How FNAF Killed Its Horror 

Wow, I never expected this video this get this many views. I was at 5 subscribers when I posted this and as of writing I just hit 30! Thanks to everyone that supported the video and shared kind words in the comments!!! It definitely gives me the motivation to keep posting, I don't really want to lock my content to purely FNAF stuff but I will have some more of that out in the future. I also really like Pokemon so to all my new subscribers expect some of that as well. Again thank you for the support!!!

FNAF 1 and 2 were the peak of the series for story and gameplay. I'm not as much of a fan of the gameplay in 3 and 4 but the story is still really well done in those games. FNAF 5 and 6 is where the series starts to jump the gun a bit and I start to lose my suspension of disbelief, but 6 is still a good end to the series (minus Scraptrap's poor design). Beyond FNAF 6 and Ultimate Custom Night, the series goes completely off the rails and I care little for it.

I really liked your analysis on this! One of my biggest problems with modern fnaf has definitely been the loss of its horror. Horror is one of the most powerful (if not, the most) genres out there. To see it seemingly left behind in favor of shock and/or marketing to kids is unfortunate, and I hope that future games in the series can improve on it.

It seems like it may be going back more into the horror direction looking at the trailer for the Ruin DLC and Help Wanted 2, I wouldn’t really count the Movie, but it does seem quite dark too, so maybe it’s going back into a more horror based direction, we’ll have to wait and see. I do personally like how Gliitchtrap was in Help Wanted, but that seems to be a very mixed thing within the community, Fazbear Frights I do see a problem with, but I don’t think it’s always bad, just really weird and confusing at times. Security Breach, now I actually like the game, I did enjoy it and still do, but there definitely is a lack of horror and it is more child-friendly, I wouldn’t really count merch as some people do as being related to the child-friendly connections, because it happens with basically everything. Overall, I think FNaF is on a good trajectory again for the next year or two, as long as the DLC is executed well, and the movie/HW2 are at least decent, after that though, it could either keep going in a more adult-based direction, or go back to being mainly child-orientated.

2:08 I think that might just be due to the original voice actor leaving, but I'm not certain. 2:26 It _could_ stop working. The original blueprint stated that as an unsure speculation, and doesn't even mention souls. 3:40 When it comes to these books, I feel like they were mostly written by rushed ghost-writers who were given basic outlines of story concepts/ideas, which doesn't help things. 4:50 I think Scott might just be tired of FNaF and wants to make something else. He seems to really like Sci-fi stuff, as evidenced by the recent FNaF games and some of the games he made before FNaF, like The Desolate Hope. 10:06 Unfortunately, most of that characterization comes from the trailers. She has a grand total of, like, four spoken lines in the whole game, not including the endless repeats.

honestly deserves more subs the video is high quality and edited perfectly

Something I wanted to point out as well The books has moments of having Fetishes within certain stories and as a book series (3 now) from SCHOOLASTIC it concerns me a lot when you think about the certain events in stories/canon fanfiction

If you're looking for another videogame to critique, I strongly recommend Bendy and the Dark Revival. SO. MANY. PLOTHOLES. I have beef with whoever approved that damn script. They destroyed the original game of BATIM. Amazing video, can't believe you don't have more than 67 subs (I added one for me). Fabulous analysis. 💕

Good explanation video. Deserves more views.

I think one of the reasons this game was so sloppy, and that there were so many cuts had to do with Game Theory a little. He guessed the plot of the game so often, that Steel Wool had to keep changing it, so at least some of the game would be a surprise. And by then, the deadline had come, so they had to get something out. So, if Game Theory actually kept quiet, maybe the game would've been a little better.

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The game is flawed yes, but It does have a lot of things I really like about it, The Pizzaplex is easily my favorite map in the franchise because of how detailed and colorful it is, While the Glamrock animatronics aren't that scary, I still really like all of them a lot, I think they're some of the best characters in the franchise and I love all of their designs, Monty is my favorite animatronic in the franchise along with Foxy, The 4 Glamrocks, The Daycare Attendant and DJ Music Man really carried this game for me. Don't hate me it's just my opinion.

You can argue that everything post fnaf 4 was slowly the begining of the end, from a believable horror story toa comedic scy-fy convoluted mess, and let's not forget the many redcons and rewrites of the story post fnaf 3 and 4. Here's a few: The purple guy's identity: from phone guy/realistic depiction of a serial killer, to Afton, who was a failure from the start by being a goofy not scary mad scientist super technicien with a british accent. To a somewhat scary virus to peepaw afton. Gets burned 3 times, always comes back pls stop. The bite of 83 originaly being planned to be the bite of 87, according to lore points in the first three games and promotional art for fnaf 4. Redconned. The nightmares, real or nah? Redconned. The Aftons? Good characters or inconsistant messes? Redconned again and again and again. The end? Depends on wich timeline you like, fnaf 3? Fnaf 4? Pizza sim? The toy animatronics, possesed or nah? No clear awnsers, suggested they are possesed. Redconned out of existence so much it's like fnaf 2 isn't even real. The shadows, what are they? Believe it or not, but they had major plot implications at some point. Especially when linked to the killer. There's so many more thinks I could say, but I won't out of respect for bohmth Scott and his Franchise, but damn as fnaf falled appart!

The animatronics were just turned into humans re-skinned as animatronics. How are they mysterious when they can jump and move around just like a person? Why does every animatronic talk in threatening sentences? Why would they be programmed to be able to do that in a kids restaurant? The series really jumped the shark.

This is a great video from a small content creator (no offense) You should keep doing this sorta content.

While we've had other indie games after it, like Bendy, DDLC, Poppy, etc. (not counting Yandere Sim or Garden of BanBan, because those games, and their devs suck) Even though the indie games after Fnaf became a hit, their success couldn't be compared. Fnaf is one of those franchises that we still love, but still question to if we should have just have it end with the 7th game/UCN. I overall love Fnaf as a franchise, and yes its had its bad eggs and rough moments, but that's not stopping me from loving it. Is Fnaf scary now? Kind of Did it used to be scary? YES Is it still a good franchise? Sure You aren't wrong THWAMPURT, Fnaf these days isn't as scary as the franchise used to be, but its still a pretty good franchise. I have high hopes that the Fnaf DLC, Fnaf Help Wanted 2, and even the movie will either give it the boost it needs, or keeps the franchise stable enough to continue. Personally if I owned Fnaf, when the franchise officially ends, I would remake the whole series. Make new characters, a more solid story, and give more lore that is a little complicated, but can be put together into a solid story.

I love this..But i disagree with some things, now i think some people forgot that the game got rushed by the people, other than that it would of lived to its name and it was a free Rome game so we knew it was going to take a while, And the agony part is introduced in UCN because we saw how mad she/he was but was not confirmed until the books, And the tales of the pizzaplex are events BEFORE Gregory as the FASBEAR FRIGHTS books are based by people experiencing the crimes of fasbear entertainment. (Note that this are my thoughts, pls do not take this serious these are my opinions) :)

I nearly screamed when I finished the video and saw you only had 42 SUBS??? You are extremely underrated! You’ve earned a sub. Good luck on your yt journey

The RUIN DLC looks SUPER good, expect a "How FNAF revived its horror" video if it lives up to the hype.

1:36 I really hate to be that guy but glitchtrap isn't William Afton. According to the books..yes those glitchtrap was an endoskeleton who mimics people. Its creators son died and he mimicked the son and he mimic the son which enraged his creator which enraged his creator. The Creator beating the crap out of him and he mimics that behavior

youre so real for this 😭

Did you know the actor of sl afton and hw afton either retired or quit the fnaf voice acting ?

scott confirmed that he’s not canon in the universe

Im pretty sure that security breach was also rushed because it came out way before it was supposed because people are impatient

"How did this happen?" Me: *Slowly turns to matpat*

When they announced Security Breach I was hoping it would have been another point-and-click nightguard game with new animatronics and some original mechanics but I actually got a game made for fucking TRvid Kids. I'm saying this because my main problem with this game is that it isn't SCARY, like, AT ALL. Can this really be worthy of being a game of the series that terrified me and my friends for all of our childhood? Can this really be worthy of even being called a horror game? I don't think so.

Great Video!

i’m only disagree with the designs, though not scary, these are some of the best animatronics designs this entire series has ever made.

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i was not scared of fnaf when i was a child because i knew the animatronics could not leave the pizzaria

This aged well

if you think why security breach characters arent scary so i think the reason is that because if the glamrocks were scary. children would shit their pants if they saw them scary while watching do the thingy i dunno like rock or wat

I understand your opinión but i love Security breach

BTW Scott didn't make Help Wanted (what i said might not be true because I found the fact on TRvid)

Here’s your 29 sub!

I hear PING STEP!!!!

Communty doesnt help

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I dont consider security breach as a part of the series because its so very disconnected, at best it seems like an april fools parody of the series, or some cheap illegal knock off. Visually its not even remotely similiar to the rest, the charachter designs as easily the worst theyve ever been. The game itself was barely playable on release, the gameplay isnt particularly good either so theres nothing redeeming about it.

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I miss the genuine fear this game gave me and security breach was not scary at all it was such a shit joke of a fnaf game and a stain on the series in my opinion

Glitch trap Is a good villain and you know it

Bri'ish william afton is better

This is a bad review. The pizza plex is A MALL not a horror attraction that’s why it’s so bright and plus glitch trap is a vary cool villain

Only 100 subscribers?? Deserves way more, just subbed 🫶