Five Nights at Freddy's
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| Five Nights at Freddy's | |
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| Developer(s) | Scott Cawford |
| Publisher(s) | ScottGames |
| Series | Five Nights at Freddy's |
| Genre | Screaming at Chuck-E Cheese rejects |
Five Nights at Freddy's, also known as FNaF, is a horror video game series created by Scott Cawthon. The games typically follow a night guard trying to survive five nights at Freddy's (duh), from midnight to 6 a.m., while fending off attacks from homicidal Chuck.E.Cheese's animatronic rejects in a pizza place run by a killer who can’t afford to have adequate lighting.
The series has several iconic characters, notably Toy Chica (a prostitute inspiring thousands of artworks from brilliant minds), Freddy Fazbear (a homosexual animatronic bear), and William Afton (a killer who serves as the main antagonist, likely the developer’s self insert).
Origin and development[edit | edit source]
Five Nights at Freddy’s was created by game developer, animator, and Dollar General employee of the month, Scott Cawthon. He originally started in the gaming industry by making video games based on the hit bestseller The Bible, with the intention to dip some holiness into a market full of satanic imagery. However, quite ironically, his creations looked like the spawn of Satan, which made many pious Christians condemn the games for its false advertising. Scott almost had killed himself over the criticism, but luckily he had the bright idea to make a horror game using his scary Chuck E. Cheese OCs. After the release of the game, it was met with massive praise and success; so much in fact that Scott’s depression was instantly cured. He quickly decided to make a movie, which was such a great idea, it took around seven years before production started. During that time, Scott kept himself busy by making more Five Nights at Freddy's Games.
Later, Steel Wool Studios joined Scott made several Five Nights at Freddy’s games, which were so successful that Scott left the franchise. Steel Wool then released the most buggy piece of dogshit the world has ever seen. FNaF games are still being made to this day, and are expected to keep being made until Jesus comes down from the heavens and starts the rapture.
Gameplay[edit | edit source]
In the first games of the franchise, the gameplay typically involves you, a night guard managing your limited power when using tools at your disposal to protect yourself from the various casts of Chuck-E Cheese rejects. Though differing from game to game, your tools include a camera device to catch animatronics teleporting in real-time, as well as factory-esque steel doors that inexplicably require power to stay closed rather than open. Seems easy right? Wrong. The main struggle is resisting the urge to let Chica in your office for some action. In spite of the blatant danger in taking up such a nightguard job in comparison to the middling pay, for whatever reason, you keep coming back. Theorists will have you know that this is because the nightguard you play as has a connection to the establishment, or such other contrived nonsense; however, the true reason is because you, the player, keep coming back. I mean really, no one's telling you to play the four other nights, are they? But even then, despite the game's title of Five Nights, the games never consist of just five nights. Mr. Cawthon got a little cheeky and threw in some more nights, but Seven Nights at Freddy's just doesn't roll off the tongue quite as nicely.
Animatronics[edit | edit source]
The animatronics are the star of the video game. Their main goal is to scare the hell of the player, although more often than not their appearance do not produce fear into the player, but rather rage, as being jumpscared by them means you have to start the night all again.
- Freddy Fazbear - Titular character and mascot of the franchise. Known for wearing a fancy top hat.
- Chica - An anthropomorphic chicken who the fans find attractive simply because she's the only female in the cast.
- Bonnie - A rabbit with an electric guitar.
- Foxy - A fox that sometimes dresses like a pirate and other times dresses like a bimbo.
- The Puppet - Slenderman knockoff that jumps from a jack-in-a-box thingy.
- Balloon Boy - Annoying fucker.
- Springtrap - Due to plot shennanigans, has stuck inside the body of the founder of the pizzeria, William Afton, who is a child murderer and most likely a pedophile in denial.
The rest of the games in the franchise feature these very same characters but with some makeup to it, because Scott couldn't bother to create new characters.
List of games[edit | edit source]
- Five Nights at Freddy’s - The first game in the series.
- Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
- Five Nights at Freddy’s 3
- Five Nights at Freddy’s 4
- Five Nights at Freddy’s World - A spinoff viewed largely negatively by fans due to its younger target audience.
- Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location
- Five Nights at Freddy’s: Pizzeria Simulator
- Freddy in Space
- Ultimate Custom Night
- Where the good games ended and the generic crap started.
- Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help wanted, Special Delivery, and Security Breach - Generic crap.
- Freddy in Space 2
- Five Nights at Freddy’s: Secret of the Mimic
Cultural impact[edit | edit source]
When FNaF released, the positive ratings were overwhelming. As it turns out, people really like being the night guard of a mediocre pizza place while screaming at Christian bears. Its popularity is mainly attributed to YouTubers promoting the game and trying to decipher the “lore” of the game (FNaF has poor storytelling which leads to hypnogogic nerds making up conspiracy theories to fill in the gaps.) Players enjoyed watching unemployed geeks rant about they found out FNaF was connected to Starmers decisions. In fact, players liked the “lore” so much that they built a universe more complex than quantum physics on breadcrumbs and speculation.
Five Nights at Freddy's is not known for its epic gameplay but is most famous for single-handedly giving MatPat (an unemployed man in his mid 40s who finds the most obscure lore on games) a career. Before that, he was just a regular loser who finds game lore (really just his crazy hallucinations) and shows it off to his loser friends. After the release of FNAF his YouTube channel exploded with thousands of people who play FNAF and want to see a 40 year old man rant about animatronics.
It has also been at the lead of the "mascot horror" genre, and inspired countless quality baby's first horror games. It also inspired 10-year-old kids to scream “FREDDY FAZBEARRRRRRR!” every time they see a bear.
Movie adaptations[edit | edit source]
Five Nights at Freddy's was adapted into a feature film, directed by and starring MatPat. It has raised controversy due to the 10-hour-long sex scene between Freddy Fazbear and famous streamer Markiplier.
The second game, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, would have had a movie adaptation as well, but filming was cancelled due to threats on the movie studio by organizations against clanker-human relationships. A sex scene between Markiplier and Chica was planned to play a crucial role in the plot, leading to the bomb threats by these organizations.
Fan content[edit | edit source]
Five Nights at Freddy's has a lot of fans, mostly children 3-10 years of age. These fans have created amazing fan games, like Five Nights at Freddy's 3 and Five Nights at Candy's. The fans sometimes also make amazing artwork that is completely appropriate for a game series that has recently targeted all of its content towards children. Awooga!
Plot[edit | edit source]
Oh God, are we really doing this? You sure want me to pointlessly ramble about a plot that not even the creator of the game knows about???
Well, I guess there really isn't much choice....
*ahem*
In the beginning, God created[citation needed] the heavens and the earth; then He created the first humans, who begat Scott Cawthon, and Scott begat William Afton. William Afton created Fredbear’s Family Diner, a place where anyone could eat other people’s unfinished pizza marketed as “freshly made”. It featured two robot animals, Fredbear, and Spring bonnie that also acted as a coffin for those who were murdered by William. William’s new friend, Henry, decided it would be a brilliant idea to make the animatronics into mech suits that kill the wearer. Great job Henry, you just killed 10 people. Despite this (and the dogshit pizza), the business did quite well. They even added more characters to the cast: first they made Freddy Fazbear to appeal to black people since he hates fried chicken (more fried chicken for them). Next there was Bonnie who played copyrighted music with his guitar. Chica was a stripper, and lastly there was Foxy, the Pirate fox who was later put down for having a pirated copy of GTA IV.
In the early 80s, William’s son, commonly known as Crying Child AKA Clyde, was homosexual for Fredbear. He didn’t want to come out to his homophobic father, so he gave Fredbear a kiss in secret. Fredbear, as it turns out, is super homophobic. He bit the Crying Child’s head off. The Fredbear’s location was condemned and the newer animatronics had to move out of it. William framed his other son Michael for the death and built robots to execute him with “illusion disks” that made them look stupid. Meanwhile, William Afton killed a bunch of children, who he stuffed into the animatronics. One of these kids was Charlie, the daughter of Henry Emily. His daughter’s ghost possessed the puppet, who gave gifts and gave life. The animatronics started to move on their own! William was so terrified of them, he built a giant bunker and made even more killer mechs for children. One of them killed his daughter. After that he had to close the bunker because of a gas leak. He had caught super cancer. With his last breaths he beat up the robots with the kids he had killed. The ghosts chased William, who hid in his fursuit. He got trapped by the springs in his fursuit and died.
In 2023 William's son, Michael found a job at a new FNaF attraction at Universal Studios Florida. It was a horror attraction which was great. It featured a real animatronic… but could it be? William Afton… in his rotting fur suit. Michael immediately lit the building on fire. But William always comes back. Michael was making a new pizzeria, when William showed up. He had attempted a Jimmy Neutron cosplay, but Michael didn’t like it. He was about to light the building on fire, but William’s old arsonist friend, Henry did before him. In the end they died, and the world moved on after that.
But that's just a theory! A̶ ̶g̶a̶m̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶o̶r̶y̶!̶ A conspiracy theory!
