple guys chest in the Save Them mini game that takes place in the FNA 2 location and also explain the badges absence in the FNAF 3 mini games that take place long after FNAF 2 where he was fired.

 

An important thing to note is Phone Guy talk of rumours of the company as early as night 1 in FNAF 2, he doesn’t ever say he’s just talking of the old location. Therefore the murders could easily have taken place before Jeremy’s first night. So why isn’t the killer the day shift worker? Because he’s dead. Phone guy says this day shift worker complained about conditions and animatronics tried to get into his office and then later talks about the amazing solution of the Freddy head. See where I’m going with this, this worker didn’t have a Freddy head. This is why Jeremy and Fritz were both given one, to avoid them being killed. This so called day shift worker was likely killed by one of the old animatronics as this was before purple guy tampered with their facial recognition software. This company isn’t exactly concerned about  the morale issues of covering things up, this guard’s death is just another example and while he probably didn’t enjoy his savage death this does suggest he is not the killer.

 

After all that there is still one huge flaw to my theory. The killer must have worked in one of the previous locations that used the spring suits and the safe rooms and more importantly listened to the Phone Guy’s recording explaining how they work, with the safe rooms being invisible to cameras and animatronics and how to use the spring lock suits as we know the killer used a yellow spring suit. The Phone Guy also mentioned in his FNAF 2 night 6 phone call that the building is on lock down, especially concerning previous employees. However I do have something that could strongly suggest Fritz Smith fits this criteria.

 

What is the one key difference between Jeremy Fitzgerald’s and Fritz Smith’s nights? Fritz Smith does not receive a phone call at the beginning of the night. In his first night working as a night guard Fritz receives no phone call, no training tape, no nothing. Something doesn’t quite add up unless Fritz has already received night guard training from working in a previous Freddy Fazbear Pizza location. The reason he doesn’t receive a training phone call is because he’s already known to the company and to Phone Guy for working in a previous location and listening to Phone Guy’s original recordings, the ones that explain both the safe rooms and the spring lock suits. Does this seem like a bit of a stretch? This would certainly explain where Fritz learnt how to tamper with animatronics as well as learn the skills to survive a night at the FNAF 2 location, a location with more animatronics than any other. It would also explain how the company managed to draft him in at such short notice, he was already known to them from working in a previous location. After the custom night Fritz Smith is fired and the first time we see purple guy after this event in the timeline is in the FNAF 3 mini games where the gold badge on purple guy’s chest is mysteriously gone. Coincidence? I doubt it.

 

 Fritz Smith is the purple guy, the evil man who took the lives of 11 innocent children, but eventually he was stopped by his first victim which brings us back to the very first mystery from FNAF 1 that had us all scratching our heads. The Puppet did everything he could to save the children, he bought them back to life and in the happiest day mini game he freed their souls for good. Finally he tried to stop anyone in that hated security guard uniform and stop the purple guy, Fritz Smith for good. He is truly behind it all and yet we still see him in FNAF 3 in the hallway making him the saddest case of all because his soul still hasn’t been freed even after all these years. He’s still here and maybe always will be finally giving us closure on the phrase, ‘It’s me’.

 

So that’s that … until October. If however you’re sitting there thinking about some huge flaw in my theory then I’d love to hear where I may have gone wrong. I am confident in my conclusions but equally would like to hear what everyone else thinks, it is all speculation after all so please let me know and if you enjoyed this like the Facebook page.

 

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What exactly happened in Five Nights at Freddy's?

What exactly happened in Five Nights at Freddy’s?

Normally I like to write a mildly funny introduction to my blog posts but there is a lot to talk about with Five Nights at Freddy’s which from now on I’ll shorten to FNAF. So blah blah blah, insert funny joke here, let’s get started.

 

The FNAF story starts long before the setting of any of the three main games in a small family run restaurant called Fredbears Family Diner. How long this restaurant was open for is unknown, however what we know for sure is the event that set’s everything into motion takes place at the Diner. It’s accepted and for good reason that the Take Cake mini game is the first event we see in the FNAF timeline where we see who is likely Fredbear (Who would later become Freddy Fazbear) taking cake to screaming Children. A crying child is left outside the building and after a while we see a purple man pull up in a car next to the Diner and murder the child. We know from the tear stains on the child’s face that remain after his death matching the design of the puppets mask as well as the puppet’s jump scare which always follows this mini game that this child’s soul exists in the Puppet.

 

The negative PR from this incident makes the owners of Fredbear’s Family Diner sell the restaurant to a company known as Fazbear Entertainment. To distance themselves from the murdered child incident they rename the restaurant as Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria and open a chain of restaurants. It is unknown how many restaurants or for how long they are open for is, however we know there are multiple restaurants as a sister location is mentioned in the Phone Guy’s training tapes in FNAF 3. This first chain of Pizzeria’s is when the spring lock suits are introduced. These suits double as both animatronics and suits as stated by Phone Guy in his FNAF 3 recordings. These two suits are golden versions of Bonnie, who would later be known as Springtrap and the mysterious golden Freddy. The issue with these spring lock suits of course is that the spring locks have a tendency to snap shut with someone inside, killing them. In his night 4 recording in FNAF 3 Phone Guy talks of an unfortunate event with several simultaneous spring lock failures resulting in employees no longer being permitted to use the Spring Lock suits. On his night 5 recording he also mentions the Golden Bonnie suit has been notably moved, making it highly likely it’s the suit the purple man uses as his disguise for his later murders.

 

We are also told that these Pizzeria’s contained safe rooms that are invisible to both the restaurants security cameras and the animatronics programming. However Phone Guy’s recordings say they are sealed up never to be mentioned again. Finally and perhaps most importantly we know that five children are murdered in this location. We learn about this in the FNAF 1 newspaper clippings where we learn that a man used a character costume to lure five children into a back room and murder them. While a man was caught on cameras and arrested (Although it should be mentioned it is at no point said he was prosecuted) the children’s bodies were never found. The Pizzeria continued for a little while longer until it was eventually closed after blood and mucus began leaking from the original 4 animatronics, those being Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy. This suggests that the four of the children’s bodies were stuffed into these four suits with the killer using the Golden Bonnie suit as we know it is only one of two that can be worn.

 

How the five animatronics from FNAF 1 (Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy and Golden Freddy) are possessed by the dead children is shown to us in the Give Gifts, Give Life mini game. We see the Puppet, the possessed animatronic of the first murdered child try to give the dead children presents to make them happy. However after this doesn’t work with them being dead, the Puppet stuffs them into the suits and gives them life in these new bodies. The final frame before the Golden Freddy jumpscare reveals the final child is connected to Golden Freddy, showing us how these 5 robots became possessed.

 

We also know this took place in the original Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza from the Foxy Go Go Go minigame where we see Foxy run out of pirate’s cove to entertain the children. The third time he runs past the same purple man sprite before finding the five children are lying there dead. This must take place before the suits are possessed as Foxy does not attack the purple man. We therefore know that in this location five children were murdered, the safe rooms were supposedly sealed up and the five animatronics from FNAF 1 were possessed thanks to the Puppet.

 

After shutting down Fazbear entertainment eventually reopens its restaurant and the brand new Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria is opened. This is the only time during this timeline where we have actually been told the date as it takes place, 1987. This is also the setting for Fnaf 2 where after the old Pizzeria’s were left to rot (At least according to phone Guy) the old animatronics have become withered and damaged. Wary of another missing children’s incident and the bad press that would come with it the new Pizzeria has brand new toy versions of the original animatronics. Not only are they supposedly more kid friendly (Although I struggle to see how mangle could ever be classified as kid friendly) but they have built in facial recognition software to a criminal database to attempt to protect children and prevent another incident. The original animatronics are present in their withered state and both Golden Freddy and the Puppet can be encountered during FNAF 2. Despite all this however five more children are murdered in this location. We see this in the Save them mini game where the Puppet leads Freddy throughout an exact replica of the FNAF 2 building with five dead children scattered throughout the building.

 

Notice how the Children's bodies are in places that would
 likely make them unseen by the buildings cameras

 While we do not know when during FNAF 2 this night takes place (It must be at night due to the restaurant being empty) the dead children’s bodies are positioned on the map to likely be invisible to the security cameras and thus they could be in the building during one of the nights you play. The Phone Guy mentions a yellow suit was used during the night 6 phone call which makes it likely the murders took place during the week you play in as Jeremy Fitzgerald. On night 6 the Phone Guy also says the building is in lock down especially considering former employees, telling us the murderer is almost certainly an employee of Fazbear Entertainment. Rarely during the save them mini games Freddy is attacked by the purple man who this time has a gold badge on his chest and a strange purple object in his hands. When he catches you the screen crashes leaving you with the message ‘You Can’t’ likely referring to the minigame title Save Them (As in the children).

 

One nagging detail is how the killer managed this when he had been captured by Police years before. There are two possibilities. One is that the purple and pinkish sprites represent different people. I don’t think this is likely however as the killer must have been an employee at the previous Pizzeria in order to know how to use the spring lock suits. We know the killer uses one of these yellow spring lock suits and he can’t have done this if he was a brand new employee, partly for not knowing they were sealed in the old safe rooms and partly as he would not know how to operate them. It also seems unlikely a serial child killer with no apparent motivation other than enjoying murder as seen by the smile on his face whenever we see him in FNAF 2 would share the murdering with someone else.

 

While an investigation is going on throughout FNAF 2 the restaurant is closed down due to an entirely different reason. In FNAF 1 we are told of an incident known as the bite of 87 where an animatronic bit someone during the day removing their frontal lobe. This is not mentioned at all throughout FNAF 2’s phone calls despite the game being set in 1987, however after night 6 we receive a newspaper clip that states that the restaurant will be shut down immediately and the new animatronics scrapped due to possible malfunction, with the original’s being kept for possible re organization of the company. This makes it highly likely that one of the toy animatronics bit someone, during the day thus the restaurant is immediately shut down and the animatronics are no longer allowed to walk around during the day, being restricted to moving only at night. This must have taken place during the day shift AFTER night 6 in FNAF 2.

 

An unspecified number of years later another Freddy Fazbears Pizzeria is opened which acts as the location of FNAF 1. Some major events take place in this building. Firstly FNAF 1 itself takes place with the player character Mike Schmitt going through seven nights with Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy and Golden Freddy roaming the Pizzeria trying to kill him. After night seven he is fired for general unprofessionalism, tampering with the animatronics and odour.

 

Before the events of FNAF 1 with Mike Schmitt the Phone Guy is killed by the animatronics. We hear this happen in the night 4 phone call where he appears to be attacked by all the animatronics. During his phone calls which we know are pre-recorded in this game he also reveals some important information to us telling us about the bite of 87 and the original missing children’s incident.

 

Finally we know the purple guy dies here. We know it is this location due to it mirroring the map of the FNAF 1 pizzeria and not featuring the toy animatronics. However in the FNAF 3 minigames that take place after each night that this location contains a safe room with the spring Bonnie suit inside. This tells us this is the same building as one of the original Freddy Fazbear’s pizzerias, after Fredbear family Diner but before the location of FNAF 2. After shadow Freddy, what appeared to be just an Easter egg in FNAF 2 but played a prominent role in FNAF 3 lures each of the original animatronics to the safe room. However due to the safe rooms being invisible to the animatronics they glitch out and the purple man, this time lacking the gold badge appears and dismantles them. After Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy have been dismantled, the spirits of the five children from the first missing children’s incident enter the safe room and scare the purple man into the spring Bonnie suit. The building is rotting and in a terrible state and thus rain is all over the floor causing the spring locks to snap shut killing the purple man who is now known as Springtrap.

 

Finally there’s FNAF 3 which is set 30 years later with a horror amusement attraction is opened called Fazbear Fright to cash in on the rumours and mysteries of the old Pizzeria’s. A week before the attraction opens, a night guard is hired to watch over the building and the attractions owners find an animatronic for their attraction, an animatronic who happens to be Springtrap. He tries to kill you for a 5 nights while phantom animatronics (In a withered and damaged state) jumpscare you if you fail to upkeep the ventilation properly, distracting you to allow Springtrap an advantage to try to get you. After night 6 the attraction catches fire and burns down, apparently due to ‘faulty wiring’. Playing the game though normally rewards you with the bad ending where there are five masks, representing the five original animatronics with lights on behind their eyes, suggesting the children’s souls still haunt the animatronics. If you complete a bunch of strange minigames and exploit intentional glitches to give crying dead children cake you get the good ending, where there are only four masks (Golden Freddy’s is strangely missing) and the lights are off in the masks, suggesting the souls have been released. However the Puppet occasionally appears in a perfectly un-damaged state in the hallways. We know he’s really there as we can see his reflection in the water on the ground meaning it’s likely he was the one to burn down Fazbears Fright to try to end the purple man for good and at least for now this is where our story ends.

 

This is getting long so I’ll upload the second part in a few days. I’ll discuss all the big questions people tend to have about the series such as Golden Freddy’s identity, the significance of the shadow animatronics and of course the identity of the murderous purple guy. Meanwhile the Cool Stuff blog has a Facebook page now which is linked below. If you enjoyed this post and are interested in the next part then I’d appreciate a like on the page. See you next time and be careful, Freddy is right behind you.

 

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What should happen in the Five Nights at Freddy's Movie?

What should happen in the Five Nights at Freddy’s Movie?

I don’t want a Five Nights at Freddy’s movie. I thought I should make that perfectly clear. I’m a fan of the series, I enjoyed every game and love delving into the lore but will it translate well into movie form? Probably not but I hope the movie can at least be watchable. What do I in my humble opinion think should be in the FNAF movie? I explain below.

 

As we all know video game movies are terrible. I’ve always thought the best thing to do would to be setting a movie in the universe of the certain game franchise without centring on the plot of an actual game. This would give the writers and developers chance to do what they want to while still remaining loyal to the setting and franchise. For the FNAF movie I think it should be set in one of the Pizzeria’s we’ve never seen in a game. Setting the movie before 1987 and FNAF 2 or even as a spinoff that doesn’t relate to the events in the games would allow the writers some free will and not make the movie too restrictive. It would also allow a brand new story and thus a setting unrelated to the pizzeria’s in the game series I think would be a good idea.

 

The lore is perhaps the most interesting part of the entire franchise. First things first, I will be very unhappy if the movie just reveals everything that we have to speculate about. Apart from that it’s important for the movie to be for fans of the series but equally the movie has to try to bring in newcomers to the series. Take FNAF 1 as an example. There was some interesting backstory subtly laced in but it wasn’t all explained in one go or made too complex too quickly. A similar thing needs to happen with the movie’s plot. It’s because of this I think it’d be preferable to have a separate plot from the games. FNAF 3 briefly mentions sister locations. Something like this I believe would be ideal as you could still capture the essence of the games while not being tied down by heaps of lore and backstory.

 

FNAF is subtle in its story. This is a big reason why I don’t think it’ll work as a film, most of its story isn’t shown. A movie needs to show more due to the medium itself however the films focus I think needs to be on the character in the Pizzeria. The film cannot just take place in the Pizzeria and what time we spend outside will hopefully be used to build a complex and interesting character. This is strange considering the characters in the game are merely vessels to play, however this is not a game. A likeable character is important otherwise we’ll just be watching a boring horror with cardboard characters waiting for them to die.

 

There’s a catch however with what I just said. Too much time cannot be taking place outside the Pizzeria. This seems obvious however would you really be surprised if we spend ages with some random idiot and their boring life? Maybe showing the character in the Pizzeria during the day would be good as it would set the scene and start building the creepy atmosphere of the twisted place. Whatever they do none of us want to see a FNAF movie where most of the time is spent outside a Freddy Fazbears Pizzeria.

 

Another thing I hope happens is that out main protagonist is alone in the Pizzeria. The games made you feel incredibly isolated and this added to the tension and fear. This means that with the main character in the Pizzeria there needs to be no friends, no love interest and definitely no wacky black sidekick. If a little group goes in and a black guy dies first I may leave the cinema. With what I’ve said so far it sounds a bit like I just want a scare fest with an interesting character. This isn’t true, the Pizzeria’s always have a dark secret behind them and this should be no exception. I think it would be good if the protagonist would gradually discover some sort of conspiracy or mystery behind the Pizzeria as he tried to survive. I just think it needs to leave somethings left unanswered and be subtle about what’s going on, not just throw everything at us.

 

Horror films need to have horror. Let’s think about what makes FNAF scary. I’d say the suspense and tension as the animatronics move around the Pizzeria and you never know when you’re about to be attacked. I’ve never thought it’s just jump scares. There are very well crafted jump scares, but what makes the jump scares terrifying is the build-up. The atmosphere and tension alone makes the game scary even if you aren’t killed once. I’m sure you can see where I’m going with this, for the movie to be scary and not just full of jump scares then it needs to use creepy sets and build the tension and suspense of the situation of being in a dark Pizzeria full of killer animatronics. Obviously there will be jump scares and they will be effective like they were while playing the games if they’re well-crafted amongst the good build-up and atmosphere.

 

Let’s not have a gore fest. Please movie makers, don’t do it. Don’t get me wrong, if we see one person get violently stuffed into an animatronic suit I wouldn’t be disappointed. While I am quite strange I think maybe in the intro we could see this happen to someone, it would build the stakes as well as show newcomers to the series what these animatronics are capable of. But this shouldn’t be a regular occurrence, it’s not what FNAF is about.

 

The film needs to as I said earlier introduce new people to the FNAF franchise as well as be faithful for the fans. This makes throwing in all the many animatronics we’ve seen over the games seem a bit silly. How much would a newcomer be confused with the original 5, the toy versions, balloon boy, the puppet, spring trap, shadow animatronics and phantoms? I think the ideal situation would to be to use the 4 main animatronics from the original FNAF as the main antagonists. This should please both parties as it won’t be overcrowded for new comers and as a fan myself I would be very pleased seeing the classics on screen. Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy are perfectly capable of being terrifying antagonists for the film and keeping it to 4 for most of the movie would avoid the film feeling over crowded. I would however like to see a cameo from Golden Freddy, not only is he my personal favourite but I imagine all the fans would love to see his ghostly presence. He doesn’t need to play a big role, just a cameo, even just a glimpse would be great.

 

I really want the FNAF movie to be good. I am a fan of the franchise, I will go and see it and I can’t wait for FNAF 4. I’m not exactly confident but let’s hope this is an actual good video game movie. But nevertheless I’m curious, what is everyone else hoping to see in the movie? I’ll end this post now, the power on my laptop has nearly run out …

Professor Layton vs Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria - Who Would Win

Professor Layton vs Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria – Who Would Win

When I write these things the hardest bit is always coming up with the combatants. The Professor Layton series is my favourite video game franchise and I thought I have to get its main protagonist, the Professor himself into one of these battles. The problem? Outside of being a keen fencer Layton doesn’t engage himself in mindless violence. The gameplay through the games is like an old point and click adventure and you progress by solving delightful puzzles. Good traits for some ridiculously pleasant and fun games, not great for a fighter. So the solution? Put him in a giant deadly puzzle of course. Enter Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria, the delightfully creepy Pizza restaurant that is almost as scary as an actual Chucky Cheese it’s based off. So if the good Professor was placed in the role of the night guard for five nights could he make it out alive? Let’s find out.

 

 I normally say no outside assistance. However the Professor will receive all the help Mike Schmitt did, hence he will listen to the calls from phone guy. Now let’s discuss the one and only, Professor Layton and beware of Azran Legacy spoilers in the next two paragraphs.

 

Hershel Layton was born to Leon and Rachel Bronev as Theodore Bronev. He had an older brother named Hershel but unfortunately the two boys were orphaned at an early age as their parents were kidnaped by the Targent agency over their knowledge of the Azran civilisation.

 

Suitable adoptive parents were found in Lucille and Roland Layton. They however only wished to adopt one child, Hershel. They did not know which boy was Hershel was however and to make his younger brother happy, Hershel gave his name to his younger brother so he would be adopted into the loving Layton family, thus from now on Theodore Bronev was known as Hershel Layton.

 

Hershel Layton is not the most imposing figure, standing at 5’9” including his signature top hat. He is however a true English Gentlemen, always kind and polite. He is more than willing to help people when they require assistance as well as being all round a very nice guy. He almost always manages to stay relaxed and dignified in any situation and is capable of always keeping calm and focused in even the most panic inducing situations.

 

Being a professor of archaeology and lover of a good puzzle Layton is unsurprisingly a highly intelligent man possessing exceptional logic puzzles. Throughout his adventures he has solved hundreds of different puzzles which require him to do anything from Maths, to looking through trick questions to sliding block puzzles or recognising patterns. That last one could be useful. Professor Layton is more than just a sharp mind however. He is incredibly brave, surprisingly athletic and his fencing ability would naturally give him quick reactions and a good spatial awareness.

 

Layton is also not a stranger to weird and dangerous situations, nor is he to working under pressure. He has survived multiple life threatening situations, experienced mass hallucination and was part of what must be the most heart wrenching moment in video game History (If you’ve played lost future you know exactly what I’m talking about). Professor Hershel Layton is such a likeable character brimming with personality and despite having quite a tragic past has remained a perfect gentlemen.

 

Let’s move on to the nightmare that is Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria (The one from the first game). It’s a obvious parody of Chucky Cheese, with cameras around the restaurant (Although there is a blind shot right outside your doors), a rather problematic power shortage and a really dumb door system (Closing doors drains power apparently). The big problem, the animatronics at night get bored and like to play murder.

 

Most famously, Freddy Fazbear is the face of the pizzeria and is one of three animatronics to start off backstage. He starts off fairly placid but later on through the week becomes very aggressive until night five where he’s on maximum aggressiveness. He goes from the stage to the dining room to the kitchen before entering the east hall. He then likes to go into the corner before going into your office and stuffing you into a rather uncomfortable suit. It’s very important to keep an eye on this guy or he does tend to kill you. He also is the one that kills you after your power runs out, you hear his song and after just long enough for you to think he’s gone he scares the crap out of you.

 

Next up is Bonnie the Bunny, interestingly the scariest animatronic according to the games creator. He also starts backstage and moves between the west hall, the supply closet, the dining area and the west hall corner. He is the most frequent animatronic to try to enter the office and he is also active from night one.

 

Similarly, Chica the Chicken (Not a duck) starts in the stage area and is active from night one. She goes to the kitchen, restrooms, dining area and east hall. She doesn’t attempt to enter the office as frequently as Bonnie however she does linger at the door for a greater amount of time, draining your precious power. Bonnie and Chica will also work together, stick to different doors (Bonnie the left and Chica the right) as well as jamming the doors.

 

Finally there’s Foxy the Pirate, a very unique animatronic. Rather than starting on the stage, he resides in Pirate’s Cove. If you do not check the cove frequently enough he will attack your left door. He sprints down the corridor and bangs on the door, draining the power. It should be noted on night 5 he is active from the start.

 

Finally there is the terrifying Golden Freddy. He appears if you see the rare Golden Freddy poster and teleports into your office and kills you. At least he seems to kill you, although your game crashed when he attacks and you do not go to the game over screen. The poster is rare however and it is highly possible that Golden Freddy is just an illusion as he appears to be an empty suit as well as having no reflection in the office monitors. Even if he is real the jump scare can be avoided if you go to the cameras as he appears in the office.

 

The phone guy gives you rather vague instructions and are only really useful on night 1 and 2. On night 1 he casually tells you the animatronics will try to kill you. He says to check the cameras and close the doors if they get too close. He also mentions the importance of conserving power. On night 2 meanwhile he emphasizes the importance of using the door lights as well as checking pirate cove frequently.

 

So if the Professor was hired as the new night guard would he survive 5 nights? Night 1 would be a cakewalk for Layton. For most of the night he would only have 1 animatronic to keep track of and even when the second came out I can’t see the introductory level defeating such an acute mind. So hooray, the good Professor got through the first night!

 

Night 2 would likely be a similar story. Hershel Layton is an expert at recognising patterns and night 1 would at least give him a small idea of where each Bonnie and Chica go. Obviously he wouldn’t have all their movements sussed but he would at least have an idea of when they were getting close. Freddy isn’t aggressive enough to cause a problem to such a sharp mind and while Foxy could be an issue, I imagine seeing a scary fox peeking out of a curtain would be something you’d be keeping an eye on. So night 2 is done, only three to go.

 

Night 3 could pose a problem, in fact the games creator Scott Cawthon writes around his newspaper article that you probably won’t make it past night three anyway. This isn’t however any average guy so let’s see how it goes.  The biggest change is Golden Freddy can appear on night three. He is rare, so it’s possible that Layton will not even encounter this demonic figure. Let’s assume he does however and see what happens. If you look at a different camera after seeing the scary poster he won’t appear. Also if you look at the camera quickly after he appears in the office he won’t kill you.  The second option seems unlikely as you’d almost certainly freeze in fear. The first option does seem likely however. Would you take a random poster as a reason to look inside your office? Probably not. This is unlikely anyway so it is possible Golden Freddy will kill him but it is unlikely. What about the others. Layton’s fencing makes his reactions quick, certainly quick enough to close the door before Foxy can get in. As for the other three, I can’t see Bonnie being a problem, Layton would have his pattern figured out by now. Freddy isn’t that aggressive all things considered and Chica is an issue but the Professor can keep calm in any situation, especially ones where no one else in in harm’s way. Maybe my bias is impacting this but I think he’d just about make it through.

 

Night 4 is where Freddy Fazbear becomes a real issue. It’s vital to keep track of him as he moves around although it is important to note he always takes the same pathway throughout the restaurant. Bonnie and Chica can jam the lights and doors, however they do make loud sounds when they are close meaning the need to monitor them is less of a priority than that damn bear. The key is to keep track of Freddy and Foxy here. I still expect Layton to stay calm enough to keep his power intact and make it to the dreaded night 5.

 

The final night is upon us, can the beloved Professor make it? This night is full of extreme aggression, even the starting phone call is rather frightening. The good news is Golden Freddy is not going to be an issue. Hooray. The bad news? Actual Freddy is a huge problem though. He is highly aggressive and the east corner should be frequently checked. If he’s there the Professor will need to close the right hand door and quickly. He should not open the door until he hears Freddy’s maniacal laugh as that means he has moved. Foxy is also very aggressive and will need to be checked frequently. He can drain a lot of power by banging on the door after he sprints down the corridor. Freddy and Foxy are the biggest threats here, Layton hopefully will have figured this out and discovered the best way to look for Bonnie and Chica is to just use the door lights. So can he make it? Can Professor Layton get though the entire 5 nights without dying? He’s incredibly smart and logical, he keeps calm and while the challenge is huge, it’s not the first big challenege he’s faced. Plus I wouldn’t put my favourite video game character, one I cosplay as at comicon in the situation to be savagely stuffed into a Freddy Fazbear suit would I? I’m rooting for you Professor, as is the whole of Japan’s romanticised and exaggerated idea of what England is like!

 

I don’t think at this point Bonnie and Chica would pose much of a problem. Foxy, while being a pain I think for someone as smart as Hershel Layton would be manageable especially with quick reactions to close the door when he starts sprinting. Freddy is a problem but again manageable for such a sharp and logical mind. He issue is not getting jump scared, rather running out of power. Freddy attacks a lot quicker on night 5 after power runs out, Layton will need to masterfully conserve power. It could end up as a matter of luck, how much will he be attacked. Will he be forced to waste too much power? Survival seems unlikely, there are no hint coins to help out here. Is this the end of Professor Layton?

 

Absolutely one hundred percent not. The key is the idea of the Professor Layton character. He’s a true gentlemen and he will often day something along the lines of

“A gentlemen leaves no puzzle left unanswered”. Is this the hardest puzzle Layton has had to solve? You may think I’m looking too deeply but Hershel Layton can solve every puzzle put in front of him, that’s the whole point of his games. He solves puzzles, no matter how difficult. This should be the same. Five Night’s at Freddy’s is one big terrifying puzzle just waiting to be solved in order to survive. Mike Schmitt did it, why can’t the genius that is Professor Hershel Layton do the same? There is no answer to that question. The winner here is Professor Hershel Layton … in my opinion. You may disagree, I wouldn’t be surprised if you did. If so just remember, a true gentlemen wouldn’t work in such an awful job in the first place.