I Do Not Like Sister Location 

What I learnt from this video: If you want a collab with Uhyeah, just hold him at gunpoint. (In all seriousness though thanks for having me on for this, it was really fun to be a part of!)

Finding out that ballora spinning across the screen is a scripted event was the first time I’ve ever been like “my childhood was a lie”

If you sit in the vent for long enough Scott himself comes to your house to jumpscare you irl

Personally, I interpretted Hand Unit to be more of a kind of joking "corporate attitude" insert. Maybe that's not what Scott necessarily intended, but to me Hand Unit's dialogue always felt like the kind of thing a pro-corporation AI would be programmed to say.

i personally adore the *idea* of sister location - the plot of a man going back to his past to try to save his sister, only to become his sister’s victim when he finds out all too late that she’s beyond saving.

Night 4 just stands to show how amazing Markplier was at fnaf, he beat the hardest part of the game before it was patched to be easier Edit: 10k likes... What?

Man, I think Pastra hit the nail on the head when describing remnant. Fnaf is supposed to be a supernatural, paranormal, ghost story, but turning it into a "mad scientist experiment" not only broke the immersion, but also ruined my favorite part about the story: haunted robots. I also agree with Pastra in saying that this game was the beginning of Afton's downfall. He was this mysterious serial killer, nothing more. Not a hot take Pastra, I totally agree.

You could easily adjust Night 5's crawling sequence to have an actual threat while still keeping the "all these guys have gotten scooped" thing, too. Just, like, have the scooping be happening *while* you're doing the crawling section. Have all of the threats be there but as you go through you hear horrible distant noises and all of a sudden you realize Ballora's not pursuing you anymore -- there, now you have an actual minigame with actual progression, ambience and story build-up, AND you can still have essentially th same story climax!

If those kids could read they’d be very upset

I think Ballora not being physically shown is actually much more effective in her section in the game, if your unaware “The Jaws Effect” is where the less you see of the monster the more effective it is in terms of suspense as you have no idea what it looks like or where it is. In Ballora's case you can only hear her singing and hear her music box playing, with her not being physically seen most of the time.

One of the biggest flaws with sister location compared to every other fnaf game is that you really are just dealing with one threat at a time.

To be perfectly honest? ...I agree with Pastra. When Sister Location came out and added all of these new things, it really felt out of place. Particularly with William Afton. Up until that point, he had no name and it was left up to interpretation. People trying to piece everything together. The first four games feel like they exist in the same universe. Sister Location feels almost alternate. Same with Security Breach and pretty much anything that came after Sister Location :/ I kind of miss those simple days, when it was open to interpretation and we didn't even know this guys name. He was just the Purple Guy.

If Scott had a nickel for every time he hyped up a female, green eyed antagonist only for them to barely be in the game and get sidelined by some other amalagmation of wires and parts. He'd have two nickels.

I think Baby’s underutilization made her more sinister. She wasn’t an antagonist that was in your face causing trouble, but one that was in the background watching you and waiting for the right moment.

I absolutely hate the inclusion of “remnant” in this series and you guys perfectly explained why

Pastra summarized my feelings on Fnaf 6 perfectly. What made Five Nights at Freddys so scary to me as a kid is that it all felt real. It felt like it was something that could actually happen to me as a kid, even with it's supernatural twists on the story. The purple guy especially scared me because he felt like a REAL serial killer, someone that would hurt me if we were ever put in a room with eachother. When Remnant came into play, I lost all fear or interest in the series, but my main problem was the *books*. The first 2 books werent my problem, it was when the books began telling stories about a time machine ballpit and dumb stuff like that, thats when I really lost interest. But, thats just my opinion.

Until you mentioned it, I 100% believed that the piece of metal you hide behind in that one scene was just meant to be curved for some reason.

The lack of Circus Baby in a game that was supposed to be centered around her, reminds me about how Vanny was supposed to be a big part in Security Breach, but you barely see her. I love both games and they're my favorites in the series, but I have no issue with pointing out the flaws

“I will not take story reasons as an excuse for lackluster gameplay or missed potential” is such a real fucking line. Everything fnaf has ever done wrong has attempted to be hidden behind story or lore reasons and it’s never sat right with me. That’s such a quick, easy way to say it just needs to do better

i like to pretend the series ended on the 4th game because its just so much more charming and grounded than the later entries. i feel like SL and SB kind of ruined it for me.

The fact that theres zero checkpoints in this game, especially with the final night, is INSANE to me

I wish that at some points Handunit would just be deadly serious with the player. Things like him telling you not to trust the voice on the PA. Hell, maybe this could've been another option which leads to two different endings. One ending where you do everything Handunit says and end up finishing your work week without doing much at all, and another ending where you listen to Baby and get scooped.

Personally, I really like Hand Unit. Not only for the jikes, but mostly because tone dissonance is really unnerving to me, and having a character that's basically a joke in this creepy environment... it just creates this sense of unease

I feel like the fnaf lore was getting really close to being solved at around 2015. THen this game came out and threw all of that out the window

Sister Location will always be my favorite FNAF game, and I agree with every point this guy makes.

Baby doesn't attack you in sister location because she's already been scooped before you interact with her in person. She is talking to you as part of Ennard. You can actually see Ennard standing and moving behind baby's empty body if you turn up the brightness.

This game, more than any other I've encountered in the mascot horror subgenre, really demonstrates how the purpose of games within the subgenre isn't even really to be games anymore, but more to serve as lore delivery vehicles.

"I did not care for Sister Location." "Wh-what? What do you mean you don't care for it? It's a classic!" "It insists upon itself." "It what?" "It insists upon itself, Lois."

I really like this game but I don’t think anyone can be mad at you cause this is a very hit or miss game

The main defense I see for the horror to sci-fi switch that sister location made was that “oh but the FNAF 2 animatronics had facial recognition in 1987” which I personally felt like was an in universe corporate excuse for why they behaved so uncannily like “oh hey why is that hunk of junk looking at me funny” “oh uhhh.. it’s uhhh FEATURE! It’s uh facial recognition! So that you and your family can be safe, definitely not haunted or possessed by the vengeful spirits of dead kids or anything!”

Night 3 Foxy section is even simpler. Run 7 steps, flash, if he's there wait, flash until he's gone, run 7 steps. Works every single time. Never died to Foxy (except the mandatory part ofc)

While playing night 4 I had to do something and I just shut the lid of my laptop, and for some reason it completed itself. I swear that's the only way I survived that mini game.

In my personal opinion, i like the emphasis of humor in sister location. I think the contrast between hand unit's dialogue and baby's dialogue makes what baby says throughout the game seem more important than if hand unit's lines weren't deliberately jokish and if he was serious throughout your playthrough. Thats my opinion though!

Tbh, I think this game was made more for the theorists than for the gamers.

I think the reason why Funtime Freddy is the steam cover art is bc I have a theory Scott’s favorite animatronic is Funtime Freddy. It explains why he has 2 sections dedicated to him, why his look is used for Molten Freddy, the Blob, and Helpathagarus, and keeps being used in some way in new games.

Someone should make a mod with the small changes you’ve suggested- it wouldn’t be that hard for a modder and I agree it would totally improve the gameplay

pastras part on william afton was honestly really good, got me thinking on him and now william honestly feels more stale than bowser as a villain, he was so good and interesting but somehow putting him in so many games with a driving role made him feel more like a rushed school project than the great character he once was

30:59 I love the fact that uhyeah gives the spoiler warning half an hour after the video has started.

Looking back on it, I can’t believe that this video created so much controversy. I personally love this game, but I can also appreciate your opinion on this topic !

This is definitely a game that's more fun to watch playthroughs of than play yourself. I remember watching Markiplier and GT play it when the game just came out and thinking it was awesome, then playing it myself and just being frustrated constantly. And yeah in hindsight the story really started going downhill at that point.

IMO the fact that we never see Baby except for her lifeless body is chilling on rewatch/replay because you realize she was never in her body, she was already a part of Ennard.

in this section of the game (13:09) the reason why Circus Baby doesn't jumpscare you there is because she is already apart of Ennard. that is just her lifeless suit on the conveyor, so she can trick you into going into the scooping room.

To me the biggest sin of SL is simply it ruining the story. It started the trend of FNAF introduced AU's and then making random aspects of them canon and retcons and just all of that. It also jumped the shark for a lot of things the series regarding the sci-finess. The novels were the red flag but SL was the killing blow.

I dressed up as Baby when I was, I wanna say, 7? I'm a guy now. How time changes.

I think what made five nights at Freddy's truly scary was its connection to reality. The fear of animatronics existed before fnaf and its creation built on that. The mystery of 'ghosts' being the sole reason it exists added fear. The fear of the unknown is part of what made fnaf great. The base level of weirdness being animatronics coming to life at night being it was great but its been piled on to the point where it doesnt even matter anymore. Being a security guard trying to survive killer animatronics is easy enough to imagine but... a crazy scientist murdering children to research a crazy material that could be used for immortality using dead bodies and animatronics at a pizzeria? What??? edit: i completely forgot I made this comment, 900+ likes is crazy for me. I'm glad I was able to start a discussion!

I will say, I love “Ennard night”. It feels like revenge in a way, and that music is **chef’s kiss”. I wish it wasn’t the “fake” ending because I personally prefer it over the “real” ending. That ending cutscene freaked the hell out of me as a kid.

Uhyeah getting mad and ranting gives me the same vibes as Spongebob yelling at Squidward to get a job

With the story, it can basically be boiled down to this: William left his son instructions to find his secret bunker, Michael goes and explores, finds out his dad is a modern day Victor Frankenstein/John Wayne Gacy/Ed Gein, gets tricked by his dead sister and the amalgamations of his father's other victims to be their meat suit, and when they're done with him and leave, the remains of their supernatural powers kept him alive

I never thought Mike was possessing his own body, to me it just seemed he got control of it back after the endoskeletons yeeted themselves. Which is actually pretty dark, the dude was trapped inside his own head as his body was jerked around by a animatronic abomination living inside his body.

I think FNaF as a franchise is one where it's extremely hard to find someone who likes every game. Most people I've talked to have disliked at least 1, not counting FNaF world. I don't see this happen with any other indie franchise, and I think it's because each game is completely unique from the rest. The most similar games are 1, 2, and 3, but they all have elements that create entirely different games.

If the writing was better the Baby/Ennard twist would have been worth it. I never played any FNAF's game but I watched youtubers play most of them. I always forget what happens in Sister Location and only in Sister Location, I can remember the others' plot. Baby really should have had a jumpscare or chase sequence in the game she came out in.

Its funny to me that the only game that made me give up completely on completing a level was sister location. Because I’m poor, I played it on the Xbox port on my Twitch and I swear to god, the springlock section was impossible with the slow cursor.

the Butter button was a very interesting risk he took for the game, cause unless he patches it out, it would’ve been a constant reminder of a flopped joke

Honestly, I like the fact that baby as herself wasn't very prominent in the game, I feel like it's a great bait and switch twist where you realise that the voice you trusted wasn't who you thought they were all along

I was going to start giving my counterpoints, but then I realized that *I* have never played Sister Location, so I don’t have the same experience, like you pointed out. I’m in this fandom for the dark and eerie story. As of such, I will concede to you on some fronts as we don’t look for the same things. You want gameplay, and I want an entertaining story. However, I’m willing to defend it from certain perspectives that I can as a viewer and not a player with knowledge I know considering that this game is my favorite. Here’s what I got from my two braincells. 1. The vents motion was most likely for Biddybab’s challenge to say “something is coming. Brace yourself.” Kind of weak, but not pointless. 2. The vent controls at the bottom are because of the crawling mechanic in general. You have the same mechanics for Funtime Auditorium, so it’s that specific segment that caused the control scare. 3. I honestly think Baby’s a part of Ennard by the time she’s “broken.” Yes, the wires are inside and some systems are functional, but wouldn’t we get suspicious if the thing was hollow? Ennard is malleable, so it’s not a stretch to think they used the murder robot features like Deter and Misdirect along with Voice Mimic to make us think we are talking to Baby through whatever she gave us instead of her and the others behind us. 4. The games having more upfront humor may be because of younger audiences. When this game came out, I was 11 (currently 18) , and the humor is a bit more childlike in terms of how it was used. Perhaps that had something to do with it. 5. The thing about the tasks and time limit is that HandUnit admitted that you’re not a qualified professional. We’re not qualified to be doing the work we are, and as of such, we need guidance. It sells to us that Fazbear Entertainment is cheap with us doing things we shouldn’t. Honestly, I think that we only got shoved around due to unforeseen circumstances and we were initially hired to just shock the things and make sure they don’t leave, similar to Stanley’s job in Room For One More (a story in the third Fazbear Frights book 1:35 AM, in case someone doesn’t know). These are the only things I can argue with in terms of having no experience in the game, though this video did inspire me to play it, which I will do once I post this comment. I’m a wuss in terms of horror, so I’ll try to play this and sacrifice my sleep schedule to either strengthen what I have or tell you that you’re correct. Quite honestly, I really like this video. I expected to see someone screaming and ranting about stupid things like a lot of people do in negative reviews, but you had some points I can’t argue with. Alongside that, you did acknowledge the game had its strengths, and it’s really good to see someone point these out. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a game to play.

I think my favorite bit of humor was the "don't poop on the floor" rule in Fnaf 1, it got funnier the longer I thought about it, like, how many times would a child have to plop a turd on the floor for it to become a full written rule? Though I suppose it never said that it was a child that did the poopening...

Sister Location still has the best intro though. That voice acting was *chefs kiss*

I somewhat understand what the thought process could have been for the box art. Sure they showed off circus baby in the trailers, but on the first night when you go into the game, she guides you. You're supposed to think she's an ally when you start the game, so to have her on the box art (the thing that shows off what's supposed to be the main bad guy or Freddy) it could possibly be a tip off if someone were to connect the dots of how previous box arts worked. Then I guess they assumed if you were going to buy fnaf sister location on the nintendo switch it was because you knew the lore but didn't have a computer.

Circus baby had more of a presence in pizzeria simulator than her own game 💀

I will say I like how in night 5 if you try to go to the private room by following baby's directions incorrectly even if you haven't beaten the cupcake game yet you get a voice saying "access denied" and then ennerd kills you. Could've easily just been a "nothing happens if you try to follow the opposite directions, until you beat the minigame" type scenario but actually giving a secret hint to find and potentially giving you the chance to play the minigame right after is solid design. That said yeah the minigame itself is needlessly a pain and it doesn't really fit as a death minigame in the first place.

The idea of wondering "What the hell happened to these children to make them this way" Was what made FNAF terrifying for me. It made me think of the horrific things that drove these things to move in such distorted positions or how some acted in different ways and how that could correlate to their demise and how they remain in this world. It made everything just that extra bit horrific. That being taken away has ruined so much of Fnaf and it's fan games for me.

I had no idea William Afton was building these animatronics to get remnant to become immortal. I just thought he wanted to murder more children. To be honest, the "remnant" stuff is just plain stupid, even too stupid for me. This portrayal of William Afton is what I'd expect to see in a poorly written AU on Wattpad, not in a cannon title.

Okay on the story part: most of the more out there stuff like remnant was made afterwords (mostly in the books) and the more jump into fantastical ideas gave them more options on how to take the series.

Remnant in my eyes single handedly ruined the lore of the series

The fact you are so fond of Sister Location's jumpscares is quite curious to me, since I personally find them to be among the more underwhelming ones in the series. A big problem is the animatronics themselves, their metallic looking design just loses the decrepitness and uncanny feel the previous ones had. They're way too nice and shiny, to the point they don't look like monsters anymore. Also, size matters. While some of the characters in Sister Location are technically very large, you don't really get a sense of it. In FNAF 1, seeing the animatronics in the corridors, in the doorways, next to tables gave you a sense of how goddamn huge they were, when they get to your office they look DOWN on you. If Bonnie stood in front of me, I'd know I was done for; if Funtime Foxy tried to jump me, I feel like I could beat his scrawny ass. Ballora is the exception, tough.

I also want to point out the fact that Funtime Chica is missing from the game. I know that we found out that it has a separate place (Chica Party World, found in the source code of Scott's site), but it would have been cool if we had like a special night (a minigame in extras) in which we visit Chica's Party World to fix her because it has glitches or smth. It's technically correct from a story standpoint and would have made a great minigame.

Pastra's appearance had me rolling on the floor ngl.

Pastra with a gun has a very chaotic energy to it

"I will not take story reasons as an excuse for lackluster gameplay, or missed potential." As someone who's friends with someone who defends a bad game because "the story is so good bro", that is genuinely so relieving to hear.

The bit with Pastra coming in and just hijacking the video as his own, down to the intro, and even EDITING style got me pretty good, that shit's FUNNY

at the time having freddy on the cover instead of circus baby partly hid the fact that she was the actual main threat instead of funtime freddy as during the playthrough she seems like an ally up until the end by not putting her front and centre

This is one of the greatest intro ever. I laughed my ass off 😎. Opinion wise I mostly agree with you, but have in mind that Scott needed to provide lore to the playerbase since most theories that playerbase provided didn't agree with Scotts vision of the game. It's hard to balance gameplay, lore and general direction of the game and succeeding.

Fnaf SL was the point where I felt that there was a major shift in the series. If I had to compare it to a movie, FNAF SL would be like that one installment in the series where the movie decides to ditch the formula that its preview installments had and tries to do its own thing. Both visual and story wise.

Pastra genuinely has MatPat's accent. It caught me so off guard

The sprinlock night still sucks ass. And it STILL doesn't tell you how you died so yeah, I don't know what I'm doing wrong to end up dead >:(

Scott was basically just making a different game but with the fnaf logo and continuity

I personally am a fan of the fact that, on night 2, you’re left alone after hand unit goes offline. No circus baby, nothing. Just her voice and your imagination of what’s about to happen. Pair that with the eerie ambience and it’s damn terrifying to sit there in the dark.

Before I actually played Sister Location, I watched really short clips or heard about the story out of context. And my impression was that with Baby encouraging us, we would lure all the animatronics to the scooper to kill them as a way to keep ourself safe, but in actuality, we were just helping Baby make Ennard. Needless to say, I was kind of disappointed that we didn't do any of that and Baby just makes Ennard herself(?) and we're just kind of passively receiving the story beats. I hoped that we as the player could do more to actually be in the story or something -_-

with the circus baby conveyor belt scene, it would be easy to have her attack them and it be exscusable and still keep in to the "she's tooootally a good guy" thing in the story. it's like in security breach, there's a chance of freddy turning on you if his power gets too low. and yet he's still an ACTUAL good guy.

YOU NEVER TALK TO CIRCUS BABY. I dont like that people miss that. Enmard had the voice you hear before she got fully dismantled, so ennard always talked to you, never baby. She was probably turned off the entire time.

Honestly, Hand Unit is actually fine. Imagine working at any job ever in real life, where your orientation, posters in the break room, and overall public attempts to look squeaky clean and presentable all scream CORPORATE BS, it stands to reason this thing which is meant to guide you attempts to be funny, relatable, and distract away from the unsavory parts of the company. The game banks on your familiarity with the animatronics, so when hand unit plainly says "administer a controlled shock" you know that action carries more potential consequences. He is the representation of a corporation that pretends everything is okay whilst the company itself does terrible things. He's a perfect fit.

What likely tricked a lot of people into liking the game is that it always *seems* like there‘s a lot going on. All the scripted sequences are set up to make you think that there‘s room for Error and a potential threat. Ironic since Baby tricks you the same way in the final night

I've always thought of sister location as something just tacked on to what I considered the main story line, like it explains some stuff thats used from then on in the series but when I think about the timeline or story as a whole sister location itself is always just an afterthought, something I have to force into fitting somewhere after everything else. Despite it being so different and story heavy than the rest I've always thought it was the most forgettable, perhaps because it deviated from the formula that drew me to the games in the first place.

It tool me watching this to realize Circus Baby was the original Vannessa. She spends most of her time being a background force, only having maybe one or two moments where you must actively avoid her... Makes sense for the first game to turn the franchise away from its core principles I suppose.

Scott’s natural talent for creating Sci-fi universes and stories bled purely into FNaF during Sister Location, with some pretty interesting results

I remember thinking that during night 4, there should've been a blood splatter effect when the spring locks shut. The sound effect and visuals used for the scooper were perfect. But you know what? I think that might've been the original intent. Scott just changed it last minute. Remember before the game came out, how Scott talked about the game going against his vision or something along those lines? He made changes as a result. My guess is that it has something to do with how violent the game probably was? Night 4 was probably part of it. This explanation would probably explain why the minigames were so lackluster. Maybe there were supposed to be animatronics chasing you while you were crawling in the vent. Maybe some of the minigames were more intense with more violent jumpscares and more going on. But he probably took out all of that. And replaced it with nothing.

Honestly one of the biggest offenders of this game imo (appart from the horrible checkpoint "system" that sb inherited) is that the SECRET HARD AS FUCK night 5 ending is the non-canon one, like wtf?!? I spent fucking hours diyng over and over to get the goddamn circus baby mini game, typing the goddman code in baby's key pad and dying to ennard on 5 am cause the fucker decided to make a silent move ONLY to be presented with a cool cinematic, and it not being relevant in any way to the lore

i forgot to say, but i absolutely love that thumbnail, every time i see it in my reccomended and see freddy's stupid wide-mouthed face right next to "IT SUCKS!!!!" I laugh so hard

The biggest jump-scare featured in the entire video was 100% Pastra’s intro

I feel the annoyance of being sent so far back for dying on Night 5 is almost like the Game is yelling at you: "Now. You better follow my instructions this time."

I mainly like sister location for the amazing design of the animatronics( especially F. Freddy), the jumpscares which are actually pretty terrifying, the breaker room mini-game, the refreshing change from multitasking absolute chaos, and the balls to the walls Custom Night. I do agree that it’s a little less suspenseful than the other games, that it can’t be replayed a lot, and that repeating all the way at the start of the night because of the fucked checkpoint system. Even with these imperfections, it’s still my 2nd favourite right below FNaF 2.

I managed to get past Night 4's stupidly difficult minigame after so many hours, and even the frustrating keypad on Night 5, aiming for the normal ending - only for the game to FREEZE on me at the scooper part! I quit the game, deleted from my computer and never played it again. It was the first FNAF game I ever played too...

Nice to see pastra show up. Definitely someone who deserves more relevance in the community as someone who makes quality videos and has some interesting takes

19:52 I am SO beyond glad that someone else finally addressed this. I cannot comprehend how or why this franchise's lore or story would appeal to someone past FNAF 3, aside from nostalgia. the existence of remnant and whatever the book lore is massacres all suspension of disbelief.

Most of your criticism seems to be 'its made differently from the other ones and I dislike what it focuses on'. I mean I get that, but its kind of unfair to criticize a game for not doing things when it isn't actually trying to do them. They weren't trying to make a replayable puzzly sort of danger room game, they were making a more story focused experience. Like, actually having story in a fnaf game is a new thing and that is going to massively skew how the game operates.

You forgot to mention the hidden cutscene of Walter White dancing in his underwear.

Really late, but I absolutely love the idea you gave for Night 4. It would've ABSOLUTELY made that night just a little more scary. It could've added more tension. Instead of the same jumpscare over and over, the faceplates could close, that blood effect and maybe some squishy meat noises on top.

I'm not going to act like a sister location is good as a game, but to be fair, it has a lot of unique and cool cinematic story elements that we hadn't seen in the past. The voice acting was very good as well as the atmosphere. It created a line of mystery bigger than that of the other games. Therefore, I think it really moved the series forward story wise. I personally think that is something to praise the game for, if nothing else.

You convey your opinion very well and I heavily agree with you on the gameplay perspective, and respect your opinion on the story, but personally I just love how this game gave us a concrete reason the animatronics are possessed and stuff.

I honestly really did enjoy Sister Location. ....In 2016. Now looking back onto the game? Sister Location really feels like some sort of experiment, a failed one, at that. Don't get me wrong, the concept of Sister Location is AMAZING, I love the animatronics within it and the aspects that they have, such as their voices, appearance and how they operate. I love the way that Sister Location breaks the story to become something of its own. Sister Location COULD HAVE BEEN the BEST in the series, and with relative ease. However, as I mentioned earlier, it just feels like some sort of failed experiment.