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The show that clearly doesn't understand the meaning of the word 'final'

*Compilation of Matty boi saying final*

But can you really blame me?

These games have confirmed endings in FNAF 3, 4, 6 and Ultimate Custom Night

It's like Doctor Strange saw 14 million different endings and Scott Cawthon was like

"I'll take 'em all!"

Beginning to think FNAF world's inclusion of FNAF

57 Freddy and space was less of a joke and more of a preview of coming attractions. So anyway, it's back.

Call it whatever you like FNAF 7, FNAF VR, Help Wanted

Matpat Insanity Simulator

but after a year of

Detoxing, Five Nights at Freddy's is back with a new official game in the series and it's more so than any other

Installment feels like an inflection point.

A game that is simultaneously

Looking back to pay tribute to where these games began

as well as a game that's looking forward to lay the groundwork for where this

Franchise is headed.

This isn't just some quick VR cash grab for the series

This is a pivotal game in the canon that closes the book on the old lore

and also launches us into FNAF: The Next Generation

It seems to answer some old mysteries from the previous games

all while opening up the themes and tone for what's to come

and there is a lot to unpack here

This is without question the meatiest game in the FNAF library

which is impressive because it's still a VR title

So let's not waste any time and get started with the basics.

Now in case you don't have a VR headset

I've actually played through the entire game on GT live so you can check out all the highlights

(Mat: NO NO)

(AH ARE YOU KIDDING ME? AH ARE YOU KIDDING ME? DID WE DO IT?)

And lowlights of my playthrough over there

(Mat trying to make puppets voice: Hello bois and girls. I'm here to give you your happiest day ever)

(Come with me, wayward souls. We've got vengeance to strike! ^w^)

but let me quickly take you through what you need to know for today's theory

In Five Nights at Freddy's Help Wanted, we're playing as a beta tester for a new Freddy game

as we're told in the opening cinematic

And yes, that picture is really Scott Cawthon canonically inserting himself into this game

That is a discussion for another episode my friends because

it throws all sorts weird monkey wrenches into the lore but we'll get to that later

So according to the intro, Scott's games gave Fazbear Entertainment a bad name and the point of this Freddy

Fazbear's virtual experience then is to poke fun of their past,

clear their name and ultimately rebuild the brand.

Seems simple enough, right? Play through some loving

recreations of past games, as well as some new minigames and that's it. Job completed.

A new generation of Faz fans fall in love with all these new characters and add to Scott Cowthon growing pile of money

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Right up here or it's on the top line of the description now with that out of the way back to VR

Playing through the game it is

Legitimately impressive which everyone here has recreated in a stunning 3d

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fun time Freddie the puppet heck even Easter egg appearances by mini Riina's and Lal bit characters that most of you watching this probably haven't

Even heard of before because you have much better things to do with your brain space than I do

Practically everyone is here in this game except for one

Important omission golden Freddy. I mean Elora isn't around either but you know I said

important

But that seems weird, right?

I mean, this is a game that drops you into perfect recreations of the first three installments of the series

You don't just forget about one of the most important characters to the lore of these games

Well, that's because it isn't some careless oversight golden Freddy isn't here for a reason

It's our first clue that this game isn't just a joke and is a canonical entry

Specifically it tells us where it falls in line with

Everything else that we've played through

Golden Freddy isn't here because she's busy hanging out in aichi

Double chica arms with William Afton think back to the end of ultimate custom night in our previous theories by tracking the voice lines used

Throughout the game over screens. We were able to piece together that we're playing as William Afton in that game

child-killer

Extraordinary that the whole game was him trapped in hack to atone for his sins and the thing that was keeping him

There was the one he should not have killed a girl named Cassidy the spirit who had an axe to grind

Possessing the golden Freddy suit the reason golden freddy is an infinite VR is because the spirit is down there

Tormenting Willy a forever from here until the end of the series

That's why the ultimate ending of custom Knight was gold and Freddy twitching off into the dark cassadee never gives up her soul

No matter what old man consequences said further cementing that help-wanted is now at the end of the Phenom line

Is this miserable little creature right here the scrap baby plush

Because why wouldn't you want to cuddle with something that rips in half and eats children alive?

Let me remind everyone who doesn't have an encyclopedic index of all

60-plus animatronics that have graced the screen in this franchise. That scrapped baby is the homeless hobo

version of the old baby after escaping sister location and who was voted out of the a nerd tribe sometime between

five and six her only on-screen appearance is in Phenom 6

So the fact that a reference to her exists in this game

It all means that it must come after her expulsion from entered sometime. Definitely after fanat 5

But again with golden freddy missing it seems to secure it after everything's burned down and closed. So we have ourselves a company

That's trying to rebuild its reputation after a series of tragic events seems pretty simple, right?

Of course not. This is a staff game

You know that the story is never gonna be that obvious

Hidden throughout the game our cassette tapes that when collected unleash a new monster into the hallways of this pizzeria

But the game's files refer to as glitch trap a yellow bunny with purple eyes

hmm yellow bunny with purple eyes

You say I think I might know where this is headed as you collect more and more tapes

This glitch rabbit comes closer and closer becoming more and more fully

Formed beat all the minigames and you unlock the final challenge pizza party a nightmarish fever dream that mashes together

Every location that you just played through waiting for you at the end of this horrific maze is the single

Scariest moment from the entire franchise and I can't emphasize that enough. It is literally chilling what you learn?

Is that you?

Seven year old have been lured to the back room of Freddy's and what awaits you is your pizza party complete with your favorite flavor

of cake all your best animatronic friends and then glitch trap calls you to follow him the music fades and

Suddenly you're on stage. You're holding Freddy's microphone. You are Freddy

You've been stuffed you are now missing child

Watching as your killer dances gleefully to the song that you're being forced to stand up on stage and sing

This isn't just a spoopy jump-scare of some goofy character

This is real war so it definitely seems like this new character pedo hair over here is William Afton

I mean sure the suit isn't as bulky as a spring lock suit

But he's got all the other qualifications down yellow bunny fursona check

association with the color purple check enjoys

Children's pizza parties just a wee bit too much big ol check again set again to call this character

William would be missing a huge chunk of this game story. This isn't William

Like I said, he's trapped in eternal torment with Cassidy listening to Barney the hippo over here. Tell his life story. Dr

Brad was always fresh on. Tuesday. They made sourdough bread on monday and threw it out. Wednesday. What was I saying?

No to understand who or better put what this thing actually is

We need to examine the tapes that some in glitch trap here in the first place scattered throughout the various minigames

R16 glitching cassettes left behind by a former game dev tape girl

Which when put together tell the story of a failing game company a bit of malicious code

and some very stabby stabby office supplies were also introduced to the story of

Another beta tester who was in our position before us named

Jeremy making this the third time that the name Jeremy has appeared in these games with the first being Finn after his night guard and

Then again on the gravestones and a six coincidence. I think not the first tape immediately makes it clear

We're not picking these up in chronological order

Which leaves us the task of shuffling them into some modicum of sense in order to put the story together of what really

Happened while this game the game were supposedly playing now in its final form was in development going through the tapes

I've done the shuffling for you

and I think I've come up with the most cohesive narrative based on the evidence and what tape girl actually says she begins by telling

Us that the games then play tester Jeremy has been complaining to his manager Dale about nightmares

Except he's not explaining him like they're nightmares

He's talking about them like real he wasn't talking about it like someone telling a friend about his dreams though. He was pale

He doesn't even jump anymore. He just stands there. Like he's talking to someone pale doesn't react to scares talking to themselves

Sounds me like he's going crazy. Either that or he's just a fan a fee you tuber. Hashtag relatable

Am I right?

Jamie's working on is this one Freddy fazbear's virtual experience which includes some code that was inherited from fazbear entertainment

Scanned off. Some old hard drives to save him time and money

It was just junk circuit boards and things like that. It seemed to take hold by itself

But then he started appearing at least that's what Jeremy said manager Dale doesn't seem to take Jeremy's warning seriously

However, and instead he starts documenting all of Jeremy's behavior in preparation to fire him

You can always tell when a company is getting ready to fire someone

The thing about it is that I don't think they were going to fire him because of anything he was doing wrong

They just knew he'd seen something this confirms for us one major detail that the scariest thing in the few days

Crunch time working long hours until you're driven crazy and then fired at the end man. It's just like the real life games industry

It's uncanny these games just get more and more realistic. So Jeremy is going crazy and no one is listening flash-forward to tape six

We're tape girl talks about coming in early one morning to see the supply room lit and Jeremy in the darkened testing room

It's a short tape

But it's an important one because it sets us up for tape number nine when we learned that what she saw

Looked like a Halloween mask laying on the ground and a bunch of ink both on Jeremy and scattered around the floor

But that's not ink. That's no mask

The ink is Jeremy's blood and the mask is actually Jeremy's face

Which he presumably sliced off his own body using the aptly named guillotine paper cutter. We know this to be true

Thanks to tape number four where we hear tape girls say that the cutter comes from the supply room and that Jeremy

Expressly knew where it was. I didn't even know we had one in the supply room

I was always afraid of losing a finger that seems so silly now

Jeremy used to do design work

I guess that's how he knew it was there and for as Extreme as the sounds, we know that he sliced off his face

Dude, all these seaming by new details about how his face was obscured that morning. I went back and peered in the window

I couldn't see his face. He had the visor covering his head anyone else getting some bizarre bite of 87 vibes from this story