Five Night’s At Freddy’s started off as just another indie game, but has become a cultural phenomenon and one of the fastest growing video game franchises of the last few years. Each game is a jump-scare machine, putting the player in the role of a security guard whose job is to look over a chain restaurant at night. The animatronics come to life and want to kill you. Normal stuff for a video game.
Scott Cawthon, the creator of the FNAF franchise, released a trailer yesterday called “Sister Location.” The trailer has footage from the previous three games with creepy music that I’m sure fans are all tearing apart for clues. I’m going to have nightmares about the fourth creepy clown girl, with her faceplates twitching like some sort of robotic IT clown. The trailer ends with the release date of Fall and with a creepy girl saying: “you don’t know what we’ve been through.”
Since being released in 2014, there have been four FNAF games released, each one loved more than the last. I never really liked games that tried to scare the stuffing out of me and prefer to play games with stories that won’t make me throw my phone halfway across the room.
Still, scaring people and laughing at their amusement has become a major pastime on YouTube; every YouTuber who does Let’s Plays has played the FNAF games. From Pewdiepie , to Markiplier , you can’t call yourself a successful children’s video entertainer without going into the haunted not-a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant.
