Besides laziness and the focus on just making a soulless cashgrab, I think the reason the book turned out so horrible is because there were multiple people writing it who were probably just looking for a quick buck. I believe this because from what I’ve seen even the mistakes in these are inconsistent. If there was only one person writing the book you could spot a pattern with the laziness in which it was written, and while you can still do so now, it’s erratic. The consistency in the mistakes varies from character page to character page, and that would not be the case if only one individual was writing it. Because there is some stuff that is right, surprisingly, and there really shouldn’t be if the same disinterested, bored person was writing. Most likely multiple people that hadn’t ever heard of fnaf were hired to write this, and that’s why the end result is so inconsistent. Does that make sense? Idk, but this is what my mind came up with at 1 am.
@@GaybrohamStinkton > None of FNAF ever happened in real inuniverse life. Are you trying to say "everything before VR isnt canon" Or are you trying to state the obvious of "FNAF's events arent real" The former is wrong, and the latter is just stupid :V
@@GaybrohamStinkton the literal plot of vr which introduced that concept has glitchtrap originate from downloading data from the animatronics leading to aftons soul entering the game in the form of glitch trap. you know literally the antagonist of that game.
This encyclopedia could’ve been more interesting if it treated the animatronics like actual robots from an actual restaurant company, instead of just characters from a video-game/book franchise. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want another glorified FNaF wiki. How cool would it be to read about stuff like : - Exemples of attempted lawsuits against the company throughout the years and how they got away with it or not - Police reports about different cases, including the murders - How were designed the animatronics and how they got more advanced technologically - Testimonies from former employees, parents, cops, health inspectors, lawyers… - How the restaurants were so unsanitary that biologists discovered three new species of cockroaches endemic to Fazzbear locations There’s so much that can be done instead of just “This character is (…), he’s from (…) and he does (…)”. This is what a fictional encyclopedia should do, adding details and anecdotes to give more depths to the universe, making it more alive. It would be better to create new secondary lore than just repeating what we already learn by playing the games. Thank you for attending my Ted-Talk.
Imagine being the person in charge of this project and going “yeah, a character that never appears in the games or books deserves a page way more than the main character.” #justiceformichael
@@michaelafton66 I'm thinking #justiceformichael surfaced, and now you just go around and see where each use of it is and noone can change my mind. (I'm honestly wanting to stalk this hashtag too though)
This book is literally the PERFECT definition of the classic "Lazy school PowerPoint presentation", where you just get a bunch of random internet pages and poorly wrap them up with the first three images on Google Images of that topic, just so you can get atleast the minimum amount of points.
@@rachelpeterson8925 no, he stepped out of the public eye for the most part, but still makes the major decisions. He's just giving not making as many decisions or talking publicly like he once was.
Now that I'm thinking about it, if a few fan-artists, fan-writers, and theorists got together, they could probably whip up something x10 better than this. It's like writing a shortened, abridged, and more colorfully presented character wiki. I am pretty sure we all could do better. I have never been so dissatisfied with a piece of media I felt challenged to improve it myself, but I guess there's a first time for everything, ay?
@@undynlicia7554 hi this is my other acc. i made a discord but i cant share it here because my comments are dissapearing. you can find it on this account's channel ^^
Such a shame they left out any references to Henry’s iconic monologue “you thought this was a mere Pizzeria Simulator, but it is in fact a very real beacon beckoning the lost animatronics back to face their final fate.”
This book isn't just lazy, it's purposefully misleading and underdeveloped to make you buy the rest of the books and games! What a lovely, non-dystopian product
It wasn’t intentionally like that. More then likey schoolastic just throwed this together to make a quick buck, I doubt Scott or to a lesser extent Dawko had any involvement despite being credited. More then likey a few people with no knowledge of the source material quickly and sloppily made this book with nothing but Google searches and Game Theory videos. They didn’t care if it was accurate or not they only cared that it would sell and get free “Advertising” from fnaf theorists.
@@maxwellattacks6645 While I agree that the biggest names had little to no involvement, This sort of product happens all the time, and it's for that exact reason: it is intentionally terrible. There is a certain point where products loop around from riding the popularity of a brand to being advertising for the brand, and this book significantly reaches it. While a lot of it can just be chocked up to lazy writing, certain exclusions (namely giving michael a page) seem very intentional, and like nothing but bait to get children to buy more products.
@@Nightmare-fe9hr Well said, I would personally blame scholastic (Who has sole distribution rights for all Fnaf books) their goal was never to inform it was to sell books to kids. FNAF books sell like hotcakes and they know that. And this isn't the first or last time they will make a cash grab marketed at children. However, the exclusion of Mike was not an ad even if it could be one by proxy, It was avoided to not reveal lore about him. Much of the book doesn't serve its intended goal due to its attempt to stay frustratingly vague. However, including the AR skins may have been an ad.
Don't worry about being "too hard on it." This is going to be an official product put on shelves. It's also a product to help explain characters in a series held together solely by lore. If this book can't give the reader accurate, credible information, there is no reason for it to be purchased. This would be different if it was a wiki or a fan-made project. However, when things like this are being sold for however many dollars and are lazily slapped together, the kiddie gloves come off. I've heard similar complaints against the Ultimate Guide as well. We as consumers are well within our rights to tear bad products to shreds and make it clear we demand better from the people Scott and Steel Wool license the franchize out to.
I definitely agree. I especially hate when people will try to use the excuse that it's marketed for kids, as though every audience doesn't deserve your best foot forward.
@@notrealnamenotatall2476 anyone who says that is being EXTREMELY disingenuous. Zoobooks was a product made for kids, but if they got the information for a rattlesnake and a gartersnake mixed up, that would still be an issue. Kids media can have certain leniancies, getting information factually incorrect or excluding information because "It's too hard / time consuming" is absolute BS.
What's annoying about this book is that it's clearly afraid to commit and make a mistake, so it uses words like "could" or "possibly" just in case....even though it ends up making several mistakes anyway. Not gonna lie though, Mike's tagline being "don't let them in" and Michael's being "they got in" is hilarious. Wish that eas actually in.
as a older fan of this community, it’s so interesting seeing how it’s own creation is confusing to the creator(s). the book had plenty of potential and good idea, seeing it’s going like this… it’s just so infuriating. it’s lazy, and not worth reading. i love fnaf. i do. but it’s just gone so downhill.
i really don't think that's the problem here. Aside from Security Breach, Scott has always had a firm grasp on the fnaf series. I really don't think he would make so many mistakes like this. i will agree the series is slowly falling off though
@@iinfernox the fact that Scott 99% confirmed MatPat’s FNAF 2 theory nearly a decade ago really goes against that. Nearly everything from that video is now outdated, retconned, and debunked and the only thing that still holds up is basically “FNAF 2 is a prequel”. I genuinely think he changed the story when people got close to figuring it out because he realized he could milk this by pretending it was more complicated than he actually set out to make it. I used to love FNAF and was impressed with the storytelling; now despite the love I still have for the series, I believe their interest lies now in maintaining confusion so as to make sure people will always buy the next product.
As a veteran of Ninjago and MLP when I first heard of this book I knew it was going to be a vague mess basically meant to scam younger audiences. Any "Official Character Encyclopedia " of a franchise that also has a child audience will be lame and list obvious or simply untrue information. It's best to criticize and laugh at them for being made, yet also accept that these books will always exist 😔
Reminds me of a pokemon guide book from schoolastic from the fourth generation I had when I was a kid. There were so many errors and inconsistencies in it. From wrong descriptions, spelling errors, wrong evolution chains, moves certain pokemon can't learn Etc. The updated version of that book wasn't that much better.
@@rosesske2551 I think so! The cover has been ripped off for a while but some quick research says it was called "The Pokemon Ultimate Handbook". The evolution chains were wrong a lot and it was pretty funny.
A weird thing my friend pointed out who used to work at a pharmacy. Sleepy time candy "sounds more than a little sinister" is just kinda a red herring (there's many all over this book) because Children's dosage Melatonin does exist, to help children with sleep and you can easily purchase some at your local pharmacy.
I think it's more that it's sketchy for a daycare provider to give it without permission. I assume the parents sign a document that allows the usage of the drops.
Hate hate hate that the fanon version of Elizabeth became semi-canon :( . While I know in abusive households there tends to be a child who’s doted on the most, but people always fail to realize that when it comes to abusive parent(s), that attention is never particularly GOOD attention. William afton showed himself in the books as a horrible father to all of his kids, even if he seemed to like Elizabeth the most out of his three, that doesn’t mean he spoiled her at all. I feel like people just read the Harry Potter books as kids and saw how much Dudley was spoiled and doted on while Harry was locked under the stairs, and just grew up assuming that’s how all abusive households are like. Abusive parents are not capable of taking care of any child properly, even the ones they like, and in no way would Elizabeth could be spoiled. She most likely grew up just as controlled and abused as Michael and C.C, just her trauma manifested differently, and people assumed just because she’s the annoying little girl character that she was spoiled and wasn’t nearly as damaged as the sad boy characters. Anyways, sorry for hyper focusing on just that part, I’m just tired and really disappointed in this book haha
100% agree. My uncle was the golden child and my mum was the scapegoat, but both were abused. It just looked different and manifested differently between the two. Just because my grandma liked my uncle, it didn't mean he was doted on- he was neglected and my mum was a victim of extreme helicopter parenting. It's very infuriating to read that William essentially bent over backwards for Elizabeth. Kind of off topic, but the depiction of William in the Squimpus tapes is perfect, in my opinion and it touches of what you mentioned with good vs bad attention. William is an awful character (in terms of his actions) and I find it very hard to believe that he could switch up on a dime from talking to Michael to Elizabeth.
At worst, Elizabeth was a little girl who was constantly abused and used to put her siblings down and was accidentally taught that material gifts were the only way to express genuine love and that she had genuine love, and people need to realize that
Wait... is Elizabeth portrayed as spoiled in the fandom? I'm not too deep on her but most fanarts I saw potray her as a regular kid who cares about her brothers. I'm bit confused rn.
@@barboraklepalova3886 a lot of the time, especially like a tiny bit ago, she is depicted as spoiled in the fandom, likely because people don’t understand that Elizabeth being manipulative as circus baby is something she learned after death and not something she did in life, they also seem to not understand the reason why circus baby was being manipulative to the player
its pretty ironic that the people who play these games, even the kids, are more capable of understanding the characters and stories than the official writers, but on the other hand Jeremy the VR tester playing as Jeremy the nightguard had to face off against Jeremy the soul in Withered Bonnie, so maybe it's only this embarrassingly bad because we've got all this stuff memorized and locked away in it's own file cabinet in our brains
My name is also Jeremy, so right now we've got Jeremy the person reading about Jeremy the beta tester playing as Jeremy the night guard fighting back against Jeremy the soul in Withered Bonnie.
@@kingofcrap4414 you should cameo in the upcoming fnaf movie as a character named Jeremy that plays fnaf vr so we can get Jeremy the real person playing Jeremy the character who is playing the game where Jeremy the VR tester is playing as Jeremy the nightguard facing off against Jeremy the soul inside Bonnie. Jeremyception.
The one very big positive this book provides is the mental image of matpat seething with a very specific rage I don't think you could evoke any other way.
i think for elizabeth the phrase "spoiled child" doesnt directly mean that she was spoiled by william but more as a dark joke for a dead kid. the tagline seems to be alluding to the theory while also being a play on words. just a personal theory though as i dont think the writers put that much effort into it
21:00, Alright I'm going to guess which of the 6 rules he broke: he ran, he yelled, he screamed, I assume he didn't stay close to Mom, he certainly did not leave before dark since he had to work at night... But you never get a chance to hit anyone, so that rule IS followed... So that's an easy five confirmed broken and one confirmed followed. That means he broke one of the following two rules yet followed the other! Thus he either pooped on the floor and didn't touch Freddy; or he touched Freddy and didn't poop on the floor! Therefore this man is either a Freddy Fondler or a Floor Poopitrator! NEW LORE ACQUIRED!
@@marseillejoh He spent 6 hours per day fighting for his life in the guard's office, it isn't surprising that he turned his pants brown at least once.
As a Michael, I feel compelled to defend my fellow Michael. He didn’t shit his pants. He just had his insides scooped out. Poor guy is a walking corpse, hard to cover that with cologne. Smells more like a colon.
this book feels like it was written by an artificial intelligence they let read through the FNAF Fandom Wiki, or some guy who listened to his friend describe a Matpat video i wholeheartedly believe that i, and anyone in this comment section, could write this book ten times better than its current state
heres an idea: have pages for all the main characters freddy,bonnie,chica,foxy,baby,the puppet,afton,micheal, ect their alternet versions can have seprate pages IF they are notable for example, withered freddy and freddy can have the same page but foxy and mangle can have seprate pages actually have a games chapter and books chapter, one for game stuff and one for the books dont be extreamly vage with characters have a page for all the skins dont waist the intire page on discribing a character whos image is right there possibly bring up fan theorys like the ultamate gide talk about the characters acuratly pages have art or a modle of the character with the tagline under it and then an intro to the character, then what they do, there personality, voice, other traits, bringing up strange things about them, fan theorys, other stuff, also there game apearences are on the side heres an example! the daycare attendent sun and moon sunny side up! the dark side of the moon.. sun and moon are the two halfs have the daycare attendent at freddy fazbears mega pizzaplex, dispite sharing the same body, these characters are night and day from each other (pun very much intended) apearence: the sun has a sylized sun/eclipce looking face with orange spikes on his head, and striped jester attire with a orange, yellow, and tan color schem moon looks the same but is white and dark blue and rather then spikes, wears a nightcap, his clothes are blue with yellow stars the sun is very overbearing and exited while also seeming a bit nervous and jittery, unlike most robots at the pizzaplex, sun is friendly and dosnt want to hurt you, he jumps into a ballpit from his balconey and pulls you out, listing games to play while also making sure that your no more then a few inches away from him, he also seems to be a neat freak, rushing to pick up toy barels when you knock them over, the sun dosnt seem to like his night themed other side, warning you to keep the lights on, unfortunetly for sun, gregory has more important things to do then play with a slightly creepy daycare robot, when the lights go out as a security messure for stealing the security bage from the daycares offace, sun screams in pain before falling over and transforming from the creepy but wellmeaning sun animatronic, to the ten times more creepy and DEFFENENTLY NOT well meaning MOON animatronic, forcing gregory to wander the darkend daycare with just a flash light while turning on the generators, unfortunetly, sun dosnt take too kindly to you breaking the one rule of the daycare and bans you, alterting freddys friends moon is sinister and sneaky, crawling and slinking around, even gliding through the air on a cable to reach high places or swoop down on prey, moon laughs creepily while telling gregory that its "past your bedtime" in a raspy voice thats creepy enough that most kids might consider going back to having a bad dream instead of waking up and realizing whats in the daycare with them, moon cannot enter places when the lights are on, but he follows greory out of the daycare once the power is diverted to the recharge stations, moon seems to be much more intelegent then the other animatronics, while roxy is consumed by her competitiveness, chica cant tell friend from food, and monty acts like an actual gator while under VANNYs control, the moon seems much smarter and ALWAYS finds a way to catch gregory unless in a recharge station or when the lights are on as that makes moon turn back into sun later on, moon kiddnaps freddy when gregory enters the recharge station in the utility tunnles, and also drags him to parts and servace for vanessa, how he can drag someone as heavy as freddy with those thin arms? who knows if you return to the daycare dispite being baned, the sun will block you from going down the slide and will call for security, though no animatronics show up this time, sun also puts posters saying that your baned on anu other daycare entrences too interesting things: sun and moon are not just daycare atendents, but also actors at the daycares fazbear theater and mascots for "sundrops and moondrops" energizing and sleepy time candy, as shown from posters all around the pizzaplex, these posters depict moon as being calm and friendly rather then.. well THIS (image of moon when he twists his body up to fit in the play structures) so its possible that moon wasnt always a creepy jester that wants to drownd you in the ballpit and was once more fitting as a daycare attendent, or fazbear entertainment is just trying to hide the true nature of moon instead.. the sundrop posters also imply that fazbear entertainment is giving caffeine to children wich is more then a little unsettling if you really think about it. you can find a message in a bathroom near the daycare pick up implying that meany children are scared to sleep with the lights off becase of moon. there are hand prints on suns back, implying that the children actually seem to like sun by using a fazcam on diffrent cardboard cut outs acrossed the pizzaplex, you can open a hiddin door in the fazbear theater, wich leads to sun/moons room, their room is a mess, wich is suprising considering their need to "CLEAN UP CLEAN UP" things even if it slows them down, theres drawings on the wall, possibly made by kids that came to the daycare, how nice! less nice is the mangled and broken S.T.A.F.F bots lying around, it seems monty isnt the only one with anger isues, a golden moom plush can be found in here, as well as, of course, the balloon world arcade game this game has you play as balloon boy as he flys throughs the air using balloons to stay afloat, you must doge obstecals and collect balloons while sun smiles, watching you from in the sky, after some time, moon will apear as it become night, he too smiles in the sky, but being moon, its not the kind of smile you want to see.. after sun comes back then he will have moons sinister grin.. and you play for long enough, you will find a glitch, running into it brings you to the ECLIPCE, as you move along a trail of glitchy obstacals, wich you must stay inside of, you eventually get to the eclipce, who stares at you and says "GOOD NIGHT" before the arcade game powers off theorys: some pepole have speculated that the eclipce is the sun and moon combind, considering that an eclipce is when the moon blocks the sun, it starts to make sense why the eclipce keeps suns apearence but still seems to have traits of moon some pepole have pointed out that sun and moon look alot like the puppet, same kind of head shape but more round, the large smile, the same slender body, stripes on clothes, ect some pepole have pointed out the sun and moons jester-y apearence match the S.T.A.F.F bot, the circus in the balloon world mini game, as well as the funtime and circus animatronics wich also have a relation to balloon boy and there! i just wrote a page for the fnaf character enyclopidea in what would take less then an hour, and im not even old enough to be employed! ITS NOT THAT HARD STEELWOOL!
@@nametheocmaker maybe learn to spell before you try to one-up steel wool. other than that it's actually competently written, (aside from a bit of unneccesary fluff) so credit where credit is due.
@@nametheocmaker Looking back through it, it's actually a pretty compact and well written page (and the extra tidbits can't hurt) so great job! Do you think you could do one for Bonnie? Because I actually kinda enjoy reading these. (If not it's all good)
The fact that Michael doesn’t have a page, but is literally mentioned by name in Elizabeth’s page…. I think theres a Michael page out there somewhere, I think it got cut.
It would be more appreciated if they DID confirm lore. This series has done the fanbase to dirty with its wishy washy presentation of information and multitude of convoluted and unexplained ret-cons that they deserve SOME form of clarity.
Henry suspiciously looking like the dead(for a reason) webcomic blueycapsle’s rendition of him is so jarring. Like this is uncannily similar to his fan-designs. You’re right.
1. Do I want to know the context? 2. Honestly, I feel like it could (and should according to the books) be a different SHADE of brown hair rather than blonde. It could be lighter or darker, or have hints of another color in there. I have brown hair with a little bit of red, so it could work. just make William have the same shade as Mike's Sister Location cutscene pixel art, and let Henry have the dark brown hair.
@@ZirconiaGacha william’s hair is shown to be dark brown/ borderline black. Henry has very light brown hair with some blonde highlights (like you I have brown hair with red highlights, but I believe the look they are going for with Henry is one with blonde undertones as opposed to our more common reddish brown undertones).
I feel like a big issue with it is the book's inability to decide what it wants to be. Sure, it says it's an encyclopedia, but a lot of it reads more like a journal in which someone is documenting their observations/thoughts/theories about these characters.
Yeah... I preordered this book. I just figured it would be neat to have a big ol' reference of all the FNaF animatronics. Welp, there goes that money. Well, I can always try to make the best of it... or just burn it. The best way I can describe this book is that it feels like it was written by an AI.
AI is how I felt about it too. The weirdly basic writing style, the incorrect information, the garbage images used, it feels like an AI was fed a bunch of FNAF information and it just puked whatever this abomination is out and they went "PRINT!" Without even looking at it.
It was a crime for them to exclude Michael, my favorite character and, oh I don’t know, THE PROTAGONIST. Anyway, thank you for doing him justice and entertaining me with this awful book
This book really is a cautionary tale that at some point you NEED to confirm at least something, if you want your fandom to stay alive. Like... come on Scott. It's been years. Throw us at least something. But no it's the usual "OoOoooOhh seeecretsss~" BS. It's partially why I stopped being invested in theories because what's the point if the best you're gonna get at the end is a "Maybe!" and a completely confusing lore and timeline.
I find the novel and game mixing a bit dangerous because it drastically alters the situations around characters with fanons. William Afton from the games is really different from the one from the books. They're opposites of each other in terms of talents and character. Game William is often displayed as beneath Fazbears and created the Animatronics. Book William is above Fazbears and is envious of Henry's technical skills.
True, and since they needed to fill more pages they could've easily did game and book pages for certain characters. Charlie definitely could've gotten a separate game and book page.
@@notrealnamenotatall2476 It really doesn't help that H3nry in the games is a much bigger asshole and is clearly interesting in altering and abusing William's creations for his own gains. If you look into the blue prints, William's Baby is actually missing key features (her helium tank, See the SL interview). William wouldn't mention this currently absent object in the interview, unless a more powerful force (Henry/Fazbears) forced him to change/remove it to save space for the claw. If Book Henry's Adult Charlie was turned into Dave's Dave, then William's Baby was altered by H3nry to be deadlier. William was so powerless to deal with Fazbear's/Henry's influence, he and Michael had to go after the animatronics in-person to dismantle the mess themselves. And what happened to them? William got trapped in Springtrap (this evil ass animatronic was alive prior to William, but this shadowy being could have his own video alone to explain his eldritch ass) and Michael got scooped half-alive (Michael's body was weird prior to SL's events. His guts were cut open and he walked around just fine). It's heavily implied by PS Baby and Molten Freddy (who is possessed by the MCI children, by the way) that they cared about William (the person they mistaken Michael for), but they were so desperate to escape from H3nry, they resorted to taking over his body. And, they had faith in William willingly becoming their suit (Why don't people take note of this?). Again, Baby and the MCI children feared H3nry and appreciated (who they thought was)-William Afton. Another thing that is freaky to consider is that Game William and Book Henry are both the main suspects of the MCI, but their partners have "mysteriously' gained more influence/power after the MCI. This was critical to remember because the MCI killer in the games never worn a costume to do his deeds (fnaf1 MCI paper contradiction), but Fnaf2 had William and Foxy take the fall for the MCI. Implying, William Afton was in the Foxy Springlock suit (the only kind of animatronics allowed to roam during the day), and those five children were given multiple private birthday parties by him. Candy Cadet provided further context by telling us stories about a man adopting five orphan children (including Susie. "I was the first"). And in one incident, he lost all five of them at once and desperately tried to bring them back. This protagonist has to be William (who "adopted" the MCI in the books), making H3nry the killer. [{Events in order: Baby minigame (Elizabeth dies. leaving William depressed), Fruity maze (Susie and William meeting. Susie reminds him of Elizabeth) > Candy Cadet's Criminal story (William adopts five children) > Fnaf2's Foxy Go Go Go (William, as Foxy, witnesses the corpses of his children on their third B-day party. H3nry watches with a smile on his sick face.) > Candy Cadet's fire story (William tries to save the five children as fast as he can by stuffing their remnants to one animatronic, which is later used for the Funtimes. Before the police arrive) > Fnaf2's Give Gifts. Give Life (The Puppet arrives and properly stuffs their bodies into five suits. Possibly because William saved her with his creation, the security puppet). For a bastard that said he was horrified by what the animatronics became, H3nry certainly was avoiding the mirror in front of him for turning them into monsters. If you recalled the video you did on Book William, a lot it applied to H3nry's character way too well. He was repeatedly displayed as an abuser without the vagueness of dialogue or potential sprite debates (Control shocks). This guy knew that Charlie was locked outside by children, which oddly makes him the most likely suspect to kill her. The way he "saved' people was shown to be hideously violent, because he cared for nothing but their souls. I wonder if he tried to "save" Charlie with the mad science of immortality and discounted her body as a merely replaceable object. Or worse, he wanted to use her death to fuck William Afton (the OG Fredbear owner) over.
@@Thor-Orion Also Henry canonically wears a Yellow collared shirt that makes far more sense for casual wear. Have fun with the MCI Yellow Man in Midnight Motorist because fnaf is a big mystery of many villains.
Why was the person compiling this encyclopedia not given the author's notes? Scott probably has character profiles saved on his PC that include all these characters' appearances, any creator would. It would be as simple as copy-pasting some documents. Worst case scenario, he'd have to scan some physical documents. It kinda feels like there were a dozen different people all working on this book at the same time with no coordination. It's just so... armature. I get it, it's a horror game series made for children, but kids care about this sort of stuff, it is no excuse to be sloppy.
“For children” is no excuse. As if Beauty and the Beast is somehow lower quality than Sausage Party because it was intended for children while Sausage Party was rated R.
Something a lot of adults don’t understand, is that little kids care an excessive amount about lore and story, and with the stories they love they consume all the info on them they can and memorize, every theory and whether or not it’s right or wrong and rant to people about their frustration with inaccuracies in media about their interests
This book is clearly the definitive source for canon Five Nights at Freddy's knowledge. EDIT: Nevermind, OMC doesn't have FNAF World listed in his appearances.
I still find it so funny that those small human heads from SL have a page but neither Mike Schmidt nor Michael Afton have one. The AR skins all have individual pages but Jeremy Fitzgerald, Fritz Smith, none of them have anything. How the shit did Springtrap from a cutscene get a single page but Phone Guy and Phone Dude didn’t? Scraptrap doesn’t even have a page either, instead images of him are used on Afton’s page that just talks about what he did through the series. And Springtrap’s page mentions his book appearances more than his impact on the games since his introduction! I mean, are they fucking kidding me? Even the magician and Little Joe toys get pages but somehow none of the MCI kids get pages, despite their names being revealed NUMEROUS TIMES in the franchise! I can’t even remember if regular Fredbear got a page but I doubt it since his only true appearance was a jumpscare. Book’s a mess, just like every other FNaF book before it. I really firmly believe FNaF does not deserve books in the first place, let alone this many. They’ve clearly proven incompetent with it and they’re still being mass produced every year clearly for money at this point. When other indie games that are much less accepted as FNaF do the book formula better, maybe it’s time to try something else.
@@redpanda6497 Apologies for the late response but he’s from SL. He’s a weird little puppet dude you can see in the Circus Gallery with a blue hat on his head. He also appears in FNaF 6 under the name Lally for the Lally’s Lollies brand.
It's like they couldn't decide if they wanted to give new information, if they wanted to mention details that are exclusive to the books and they wanted to give us the very obvious and intended ‘4’ or just the ‘2+2’ we were provided by the source material and whatever one they landed on it wasn't consistent from then on.
I really like FNAF but seriously this series has been taking L after L recently. How the hell do you fail at doing a charachter encyclopedia? All they had to do was say look at something like, The Essential Guides to characters from Star Wars to learn how to do one right. Who signed off on this?
Scholastic did. They do this constantly doesn't matter what it's based on. They might have done it without permission as they own the sole rights to FNAF books, they can make a FNAF book anytime they want with little to no involvement. In my opinion FNAF should cut ties with Scholastic completely and find a better publisher.
Btw the whole “Bringing new meaning to the phrase ‘spoiled child.’ “ means Elizabeth is “spoiling” inside Circus Baby rather than her being a spoiled brat due to her believing Baby was made for her and disobeying her fathers orders.
This could have been a great way to steam line all the established lore and maybe even officially retcon some inconsistent bits, yet of course, that isn't the case. It's shitty that they can still claim it's written by Scott tho, with a claim like that you'd expect expert knowledge.
Twisted Chica was indirectly mentioned in The Twisted Ones, which this is a short excerpt from The Twisted Ones “Was there a malformed rabbit hidden in the dirt just there? A chicken clutching a cupcake to its grotesque chest?”
I'll never understand how something this weird exists. Something that raises a few things that makes sense does more things that doesn't make sense. Doesn't have the Mc of the orginal games in it. And has art that while has neat designs Holy crap the art itself could use some work. Seriously did these things get like any quality control or someone who actually like reviews it to see if it could be improved
"Mike: Don't let them in. / Michael: They got in." Is better than this entire book. Laughed so damn hard at that. Super clever. They should have let you be in charge of this book instead.
This book would have been a good opportunity to hard confirm what should already be known to players to have everyone on the same playing field, as well as finalize and give consistency to some character designs, but instead, this thing looks like a kid opened InDesign/Publisher and filled it with googled images and whatever game elements they could partially remember off the top of their head. Except a kid wouldn't get such basic details about these characters wrong. I don't know why this franchise hates the idea of continuity management so badly. It's only going to help them in the long run. At this point, and especially with a paid product that is meant to explain characters, they need to forget "uwu omg spoilers" and actually explain and describe the characters in the games and books. None of this "they could be, they might be, it seems like". They need to be making definitive statements on any data from 1-UCN. "This character IS, this character DID, these characters ARE RELATED", etc. If there are any characters they want kept "secret", they can have a chapter called "secret characters", and on the chapter splash page, they can have "Warning: Top Secret!" text and imagery, coupled with a brief statement of "Heads up! It's best if you play the games to see these characters before you read further!" That's all you can do, and that's all that's necessary. Why should someone pay for a book that claims to be a source of information on the characters, and then it's filled with "I don't know, I guess this happened" on top of giving blatantly false information? And for a children's book, I'd actually consult Scott or SW or whoever and add one additional fun characterization fact for each character that is not available in the games or books currently, so that a kid reading this can learn something new about each character that makes them love them more. "Freddy loves telling knock knock jokes the most when he's on stage." "Bonnie often has malfunctions with his ear movements." "Michael loves mint chocolate chip ice cream." Just random stuff that doesn't impact the story but makes the characters feel more like characters. Maybe those traits can come up as easter eggs in future games, maybe not. It doesn't matter. It's mainly for appeal and soul. When I was growing up, character encyclopedias had stuff like that in them all the time. I'm glad they finally redesigned Henry, but I really wish they'd pay a brand new professional artist to do everything over and get all the designs unified, and the humans drawn by someone who knows how to give distinct, unique, fitting designs to human characters. New Henry, Vanessa, Gregory, and Elizabeth are solid enough designs. Everyone else feels like a background/filler character design. They don't need spiked belts and mohawks or anything like that, just more memorable face shapes and body builds, and distinct color schemes to their clothes.
You’re spot on. I completely agree that this book may finally be the straw that breaks the camels back for the community in terms of our tolerance of cryptic bullshit. It’s 2023, time to give the Crying Child a definitive name. Time to start officially confirming decade old theories that have been all but confirmed by Scott himself. Continuously building a mystery on top of the same foundation without ever clarifying where the story has developed is a recipe for disaster. I feel like Scott doesn’t know exactly how to transition from one era to the next, as though he is afraid of losing the fans’ interests if he finally confirms the story and puts it into position for the story to move forward in new and exciting ways. It’s been long enough of repeating the same story with a new coat of paint each time. I really thought Security Breach could be an awesome transition from old style FNAF into wherever it is they wanted to go with it. I still hope that this ends up being the case, but I have absolutely zero confidence in this happening because of shit like this encyclopedia being so poorly compiled and presented.
Some things that felt really weird to me was in Charlie/Charlottes page they only show her book appearance not her game appearance and in Henry's page they just use Henry as his name not Henry Emily but then on Charlie/Charlottes page her name it Charlotte Emily which i know those details don't really matter and wouldn't change anything about the book but it just really stood out to me with also Twisted Chica not being a Canon character or even making the sister location heads have a page Also I'm not sure if you know this but Glitchtraps name wasn't originally Glitchtrap it was Malhare but in a merch website he was called "Glitchtrap" so everyone started calling him Glitchtrap so i was surprised when they didn't mention that on his page
Also for Elizabeth's page Scott confirmed that Elizabeth was the most abused out of all of William's children. Also can we talk about how bad the cover of the Encyclopedia is? Like most of the characters in the cover weren't even in the Encyclopedia!
I already heard about how disastrous this book is especially the fact mike is missing and what about the ghoast kids they shouldve have dedicated pages for the ghoast kids likee put there name and show the the animatronics that they posessed like they is 2 spirits in golden freddy like cassidy and crying child and and i would have loved too to know who cassidy is ans the vengful spirit. And what about misgendering characters ,like mangle a d circus baby, Mangle has 2 endo skeletons the fox head is female while the endo head is male . This book look like so much potention and fun im glad i saved my money .
If they were going to include renders, atleast make some new ones with the old models. The newer models are fine, but if you're going to include renders use the older ones. Also that part about Mike breaking all the rules is hilarious.
FNAF has had so many "jump the shark" moments in a row at this point, whatever respect and legitimacy it may have had is just buried under a pile of bullshit. I still remember being in the fandom when FNAF 6 and UCN first came out, those were such great times. What happened?
This book. THIS DAMN BOOK is basically the thing that fully pushed me into making an AU for my personal FNaF timeline. Something doesn't quite line up or the only headcanon I think works doesn't work with the plot? Simple: "my AU, my rules" applies. I still try to keep it as accurate as possible to known and undeniably canon lore like William Afton being the murderer and stuff, but it also lets me pretty much completely get rid of things that mess up the timeline (like Eleanor bs). I did put a comment similar to this on a different video by someone else covering the Character Encyclopedia as well, but since I've mentioned headcanons more in the comments here I might as well say why I bring it up a lot.
Honestly I feel like this book has the same problem FNAF is having right now and that is the fact that everything has to be a mystery. They can't just be upfront about anything and just say something that is true instead they have to be mysteries and everything has to be hidden so that FNAF fans discuss and theories. Now nothing wrong with having a game or franchise with a story that is hidden and that the player has to work in order to understand what's going on that is actually something I like about FNAF. However when even in the Encyclopedia has to be all secretive and not give any answers because it wants everything to be a mystery so fans will discuss and make theories it just ruins the story and honestly it ruins the enjoyment of the story and honestly has just made this franchise extremally tiring and frustrating.
I feel like Fnaf would benefit from taking a page from Bendy and just being a little more direct with the basic story elements and then building a mystery around those. Like, the wrong things are being kept secretive. You can't build a proper mystery when this many details are constantly left in the air, or when the game/book/ect is too afraid to accidentally give 'answers' that everything is kept in a constant state of limbo. Basically Fnaf is sacrificing the story for the mystery, but a mystery is useless without a story.
*I can’t believe this book did my boy Helpy so dirty. I’d prefer reading my own descriptions of the FNaF characters over reading this book, if you can even call it that.*
Im disappointed how characters like twisted Chica and God damn Sea Bonnie's get pages(even the posters got there own pages) but Michael, the nightguards and missing kids don't get them. William doesn't even get a design. For real the fanmade Wikipedia is better for info than the official encyclopedia
This book is almost perfect on the sense that it shows how absolutely lazy the writers for FNAF can be and, to some degree, how lazy Scotts gotten. For a official character wiki you'd want every little scrap of information, even fan speculations.. if I wrote this I would be like Mattpatt levels of insanity on how much I put in with no fluff/filler and a lot of lore details. But yeah I think this was something where scholastic or whom have you was like 'just.. watch the cutscenes and make shit up'
Scholastic does this all the time, it’s not just FNAF… look into the RL Stine vs Scholastic situation. They are a really greedy, money grubbing publisher.
Who needs a character encyclopedia when you have all of RUclips and every single theory possible to give you all the information you could possibly ever need that may or may not be accurate depending on your own interpretation?
Honestly, considering that FNAF has been through so many semi-retcons, they should have made the book a completely clear rundown on what the lore is at this point. Who's who, who knows who, where everyone's at, confirm/debunk a few fan theories, maybe add a few fun-fact asides here and there in their own small section. (E.G. William and Henry met in college), stuff like that.
You know, I had asked for Scott Cawthon or someone else to come forward and explain everything about the lore of FNaF. *This* isn't what I meant. Guessing I shouldn't have wished on a Monkey's Paw, huh?
when referring to Elizabeth Afton as a "spoiled" child, I think it is literal by "bringing a whole new meaning". It isn't saying she is spoiled in the way one might assume. It is saying she is spoiled because she uh... became a dead clown animatronic or something gruesome I'm not too clear on the lore. Think "spoiled" like milk. That was my interpretation at least.
i work at a bookstore where we're allowed to "check out" books for 2 weeks like a library. i was pretty excited about this book so i checked it out during my break to read over lunch. i got to the part where it claimed that fnaf 4 is about a child that went to freddy's pizzeria and is now having nightmares. and i had to take a moment. nothing else? no mention of the house's plans be⁸ing in sister location, or belonging to the aftons. no mention of the crying child. no mention of the actual story of the characters in fnaf 4. i decided, ok, maybe the rest of the book will be better.... but after the 4th freddy skin i closed the book and unchecked it 👍
I was listening to you read Mike and Michael's pages and I was like, "Huh, those aren't too bad at all and are actually a little funny!" And then you pulled the rug on me 😓
This book isn't written by Scott himself,he's the one who knows the lore the best,even if Scott isn't a good storyteller,he's not a idiot,which means someone else wrote this book,or maybe Scott is trolling us,or maybe he is the former who is still making things up as they go,but I have a feeling someone who isn't Scott wrote this book,and should be fired and blacklisted
The book was probably passed around through a couple of people. It's not really their fault but whoever decided above them that it was okay to skimp... which would be Scholastic. XD
Even if Scott didn't write this book, he signed off on it or signed away his rights to dictate the content of FNAF property which doesn't sound like the Scott who vetoed several scripts because they seemed like money grabs. But something has changed. The Survival Logbook and The Ultimate Guide are leagues better than this.
Don't treat Scott like a god, he's a person and he makes mistakes too. I'm certain they would have at least had to get his permission to ship this book out. Though I doubt Scott was involved with this book one bit.
@@kingofcrap4414 I never said he was god,I'm saying that Scott himself didn't write this encyclopedia,there's a difference,Scott knows Fnaf better then anyone,but is hiding the details from us,but looking at this book,you can tell it wasn't written by Scott himself,this thing has it's own lore confused.
The thing is... Foxy DOES sing in the cut showtime theme. He only gets one line though. "Now you've met all the members of the band!" EDIT: Spoke too soon... 2:32
20:56 Okay,you didn't have to scare me like that when you talked about Mike/Michael being in the book, lol. I literally tried to search it up again in fear that I may have been wrong about Michael not being there. About the book though - Maybe I'm asking for too much...but couldn't it reveal a little bit more of Lore? Like I'm not asking for a page for Cassidy or anything,but the only page interesting was CC's and probably only because it said that CC was "terrorized" by FNAF 4 animatronics. And,of course, in FNAF's manner,we don't know if we can even trust that information! Literally everything else in the series seems to debunk that little thing mentioned. If we don't make up some stretched theories that tell that he WAS indeed,but then Michael got the same nightmares as him or something like that. Oh yeah, here's a thing that I found out too,apparently if you add a black button to Toy Bonnie,he magically turns into Bon-Bon! (The poster in fnaf 3 in cam 04 and 08 being the reason why Bon-Bon is mentioned there, lol)
So many of these are so bad. First of all, what the heck is wrong with Elizabeth's art. It looks great and terrible at the exact same time. I really like Henry's new design. Because in the books Henry just looks like sober William. All the pages look super empty for an encyclopedia. It's like someone who's never played FNAF was tasked with writing all this out. When you read the page of Mike and read that Mike broke 8 out of 10 rules at Freddy's, I just can't help but think that Mike shit on the floor 🤣. But the real question is, did he shit himself before or after being stuffed into the animatronic suit?
mikes side quests were break the rules in the pizzeria so like every dedicated gamer he went for the easiest one. Shit on the floor, he probably didnt go close to freddy though nor did he go away from his parents since he was a night guard
I'm an older fan of the franchise, and honestly I'm just getting frustrated with this series. It was good when it started, missing kids, hauntings, murderous robots. Nice simple clean story. Now with layer after layer of red herrings and false leads and retcons and science fiction added to keep the story going, I just want it all to stop, or reboot. The series has gotten far too off the rails at this stage, as proven that people who are paid to can't keep it straight
Tbh i think the glitchtrap one that say he appeared "in the flesh" want to confirm that the digital springtrap and glitchtrap somehow connected or the same entity mabye? (Idk just opinion)
I love your Mike & Michael Afton page SO much that I want you to make a video of you making pages for significant characters in the lore that didn't have pages (Like William Afton) and new ones for characters that DO have a page but have poorly written ones. (Like Henry)
If Scott was still involved, this wouldn't've happened. He cares about the source material, he knows it and would help make this more genuine than whatever bs we're getting instead.
Thing is, Scott IS still involved with FNAF. This isnt the first shit "guide" book, "The Freddy Files" and it's Updated Version are both books that were as much of a mess as the Encyclopedia, prompting him to come on board for the Ultimate Guide we have now, if i remember right. BOTH of which releasing before Scott retired from game dev. (2017 and 2019, vs his 2021, same year Ultimate Guide released)
Scott only wrote the Ultimate Guide, that was the only guide book written by Scott himself. The rest of the guide books including this one were written almost exclusively by lazy Schoolastic writers presumably.
@@inciniumz4671 the older versions of the Ultimate guide were just typical so bad it's funny Scholastic guides which are common for popular franchises like pokemon.
This book is genius. It's full of blatantly wrong info, it makes established things sound mysterious and unconfirmed, and it highlights completely pointlss things. Now we can have even more theory videos picking apart the wording because Charlie in the books is 'human' and Crying Child is the protagonist of FNAF4! Because people refuse to accept these supplementary books are straight up meaningless.
A reason I really like the trilogy of encyclopedia for the legend of zelda is because, even with its flaws (like contradicting the games own info.) It still feels like there was effort and an attempt to make it a celebration of the franchise, its history and a way to connect and remember all the good memories that playing Zelda gave me over the years. On the other hand, FNAF has this lazy, ugly and confusing mess made with so little care that it feels like some random dude just make it in powerpoint in a couple of days. This is honestly insulting to the fanbase and could potencially damage the side of the community that makes theories and dicussion around the lore and story in the future. What a wasted.
I've seen that book and it definitely feels like there was still a good deal of effort. A little misinformation isn't too awful if if comes from a place of trying hard and just getting kerfuffled.
One of the things that get me, besides Michael missing from the book and the lazyness in writing, is the lack of new images, there could've been great new content just from a silly character book, even to hide some secrets in images (as fnaf already did) to spice some theories. Anyway, i adore your chanel! Keep up with the good work
As all over the place in quality that this book is, I'd be lying if I thought Mike and Afton's taglines being "Don't let them in" followed by "They got in" wasn't at least a little funny. But in Afton's case, they seriously couldn't opt for his iconic 'I always come back' as his tagline? Really, authors????????
It sounds like the bootleg, pictured encyclopedia books I used to buy back as a kid in China (I mostly remember the Ultraman ones, since Ultraman used to be big when I was growing up). Except even lazier somehow.
The fact that Henry's daughter's name is not mentioned in his pages, even though Charlie has her own section, makes it seem that those pages were written by different people. That is probably true for the whole book; there was likely a number of writers working on the book, and they were all given a different group of entries to write. And that strategy does not automatically mean a product will end up inconsistent, but it's clear that no one in the team peer reviewed each other's entries, which is essential in that type of work. There was no communication of which informations to include and which to leave out. It's also clear that most entries focus on a single appearance of the character, but that's a bad decision. In a franchise with so many games and books, it's important to cross reference how the same character has been depicted in different stories. Henry's pages only mention the true ending of FNAF 6, even though the Silver Eyes trilogy expands so much on his character. Another thing lacking in this book is information of how the animatronics behave in the games that they appear in, and how to avoid them. This is supposed to be a character ENCYCLOPEDIA, meaning all information concerning each character must be mentioned.
Fixed lolbit page that everyone would like: Lolbit first appears in Sister Location as an Easter egg, in the form of a mask that randomly spawns in place of the Ennard mask inside the Primary Control Module. She also turns up in that game's Custom Night, appearing on computer screens. You can get rid of her by typing "LOL." He makes a full appearance in Help Wanted, replacing Funtime Foxy in Dark Rooms.Besides that he also apears in fnaf world as one of the shop keepers ,you can buy bytes,healingpods and stingers from her that can help you in a fight
Me like "Weird that they're not showing pics of the Mike pages. These sound fine, too, why are they reading the full page?" Ahhh. Then it makes sense. That would be why. That footie pajamas bit was legit funny.
Besides laziness and the focus on just making a soulless cashgrab, I think the reason the book turned out so horrible is because there were multiple people writing it who were probably just looking for a quick buck. I believe this because from what I’ve seen even the mistakes in these are inconsistent. If there was only one person writing the book you could spot a pattern with the laziness in which it was written, and while you can still do so now, it’s erratic. The consistency in the mistakes varies from character page to character page, and that would not be the case if only one individual was writing it. Because there is some stuff that is right, surprisingly, and there really shouldn’t be if the same disinterested, bored person was writing.
Most likely multiple people that hadn’t ever heard of fnaf were hired to write this, and that’s why the end result is so inconsistent. Does that make sense? Idk, but this is what my mind came up with at 1 am.
"You know, people just trying to make a quick buck."
-Phone Guy, 1987
Writen by an AI, its an inuniverse book. None of FNAF ever happened in real inuniverse life. The games are literally games, the books are fanfiction
@@GaybrohamStinkton > None of FNAF ever happened in real inuniverse life.
Are you trying to say "everything before VR isnt canon"
Or are you trying to state the obvious of "FNAF's events arent real"
The former is wrong, and the latter is just stupid :V
Oh jeez,yea that makes so much sense. There are tons of freelance writing schemes like that and I refuse to take them when I see them
@@GaybrohamStinkton the literal plot of vr which introduced that concept has glitchtrap originate from downloading data from the animatronics leading to aftons soul entering the game in the form of glitch trap.
you know literally the antagonist of that game.
I am convinced William himself wrote this book. It calls Elizabeth a brat and refuses to acknowledge mike's existence.
See now this is a good way to interpret the book
@@funtime_julia_arts2316 It’s a inference, also don’t take my Joke comment literally
@@funtime_julia_arts2316 Understood
For real life
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This encyclopedia could’ve been more interesting if it treated the animatronics like actual robots from an actual restaurant company, instead of just characters from a video-game/book franchise. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want another glorified FNaF wiki.
How cool would it be to read about stuff like :
- Exemples of attempted lawsuits against the company throughout the years and how they got away with it or not
- Police reports about different cases, including the murders
- How were designed the animatronics and how they got more advanced technologically
- Testimonies from former employees, parents, cops, health inspectors, lawyers…
- How the restaurants were so unsanitary that biologists discovered three new species of cockroaches endemic to Fazzbear locations
There’s so much that can be done instead of just “This character is (…), he’s from (…) and he does (…)”. This is what a fictional encyclopedia should do, adding details and anecdotes to give more depths to the universe, making it more alive. It would be better to create new secondary lore than just repeating what we already learn by playing the games.
Thank you for attending my Ted-Talk.
That would've been really cool! I would've loved that!
Some of the humans could be in an employee section (the kids get to be expanded on in the lawsuit sections)
That is so much cooler. I would love if they did that. Would have given the book alot of character.
This is why Mobeastiary of Minecraft is better in this aspect. It takes the same approach as what you said.
this is such a cool idea!! someone should definitely make this real
Imagine being the person in charge of this project and going “yeah, a character that never appears in the games or books deserves a page way more than the main character.” #justiceformichael
Justice!
@@michaelafton66 I'm thinking #justiceformichael surfaced, and now you just go around and see where each use of it is and noone can change my mind.
(I'm honestly wanting to stalk this hashtag too though)
My theory is that’s because the Crying child is Michael
This book is literally the PERFECT definition of the classic "Lazy school PowerPoint presentation", where you just get a bunch of random internet pages and poorly wrap them up with the first three images on Google Images of that topic, just so you can get atleast the minimum amount of points.
Basically 😂😂
Nah, those appear most effort than the book
I don't get why Scott is so bad at hiring good artists
I think he's just too loyal to the ones he's already got lmao.
@@jxbermudez if that's the case why not hire the ones from the twisted ones and the fourth closet graphic novel, it upsets me so much
Especially when said artist is the BAD one.
Didn't he step away from all things fnaf
@@rachelpeterson8925 no, he stepped out of the public eye for the most part, but still makes the major decisions. He's just giving not making as many decisions or talking publicly like he once was.
Now that I'm thinking about it, if a few fan-artists, fan-writers, and theorists got together, they could probably whip up something x10 better than this. It's like writing a shortened, abridged, and more colorfully presented character wiki. I am pretty sure we all could do better. I have never been so dissatisfied with a piece of media I felt challenged to improve it myself, but I guess there's a first time for everything, ay?
Fr, there should be a collab project to remake this book
I’d join a collab project if someone started it (I’m no good at organising something like that)
@@nidgithm Sure, send through the link when the server’s set up!
@@undynlicia7554 hi this is my other acc. i made a discord but i cant share it here because my comments are dissapearing. you can find it on this account's channel ^^
If this happens I’m in
I can't believe they left out Michael's iconic line from the games: "I finally found it, my sister's location."
or vanessa’s “freddy there’s been a security breach”
or.. i ran out of jokes
you're both forgetting the ever iconic line
"you're trapped, forever stuck in this ultimate custom night"
Or elizabeth's most lore-fillled amazing iconic line'
"Daddy isnt watching👺👺"
“We know not to make assumption in the world of FNAF” or FNAF World, if you will!
Such a shame they left out any references to Henry’s iconic monologue “you thought this was a mere Pizzeria Simulator, but it is in fact a very real beacon beckoning the lost animatronics back to face their final fate.”
This book isn't just lazy, it's purposefully misleading and underdeveloped to make you buy the rest of the books and games! What a lovely, non-dystopian product
Yeah, that doesnt work.
It's literally just botched, written by several writers most likely...
It wasn’t intentionally like that. More then likey schoolastic just throwed this together to make a quick buck, I doubt Scott or to a lesser extent Dawko had any involvement despite being credited. More then likey a few people with no knowledge of the source material quickly and sloppily made this book with nothing but Google searches and Game Theory videos. They didn’t care if it was accurate or not they only cared that it would sell and get free “Advertising” from fnaf theorists.
@@maxwellattacks6645 Literally all they had to do was check the Wiki.
@@maxwellattacks6645 While I agree that the biggest names had little to no involvement, This sort of product happens all the time, and it's for that exact reason: it is intentionally terrible. There is a certain point where products loop around from riding the popularity of a brand to being advertising for the brand, and this book significantly reaches it. While a lot of it can just be chocked up to lazy writing, certain exclusions (namely giving michael a page) seem very intentional, and like nothing but bait to get children to buy more products.
@@Nightmare-fe9hr Well said, I would personally blame scholastic (Who has sole distribution rights for all Fnaf books) their goal was never to inform it was to sell books to kids. FNAF books sell like hotcakes and they know that. And this isn't the first or last time they will make a cash grab marketed at children. However, the exclusion of Mike was not an ad even if it could be one by proxy, It was avoided to not reveal lore about him. Much of the book doesn't serve its intended goal due to its attempt to stay frustratingly vague.
However, including the AR skins may have been an ad.
Don't worry about being "too hard on it." This is going to be an official product put on shelves. It's also a product to help explain characters in a series held together solely by lore. If this book can't give the reader accurate, credible information, there is no reason for it to be purchased. This would be different if it was a wiki or a fan-made project. However, when things like this are being sold for however many dollars and are lazily slapped together, the kiddie gloves come off. I've heard similar complaints against the Ultimate Guide as well. We as consumers are well within our rights to tear bad products to shreds and make it clear we demand better from the people Scott and Steel Wool license the franchize out to.
I definitely agree. I especially hate when people will try to use the excuse that it's marketed for kids, as though every audience doesn't deserve your best foot forward.
@@notrealnamenotatall2476 anyone who says that is being EXTREMELY disingenuous. Zoobooks was a product made for kids, but if they got the information for a rattlesnake and a gartersnake mixed up, that would still be an issue. Kids media can have certain leniancies, getting information factually incorrect or excluding information because "It's too hard / time consuming" is absolute BS.
this!!! i'm so tired of people going to bat for corporate products. if corporations want our money, they have to give us something good.
Chill Scott is doing his best to make the fan base happy and this book isn’t the worst thing in the world.
@@ParrotsAccount To be honest, it IS pretty bad when the "Character Encyclopedia" cant be trusted as a credible source for the series it's for...
What's annoying about this book is that it's clearly afraid to commit and make a mistake, so it uses words like "could" or "possibly" just in case....even though it ends up making several mistakes anyway.
Not gonna lie though, Mike's tagline being "don't let them in" and Michael's being "they got in" is hilarious. Wish that eas actually in.
as a older fan of this community, it’s so interesting seeing how it’s own creation is confusing to the creator(s). the book had plenty of potential and good idea, seeing it’s going like this… it’s just so infuriating. it’s lazy, and not worth reading. i love fnaf. i do. but it’s just gone so downhill.
agreed
I remember being young and watching Matt Pat’s theories about fnaf and just taking it to heart
But it's just gone so downhill
i really don't think that's the problem here. Aside from Security Breach, Scott has always had a firm grasp on the fnaf series. I really don't think he would make so many mistakes like this.
i will agree the series is slowly falling off though
@@iinfernox the fact that Scott 99% confirmed MatPat’s FNAF 2 theory nearly a decade ago really goes against that. Nearly everything from that video is now outdated, retconned, and debunked and the only thing that still holds up is basically “FNAF 2 is a prequel”. I genuinely think he changed the story when people got close to figuring it out because he realized he could milk this by pretending it was more complicated than he actually set out to make it. I used to love FNAF and was impressed with the storytelling; now despite the love I still have for the series, I believe their interest lies now in maintaining confusion so as to make sure people will always buy the next product.
As a veteran of Ninjago and MLP when I first heard of this book I knew it was going to be a vague mess basically meant to scam younger audiences. Any "Official Character Encyclopedia " of a franchise that also has a child audience will be lame and list obvious or simply untrue information. It's best to criticize and laugh at them for being made, yet also accept that these books will always exist 😔
Reminds me of a pokemon guide book from schoolastic from the fourth generation I had when I was a kid.
There were so many errors and inconsistencies in it. From wrong descriptions, spelling errors, wrong evolution chains, moves certain pokemon can't learn Etc. The updated version of that book wasn't that much better.
@@rosesske2551 I remember those! My family had one for sinnoh and it had alot of errors in it.
@@pokedash55 the one with the final evolution of the sinnoh starters on the cover?
@@rosesske2551 I think so! The cover has been ripped off for a while but some quick research says it was called "The Pokemon Ultimate Handbook". The evolution chains were wrong a lot and it was pretty funny.
@@pokedash55 Yep that's the one.
A weird thing my friend pointed out who used to work at a pharmacy. Sleepy time candy "sounds more than a little sinister" is just kinda a red herring (there's many all over this book) because Children's dosage Melatonin does exist, to help children with sleep and you can easily purchase some at your local pharmacy.
no fucking shit man
exactly! they have children's melatonin gummies everywhere, so a hard candy doesn't seem too far off
I think it's more that it's sketchy for a daycare provider to give it without permission. I assume the parents sign a document that allows the usage of the drops.
I think it's just a name and not an actual medicine
also 'sleepy time tea' is already a thing, and it's just chamomile and herbal tea lmao
Hate hate hate that the fanon version of Elizabeth became semi-canon :( . While I know in abusive households there tends to be a child who’s doted on the most, but people always fail to realize that when it comes to abusive parent(s), that attention is never particularly GOOD attention. William afton showed himself in the books as a horrible father to all of his kids, even if he seemed to like Elizabeth the most out of his three, that doesn’t mean he spoiled her at all. I feel like people just read the Harry Potter books as kids and saw how much Dudley was spoiled and doted on while Harry was locked under the stairs, and just grew up assuming that’s how all abusive households are like.
Abusive parents are not capable of taking care of any child properly, even the ones they like, and in no way would Elizabeth could be spoiled. She most likely grew up just as controlled and abused as Michael and C.C, just her trauma manifested differently, and people assumed just because she’s the annoying little girl character that she was spoiled and wasn’t nearly as damaged as the sad boy characters.
Anyways, sorry for hyper focusing on just that part, I’m just tired and really disappointed in this book haha
100% agree. My uncle was the golden child and my mum was the scapegoat, but both were abused. It just looked different and manifested differently between the two. Just because my grandma liked my uncle, it didn't mean he was doted on- he was neglected and my mum was a victim of extreme helicopter parenting.
It's very infuriating to read that William essentially bent over backwards for Elizabeth. Kind of off topic, but the depiction of William in the Squimpus tapes is perfect, in my opinion and it touches of what you mentioned with good vs bad attention.
William is an awful character (in terms of his actions) and I find it very hard to believe that he could switch up on a dime from talking to Michael to Elizabeth.
At worst, Elizabeth was a little girl who was constantly abused and used to put her siblings down and was accidentally taught that material gifts were the only way to express genuine love and that she had genuine love, and people need to realize that
Wait... is Elizabeth portrayed as spoiled in the fandom? I'm not too deep on her but most fanarts I saw potray her as a regular kid who cares about her brothers. I'm bit confused rn.
@@barboraklepalova3886 a lot of the time, especially like a tiny bit ago, she is depicted as spoiled in the fandom, likely because people don’t understand that Elizabeth being manipulative as circus baby is something she learned after death and not something she did in life, they also seem to not understand the reason why circus baby was being manipulative to the player
These are the same people that say Michael is just like William for causing the bite. Do you think they have the brain capacity to realize this?
its pretty ironic that the people who play these games, even the kids, are more capable of understanding the characters and stories than the official writers, but on the other hand Jeremy the VR tester playing as Jeremy the nightguard had to face off against Jeremy the soul in Withered Bonnie, so maybe it's only this embarrassingly bad because we've got all this stuff memorized and locked away in it's own file cabinet in our brains
My name is also Jeremy, so right now we've got Jeremy the person reading about Jeremy the beta tester playing as Jeremy the night guard fighting back against Jeremy the soul in Withered Bonnie.
@@kingofcrap4414 you should cameo in the upcoming fnaf movie as a character named Jeremy that plays fnaf vr so we can get Jeremy the real person playing Jeremy the character who is playing the game where Jeremy the VR tester is playing as Jeremy the nightguard facing off against Jeremy the soul inside Bonnie. Jeremyception.
Jeramy its in bonnie from fnaf 1,not just fnaf 2
@@Wizardjones69 well yeah it's the same animatronic
Who said he's withered bonnie?
The one very big positive this book provides is the mental image of matpat seething with a very specific rage I don't think you could evoke any other way.
i think for elizabeth the phrase "spoiled child" doesnt directly mean that she was spoiled by william but more as a dark joke for a dead kid. the tagline seems to be alluding to the theory while also being a play on words. just a personal theory though as i dont think the writers put that much effort into it
I like the made up pages for Mike and Michael, and they're so creative like the "rules of safety" and one of the rules are "stay close to Mom".
21:00, Alright I'm going to guess which of the 6 rules he broke: he ran, he yelled, he screamed, I assume he didn't stay close to Mom, he certainly did not leave before dark since he had to work at night...
But you never get a chance to hit anyone, so that rule IS followed...
So that's an easy five confirmed broken and one confirmed followed. That means he broke one of the following two rules yet followed the other!
Thus he either pooped on the floor and didn't touch Freddy; or he touched Freddy and didn't poop on the floor!
Therefore this man is either a Freddy Fondler or a Floor Poopitrator!
NEW LORE ACQUIRED!
Didn't he get fired once for 'odor'? (or maybe that wasn't him)
mike is the clogger
@@kitkaty3 so he shat himself lol
@@marseillejoh He spent 6 hours per day fighting for his life in the guard's office, it isn't surprising that he turned his pants brown at least once.
As a Michael, I feel compelled to defend my fellow Michael. He didn’t shit his pants. He just had his insides scooped out. Poor guy is a walking corpse, hard to cover that with cologne. Smells more like a colon.
Would've been the perfect time to have design and dev notes for the characters
this book feels like it was written by an artificial intelligence they let read through the FNAF Fandom Wiki, or some guy who listened to his friend describe a Matpat video
i wholeheartedly believe that i, and anyone in this comment section, could write this book ten times better than its current state
atleast these people had the motivation to. i would barely finish 1 page 💀 though im sure i could get better pictures and animatronics to describe lol
heres an idea:
have pages for all the main characters
freddy,bonnie,chica,foxy,baby,the puppet,afton,micheal, ect
their alternet versions can have seprate pages IF they are notable
for example, withered freddy and freddy can have the same page but foxy and mangle can have seprate pages
actually have a games chapter and books chapter, one for game stuff and one for the books
dont be extreamly vage with characters
have a page for all the skins
dont waist the intire page on discribing a character whos image is right there
possibly bring up fan theorys like the ultamate gide
talk about the characters acuratly
pages have art or a modle of the character with the tagline under it and then an intro to the character, then what they do, there personality, voice, other traits, bringing up strange things about them, fan theorys, other stuff, also there game apearences are on the side
heres an example!
the daycare attendent
sun and moon
sunny side up!
the dark side of the moon..
sun and moon are the two halfs have the daycare attendent at freddy fazbears mega pizzaplex, dispite sharing the same body, these characters are night and day from each other (pun very much intended)
apearence: the sun has a sylized sun/eclipce looking face with orange spikes on his head, and striped jester attire with a orange, yellow, and tan color schem
moon looks the same but is white and dark blue and rather then spikes, wears a nightcap, his clothes are blue with yellow stars
the sun is very overbearing and exited while also seeming a bit nervous and jittery, unlike most robots at the pizzaplex, sun is friendly and dosnt want to hurt you, he jumps into a ballpit from his balconey and pulls you out, listing games to play while also making sure that your no more then a few inches away from him, he also seems to be a neat freak, rushing to pick up toy barels when you knock them over, the sun dosnt seem to like his night themed other side, warning you to keep the lights on, unfortunetly for sun, gregory has more important things to do then play with a slightly creepy daycare robot, when the lights go out as a security messure for stealing the security bage from the daycares offace, sun screams in pain before falling over and transforming from the creepy but wellmeaning sun animatronic, to the ten times more creepy and DEFFENENTLY NOT well meaning MOON animatronic, forcing gregory to wander the darkend daycare with just a flash light while turning on the generators, unfortunetly, sun dosnt take too kindly to you breaking the one rule of the daycare and bans you, alterting freddys friends
moon is sinister and sneaky, crawling and slinking around, even gliding through the air on a cable to reach high places or swoop down on prey, moon laughs creepily while telling gregory that its "past your bedtime" in a raspy voice thats creepy enough that most kids might consider going back to having a bad dream instead of waking up and realizing whats in the daycare with them, moon cannot enter places when the lights are on, but he follows greory out of the daycare once the power is diverted to the recharge stations, moon seems to be much more intelegent then the other animatronics, while roxy is consumed by her competitiveness, chica cant tell friend from food, and monty acts like an actual gator while under VANNYs control, the moon seems much smarter and ALWAYS finds a way to catch gregory unless in a recharge station or when the lights are on as that makes moon turn back into sun
later on, moon kiddnaps freddy when gregory enters the recharge station in the utility tunnles, and also drags him to parts and servace for vanessa, how he can drag someone as heavy as freddy with those thin arms? who knows
if you return to the daycare dispite being baned, the sun will block you from going down the slide and will call for security, though no animatronics show up this time, sun also puts posters saying that your baned on anu other daycare entrences too
interesting things: sun and moon are not just daycare atendents, but also actors at the daycares fazbear theater and mascots for "sundrops and moondrops" energizing and sleepy time candy, as shown from posters all around the pizzaplex, these posters depict moon as being calm and friendly rather then.. well THIS (image of moon when he twists his body up to fit in the play structures) so its possible that moon wasnt always a creepy jester that wants to drownd you in the ballpit and was once more fitting as a daycare attendent, or fazbear entertainment is just trying to hide the true nature of moon instead.. the sundrop posters also imply that fazbear entertainment is giving caffeine to children wich is more then a little unsettling if you really think about it.
you can find a message in a bathroom near the daycare pick up implying that meany children are scared to sleep with the lights off becase of moon.
there are hand prints on suns back, implying that the children actually seem to like sun
by using a fazcam on diffrent cardboard cut outs acrossed the pizzaplex, you can open a hiddin door in the fazbear theater, wich leads to sun/moons room, their room is a mess, wich is suprising considering their need to "CLEAN UP CLEAN UP" things even if it slows them down, theres drawings on the wall, possibly made by kids that came to the daycare, how nice! less nice is the mangled and broken S.T.A.F.F bots lying around, it seems monty isnt the only one with anger isues, a golden moom plush can be found in here, as well as, of course, the balloon world arcade game
this game has you play as balloon boy as he flys throughs the air using balloons to stay afloat, you must doge obstecals and collect balloons while sun smiles, watching you from in the sky, after some time, moon will apear as it become night, he too smiles in the sky, but being moon, its not the kind of smile you want to see.. after sun comes back then he will have moons sinister grin.. and you play for long enough, you will find a glitch, running into it brings you to the ECLIPCE, as you move along a trail of glitchy obstacals, wich you must stay inside of, you eventually get to the eclipce, who stares at you and says "GOOD NIGHT" before the arcade game powers off
theorys:
some pepole have speculated that the eclipce is the sun and moon combind, considering that an eclipce is when the moon blocks the sun, it starts to make sense why the eclipce keeps suns apearence but still seems to have traits of moon
some pepole have pointed out that sun and moon look alot like the puppet, same kind of head shape but more round, the large smile, the same slender body, stripes on clothes, ect
some pepole have pointed out the sun and moons jester-y apearence match the S.T.A.F.F bot, the circus in the balloon world mini game, as well as the funtime and circus animatronics wich also have a relation to balloon boy
and there! i just wrote a page for the fnaf character enyclopidea in what would take less then an hour, and im not even old enough to be employed! ITS NOT THAT HARD STEELWOOL!
@@nametheocmaker maybe learn to spell before you try to one-up steel wool.
other than that it's actually competently written, (aside from a bit of unneccesary fluff) so credit where credit is due.
@@ecstaticwooper368 thanks! i added the extra stuff just becase it seems like it would fit in the book, sense other books have stuff like this
@@nametheocmaker Looking back through it, it's actually a pretty compact and well written page (and the extra tidbits can't hurt) so great job! Do you think you could do one for Bonnie? Because I actually kinda enjoy reading these. (If not it's all good)
The fact that Michael doesn’t have a page, but is literally mentioned by name in Elizabeth’s page…. I think theres a Michael page out there somewhere, I think it got cut.
They gave three heads a character bio that don't even do anything but blink and have no lore relevance but they didn't give the main character one
The “don't let them in” and “They got in” was mad clever
Thank you. ^_^
I don't care if it means they'd have to confirm lore! I want my man Michael to get a page!!!
Oh, you've made my day now. Thank you.
It would be more appreciated if they DID confirm lore. This series has done the fanbase to dirty with its wishy washy presentation of information and multitude of convoluted and unexplained ret-cons that they deserve SOME form of clarity.
@@JackedThor-so Books like these are meant to confirm lore too, otherwise it wouldn't be called a guide
@@marek1shtar538 this book is not a guide
Yes! Give Mike his own page! William has three separate entries in this book, but Mike doesn’t even get one?
Henry suspiciously looking like the dead(for a reason) webcomic blueycapsle’s rendition of him is so jarring. Like this is uncannily similar to his fan-designs. You’re right.
Oh WOW, I didn't realize that. He does look shockingly like him. O.O And he's likely where that fan interpretation spread off from.
@@notrealnamenotatall2476 down to the beard and the plaid outfit he wears. So wild
1. Do I want to know the context?
2. Honestly, I feel like it could (and should according to the books) be a different SHADE of brown hair rather than blonde. It could be lighter or darker, or have hints of another color in there. I have brown hair with a little bit of red, so it could work. just make William have the same shade as Mike's Sister Location cutscene pixel art, and let Henry have the dark brown hair.
It looks like Freddiez-Arcade's Henry ( this is actually where the popular fan Henry design came from ), but they got something wrong.
@@ZirconiaGacha william’s hair is shown to be dark brown/ borderline black. Henry has very light brown hair with some blonde highlights (like you I have brown hair with red highlights, but I believe the look they are going for with Henry is one with blonde undertones as opposed to our more common reddish brown undertones).
I feel like a big issue with it is the book's inability to decide what it wants to be. Sure, it says it's an encyclopedia, but a lot of it reads more like a journal in which someone is documenting their observations/thoughts/theories about these characters.
Yeah... I preordered this book. I just figured it would be neat to have a big ol' reference of all the FNaF animatronics.
Welp, there goes that money. Well, I can always try to make the best of it... or just burn it. The best way I can describe this book is that it feels like it was written by an AI.
Well, it still might be worth something! It's a collection piece and as goofy as it is, you might have some fun with it. ^_^
In a few years, this books is going to cost hundreds, because this shit isn't gonna sell for long, and it will become a collector item
AI is how I felt about it too. The weirdly basic writing style, the incorrect information, the garbage images used, it feels like an AI was fed a bunch of FNAF information and it just puked whatever this abomination is out and they went "PRINT!" Without even looking at it.
that is an insult to ai, it could generate an entire book 10x better than this in under a minute lmao
omg you're so right. If this whole book was written by AI, I would only be surprised that it didn't do a better job than this.
Henry looks like an episode character.
I also love how it talks about how damaged foxy is next to an image of an undamaged foxy
It was a crime for them to exclude Michael, my favorite character and, oh I don’t know, THE PROTAGONIST. Anyway, thank you for doing him justice and entertaining me with this awful book
This book really is a cautionary tale that at some point you NEED to confirm at least something, if you want your fandom to stay alive.
Like... come on Scott. It's been years. Throw us at least something. But no it's the usual "OoOoooOhh seeecretsss~" BS.
It's partially why I stopped being invested in theories because what's the point if the best you're gonna get at the end is a "Maybe!" and a completely confusing lore and timeline.
He needs to confirm at least a couple of names. Crying Child DESERVES a real name.
MatPat essentially roasting the cover of this book on GTLive is hilarious. 😆
I find the novel and game mixing a bit dangerous because it drastically alters the situations around characters with fanons.
William Afton from the games is really different from the one from the books. They're opposites of each other in terms of talents and character. Game William is often displayed as beneath Fazbears and created the Animatronics. Book William is above Fazbears and is envious of Henry's technical skills.
True, and since they needed to fill more pages they could've easily did game and book pages for certain characters. Charlie definitely could've gotten a separate game and book page.
@@notrealnamenotatall2476 It really doesn't help that H3nry in the games is a much bigger asshole and is clearly interesting in altering and abusing William's creations for his own gains. If you look into the blue prints, William's Baby is actually missing key features (her helium tank, See the SL interview). William wouldn't mention this currently absent object in the interview, unless a more powerful force (Henry/Fazbears) forced him to change/remove it to save space for the claw. If Book Henry's Adult Charlie was turned into Dave's Dave, then William's Baby was altered by H3nry to be deadlier.
William was so powerless to deal with Fazbear's/Henry's influence, he and Michael had to go after the animatronics in-person to dismantle the mess themselves. And what happened to them? William got trapped in Springtrap (this evil ass animatronic was alive prior to William, but this shadowy being could have his own video alone to explain his eldritch ass) and Michael got scooped half-alive (Michael's body was weird prior to SL's events. His guts were cut open and he walked around just fine). It's heavily implied by PS Baby and Molten Freddy (who is possessed by the MCI children, by the way) that they cared about William (the person they mistaken Michael for), but they were so desperate to escape from H3nry, they resorted to taking over his body. And, they had faith in William willingly becoming their suit (Why don't people take note of this?). Again, Baby and the MCI children feared H3nry and appreciated (who they thought was)-William Afton.
Another thing that is freaky to consider is that Game William and Book Henry are both the main suspects of the MCI, but their partners have "mysteriously' gained more influence/power after the MCI. This was critical to remember because the MCI killer in the games never worn a costume to do his deeds (fnaf1 MCI paper contradiction), but Fnaf2 had William and Foxy take the fall for the MCI. Implying, William Afton was in the Foxy Springlock suit (the only kind of animatronics allowed to roam during the day), and those five children were given multiple private birthday parties by him. Candy Cadet provided further context by telling us stories about a man adopting five orphan children (including Susie. "I was the first"). And in one incident, he lost all five of them at once and desperately tried to bring them back. This protagonist has to be William (who "adopted" the MCI in the books), making H3nry the killer.
[{Events in order: Baby minigame (Elizabeth dies. leaving William depressed), Fruity maze (Susie and William meeting. Susie reminds him of Elizabeth) > Candy Cadet's Criminal story (William adopts five children) > Fnaf2's Foxy Go Go Go (William, as Foxy, witnesses the corpses of his children on their third B-day party. H3nry watches with a smile on his sick face.) > Candy Cadet's fire story (William tries to save the five children as fast as he can by stuffing their remnants to one animatronic, which is later used for the Funtimes. Before the police arrive) > Fnaf2's Give Gifts. Give Life (The Puppet arrives and properly stuffs their bodies into five suits. Possibly because William saved her with his creation, the security puppet).
For a bastard that said he was horrified by what the animatronics became, H3nry certainly was avoiding the mirror in front of him for turning them into monsters. If you recalled the video you did on Book William, a lot it applied to H3nry's character way too well. He was repeatedly displayed as an abuser without the vagueness of dialogue or potential sprite debates (Control shocks). This guy knew that Charlie was locked outside by children, which oddly makes him the most likely suspect to kill her. The way he "saved' people was shown to be hideously violent, because he cared for nothing but their souls. I wonder if he tried to "save" Charlie with the mad science of immortality and discounted her body as a merely replaceable object. Or worse, he wanted to use her death to fuck William Afton (the OG Fredbear owner) over.
@@justice8718 what did I just read?
@@Thor-Orion Also Henry canonically wears a Yellow collared shirt that makes far more sense for casual wear. Have fun with the MCI Yellow Man in Midnight Motorist because fnaf is a big mystery of many villains.
Why was the person compiling this encyclopedia not given the author's notes? Scott probably has character profiles saved on his PC that include all these characters' appearances, any creator would. It would be as simple as copy-pasting some documents. Worst case scenario, he'd have to scan some physical documents.
It kinda feels like there were a dozen different people all working on this book at the same time with no coordination. It's just so... armature. I get it, it's a horror game series made for children, but kids care about this sort of stuff, it is no excuse to be sloppy.
“For children” is no excuse. As if Beauty and the Beast is somehow lower quality than Sausage Party because it was intended for children while Sausage Party was rated R.
Something a lot of adults don’t understand, is that little kids care an excessive amount about lore and story, and with the stories they love they consume all the info on them they can and memorize, every theory and whether or not it’s right or wrong and rant to people about their frustration with inaccuracies in media about their interests
This book is clearly the definitive source for canon Five Nights at Freddy's knowledge.
EDIT: Nevermind, OMC doesn't have FNAF World listed in his appearances.
...I wish I would've caught that.
How is this book be seen as canon? It has too many errors in it?
@@ix_skillx_pxin4645 I believe it was sarcasm
For real life
@@tayloranderson7547 😐
I still find it so funny that those small human heads from SL have a page but neither Mike Schmidt nor Michael Afton have one. The AR skins all have individual pages but Jeremy Fitzgerald, Fritz Smith, none of them have anything. How the shit did Springtrap from a cutscene get a single page but Phone Guy and Phone Dude didn’t? Scraptrap doesn’t even have a page either, instead images of him are used on Afton’s page that just talks about what he did through the series. And Springtrap’s page mentions his book appearances more than his impact on the games since his introduction! I mean, are they fucking kidding me? Even the magician and Little Joe toys get pages but somehow none of the MCI kids get pages, despite their names being revealed NUMEROUS TIMES in the franchise! I can’t even remember if regular Fredbear got a page but I doubt it since his only true appearance was a jumpscare.
Book’s a mess, just like every other FNaF book before it. I really firmly believe FNaF does not deserve books in the first place, let alone this many. They’ve clearly proven incompetent with it and they’re still being mass produced every year clearly for money at this point. When other indie games that are much less accepted as FNaF do the book formula better, maybe it’s time to try something else.
Wait, which animatronic was Little Joe?
Fritz Smith is micheal
Scholastic is a brutal publisher. Look into their relationship with RL Stine, their most successful author ever.
@@Wizardjones69 That only makes me despise this lore even more. Not worth the time if everyone is the same purple moron every single game.
@@redpanda6497 Apologies for the late response but he’s from SL. He’s a weird little puppet dude you can see in the Circus Gallery with a blue hat on his head. He also appears in FNaF 6 under the name Lally for the Lally’s Lollies brand.
It's like they couldn't decide if they wanted to give new information, if they wanted to mention details that are exclusive to the books and they wanted to give us the very obvious and intended ‘4’ or just the ‘2+2’ we were provided by the source material and whatever one they landed on it wasn't consistent from then on.
I really like FNAF but seriously this series has been taking L after L recently. How the hell do you fail at doing a charachter encyclopedia? All they had to do was say look at something like, The Essential Guides to characters from Star Wars to learn how to do one right. Who signed off on this?
Scholastic did. They do this constantly doesn't matter what it's based on. They might have done it without permission as they own the sole rights to FNAF books, they can make a FNAF book anytime they want with little to no involvement. In my opinion FNAF should cut ties with Scholastic completely and find a better publisher.
@@maxwellattacks6645 yeah, look into the Scholastic vs RL Stine debacle to get a handle on how scummy this company really is.
Btw the whole “Bringing new meaning to the phrase ‘spoiled child.’ “ means Elizabeth is “spoiling” inside Circus Baby rather than her being a spoiled brat due to her believing Baby was made for her and disobeying her fathers orders.
This could have been a great way to steam line all the established lore and maybe even officially retcon some inconsistent bits, yet of course, that isn't the case. It's shitty that they can still claim it's written by Scott tho, with a claim like that you'd expect expert knowledge.
Twisted Chica was indirectly mentioned in The Twisted Ones, which this is a short excerpt from The Twisted Ones “Was there a malformed rabbit hidden in the dirt just there? A chicken clutching a cupcake to its grotesque chest?”
I'll never understand how something this weird exists. Something that raises a few things that makes sense does more things that doesn't make sense. Doesn't have the Mc of the orginal games in it. And has art that while has neat designs Holy crap the art itself could use some work. Seriously did these things get like any quality control or someone who actually like reviews it to see if it could be improved
It supposedly did they even credited Dawko for it. But I’m gonna assume the scholastic writers just threw all of his suggestions away
Same here
"Mike: Don't let them in. / Michael: They got in." Is better than this entire book. Laughed so damn hard at that. Super clever. They should have let you be in charge of this book instead.
fnaf catering to kids was one of the worst decisions. this book shows why.
This book would have been a good opportunity to hard confirm what should already be known to players to have everyone on the same playing field, as well as finalize and give consistency to some character designs, but instead, this thing looks like a kid opened InDesign/Publisher and filled it with googled images and whatever game elements they could partially remember off the top of their head. Except a kid wouldn't get such basic details about these characters wrong.
I don't know why this franchise hates the idea of continuity management so badly. It's only going to help them in the long run. At this point, and especially with a paid product that is meant to explain characters, they need to forget "uwu omg spoilers" and actually explain and describe the characters in the games and books. None of this "they could be, they might be, it seems like". They need to be making definitive statements on any data from 1-UCN. "This character IS, this character DID, these characters ARE RELATED", etc. If there are any characters they want kept "secret", they can have a chapter called "secret characters", and on the chapter splash page, they can have "Warning: Top Secret!" text and imagery, coupled with a brief statement of "Heads up! It's best if you play the games to see these characters before you read further!" That's all you can do, and that's all that's necessary.
Why should someone pay for a book that claims to be a source of information on the characters, and then it's filled with "I don't know, I guess this happened" on top of giving blatantly false information?
And for a children's book, I'd actually consult Scott or SW or whoever and add one additional fun characterization fact for each character that is not available in the games or books currently, so that a kid reading this can learn something new about each character that makes them love them more. "Freddy loves telling knock knock jokes the most when he's on stage." "Bonnie often has malfunctions with his ear movements." "Michael loves mint chocolate chip ice cream." Just random stuff that doesn't impact the story but makes the characters feel more like characters. Maybe those traits can come up as easter eggs in future games, maybe not. It doesn't matter. It's mainly for appeal and soul. When I was growing up, character encyclopedias had stuff like that in them all the time.
I'm glad they finally redesigned Henry, but I really wish they'd pay a brand new professional artist to do everything over and get all the designs unified, and the humans drawn by someone who knows how to give distinct, unique, fitting designs to human characters. New Henry, Vanessa, Gregory, and Elizabeth are solid enough designs. Everyone else feels like a background/filler character design. They don't need spiked belts and mohawks or anything like that, just more memorable face shapes and body builds, and distinct color schemes to their clothes.
You’re spot on. I completely agree that this book may finally be the straw that breaks the camels back for the community in terms of our tolerance of cryptic bullshit. It’s 2023, time to give the Crying Child a definitive name. Time to start officially confirming decade old theories that have been all but confirmed by Scott himself. Continuously building a mystery on top of the same foundation without ever clarifying where the story has developed is a recipe for disaster. I feel like Scott doesn’t know exactly how to transition from one era to the next, as though he is afraid of losing the fans’ interests if he finally confirms the story and puts it into position for the story to move forward in new and exciting ways. It’s been long enough of repeating the same story with a new coat of paint each time. I really thought Security Breach could be an awesome transition from old style FNAF into wherever it is they wanted to go with it. I still hope that this ends up being the case, but I have absolutely zero confidence in this happening because of shit like this encyclopedia being so poorly compiled and presented.
Some things that felt really weird to me was in Charlie/Charlottes page they only show her book appearance not her game appearance and in Henry's page they just use Henry as his name not Henry Emily but then on Charlie/Charlottes page her name it Charlotte Emily which i know those details don't really matter and wouldn't change anything about the book but it just really stood out to me with also Twisted Chica not being a Canon character or even making the sister location heads have a page Also I'm not sure if you know this but Glitchtraps name wasn't originally Glitchtrap it was Malhare but in a merch website he was called "Glitchtrap" so everyone started calling him Glitchtrap so i was surprised when they didn't mention that on his page
Why did they have to make Henry look like an amish adventurequest character 😭😭😭
Also for Elizabeth's page Scott confirmed that Elizabeth was the most abused out of all of William's children. Also can we talk about how bad the cover of the Encyclopedia is? Like most of the characters in the cover weren't even in the Encyclopedia!
Where did he confirm it? Just so I can get the proof
I already heard about how disastrous this book is especially the fact mike is missing and what about the ghoast kids they shouldve have dedicated pages for the ghoast kids likee put there name and show the the animatronics that they posessed like they is 2 spirits in golden freddy like cassidy and crying child and and i would have loved too to know who cassidy is ans the vengful spirit.
And what about misgendering characters ,like mangle a d circus baby, Mangle has 2 endo skeletons the fox head is female while the endo head is male .
This book look like so much potention and fun im glad i saved my money .
If they were going to include renders, atleast make some new ones with the old models. The newer models are fine, but if you're going to include renders use the older ones.
Also that part about Mike breaking all the rules is hilarious.
FNAF has "officially" jumped the shark. This encyclopedia will be cited as the moment FNAf lost all respect and legitimacy.
FNAF has had so many "jump the shark" moments in a row at this point, whatever respect and legitimacy it may have had is just buried under a pile of bullshit.
I still remember being in the fandom when FNAF 6 and UCN first came out, those were such great times. What happened?
Mike: Don't let them in.
Also Mike: They got in.
This book. THIS DAMN BOOK is basically the thing that fully pushed me into making an AU for my personal FNaF timeline. Something doesn't quite line up or the only headcanon I think works doesn't work with the plot? Simple: "my AU, my rules" applies. I still try to keep it as accurate as possible to known and undeniably canon lore like William Afton being the murderer and stuff, but it also lets me pretty much completely get rid of things that mess up the timeline (like Eleanor bs). I did put a comment similar to this on a different video by someone else covering the Character Encyclopedia as well, but since I've mentioned headcanons more in the comments here I might as well say why I bring it up a lot.
Same.
The only thing i like about this book is ghost CC art, i think it looks pretty cool haha.
This looks like something someone whose never played the games would make in their free time based off what others tell them of the characters.
Am i the only annoyed that henry's last name (emily) isn't on his page but it's on charlie's page
YES. That's a pet peeve of mine.
More evidence that every section in this book was likely written by a different person.
emily could just be charlies middle name but its still weird imo
Honestly I feel like this book has the same problem FNAF is having right now and that is the fact that everything has to be a mystery. They can't just be upfront about anything and just say something that is true instead they have to be mysteries and everything has to be hidden so that FNAF fans discuss and theories. Now nothing wrong with having a game or franchise with a story that is hidden and that the player has to work in order to understand what's going on that is actually something I like about FNAF. However when even in the Encyclopedia has to be all secretive and not give any answers because it wants everything to be a mystery so fans will discuss and make theories it just ruins the story and honestly it ruins the enjoyment of the story and honestly has just made this franchise extremally tiring and frustrating.
I feel like Fnaf would benefit from taking a page from Bendy and just being a little more direct with the basic story elements and then building a mystery around those. Like, the wrong things are being kept secretive. You can't build a proper mystery when this many details are constantly left in the air, or when the game/book/ect is too afraid to accidentally give 'answers' that everything is kept in a constant state of limbo.
Basically Fnaf is sacrificing the story for the mystery, but a mystery is useless without a story.
*I can’t believe this book did my boy Helpy so dirty. I’d prefer reading my own descriptions of the FNaF characters over reading this book, if you can even call it that.*
Why didn't they ask scott or someone to do another teaser style image for the cover of the book? Kids judge books by their cover
As a OG FNaF fan, someone who studied graphic design and is an English linguist in making, this book makes me go NUTS
Im disappointed how characters like twisted Chica and God damn Sea Bonnie's get pages(even the posters got there own pages) but Michael, the nightguards and missing kids don't get them. William doesn't even get a design. For real the fanmade Wikipedia is better for info than the official encyclopedia
This book is almost perfect on the sense that it shows how absolutely lazy the writers for FNAF can be and, to some degree, how lazy Scotts gotten. For a official character wiki you'd want every little scrap of information, even fan speculations.. if I wrote this I would be like Mattpatt levels of insanity on how much I put in with no fluff/filler and a lot of lore details.
But yeah I think this was something where scholastic or whom have you was like 'just.. watch the cutscenes and make shit up'
Scholastic does this all the time, it’s not just FNAF… look into the RL Stine vs Scholastic situation. They are a really greedy, money grubbing publisher.
Controversial opinion but the new Henry is kinda hot
Oh 😅
Way better than the trash graphic novel design.
Agreed!
This makes me weirdly nostalgic for those old Pokemon info books that had like, a million mistakes in them that were even glaring to kids
this book's art and art placement just SCREAMS "graphic design in my passion"
this book is like the commercialized version of essays i was forced to write about topics that gave me nothing to work with in middle school
NotRealName: The REAL voice of reason.
Aww, shucks! 😊
The fact that posters are pages are actually really cool, some are making references to previous games and you dint normally see these things.
I missed the part in Pokémon where you hallucinate in a pit and Torterra turns up.
Who needs a character encyclopedia when you have all of RUclips and every single theory possible to give you all the information you could possibly ever need that may or may not be accurate depending on your own interpretation?
Honestly, considering that FNAF has been through so many semi-retcons, they should have made the book a completely clear rundown on what the lore is at this point. Who's who, who knows who, where everyone's at, confirm/debunk a few fan theories, maybe add a few fun-fact asides here and there in their own small section. (E.G. William and Henry met in college), stuff like that.
You know, I had asked for Scott Cawthon or someone else to come forward and explain everything about the lore of FNaF. *This* isn't what I meant.
Guessing I shouldn't have wished on a Monkey's Paw, huh?
when referring to Elizabeth Afton as a "spoiled" child, I think it is literal by "bringing a whole new meaning". It isn't saying she is spoiled in the way one might assume. It is saying she is spoiled because she uh... became a dead clown animatronic or something gruesome I'm not too clear on the lore. Think "spoiled" like milk. That was my interpretation at least.
i work at a bookstore where we're allowed to "check out" books for 2 weeks like a library. i was pretty excited about this book so i checked it out during my break to read over lunch. i got to the part where it claimed that fnaf 4 is about a child that went to freddy's pizzeria and is now having nightmares. and i had to take a moment. nothing else? no mention of the house's plans be⁸ing in sister location, or belonging to the aftons. no mention of the crying child. no mention of the actual story of the characters in fnaf 4. i decided, ok, maybe the rest of the book will be better.... but after the 4th freddy skin i closed the book and unchecked it 👍
I was listening to you read Mike and Michael's pages and I was like, "Huh, those aren't too bad at all and are actually a little funny!" And then you pulled the rug on me 😓
This book isn't written by Scott himself,he's the one who knows the lore the best,even if Scott isn't a good storyteller,he's not a idiot,which means someone else wrote this book,or maybe Scott is trolling us,or maybe he is the former who is still making things up as they go,but I have a feeling someone who isn't Scott wrote this book,and should be fired and blacklisted
The book was probably passed around through a couple of people. It's not really their fault but whoever decided above them that it was okay to skimp... which would be Scholastic. XD
"Should be fired and black listed" be serious that's not gonna happen.
Even if Scott didn't write this book, he signed off on it or signed away his rights to dictate the content of FNAF property which doesn't sound like the Scott who vetoed several scripts because they seemed like money grabs. But something has changed. The Survival Logbook and The Ultimate Guide are leagues better than this.
Don't treat Scott like a god, he's a person and he makes mistakes too. I'm certain they would have at least had to get his permission to ship this book out. Though I doubt Scott was involved with this book one bit.
@@kingofcrap4414 I never said he was god,I'm saying that Scott himself didn't write this encyclopedia,there's a difference,Scott knows Fnaf better then anyone,but is hiding the details from us,but looking at this book,you can tell it wasn't written by Scott himself,this thing has it's own lore confused.
You know what I would really have liked is if they had an image for Phone Guy so we finally have an actual image of what this character looks like
On top of everything, it's really sad to me that they're seemingly trying to erase fnaf world out of existence
i know scott mentioned that fnaf world shouldn’t have even been a thing when it was and that he actually kind of regrets it.
@@triiniitea Just for the hate at it. The game itself was pretty good and it serves as a lore expansion too.
fnaf world only existed for deedee, but not, you know, other characters who actually originated from fnaf world (my personal fave fnaf game)
@@galaxyacidic fnaf world sweep
@@galaxyacidic Same, FNaF World is my favorite too.
The thing is... Foxy DOES sing in the cut showtime theme. He only gets one line though.
"Now you've met all the members of the band!"
EDIT: Spoke too soon... 2:32
20:56 Okay,you didn't have to scare me like that when you talked about Mike/Michael being in the book, lol. I literally tried to search it up again in fear that I may have been wrong about Michael not being there.
About the book though - Maybe I'm asking for too much...but couldn't it reveal a little bit more of Lore? Like I'm not asking for a page for Cassidy or anything,but the only page interesting was CC's and probably only because it said that CC was "terrorized" by FNAF 4 animatronics. And,of course, in FNAF's manner,we don't know if we can even trust that information! Literally everything else in the series seems to debunk that little thing mentioned. If we don't make up some stretched theories that tell that he WAS indeed,but then Michael got the same nightmares as him or something like that.
Oh yeah, here's a thing that I found out too,apparently if you add a black button to Toy Bonnie,he magically turns into Bon-Bon! (The poster in fnaf 3 in cam 04 and 08 being the reason why Bon-Bon is mentioned there, lol)
So many of these are so bad. First of all, what the heck is wrong with Elizabeth's art. It looks great and terrible at the exact same time. I really like Henry's new design. Because in the books Henry just looks like sober William. All the pages look super empty for an encyclopedia. It's like someone who's never played FNAF was tasked with writing all this out. When you read the page of Mike and read that Mike broke 8 out of 10 rules at Freddy's, I just can't help but think that Mike shit on the floor 🤣. But the real question is, did he shit himself before or after being stuffed into the animatronic suit?
Out of defiance either way. XD
mikes side quests were break the rules in the pizzeria so like every dedicated gamer he went for the easiest one. Shit on the floor, he probably didnt go close to freddy though nor did he go away from his parents since he was a night guard
I think the text for Elizabeth is saying she died and rotted in baby a literal spoiled child
Yeah, that’s what I think as well.
Probably, but I just know someone's gonna at me about it in that video, lol.
I'm an older fan of the franchise, and honestly I'm just getting frustrated with this series. It was good when it started, missing kids, hauntings, murderous robots. Nice simple clean story. Now with layer after layer of red herrings and false leads and retcons and science fiction added to keep the story going, I just want it all to stop, or reboot. The series has gotten far too off the rails at this stage, as proven that people who are paid to can't keep it straight
I agree! It's so frustrating now.
Tbh i think the glitchtrap one that say he appeared "in the flesh" want to confirm that the digital springtrap and glitchtrap somehow connected or the same entity mabye? (Idk just opinion)
It feels like a different person worked on every page, each with no contact with each other or any access to info about the games/books
This book feels like a middle school group project that no one involved wanted to do so they all slapped their parts together as quickly as possible
I love your Mike & Michael Afton page SO much that I want you to make a video of you making pages for significant characters in the lore that didn't have pages (Like William Afton) and new ones for characters that DO have a page but have poorly written ones. (Like Henry)
You know, I might actually do that! 8D Thank you!
This book is as put together as security breach at launch
If Scott was still involved, this wouldn't've happened. He cares about the source material, he knows it and would help make this more genuine than whatever bs we're getting instead.
Thing is, Scott IS still involved with FNAF.
This isnt the first shit "guide" book, "The Freddy Files" and it's Updated Version are both books that were as much of a mess as the Encyclopedia, prompting him to come on board for the Ultimate Guide we have now, if i remember right.
BOTH of which releasing before Scott retired from game dev.
(2017 and 2019, vs his 2021, same year Ultimate Guide released)
Scott only wrote the Ultimate Guide, that was the only guide book written by Scott himself. The rest of the guide books including this one were written almost exclusively by lazy Schoolastic writers presumably.
@@maxwellattacks6645 Yeah
@@higueraft571 Someone else said Scott only did the Ultimate guide
@@inciniumz4671 the older versions of the Ultimate guide were just typical so bad it's funny Scholastic guides which are common for popular franchises like pokemon.
This book is genius. It's full of blatantly wrong info, it makes established things sound mysterious and unconfirmed, and it highlights completely pointlss things. Now we can have even more theory videos picking apart the wording because Charlie in the books is 'human' and Crying Child is the protagonist of FNAF4! Because people refuse to accept these supplementary books are straight up meaningless.
A reason I really like the trilogy of encyclopedia for the legend of zelda is because, even with its flaws (like contradicting the games own info.) It still feels like there was effort and an attempt to make it a celebration of the franchise, its history and a way to connect and remember all the good memories that playing Zelda gave me over the years.
On the other hand, FNAF has this lazy, ugly and confusing mess made with so little care that it feels like some random dude just make it in powerpoint in a couple of days. This is honestly insulting to the fanbase and could potencially damage the side of the community that makes theories and dicussion around the lore and story in the future.
What a wasted.
I've seen that book and it definitely feels like there was still a good deal of effort. A little misinformation isn't too awful if if comes from a place of trying hard and just getting kerfuffled.
9:52 "Wow, eating carrots really does help you see in the dark." Ok, that one actually got a chuckle out of me, ngl.
One of the things that get me, besides Michael missing from the book and the lazyness in writing, is the lack of new images, there could've been great new content just from a silly character book, even to hide some secrets in images (as fnaf already did) to spice some theories.
Anyway, i adore your chanel! Keep up with the good work
As all over the place in quality that this book is, I'd be lying if I thought Mike and Afton's taglines being "Don't let them in" followed by "They got in" wasn't at least a little funny.
But in Afton's case, they seriously couldn't opt for his iconic 'I always come back' as his tagline? Really, authors????????
Not gonna lie...seeing a literal "oc" (aka twisted chicka) seemed unintentionally cool since its bascicly a free "canon" design for fan creators
It sounds like the bootleg, pictured encyclopedia books I used to buy back as a kid in China (I mostly remember the Ultraman ones, since Ultraman used to be big when I was growing up). Except even lazier somehow.
The fact that Henry's daughter's name is not mentioned in his pages, even though Charlie has her own section, makes it seem that those pages were written by different people. That is probably true for the whole book; there was likely a number of writers working on the book, and they were all given a different group of entries to write. And that strategy does not automatically mean a product will end up inconsistent, but it's clear that no one in the team peer reviewed each other's entries, which is essential in that type of work. There was no communication of which informations to include and which to leave out.
It's also clear that most entries focus on a single appearance of the character, but that's a bad decision. In a franchise with so many games and books, it's important to cross reference how the same character has been depicted in different stories. Henry's pages only mention the true ending of FNAF 6, even though the Silver Eyes trilogy expands so much on his character. Another thing lacking in this book is information of how the animatronics behave in the games that they appear in, and how to avoid them. This is supposed to be a character ENCYCLOPEDIA, meaning all information concerning each character must be mentioned.
Fixed lolbit page that everyone would like:
Lolbit first appears in Sister
Location as an Easter egg, in the
form of a mask that randomly
spawns in place of the Ennard
mask inside the Primary Control
Module. She also turns up in that
game's Custom Night, appearing
on computer screens. You can get
rid of her by typing "LOL." He
makes a full appearance in Help
Wanted, replacing Funtime Foxy
in Dark Rooms.Besides that he also apears in fnaf world as one of the shop keepers ,you can buy bytes,healingpods and stingers from her that can help you in a fight
Me like "Weird that they're not showing pics of the Mike pages. These sound fine, too, why are they reading the full page?" Ahhh. Then it makes sense. That would be why. That footie pajamas bit was legit funny.
Thank you! XD