Five Nights At Freddy's

[my penis is on fire]

This has honestly always been one of my issues with FNAF lore. I feel its hard to care because you rarely ever experience it in the moment.

I have a tinfoil hat theory that Steelwool had some writer(s) closely tardwrangling Scott when doing the writing for Secret of the Mimic. It doesn't have any of the usual Scott-isms like leaving major plot details as vague easter eggs or book details, or the time disconnect you mentioned. By the end of the game it's made clear what the Mimic is, why it was created, and how it eventually turned into a killer robot. With the Murrays, even though you don't necessarily experience their story in the moment, it's easy to care about them as you listen to their audio logs and slowly learn what happened to them as the game progresses. All of the major plotlines are started and clearly resolved within a single game (which has basically never happened before), and you don't need to know any booklore to understand what's going on. The things that are left up for theories and speculation are more appropriately mysteries and less-critical lore details, like MCM's connections with Fazbear Entertainment and whatever the fuck that moon thing is.
Either way, even if he still is the lead writer, it's clear that Steelwool is at least making him think a bit harder about what he's doing, and they're not letting him pants it anymore.

The bite of '87 might as well not have existed.

Very of me but I hope the FNAF 2 movie finally shows us who did the Bite of '87

 

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I have a tinfoil hat theory that Steelwool had some writer(s) closely tardwrangling Scott when doing the writing for Secret of the Mimic. It doesn't have any of the usual Scott-isms like leaving major plot details as vague easter eggs or book details, or the time disconnect you mentioned. By the end of the game it's made clear what the Mimic is, why it was created, and how it eventually turned into a killer robot. With the Murrays, even though you don't necessarily experience their story in the moment, it's easy to care about them as you listen to their audio logs and slowly learn what happened to them as the game progresses. All of the major plotlines are started and clearly resolved within a single game (which has basically never happened before), and you don't need to know any booklore to understand what's going on. The things that are left up for theories and speculation are more appropriately mysteries and less-critical lore details, like MCM's connections with Fazbear Entertainment and whatever the fuck that moon thing is.
Either way, even if he still is the lead writer, it's clear that Steelwool is at least making him think a bit harder about what he's doing, and they're not letting him pants it anymore.


Very of me but I hope the FNAF 2 movie finally shows us who did the Bite of '87

It probably helped a lot that unlike Sister Location, they actually stuck pretty closely to the book the game is meant to be a sequel to. SOTM's story definitely benefitted from having an actual outline to work with. Not to mention, they did a decent job of recapping the game's version of the book events through those audio logs. Definitely a step up from the old "These books are required for the game's story, but I won't tell you what parts of it are actually canon."

I think Mattpat retiring and Scott switching roles might have been the best things to happen to this franchise.