Do you remember the last time any news came out about a new FNAF game?
Yeah, that seems about right.
Oh god..
Am I so old now that I have to explain 2001 Space Odyssey references??
Regardless, it’s been quite some time since the last FNAF teaser for anything, and finally
after half a year of waiting, Scott decided to deliver with not just one, not just two,
but eight teaser images for the new FNAF VR game, Help
Wanted!
Look at em!
They’re beautiful!
I mean… they’re actually not.
They’re in black and white and all pixely..BUT BEAUTIFUL NONETHELESS!!
Strength comes from how you look on the inside people, not the outside, and fnaf obviously
gets that.
Of course, with any info dump from FNAF’s genius mastermind, Scott Cawthon, comes a
scooping room load of questions and this one is no different.
So let’s go through what we know, what we think, and what to expect from Help Wanted.
Now before I get into all the images, I do think it's necessary to address the giant
animatronic bear in the room: the main image has been removed from ScottGames.com, This
image: Once this teaser image was released, reddit, as reddit does, decided to pick through
them with a fine tooth microscopic comb and well...they found some less than fortunate
results.
Mainly, that the prime teaser image traced at least some aspects of fan models.
Just as an example, check out this Funtime Foxy made by GaboC0art.
If we transpose Gabo’s foxy head onto the foxy in the image, it becomes extremely apparently
that at least some of this funtime foxy was copied from Gabo.
Here’s the official Funtime foxy.
Do you see the difference between the fan made model and the original?
Namely the ears the and cheek bones.
The official funtime foxy has longer and thinner ears and wider cheekbones.
The teaser image definitely shares the ears of the fan made model.
Other redditors are also skeptical about the validity of Freddy and Bonnie.
Personally I haven’t found the Freddy argument particularly convincing yet, but perhaps I
just haven’t found the right image to put it against.
Bonnie however, is another story.
There’s an extremely valid argument that Bonnie was taken from the fan game, The Popgoes
Pizzeria.
Take a look at spring bonnie in that game, and place that model next to the bonnie in
the teaser image.
It looks basically identical minus the obvious changes in color and texture.
There isn’t a single bonnie in Five Nights At Freddy’s that truly looks like the one
in that image.
Pretty scandalous, right?
Now in all fairness, Scott did respond to reddit in a post that reads:
“Hey everyone.
I was really looking forward to teasing something new for you today.
I've been working on so many things over the last six months, but I can always count on
you guys to call foul when you see a foul, and I appreciate that.
I can't tell you all how many times I've put a halt to a toy or a poster because Freddit
informed me that it was using a fan-model.
So I hope you can all imagine my devastation to learn that my first teaser in more than
half a year was made using questionable choices at best, and traced fan-models at worst.
I've taken the image down and I'm going to be thinking about where to go from here.
The only thing I care about is doing right by this community.”
If you read between Scott’s lines here we can learn a couple things.
First off, Scott isn’t making these teasers himself, he’s obviously overseeing the production,
but he’s got so many other more important things going on that it’s completely understandable
that he wouldn’t scrutinize a teaser image for a few hours when an artist is supposed
to be making an original piece.
He’s trusting people to do their job and apparently that trust got misplaced somewhere.
It’s not his fault, but since the franchise is his creation he’ll end up shouldering
the responsibility.
Hence the apology coming from him and not whatever company or artist made the image.
Next, we can tell that this sort of thing happens all the time, it’s just too bad
Scott didn’t catch it before it happened.
And perhaps most importantly, Scott definitely thinks there’s issues with the art, otherwise
he wouldn’t have taken it down, but he’s not sure exactly what happened yet.
He gave us a spectrum.
The art was made using “questionable choices at best, and traced fan-models at worst.”
Scott hasn’t completely acknowledged that these are fan made models yet.
He wants to make sure he has the whole story before making an announcement like that.
But at the very least the similarities bring in to question whether the teaser image is
completely original.
I think it becomes apparent its not, especially when looking at the bonnie model.
Now I want to applaud Scott for his promptness on that post.
He addressed it before I even knew it was an issue!
It’s obvious Scott cares about the FNAF community, and values it above everything
else.
He wants to do right by the community, and people pointing out flaws and issues only
helps him achieve that goal.
So all in all, this wasn’t too bad of an issue.
People came together, Scott listened and took down the images, but we still got information
on the upcoming FNAF game.
So let’s get into it.
What do we know about this FNAF game?
Well, from the teaser images, we can plainly see that it takes place or at least uses multiple
games within it.
Just take a look at the original image.
We’re getting FNAF 1 Freddy, Foxy, and Bonnie, but also Funtime Foxy, and Springtrap or Sping
Bonnie.
It’s hard to say for sure about the last one because the image is a fan-model.
But either way, this image has characters from 3 different games, So I don’t think
we should be expecting the VR game to take place just in one FNAF game, but perhaps over
various games.
The top left gives us a small quote from Fazbear Entertainment “Everything is working as
intended” which can be taken a variety of ways.
It could be Scott just saying “Yeah, the games coming along great!”.
It could also be a quote taken for a newspaper after a scandal where Fazbear is trying to
improve their PR by saying that now, “everything is working as intended!”.
We know Scott likes to use newspapers to give information, so it wouldn’t surprise me
if this quote was for something like that in the new game.
The image also has a hidden message, as you might expect.
Scott has never been shy about hiding messages in teaser images.
You can just barely make out the words “Don't listen to them.
We let something inside.
It was an accident.
Remember Jeremy."
JEREMY!
Remember Jeremy?
Maybe you do, maybe you don’t.
The only Jeremy we know is from FNAF 2, which is perhaps exactly why Scott put this message
in there.
It's tying in FNAF 2, giving us more proof this game is going to take place over a variety
of Pizzarias.
Now let's take a look at some of the other teaser images that really help flesh out what’s
going on.
First off let’s take a look at this springtrap image.
Now this is obviously the FNAF 3 setting, but we’re getting a different camera angle
than we’re used to.
And this is a big reason people have been saying these images are pointing to a VR game.
We’re getting images from scenes we’re familiar with, but from new and strange angles,
and that heavily points towards us having freedom to look wherever we’d like within
this game, which in turn points to VR.
Let’s move on to one of the images I’m most excited about because of what it represents.
Now at first glance this chica image might not tell us much.
It’s FNAF 1 chica, and she’s in a room that’s kinda difficult to place.
And there’s a reason for that.
We have a couple clues where we are, mainly this rack on the right, and what looks to
me like a big cup holder tray on the left.
I believe this is a kitchen.
FNAF 1’s kitchen to be specific.
The shelves look like baking shelves, which would be used for pizza, bread, y’know carbs.
And if you’ve ever worked in a kitchen, you’d know that there’s trays specifically
for washing cups, so you can put a ton of them on one tray and get them washed super
easily.
That’s what the left hand side tray looks like to me.
Now this image is extremely important because of what is represents.
If this is indeed the FNAF 1 kit chen, and it certainly seems that way considering we
have FNAF 1 chica here, it means we’re going to be able to move freely to areas that we’ve
never seen before.
If you remember playing FNAF 1, the kitchen camera, camera 6, was always disabled, we’ve
never seen that area before.
If we have free will to move around the pizzerias in this game that means there could be secrets
hidden anywhere.
It means we may be able to go into the secret room that animatronics didn’t have in their
built in floorplans it means we may be able to see exactly what happened in certain areas
when children were killed.
This image opens up a whole realm of possibilities.
The next image we’re going to take a look at is this one of Baby.
From the looks of things, I believe we’re in the FNAF 4 house.
Since the FNAF 4 house and sister location are connected, it’s entirely possible that
baby could be here.
I think this is fnaf 4 for a few reasons.
First, look at how the image is framed, we have what look like the closet doors that
Foxy was in around us.
And second, it’s kind of hard to tell, but behind Baby is the bed from FNAF 4.
Take a look at the bedspread.
It’s the same design as the FNAF 4 bedspread.
That’s enough proof for me that we’re in the FNAF 4 bedroom.
And it looks like we’re hiding.
Now remember that Baby is actually programmed to kill children if they’re by themselves.
She has a counting mechanism programmed in and when there’s only one child, she strikes.
To me, this looks like we’re hiding from Baby’s site in the closet.
See how you can see her eye beams?
It’s kind of like a game where you can see the enemies vision cone.
And we have to stay out of the animatronics vision cones or die.
Of course this is just a guess, but there’s another vision cone coming from the right
side, and we don’t see these vision cones in any other image, so it seems incredibly
likely to me.
There are a few more bonus images that don’t have as big of an impact to me because they
don’t show anything exceptionally interesting.
Bonnie is just Bonnie, open freddy means we likely need to fix him, maybe we’re playing
as a Mechanic here, but not in the entire game, considering the shot in the bedroom.
It’s possible we play as a variety of people, all from the FNAF universe.
I think most of the rest of these images are just showing us other shots from within the
game, but they aren’t giving us much knowledge as to what else is going on.
However, there is one image that can only be found by compiling a bunch of bonus numbers
and letters stuck in the source code and in the title bar of the website.
Upon putting all the bonus pieces together you get this image.
Now this image is incredibly strange, it’s far more unclear than the rest and it’s
not a full picture, it’s like a picture taken from a camera phone if you think about
it.
It’s proportions make much more sense that way.
But there’s even more concrete evidence.
If you look into the properties of the image, under the details tab you can see the image
was taken on an iPhone 6s plus!
Hah!
Now I know what phone you have Scott!
The running theory for this image right now is that this isn’t from the games at all,
it’s a special teaser for the movie, hence it being harder to find than the rest.
Supposedly it’s a real endoskeleton, but to me it’s so difficult to make out I wouldn’t
bet on it.
However, what it does show us is that Scott has more than just VR in the works.
Things are coming people, big things.
Those are all the most important points from the new FNAF teasers.
I think it’s pretty exciting that we’re basically going to have free reign in VR to
move about the locations.
There’s surely a lot more questions out there than answers right now, but these teasers
gave us a lot of information to work with despite them being taken down almost immediately.
I think we should expect the VR game to come out quite soon, maybe over summer?
It’s exciting stuff, we’re finally seeing FNAF come into a new era for the franchise.
We’re past the storyline games and coming to a time where the story can be filled out
better through extra content.
That’s what I’m hoping for, but let me know what you think down below.
Did you see anything that I missed?
What are your thoughts on the teaser images?
We’re interested to hear what you have to say!
Anyway that’s all from me today, I’ll see you guys in a few days with a new video!
But until then, Bye!