The Whole FNaF Story is Ruined (HW SPOILERS)

[BeetleDude]

In this new video from Dawko:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjBjlKUXz3g&t=256s

He gets Tape #13. The girl says of how their client is an indie game developer who made a bunch of crazy horror indie games to make Fazbear Entertainment look bad, and now they're trying to make it even worse by implementing those games into the VR game.

So FNaF 1-4, SL, and FFPS are all now just games made by Scott in the FNaF Universe. This completely screws up the whole story.

[BeetleDude]

Chara の投稿を引用：

Disney v3.0 R I O T の投稿を引用：

The events still happened yes (like the murders), but we don't know what stuff in the games actually happened in the real story. Which once again is why I'm starting to think that unless there's a joke ending that makes this completely non-canon, they're gonna make it to where the events in the movie are what actually happened.

Well, since Baby's still canon I'd say everything we saw in the games are still canon. Hell, maybe the other games are what actually happened and the indie games mentioned in HW are different all together.

Also we've already seen movie teasers in the game (like the exotic butters button) so it's already tied to the movie, which we know isn't canon. Chances are the ending just solidifies it's lack of canonicity even more, joke or not.

I still really hope the ending is just a big joke that pretty much undoes all of this. Cause not only would it be hilarious, but also save the game from that horrible twist.

[WeltaChara]

Disney v3.0 R I O T の投稿を引用：

Chara の投稿を引用：

Well, since Baby's still canon I'd say everything we saw in the games are still canon. Hell, maybe the other games are what actually happened and the indie games mentioned in HW are different all together.

Also we've already seen movie teasers in the game (like the exotic butters button) so it's already tied to the movie, which we know isn't canon. Chances are the ending just solidifies it's lack of canonicity even more, joke or not.

I still really hope the ending is just a big joke that pretty much undoes all of this. Cause not only would it be hilarious, but also save the game from that horrible twist.

Well, again, the twist really isn't bad, just kind of an annoying self-insert, the lore is still in-tact no matter what..

[I've ran out of profile ideas h]

THE FNAF LORE IS GONE!!!!!

[Lord Egg]

But I thought the pointo was William trying to cover his tracks

[Lil Femboy Toes]

This game better be in a different canon or im gonna be pissed.

[Jinx ★★★]

I don't even know what to believe anymore, honestly

[BeetleDude]

Jinx ★★★ の投稿を引用：

I don't even know what to believe anymore, honestly

Same.

[Mimes]

Disney v3.0 R I O T の投稿を引用：

Jinx ★★★ の投稿を引用：

I don't even know what to believe anymore, honestly

Same.

[Rollerwings]

Very skeptical that the previous games are all non-canon or that the story is ruined!

Dream theory, anyone? When that one was proposed the entire fandom blew a collective gasket over the possibility that the canon was all a dream. And understandably so, for although an author always has the right to do what he wants with his story, it's widely disregarded as a cheap plot device to reveal at the end that "it was all a dream." Doing so comes across as an excuse for any lingering plot twists or mysteries: "It doesn't have to make perfect sense, it was just a dream!" Scott's already told us that there is a cohesive story behind FNaF and I trust that story is a lot more solid than "heh, it was all made up, but thanks all the same for buying those books that were supposed to give hints to the made-up lore." Really doubt Scott would go that route. Claiming now that all the FNaF games were made-up stories is more or less the dream theory under another name.

My theory on what's really going on here:

The indie game dev (IGD) is also dismissed as a "complete lunatic." That's par for the course at Freddy's. Even good-guy Henry would've had Mike committed as insane and subjected to a lobotomy if Mike had been too nosy and hacked Egg Baby to reveal Henry's secret recording.

What if IGD didn't create the actual FNaF games, but at least some of the minigames? Fazbear Ent could've told IGD, "hey, rumors are flying about some guy in a car causing trouble behind our pizzeria, could you make a Night Driver knockoff to capitalize on this?" Except IGD, maybe with some collusion from Henry, threw in a secret Easter Egg that revealed the car's driver was not a nice guy. The secret, of course, being the part where the player exits the car and proves himself to be a scuzzball.

Fazbear Ent: "Could you make a related game where Fredbear's giving cake to hungry, cranky kids?"
IGD: "Sure thing!" *Secretly adds an off-screen scene depicting Puppet's murder while the kids were being served cake.*

Fazbear Ent: "We need to rebrand our Spring Bonnie as a good guy who helps reunite kids with their lost pets, thanks to something about a *cough* murdered child and her dog *cough.* Think you could run with this Fruity Maze concept? It's basically Pac-Man."
IGD: "I'll get right on it." *Includes nightmare levels that most players wouldn't be able to reach, revealing the corruption of the maze and the player's dead dog.*

Fazbear Ent: "Hey again, now some kid disappears and they're all blaming Circus Baby. Could you make us a cutesy side-scroller where she's a benevolent mascot handing out cupcakes to hungry kids?"
IGD: *Includes scene depicting Elizabeth's death to Circus Baby.*

In all the above cases, the minigames weren't 100 percent true-to-life, but IGD succeeded in complying with Fazbear Ent's demands while simultaneously revealing the truth to the world about what really happened.

There's a real-life counterpart to this, starting with dev Warren Robinett, who hid his name in Atari 2600's Adventure because Atari usually didn't credit the devs, let alone give them a commission on game sales. The hidden credit was discovered months later and started the whole Easter Egg trend.

So, what if Fazbear Ent commissioned IGD to create happy, sunny minigames (that would just be known as "games" in-universe), only IGD's hidden dark secrets were eventually discovered, and now whatever remnant of Fazbear Ent that still exists is sweating bullets that the truth has come out? They're trying to commission a game that would retcon all of IGD's previous games, but "he let something in" and even the new game has a glitch that's probably going to reveal something huge.

[Lord Egg]

Actually, what if In-game-iniverse Scott was friends with Micheal? Maybe he's even been helping Micheal behind the scenes. It would explain how Scott knows about what all happened.

Edit: actually if this is true, what if we play as Scott in fnaf 6? It would Explain how we have a heart beat.

[CruvinelPsych]

Guys, the tape literally says that the events still happened. They're just games about real events, the FNaF story isn't false.

[LegendCZ]

The games are BASED on what happend. Movies will be What happend into a detail. Which will span series.

Its makes total sense and is briliant. No gamer goes trough the story same way twice. Everyone have different experience and story (How they beat the nights etc.) in their game (Let alone you can die there) hence Movie have set story, set line, and is made from point A to B.

The story is true. Games are just loosen on whats been happening on the nights. Lore is same and unchanged.

Its briliant and good power move if you ask me. And i belive Scot have much bigger plans with franchise now (he is genius he proven it many times and FNaF is his passion)

[Queen HawlSera]

Pretty sure it's just a joke...

"Ha ha, yes the guy making games about us... hahahaha...... yeah... hahaha... don't believe them.... I'm not the kiddie strangler btw." - William Afton

[FrostSerpent]

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Breadspy の投稿を引用：

Very skeptical that the previous games are all non-canon or that the story is ruined!

Dream theory, anyone? When that one was proposed the entire fandom blew a collective gasket over the possibility that the canon was all a dream. And understandably so, for although an author always has the right to do what he wants with his story, it's widely disregarded as a cheap plot device to reveal at the end that "it was all a dream." Doing so comes across as an excuse for any lingering plot twists or mysteries: "It doesn't have to make perfect sense, it was just a dream!" Scott's already told us that there is a cohesive story behind FNaF and I trust that story is a lot more solid than "heh, it was all made up, but thanks all the same for buying those books that were supposed to give hints to the made-up lore." Really doubt Scott would go that route. Claiming now that all the FNaF games were made-up stories is more or less the dream theory under another name.

My theory on what's really going on here:

The indie game dev (IGD) is also dismissed as a "complete lunatic." That's par for the course at Freddy's. Even good-guy Henry would've had Mike committed as insane and subjected to a lobotomy if Mike had been too nosy and hacked Egg Baby to reveal Henry's secret recording.

What if IGD didn't create the actual FNaF games, but at least some of the minigames? Fazbear Ent could've told IGD, "hey, rumors are flying about some guy in a car causing trouble behind our pizzeria, could you make a Night Driver knockoff to capitalize on this?" Except IGD, maybe with some collusion from Henry, threw in a secret Easter Egg that revealed the car's driver was not a nice guy. The secret, of course, being the part where the player exits the car and proves himself to be a scuzzball.

Fazbear Ent: "Could you make a related game where Fredbear's giving cake to hungry, cranky kids?"
IGD: "Sure thing!" *Secretly adds an off-screen scene depicting Puppet's murder while the kids were being served cake.*

Fazbear Ent: "We need to rebrand our Spring Bonnie as a good guy who helps reunite kids with their lost pets, thanks to something about a *cough* murdered child and her dog *cough.* Think you could run with this Fruity Maze concept? It's basically Pac-Man."
IGD: "I'll get right on it." *Includes nightmare levels that most players wouldn't be able to reach, revealing the corruption of the maze and the player's dead dog.*

Fazbear Ent: "Hey again, now some kid disappears and they're all blaming Circus Baby. Could you make us a cutesy side-scroller where she's a benevolent mascot handing out cupcakes to hungry kids?"
IGD: *Includes scene depicting Elizabeth's death to Circus Baby.*

In all the above cases, the minigames weren't 100 percent true-to-life, but IGD succeeded in complying with Fazbear Ent's demands while simultaneously revealing the truth to the world about what really happened.

There's a real-life counterpart to this, starting with dev Warren Robinett, who hid his name in Atari 2600's Adventure because Atari usually didn't credit the devs, let alone give them a commission on game sales. The hidden credit was discovered months later and started the whole Easter Egg trend.

So, what if Fazbear Ent commissioned IGD to create happy, sunny minigames (that would just be known as "games" in-universe), only IGD's hidden dark secrets were eventually discovered, and now whatever remnant of Fazbear Ent that still exists is sweating bullets that the truth has come out? They're trying to commission a game that would retcon all of IGD's previous games, but "he let something in" and even the new game has a glitch that's probably going to reveal something huge.

This is actually a really good theory!

I agree! I would add that maybe it's a more covert operation, where maybe there is a third party making those edits rather than IGD, maybe the person making these tapes is revealed to have hidden these to expose the lies of FNAF, personally a revenge plot against FNAF for causing her Co-Worker to commit suicide or somewhat would be a great segway into another Creator VS Corporation story... Perhaps even the lore in the past games was revealed to be even more of a code, saying that Henry is the person who is meant to save people from the Corporate lies (depicted as the ringmaster being Springtrap) but idk... Personally I haven't been at all involved in making theories about FNAF because you all beat me to it XD

[Squidward]

god dang y'all are bad at interpreting stuff
the games were BASED ON THE "REAL" EVENTS IN the fnaf universe
seriously the tapes in no way claim the events never happened
like seriously it's not that hard to understand everything we have done, every single one of the games we've played are still can on to fnaf's over all storyline