What Scott Cawthon Did to Five Nights at Freddy's

This Scott guy really likes animatronics, huh.

CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Introduction
0:41 - Scott Cawthon
5:13 - Five Nights at Freddy's
9:05 - The Original Series
19:22 - The Sister Series
25:56 - And Beyond
30:33 - e-begging

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[slimeinabox]

5:20
You forgot about how Scott actually did fall into a deep depression and made the first FNaF as a last ditch effort and was going to give up his passion, game development, if it didn’t work.

[ivebenhere]

This is unironically one of the best fnaf videos to come out in a long time. I really enjoy seeing how others interpret Scott's work.

[Seamstress_]

I personally love Scott’s sense of humor, it’s very cynical and often great comic relief when you’re in crippling fear of these weird robots

[comradeScallion]

as much as i prefer the rest of the series to security breach, i have to appreciate scott’s evolution as a game dev it’s really inspirational

[fungusmeister]

I do wish people covered the desolate hope more, its such a unique experience that is genuinely fantastic in its atmosphere and visuals.

[CommanderNoob]

You didn't get the story spot on.
You didn't get opinions spot on.
You got the reality spot on. Scott isn't a horror game maker. He's someone that turned the horror of rejection, negativity, cold feedback, and more, into something the world won't forget for millennia. Scott essentially created his own generation of experiences for humanity to enjoy and cherish. He's like any other person, but he did something incredible. Good work.

[permanary]

Every word in this script, every detail, down to the editing is very well put together. This is one of my favorite retrospectives on fnaf simply because your interest and passion for the franchise is audible and visible through the editing/script. The background music, introspective thoughts, and expertly placed clips made this a great watch.

[darreldarrenman]

I remember when fnaf first came out, it was this quiet, mysterious game. You're just placed right in the middle of things with no clue of the what or why. The ambience is perfect, the visuals and sounds echoing from somewhere down the hall make the building feel like some sort of monster you're inside. I loved the first year of fnaf way more than anything that came out after, because like most things, I don't think it needed to be expanded or elaborated on, etc. The vague mystery and lore elements were awsome. fnaf 2 and 3 did a great job of keeping that theme while making the story bigger n better. I liked it best when fnaf was a small story where we only learned about its characters through cryptic minigames and subtle implications, without putting voices or faces to most of them.

[octo]

I came here expecting to see a video dunking on security breach, and praising the old games, but instead I found a great documentary that is most honestly, probably one of the best videos I've seen on this platform.

[Rampala]

And I will just add that I've always loved that fact that when Scott realized his animation style was creepy and off-putting to folks (mostly just because of what the limits of the technology were at the time), he leaned INTO it, instead of throwing in the towel. He not only found his audience because of this, he created an entire niche in the process. His success inspires me way more than someone like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos.

[moricwilson]

I was one of those that tuned out after FNAF4, because the following games didn't have the same atmosphere of dread and cryptic-ness that I originally loved. But after watching this video I want to give those games a try now. They may not be as scary and miserable as the originals, but they do show a boost in confidence and authenticity from Scott, which is very inspirational. I'll also be checking out The Desolate Hope, it looks amazing just from the art style alone.

Also I love that edit at 10:53

[theooftroop]

This was a really nice video. I really enjoy retrospectives like this and such a positive takeaway from the series and what it represents helps make me feel more satisfied with having spent nearly a decade with it. Great job!

[ZLSM]

Scott Cawthon made my childhood and I am truly grateful.

[SKB-and-PlasticFred]

This is honestly beautiful. This video is like the master of all FNAF retrospective videos. You're not even trying to tell just the story. You're telling Scott Cawthon's story. Even then, the way you tell the story is the best I've ever heard anyone tell it. Many people have trouble explaining the lore, but when you think about 1-VR being games within the main universe, it's so much better.

(Keeping in mind that most things in the original games actually happened)

Thanks to you, I've come to appreciate Security Breach not because it's a good game (which I think it's not), but because it exists. Security Breach, so long as you ignore the details, is the best way to make a meta game. Taking place in the future, being the only game so far to actually take place in the correct universe!

One argument my older brother and I had for why it made no sense was how Fazbear Entertainment was no longer a corporate entity at the end of Pizzeria Simulator's true ending, but then they're filthy rich in VR and Security Breach. Now I know what to correctly rule out as canon in the games within the games, as I suppose that detail never truly happened.

Once again, this is great. So glad I clicked on this :)

[nyom]

This was a lovely video. Whether you like SB or not, I appreciate a lot you weren't constantly saying how bad FNAF World, Help Wanted or SB are bad or how better they could've been. I appreciate that you instead chose to analyse Scott's works from a place of love towards his work. I don't know if you dislike or not the last two games, but thanks for not being outright negative about them. Awesome video!

[brandonaumiller]

Never have I seen something so diametrically opposed as “Bible story slots”

[naciabell]

Fun fact about security breach. If you look up the dev interviews and their responces on how the game was developed? it explains a LOT. The biggest of which being, that THEY didn't know what the hell was going on in the story, cause Scott didn't acutally tell them what the plot even WAS. Just what to put into the game, without explaining it. Cause that's just how he does FNAF games. Obivously that works ok when he's doing them solo and on smaller scale games. But he was working to make a big, open world, exploration game and with a studio. And that lead to so many problems the game wound up having. Relying on vaugeness and hints to tell your story can be a huge problem.

And Security Breach proved that. Espically given how the game was gutted from it's original much darker and bloodier premise due to Scott's well...Everything.

And Sadly, most indie horror games saw this and thought 'Oh hey we can do that to and get the same results!' ANd thus we got hello Neighbor and others.

[HeroesRiseUp]

The craziest thing about FNAF to me is the fact that this series was able to pull me in and make me such a hardcore fan without me ever even playing one of the games. Lol

[The_Exorcist]

OH MAN, THIS VIDEO IS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL, THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT!
So much positivity about fnaf is something I've been lacking for a long while.

[nyukjustacommenter]

Scott Cawthon's artstyle is genuinely fascinating and I unironically love a lot of the works he's done for his games now that I've seen more from this video