MattC said:
this reminds me a lot of the lore around slenderman which revolves around leaving out details and required a lot of speculation in order to remain scary.
in the first game, it's not hard to tell what happened. kids were attacked by the weird costume things. i don't know about the other games but honestly the lore around this game really doesn't seem all that interesting and fairly forced.
Okay so i'm gonna explain a little of the lore on these games *MAJOR SPOILERS INCOMING ABOUT THE SERIES (If you still haven't played them of course lol)*
One of the major events of the FNAF Series is "The Bite Of 87"
The Bite Of '87 was a day on 1987, where a animatronic bit a child's Frontal Lobe (Which lead to the child's death).
That event was known by the players since the first game, where Phone Guy references it on one of the nights.
In the first game we only knew that the animatronic was left behind, so the incident wouldn't happen again. Presumably it only could be Foxy (since he was separated from the other 3) BUT then people started to see hallucinations in the game (One of them, Golden Freddy, which was in a pose like a sit inannimated body).
Golden Freddy then started a huge wave of speculation regarding what/who was that wierd animatronic. Golden Freddy then reappeared in FNAF 2 (where sometimes only his head could be seen, like in his jumpscare) which started another huge wave of speculation because that could not be a "regular" animatronic like the others.
He didnt appear in FNAF 3 (Only as a decoration so it doesnt count).
In this last game all the Plot Holes about The Bite of 87 were filled. It wasn't an accident, neither a broken animatronic BUT a murder! In FNAF 4 we play as a child, that doesnt like Freddy's (The Restaurant) for some reason yet unknown (Which might be revealed on the Major Update on October 31st). A new animatronic appears, which is called FredBear. In the teasers we wouln't know his real color so Scott just had FredBear in grey with his Hat and Bowtie in purple (To hide his real appearance). Later in the game when he appears we discover that FredBear is Golden... Which confirms that Golden Freddy = The Future FredBear.
In Night 5's Minigame, which is The Bite Of 87, we found ourselves (The child) in the middle of a group of teens, each one with masks of each animatronic (Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy). They start to mock the kid and start saying that the kid wants to see fredbear up close. The kid starts crying even more, they grab him and take it to FredBear. Once they reach FredBear (which is singing on stage with SpringTrap (which is also known to be a suit and not an animatronic (Which means someone was inside it)) They say the kid wants to kiss FredBear and put the kid's head inside FredBear's Mouth...Resulting of a Bit on the Frontal Lobe of his brain and his death...
FredBear was then put in a basement, which lead to his decomposition that we know as Golden Freddy
And this is just a little of the whole story