She was the only one that was especially sympathetic to be fair, with vanity issues and the sobbing blindness thing it kind of makes sense. Chica's one characteristic is eating and Monty exists I guess.
Autistic nitpick, but I don't like how Springtrap uses a knife. Him just tearing people apart with his animatronic strength is way freakier.
Yet at the same time, they gave them sawblades in their mouths? Not sure what they were going for there.
Because of the backlash the animator is now looking for voice actors to redub the short. Someone in the industry thread asked why he didn't lie about using the AI voices to avoid the situation, and I think he's a normie, not an "AI-bro" or rabidly anti AI", who wanted to be honest about his short and didn't expect the industry to lose its shit at him and want him blacklisted. I'm not sure that not disclosing it means no one would be able to spot the AI either, although they're getting better at inflections AI voices reading out lines have a kind of quality to their delivery that makes them obviously generated.
Because people didn't like it. They hated Afton being dredged back up again after he was given an actual death in Pizza Simulator, and Help Wanted already indicated they'd go this direction with Glitchtrap. Now those two are implied not to be Afton but the Mimic character from the books and Ruin. Scott's not the only one who makes shit up as he goes along as a reaction to the fanbase, Steel Wool is doing it too.
If we want to go full schizo, Fnaf 2 and Toy Chica were the first real steps towards "coomerbait", but overall i think most designs aren't coomerbaity.
Which is sad since Chica was meant to be a Valley Girl Fitness freak with a eating disorder, hence her eating out of the trash.
When Steel Wool does it though, it just makes things worse. They are falling into that pit of trying to imitate the O.G. creator and failing miserably at it. This shit happens all the time in other media, the replacement company goes for this "What Would _____ Do?" mindset, not having a clear understanding of the thought process that went into the original work(s) in the first place. A good example would be when Games took over for Spumco regarding Ren & Stimpy on Nickelodeon. In the worst case scenario, the replacement team will wind up having a "anything you can do, I can do better" attitude, which it seems to be the case with their recent game and the DLC.
Which is sad because in going with the Princess Quest ending, that means Vanny is just gone after being largely absent from her own game. I hope Scott and Steel Wool have good plans for the Mimic, because it looks like we're stuck with him now that they've unceremoniously killed off the only other villain that had any potential.
Honestly, I'm just glad we finally have a definitive answer as to how the fuck FNAF 4 and SL fit into the timeline.
If anything it's Scotty boy who's huffing some kind of gas that makes him come up with those retarded lore ideas.
Same here. I wouldn't mind the lore getting so ridiculous (and honestly kinda bad) half as much if Scott was more blatant with what's even going on.
4 being a test chamber matches up with popular theory, with SL's office code showing the layout on a monitor. The gas thing is interesting, because I think The Twisted Ones explained it by the animatronics playing some kind of UHF audio signal that makes you hallucinate. Which, if anything, pumping funny gas into an enclosed space is the more realistic option. SL being after 1 gets rid of the "Mike got a part-time job while being a rotten husk" bit.
This brings up a good point.
My money's always been on the box being speculation-bait. Scott probably had a bunch of notes by that point on the story, but not any kind of definitive "FNAF Bible." I think even that survival guide that came out, the closest thing you'd get to one, has stuff in it that's either been retconned or just false, but it's been a long time.
Not only that, but during the part where you're in the breaker room the house is there on the panel marked as an Observatory and it's one of the places you have to restart the power in. So the crumbs were always there for when he wanted to come up with a reason for what this test chamber was.
A popular consensus on the box was that after the announcement that FNAF 4's final update was cancelled, people eventually did figure out the intended lore, [Apparently it was dream theory? That's what I heard but I could be remembering wrong.] but everyone hated it so much [and apparently even Scott wasn't satisfied with it as an ending.] that Scott threw it all out and made Sister Location and Pizzeria Sim to replace it as the ending. Because of that, FNAF 4 has always been a weird spot in the timeline up until now, because with the goal post moved nobody knew what was still canon or not, what theories still held up or not, ect. Hell, for a while the only evidence that FNAF 4 was even still part the timeline was a subtle hint or two in Sister Location.
