Five Nights at Sonic's: FNAF's Most INSANE Rabbit Hole 

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Great video!

Correction: The Puppet in FNAS2 who is officially called the Luiginette (I mean it makes sense Marionette litterally has Mario as the first 5 letters of the word) was actually made as a memorial to Luigi following his "death" in FNAS 1 that's right, he survived by iirc hiding under the desk causing him to accidentally fake his death

As a kid in like 2014, It always pissed me off that FNaS had Mario characters in it. Now that I know the reason why, it kinda just reminds me of my own struggles with drawing sonic characters

I would kill to see you talk about Five Nights at Wario's. *Especially* Five Shows at Wario's & the various FNAW fangames with shocking's amount of quality. It's a pretty neat series overall that deserves more coverage.

I will never fully trash games like these, because of how they were made. These games are very clearly small projects made by kids and I think that's pretty neat. The fact that someone young was able to get a game up and functioning is honestly impressive. People can underestimate just how much work it takes to make a game that actually functions. Plus, it's also important to encourage kids to embrace their creativity and try and make something, rather than just put them down. I hope the devs get to work on bigger and better things in the future.

Mad respect to CyVap for recreating all of FNaF 1 from scratch as a kid, that's super impressive even if the end product is bad

The disclaimer at every fnas game always brings me so much nostalgia. *"This is what happens when an inside joke gets turned into a game"*

While you were playing tyke and sons, did you build the thing where the developer would talk to you about making the game? If not you should definitely go back and make it. It's called "what is that"

Five Nights at Sonic's, to me, is a lot like DSaF. Feels like an utter shitpost, but by the last game, becomes way better than what us, the audience, were hoping for.

It’s not a “good game” in technical terms, but it’s fun, silly, and an Internet relic. I remember that the only thing younger me was miffed about was that there were Mario characters in a Sonic game.

Man, FNaS is one of those fangames that I remember only because during middle school, I had a friend who was really into Sonic, and during the Fnaf boom of the mid 2010's. He drew the FNaS characters and cut them out to play with me during snack, lunch and whenever the teachers gave us free time to play. Ah, the memories I have of him and I playing with cardboard/paper characters that we drew and cut out with all the wacky stuff we did and made up about them. Ahhh, fun memories. Anyways, good video on the topic! Would be cool to see you talk about other old Fnaf fan games that were popular at the time, like as someone suggested, five nights at Wario's.

FNaS has always been my favorite, though the older games may be “shitty”, they were still very enjoyable. I’m glad to see the game to get more recognition.

The five nights at Sonic’s is probably one of the most dedication put in fnaf fan game series since they basically remade and changed almost every fnaf game and put sonic and such in it.

This was a really good in depth video about this series. As an original FNaS Dev Team member mentioned in the video with my own FNaS style game (yeah I know just adding to the pile of other games lmao), I've had my fair share with this series. Ian and I met in 2015 and we've been going strong to this day. My time with the FNaS Dev Team and with Team Cyantix is something I still hold dear to this day and have created memories that I will never forget. Thank you for creating this video and talking about this series and where it is today!

Five Nights at Sonic's is truly one of the FNaF fangames ever made. I shed a tear when Sonic came into my office and said "It's Sonicin' time" and absolutely Sonic'd me.

It's amazing how hard it was to find these games. It took me 2 days to find the 5 games in the FNaS Collection through slightly suspicious means and I still don't have FNaS World. This is up there with The Return to Freddy's in insanity

im pretty into the series as a whole but theres a secret in the collection that i think doesnt exist anymore, so imma get into it If you leave the collection itself idle for a while the game name will change to something like "The Secret Lies At The End of The Hex" and so if you go in with some random hex editor it'll say ALL the way at the bottom of the hex The shadows were not going away forever..... They'll be back. i originally posted this to the unofficial wiki page about the collection but nobody noticed longest comment i've written

i ADORE the art style of the early FNAS games. it's not "good" in any conventional way, but just by looking at the game, you can see exactly what era of the internet it belongs to, and what kind of person it was made by. the fact that a lot of it was initially drawn on flipnote studio is just the icing on the cake, too!

Shadow sonic was such a wasted opportunity to just do Shadow the hedgehog tbh

As someone who built her own computer a few months and actually *did* get a Trojan horse, it happens to the best of us, man. American cybersecurity laws are so lax (because they want to spy on us) that it’s estimated that 30-50% of all computers in American currently have some sort of malware. I was able to get it properly removed with help from Microsoft, but I legitimately have no clue how I got it. The USB stick (that I used to install Windows) was my own and the only websites I visited had good reputations.

I had NO idea this particular fangame series got so extensive! You're right about the FNaF fandom I think, I remember watching a let's play or two of the first game and never played them or really any canon FNaF game either. The premise is silly and the art is maybe wonky sometimes, but as a 13-year-old kid who just got into creepypastas? It was genuinely a great watch to just have some mindless fun and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. It makes me happy to hear the team is doing well and has improved so much.

Some viruses can inject themselves into executable files (especially installer .exe's) in order to spread, so it could be that either the original dev or the person who sent it to you was unknowingly infected with some kind of worm virus that infected the game/it's installer. It may also be a false positive, that happens a lot with fan games. The only way to tell would be to use something like VirusTotal to scan it with many different antiviruses and see how many of them see a virus.

It would be sick to see a video on the Five Nights at Wario's series of fangames. They need so much more recognition than what they've got now, using incredibly interesting and unique mechanics that I don't think I've seen anywhere in other fangames. One of such mechanics is a sort of quest that takes you between each game to complete tasks in each other. Data carries over between games, and it's incredibly cool. It's incredibly underrated and has created a community that has made multiple well-made fangames such as FNAW: Trapped Within (I helped work on this one!) and a few others. FNAW as a whole needs a lot more attention. I will note that there are two versions of the games - updated, newer versions of the original games, and the originals. The newer versions add new modes and mechanics to the original game, so consider it just the original with a few added features. These new versions are needed for any cross-game stuff.

Jesus this series is way more extensive than I ever thought

I have a game similar to this you should know, Five Night’s at Wario’s, it has lore as confusing but organized as FNAF and just released a demo for a new game I believe!

Luigi taking forever to die is actually hilarious and I love the impression the kid did

Ya know, it’s funny. I was gonna make a video on all the FNaS games earlier in the year, but ended up scrapping it because I lost interest in the project. Glad someone with far more credentials and editing skill than me was able to get on out though! Fun little fact I learned though, I actually asked TheCyVap himself some questions for extra info on the series, and the famous inside joke that started it all was a comic he made of the Fnaf 1 characters hiding in the Fnaf 1 office from Sonic.exe, which feels perfectly in line with the tone and vibe of the series.

Do you think you could cover five nights at f*ckboys? I feel like nobody talks about it anymore, it was really grindy yet fun and had basically the same humor if a little less tasteful thats 39’s

While I don’t know why FNaS World is the game that shall not be named according to the devs, a full (I think) play through is available on Taste Gaming’s channel.

It's actually kinda poetic that FNAS3 was the entry where the game design became competent and not a ripoff of previous FNAF entries, considering that's also the entry where professional talent ended up getting involved with the game. The Phone Guy in that game (who is actually supposed to be Silver the Hedgehog) was voiced by a FNAF Fangame youtuber by the name of TheGameSalmon, and he would later go on to also voice Nightmare Sonic in Five Nights at Sonic's 4 and Maniac Mania, as well as Shadow Sonic in the latter entry.

I’d love if you covered the TRTF series, even though those games had many laughable flaws in both gameplay and writing, it had some sort of charm to it I can’t place. It manages to capture the old mysterious feel of the early fnaf days. Plus the history behind the creator makes for good content.

I remember being so invested with the series back in the day, I’m not as involved as I once was, but this series is still part of my top 5 purely out of nostalgia for the franchise, I’m glad to have been a member of this fanbase Edit: Something I forgot to mention originally was that some of my fan works were even recognized by some of the major members of the crew, specifically Smiler himself

DUDEEEEEEE, this is like my personal favorite FNaF fan-series of all time. Even if the games are considered crappy, they're so fucking charming.

I remember seeing this series slowly gain more and more hype during the 2010s. Seeing the quality go up so much was a trip. That's not saying much given that the FNAS1 bar to clear was so low, but it was still pretty cool.

I hyperfixated on FNaS for a while when I was a young teen. Never played the games for myself, but enjoyed watching Taste Gaming do so till I moved on from his content. Hearing the series talked about again gives me nostalgia.

If you think that Five Nights At Sonic’s had an insane rabbit hole, wait until you hear about The Return To Freddy’s.

i could comment about how i enjoyed watching this video because i remember mildly liking this game years ago, and that i'm happy you covered it but no. i'm here to point out your minor speech error that doesn't mean anything to the actual video itself 13:43 "balloon boy replaced toad" jokes aside, i'm happy you talked about this! when i found out about this game i was pretty young and my art was *definitely* worse than the game's, so i never really saw anything wrong with the visuals. if anything it made me really want to try make my own fnaf fangame, even if that never ended up happening because coding actually takes time and effort i do not have. so it kinda holds this special place in my heart

When luigi died it broke my heart

Honestly I think having Night 6 be the only interesting night is interesting. It's kind of like a reward for going through the game, no matter how boring it got and showing your dedication.

Forty-minute FNAS retrospective? Wow. Impressive.

No way, my brother worked on these games. Placed2nd [or just 2nd]. he helped around with some assets during mamiac mania and was friends with the team. Hell his first videos on yt were him playing the game. Now he works on remastering the Five Nights at Wario series and I gotta admit, he's doing a great job at it

15:18 To be fair, people don’t tend to be great at making smart decisions at 3 am.

I remember i temporarily left the fnas fandom sometime after fnas 5 released due to losing interest. The series caught my interest again when the demo for manaic mania released

You should give maniac mania a try. Its the best out of all the games, its gets insanely hard, and has a boat load of content. I will warn you theres a lot of lore in maniac mania that connects with the previous games so definitely use the wiki.

I've been playing FNaS and following the series for a long time now. It's really shocking where the series as come. This really puts me a smile on my face that someone talks about it :)

Near the end of the video I truly remembered how DEEP this series goes, yes I remembered it was pretty deep but then I get flashbacks to stuff like FNaSTale, FNaS World etc. Well done on this video mate, I don’t blame you for not going into every little detail in this video since you had a lot to cover and the video is already 37 mins. I actually think the lore is pretty cool and is maybe one of the reasons people still love this series to this day even if the gameplay isn’t always good.

I remember being a young child watching Taste Gaming play FNaS constantly. It's somehow become really nostalgic to me even if I don't know how to play the games

great video man! i remember seeing the first 2 fnas games when i was still really young back when they came out , i never expected it to actually have this big of a series since i just kinda lost track of it!

This series feels somewhat personal to me, as I've talked to CyVap multiple times despite not being friends with the guy. (Our convos were never really thorough, and I doubt he remembers me now, but I still vividly remember having talked to him.) I actually found this series through him commenting on an old piece of art I had made of my own Five Nights at Sonic's idea, and I was a fan of the series ever since. It's really nice to see someone talk about this series in a retrospect, and it's a treat watching the art evolve over the years. (Especially comparing it to CyVap's art nowadays, like seriously, it looks pretty damn good now!) Don't really have much else to say. Glad we are in agreement that FNaS 3 is super fun!

man it feels good when a popular fnaf channel makes a video about fnas

Seeing fnf vs. Sonic.exe and hearing triple trouble in the background was really surprising and cool lol also great video!

I used to be on the scoring leaderboards for a game called “Five Tries At Love” which is… just as cringy as it sounds. I loved it but it was cringe. I remember foxy falling in love with me and literally taking my heart if I remember correctly. I think it’s worth a look

Great vid as always! If you want another really old classic FNAF fangame series with even more drama involved in it and with lots of history, I suggest you turn to The Return to Freddy's. I myself am a rather well known creator in the community and I think you'd find the strange history of it, it's controversies and the fact it's somehow still holding on quite interesting.

It’s crazy you made this recently, because I have been playing FNaS series for the first time recently on my channel, it is actually a pretty fun series, you can easily notice the improvement of each of the games throughout the series out best the last.

An honest thanks and props to you for delving this deep into the FNAS games and their background. Not many people give this sort of thing enough, let alone any light, and you did them justice. I don’t love the games, more of a “meh” from me on all of them. But the fact that there’s this deep a rabbit hole that so few people have properly covered makes me incredibly glad you did do it because this is super interesting. Thanks!

This video popped up on my fyp. I grew up with these people and help with some projects. It was fun for a time.

I like the vibe of the FNaS games. I like how they mix creepypastas like Sonic.EXE with FNaF

FNaS will probably be one of my favorite FNaF fan games ever as my RU-vid channel is named after Origin Sonic but it does have its flaws sometimes

13:42 Balloon Boy replaces Toad? Toad was my favorite character in FNaF 2

you should do audiobooks! ive been listening to your videos while doing other things and its wonderful! love the stuff you do :)

I love watching this video, gets me motivated for some reason to keep making my games

do return to freddys, easily one of my favorites for its artstyle and unique mechanics but, its very obscure and i think i remember hearing alot of controversy surrounding its creator and what eventually shut down the 5th game

Since I was like, Idk, a fan since FNaS 2 released, I was a serious dedicated fan, even tho it was a FNaF 1 and 2 re-drawn, it still amazed me because I was like 6 or so, I liked the game because there were Sonic characters, I still do like the game today and also tried to make my own FNaF fan game! I hope this series at least survives more than 5 years or so.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO,IF IT WASNT FOR YOU I WOULDN'T HAVE FOUND SHADEDVANILLA'S ALT. I grew up with Fnas it was so cool watching Taste gaming play it.

ive been a fan of fnas for a very long time, great to see someone i love make a vid on it!

12:53 Never got so hyped about hearing triple trouble instrumental. It really is that good

Thank God you didn't pull an LS mark and played through the entire series before making a video.

Idk why, but watching you gives me an adrenaline rush for some reason, your content just that good I guess💀

longtime watcher, just subbed bc you nearly got a Trojan on your brand new PC to bring is content, thanks for your sacrifice my dude

This series has quite a legacy on my tiny channel, lol. It is pretty interesting seeing a proper analysis into these games, impressively made after FNaS3, and yet somehow it still just feels like clones. Fun games one can play if they have nothing better to do. I do remember playing FNaS World before it was deleted, and it is certainly a fever dream. I can't say much on it as the computer I played it on is now far long gone, but the game itself was very distinctive from FNaF World due to how hidden and weird the endings were. I don't think it served any lore relevance, but FNaS World is definitely the Pandora's Box of the FNaS series.

if i made a fnaf fangame tier list the top 5 would be 1 tyke and son lumber co 2 five night at sonics maniac mania 3 the five nights at candys series 4 the popgoes series 5 the joy of creation series its kinda sad that the series ended on a spin off game, these game had so much pontential, and it was the first fnaf fangame i ever played, i dowloaded fnas world and played it a little bit for a month or so, it didnt have a story mode so i got bored of it, but then when fnas maniac mania was anounced, i was hooked, i dowloaded the demo the DAY it came out and i loved it, then when the full game cameout i also dowloaded it the DAY it came out and i loved it even more, i watched walkthroughs, lore videos and more, i miss these series and maybe one day the devs will release a new game, who knows after all, maybe these series will make a comeback..... edit: in fnas 3 there is salvage golden sonic wich is a secound salvage sonic wich adds more fun and makes the game more challenging, (btw there is a fnas world game where you just choose 8 characters and fight random enemys wich was kinda fun it even had a final boss wich would have a random chance of apearing, idk if its a hoex or not but its a block mario robot)

wow, it's the most impressive fnas video i've ever seen, it made me feel inspired to do my version of the saga (basically a remake of fnas, its name is five nights at sonic's rebuilt)

its nice to finally see someone talking about this, i used to love fnas a long time ago, i miss it lol.

Great video! Can you cover the Five Nights at Wario's series? Just like FNAS the First one is Just a fnaf1 clone but the rest of the series is actually pretty dope with interisting mechanics.

It's about time someone talked about this great series

Its really nice to hear talk about FNaS I loved this series as a kid.

i actually loved fnas a few years back. it's very nostalgic especially because i moved houses when i first fixated on it.

1:21 That Pfp has a style of artwork that reminds me of a certain FNAF Animator

No joke, fnas manic mania is actually really good.

23:46 tooooooooooothfuuuuuuuuuuuul

I wish they would band together again. It would be nice if they finished the canceled projects

Personally I enjoy the idea of the game as a fnaf fan going through an embarrassingly late sonic phase

I was actually thinking about this series , and I have a idea to reboot this series but it will be completely different

Great vid. Creep up the good work

My mind is melting trying to comprehend this series, also oof on that trojan

The FNaS Series is weird, yes, but something about it makes it pretty neat. FNaS Maniac Mania is really fun, and with the (hopefully) upcoming Maniac Mania Infinite adding a lot more, the FNaS series is promising. Also, FNaS All-Stars.

22:20 I pretty sure in fnas all stars version of fnas 4 the breathing issue will be fixed

I really enjoyed this video and I didn't knew how much there was about this fangame series. I would like to see you cover the return to freddy's series (trtf) it's really interesting series especially what happened outside of the series and I really think you should cover it

i used to watch gameplay of the game, oh so nostalgic man i love to see it exist a little more in this year

I kinda like how triple troubles instrumental is playing while he is talking. That is one thing I like, FNF mods are not that serious when it comes to copyright issues and claims. But to actually talk about the video, it’s a decently well made FNAF fan series for being a recreation created by a kid trying to learn coding through that project.

My only memory of this series is that I briefly tried all the games in a row, just expecting every single one to be a 1:1 clone of each FNaF game. I remember being genuinely surprised by the new stuff 3 had to offer. I think that's the point where I stopped going "haha funny MS Paint FNaF clone" and started to think "damn, I've genuinely witnessed growth here tonight, I respect that." Damn, I even still have the "FNaSTale demo" on my computer, all the way from when I downloaded it in 2016.

God just that intro Damn I remember when u was young and didn’t know what “great games” were Man this is actually really good for a child imo and I can see personality in it. I genuinely love this series! (Also yes someone made a FNAS Friday Night Funkin)

You’ve gotta do the Popgoes series. Huge lore, multiple cancelled projects, and overall great games. Of course, arcade 2020 and evergreen are a reboot of the OG games. Plus, the 2 reboot games share a timeline with FNaC!

i know you said rabbit hole but like got DAMN i was not expecting all this

I have fond memories of these. I was really young, so I didn't really know what I was watching. If it had Five Nights in the title, I clicked it. But this is really one of those "so bad it's good" games. The MS Paint graphics and kinda weird gameplay are oddly charming. It's a fond memory of mine, and it'll be in the back of my mind forever, resurfacing whenever vaguley mentioned.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game in a 1:1 aspect ration like this unless it was going for something like a Game Boy aesthetic or something like that. This is so odd.

I can never forget this series

God I was there since the very beginning I loved Mario and Sonic as a kid and i was too scared to play fnaf so i just played this instead After some time i forgot about this series (i think a little bit after the 4 game) So seeing this again after so long brought so many nice memories