No
No, God no, no
No
Screw it. Let's talk about this thing
By all that's unholy FNAF is somehow back
Someone got together their little summoning circle of Funko plushies and recycled Chuck E. Cheese pizza and awakened the sleeping behemoth
that is Scott Cawthon and now here we are with a new trailer for FNAF 7 and me in
children's pajamas
Thank You Internet also can we just agree that this is creepy, right?
Not me wearing kids PJ's certainly though come to think of it. That is really weird
No, the fact that I'm in a nightie that is dedicated to an animatronic that gets dead children stuffed into him
God, man merch in 2019(yeah indie games)
Now at the end of last summer FNAF was
Basically done. The book series had concluded, FNAF 6 had burned the series to the ground, and ultimate custom night ended the story by
Trapping William Afton in eternal torment. All that was really left was the movie just like Jeremy laid to rest on a nearby hillside
It was time for the series to finally rest in peace
but then back in November Scott hopped onto steam to give all us Fred heads an update and
Suddenly the movie was the least certain thing of the green a br game
An AR game more books a third new game called into madness
clearly Scott intended me to be the protagonist of that one since that's
exactly where I'm headed to with so much new staff headed our way even a triple a
Game where apparently instead of stuffing children into animatronics. They start getting stuffed into loot boxes
fast-forward four months to today and here we are with the first new Scott Cawthon teaser in nearly a
year a teaser for
One of the items on this massive list of animatronic horrors sent to taunt me,
But which one is it and what it means for this new era of "FNAF-ening" is exactly what we're exploring today
So let's get analyzing. First, let's just assess what we're seeing here
Shall we? Clearly you have five animatronics that are all melted together
Which would be interesting enough on it's
Own, but making it even more compelling as the fact that they all span the history of the franchise
You have Freddy, Foxy, and Bonnie all in their FNAF 1 forms
But then you also have the pre-mangled form of Funtime Foxy from Sister Location and also pre-trapped
Spring-Trap from, well,
a lot of different cutscenes throughout the series but most notably from the fruity maze minigame dating in FNAF 6. You can actually tell
this based on the general shape of the nose as well as the lack of decay and aging that you normally see post spring lock
failure.
But since this is a Scott Cawthon teaser
You know that there's gonna be more here than just a cool image
If you throw this thing into Photoshop and start brightening it up, step one in any FNAF teaser analysis,
You're gonna see the background has lines lines with some oddly
Inconsistent spacing, And, of course, you have text. The quote is from Fazbear Entertainment in the upper right hand corner saying that "everything is working
as intended", but also a
Not quite so hidden bunch of text right here in the middle of the image that you really gotta squint to truly read,
"Don't listen to them [blank], let something inside, it was an accident, remember
Jeremy." Jeremy?
That's the guy from the gravestone the night guard who has his name on the paycheck from FNAF 2, the supposed bite of 87'
victim. Ladies and gentlemen sound the alarms,
we are talking about the lobe-lad himself, which means that there is only one option here
We are in the same continuity
Queue the party horns and cheerful children sound effects!
I know we were all eager to throw out our textbooks at the end of last semester guys
But it's time to break out FNAF lore for dummies, one final time.
Woo-bid-ee-do[are you okay?] Who's excited?
This guy, I guess. Now creating my own ARG over the last couple months has taught me a lot of things,
Specifically better ways to hide and code messages. And one particularly effective
But simple way to do it is by opening image files as text files
So if we open this image file in Notepad, we actually get our answer to that first missing word. "Don't listen to them,
we let something inside, it was an accident, remember Jeremy."
So with all of that evidence compiled, let's start analyzing before we start digging deeper;
Because there's a lot deeper to go ladies and gentlemen.
We are just scratching the surface. Now the phrase
"Remember Jeremy" Actually tells us a lot of things here. First,
it tells us both the speaker of that line and the person it's directed to know who Jeremy is.
Secondly, it tells us that the events of this game are happening in the aftermath of his death,
which, at this point, is commonly accepted to be the result of the bite of 87'.
So from a timeline perspective
It looks like this quote is coming after
1987, meaning that we're after the string of murders in the FNAF 2 location and around the time of Michael Afton's
Revisit to the FNAF one building and his discovery of Sister Locations...location.
In fact, knowing where in the timeline this quote must fall and seeing those lines in the background of the teaser,
my mind immediately jumps to prison bars. Now, that seems like it might be a stretch, clearly
these are just meant to be tiles and while yes, that's probably what they are. The
inconsistent spacing still felt weird to me, and it resembled the narrow strip of horizontal bars that many prison doors have. Now think back,
way back, to when this story first started back to the secret newspapers from
FNAF 1. The things that first told us that there was a deeper story to begin with, quote: "...Video
surveillance identified the man responsible, and led to his capture the following morning." End quote. And on the follow-up story
headline, "Five children now missing. Suspect
Convicted." "While the suspect has been charged, the bodies themselves were never found."
so if these
Newspaper clippings are still considered canon this former employee
was convicted. Meaning that they found him guilty and, as a result, most likely he went to prison for his crime; and
We can be fairly confident that this isn't Afton. Since his only comeuppance seems to have been the spring lock failure and the eventual
eternal torment in H-E double toothpicks[Hell]
Meaning that there is still a potential story to be told of someone there who's trapped in prison, wrongfully
accused, haunted by the nightmarish amalgamation of animatronics that got him thrown into the slammer. At least,
That's my wishful thinking for a potential plotline for one of these stories. Is it the story that we're getting in this game?
Probably not, but a boy in Freddy pajamas can dream
Can't he? Let's go back to the text,
"Don't trust them", that "them" could be referring to the animatronics, or it could be referring to the members of
Fazbear Entertainment.
That quote in the upper corner, saying that "everything is working as intended", now as established by ultimate custom night the only
Haunted characters who still possess rational thought are Baby and The Puppet
Which eliminates everyone that we currently see on screen here.
Thereby making it doubtful that the "them" in this quote is referring to the animatronics. Instead, this seems to be to employees of Fazbear Entertainment
talking to each other. Basically confirming not to trust what the bosses are saying. All the other lines here
"We let something in," "It was an accident,"
"Remember Jeremy." Seemed like those same co-workers
realizing that something is wrong, and that it relates to a mistake that they made. A mistake
that's ultimately related to Jeremy's death, and now they're both worried about their own survival.
"Remember Jeremy." seems to me to read more like, "Hey, remember that guy? We don't want to end up like him."
So now, looking back across the games,
what are some of the mistakes where something deadly has been "let in"? Well,
we got spring-trap being let into Fazbear's Fright
In FNAF 3. You have basically the entirety of FNAF 6's "Salvage Minigames", and Ennard, from Sister Location. Ennard who,
funny enough, during the false ending to that game, repeatedly begs you to "let him in."
"You must help us,"
"You must let us inside the room." "You have to let me inside the room."
And were in the series do we have two co-workers who wind up dead because they let something inside?
Sister Location, again. Now
it's a scene that's really easy to forget, but night five of Sister Location actually starts with Michael Afton
crawling through the vents, and suddenly coming across the hanged bodies of two former technicians.
Co-workers. Done in by the newly escaped pieces of Ennard. So we have something where the placement in the time line makes sense. The
relationship of the characters to Jeremy as co-workers makes sense. Their skepticism of Fazbear Entertainment
definitely makes sense; and you know what? That's not all, their role
specifically as technicians, also makes sense with everything that we're learning about this new game.
You see, Scott wasn't content to just give us one teaser.
[Weird chuckle] Oh, no. He gave us eight
separate images teasing this new game, apparently to make up for lost time.
Thanks, buddy. I mean, sure, we just analyzed the imagery and text of this one image,
but if you check the source code of Scott's website,
which, at this point, is FNAF research step two; and after brightening up the images, you'll notice on
odd strings of text all with this tag,
"content equals"
Well,
if you take those strings of letters and plug them into the URL bar, it reveals a trove of new findings. The first, and most
important of them, we're gonna be playing as a technician. Here, in this image,
we can actually see Freddy's body opened up. Ready to be worked on. Which perfectly
coincides with what Scott teased when he initially mentioned the possibility of this new VR game, quote: "If you liked
repairing Funtime Freddy up close in Sister Location, just wait until you try to do something like that in VR. Up close and
personal with these huge animatronics that are just one mistake away from jumping at you." [Boo!]
Another of these images, the one of Bonnie without the eye, also is teasing at this idea of no longer being a guard, but rather
an animatronic tech having to repair all of these robots.
So, could the main story of this new finale actually be the story of these two
hapless technicians who end their lives in an underground
robotics bunker? if the quote on this teaser is to be believed, the answer, seems to be a solid "Yes."
If it is, it even relates back to the title of the game. You see, going back to look at the source code yet
again, you see that the original teaser image is listed as
HW.jpg. Now back in February my buddy
Dawko tweeted out that a new FNAF game had gotten leaked on the ESRB ratings website. The ESRB, man! get your act together! [calm down, MatPat.]
First you leaked the Super Smash Brothers 4 roster and now you're leaking the new FNAF game?! It is time to stop.
It's time to stop[Oh, Lord.]. Okay?! And yes, this is someone else's meme, but I thought it was appropriate for the situation.
Plus, I'm in pajamas so I thought it would be funny.
There it is. Filthy Frank, we miss you <3. But in all seriousness this game's title is Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted
HW, just like the name of the teaser image. The
Description for this leaked game even confirms that you will be playing as a technician, quote:
once again, "Players assume the role of a repair person
tasked with monitoring and repairing animatronic characters at a pizzeria. From a first-person perspective,
players explore dark hallways, complete puzzles, and try to avoid menacing, malfunctioning
animatronic figures. The game contains frequent screams and jump scares, with the words
"You Are Dead"
Appearing on screen after players are attacked."End quote. And what happens when you lose two technicians to sudden
animatronic related fatalities? time to find some more! Throw up the sign "help wanted"
so we have ourselves a VR game starring a technician who's repairing animatronics,
slowly coming to realize that they've made a terrible career decision. Or
do we? Looking across all the other teaser images, it feels like this whole game may actually be disconnected.
We see scenes from all the various settings we visited in this franchise, the tile floor behind that old model of Bonnie
suggest that it's the FNAF 1 location, this shot of spring-trap looming in the background
tells us that we're going to be visiting Fazbear's Fright, the appearance of Funtime Foxy in the teaser
suggests that we will be visiting Sister Location for some challenges. Heck! We're even gonna be invading the crying child's bedroom from FNAF 4 based
on this shot of Baby. Notice the iconic closets from that game, as well as the bedspread design in the background.
So is this game just gonna be a bunch of vignettes? A compilation of the series is greatest scares? Only now, they're in VR?
I don't think so.
I do think that this game can, and will, tell it's own unique story that builds out the lore of this franchise;
And one of these teaser images solidifies that for me. True to form,
Scott hit his biggest reveal the deepest. You see, going on to Scottgames[.com] one
final time, and that's a lot of times to visit Scottgames[.com] just for one teaser image,
something seems a little off, if you're paying close enough attention.
You see, the meta label for the website is actually
misspelled, with a zero in between the two t's, and if you go through the source code with a
really fine-tooth comb and a really keen eye you'll actually notice a couple more typos. An 'R' in
"content". A big ol' 'G' in "blockquote" and an N in the word "text"
0rgn. Type those letters into the URL bar and you get this:
Now,
clearly, it's been obscured very heavily,
but if you blur it and effect the
Contrast a little bit, change some of the levels, you actually get something that looks more like this.
Something that doesn't just look like an animatronic, but one
Animatronic in particular. Notice the half closed eye, it's Ennard. It's Ennard's signature appearance.
Half-closed eye,
horizontal tube-like lips, an
Endoskeleton looking to be let in. So there you have it.
We have ourselves a new VR game telling us the story of two technicians who made a fatal career
decision, based on the fact that the game already has a rating
I'm assuming that we're gonna probably see this one coming out pretty soon.
It's weird, actually, to think about a FNAF game coming out on something like PlayStation 4.
The PlayStation VR, I'm excited to see it. Will I be right in my predictions?
Well, we're just gonna have to wait and see and by wait, I mean, it's probably out already. Now.
As soon as I hit publish it probably came out 'cause, you know, that's how Scott goes. Right?
Is it is it out?
Is it out yet?
About now, riiiight now. It's there.
Nothing?
All right, that's good. I'm gonna go get out of these pajamas.
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Kirby's there, part two is-It's-it's there. It's ready to go
Just have to get FNAF off my chest.
Okay, bye.