Okay so basically if you haven't already found out, Five Nights at Freddys 2 got a surprise release today. Originally it was set to release on Christmas but Scott wanted to be an awesome genius little mofo and release it today, spawning many people with the same reaction:

 

 

 

Now because my bedtime is in like ten minutes, I can't really make this as long and as detailed as I want, so I'm gonna try to cut this down to the point as much as I can. This also most likely has spoilers, so you've been warned.

 

So first when the game is started, we are all greeted by our favorite Phone Guy. This is weird as hell because, well he was killed off in the first game. It's not confirmed this is the same guy, but it's the same exact voice and speech pattern (voiced by Scott, the creator). We can safely assume it's the same guard. He also tells you that all of the old robots are dismantled, everything's remodeled and now everyone's happy except for the poor sap who's now working night shift. The previous guard, who's presumed to be Mike Schmidt of the first game has hence moved to the day shift from complaining about these creepy mofos trying to stuff him in a suit. We are also joined by redesigns of the old animatronics, plus brand new two animatronics! One is a Balloon humanoid boy who looks like freaking Animal Crossing, and a sock monkey like puppet who looks like Slenderman and that spirit from Spirited Away if they had a child. Horray! Im not going to go into detail about gameplay or whatever, since you probably know it already.

Here's where is gets weird...

 

Okay, for most of the game (I watched LPs only btw and read up on it since Im a chicken) everything made kinda sense, no alarms or anything... Until the end.

You get a check revealing your name which is Jeremy Fitzgerald, and a date on this check which reads November 12, 1987.

...wait what?

Like, what?

 

Okay, we all know by now this is the year the famous Bite of '87 happens. But how can this happen, if the first game takes place around twenty years after? Oh, that probably means it's a prequel. That makes sense since the Phone Guy is alive. Cool!

...wait, not cool. Scott just pulled a Nomura.

 

How can this be a prequel game, when clearly its a sequel? I mean, this is the restaurants GRAND REOPENING, after it got shut down after Mike worked there. The old animatronics got redesigns, and still exist in the game! So how the hell can this be a prequel? Also, it's somewhat evident that the five children who got killed weren't killed yet.

In one of the game over screens, sometimes you are brought into this Atari like mini game Easter Egg where you play as Freddy, or sometimes another animatronic and traverse the restaurant doing very criptic things. In one of these instances (I can't put a YouTube link right now I'll put one up later when I don't have to go to sleep) you play as the Puppet character, who is handing out prizes to children. The letters on the screen tell you this. After you fulfill this task, the letters then tell you to give the children life... By stuffing them into the original animatronics.

Like, woah.

So, this means that most likely that event hasn't happened yet, and that this Puppet character has something to do with those children murdured. I would type my theory on this, but again I kinda have to be asleep right now... #yolo.

So anyway, my point is, how the hell can this be a prequel if Freddy's shut down AFTER this event? It can't be a sequel because the Phone Guy is apparently alive, and the date of Jeremy's paycheck dates to 1987. Also, one of the death animations of the Mangler (New Foxy) and old Foxy it appears that they bite off the head of the guard, which is the same injury as described in the Bite of '87 case.

Also, in the first game it was described that five children were murdered, and was stuffed into the animatronics. Kinda makes sense... But there's only four, not including Golden Freddy. I don't believe the fifth kid got stuffed in Golden Freddy, not do I believe two kids got stuffed in one animatronic. Now here's what people have speculated so far, which also supports the possiblity that this is a prequel:

The murderer stuffed the five children in the original animatronics, including Balloon Boy. During shutdown or renovations of Freddy's, Balloon Boy got destroyed. This makes kinda sense... If it wasn't for the fact that CLEARLY this game takes place after Mike, because the old animatronics exist and they are in disrepair. Also, Phone Guy literally states that the store has been moved, this a grand reopening, and states that the doors have been removed but not to worry because you obviously get a Freddy mask to hide.

In order to sum this up, I have to say again I would love to make this much longer and more detailed but I can't since y'know I gotta go. I'm going to sum up the main points for those who looked at this and was all tl;dr.

 

WHY FNAF 2 IS A PREQUEL:

- Phone Guy is alive

- The five children weren't murdered yet?

- The Bite of '87 hasn't happened yet?

- the secret Easter egg death screen is a old school Atari like game

- The pay is 100 dollars (don't remember the exact pay) which means the wage per hour was at least three dollars, which is about what the minimum wage was at that time.

- Jeremy's check date is November 12, 1987

 

WHY FNAF2 IS A SEQUEL:

-New updated versions of the old animatronics

-The old animatronics exist

- Added animatronics (Balloon Boy and the Puppet)

- Phone Guy specifically says that this is a grand reopening, the doors from the old building exists and were removed, and that the old guard (possibly Mike) complained about the animatronics moving and has been moved to the day shift

- This is the Grand Reopening of the pizzeria.

 

So this is mostly it of what I got so far. Again, I'd love to add more but I was supposed to be in bed like forty five minutes ago so that's it. I might update this tomorrow, but I wanted to show you guys what I have so far. Everything I got was from watching Lets Plays, reading up on it through Wiki, theory videos and some other research. Obviously it hasn't even been a day since this new game came out, so maybe more players will discover some more things and we'll be able to understand what's going on. Other than that, there's some serious plot holes going on in FNAF. Despite this, I love this game and the story, and it's so much fun to develop theories about it. I'm also very scared to sleep...

Well, firetruck me right?

Anyway, discuss any theories about what's going on, and I'll have fun reading all of it and discussing it with you guys! So, with that being said, is FNAF 2 a Prequel or Sequel?

Edited November 12, 201410 yr by Aqua7KH

What the firetruck, then? I can't believe it'd be a prequel given the 'Grand Reopening' and the fact that everything about it shows that it's clearly a sequel, yet...what the firetruck? What in the actual firetruck?

 

Also, it still confuses me as to why the easter egg minigame would be Atari, anyway, given the fact that the Nintendo was in full-swing by 1987. IDK.

Edited November 12, 201410 yr by Kaweebo

Also, it still confuses me as to why the easter egg minigame would be Atari, anyway, given the fact that the Nintendo was in full-swing by 1987. IDK.

Well, Freddy Frazbear's Pizzeria is basically Chuck E Cheese's.  Nolan Bushnell founded Chuck E Cheese's. You know what he founded before that? Atari. He created Chuck E Cheese's to bring in an audience of children to play his Atari arcade games. It could just be a throwback to that aspect of Atari for that small part of the Easter Egg.

What the firetruck, then? I can't believe it'd be a prequel given the 'Grand Reopening' and the fact that everything about it shows that it's clearly a sequel, yet...what the firetruck? What in the actual firetruck?Also, it still confuses me as to why the easter egg minigame would be Atari, anyway, given the fact that the Nintendo was in full-swing by 1987. IDK.

Well, it's not an actual Atari game, it's just Atari like. You play as a pixelated animatronic doing some strange task in a 2D pixelated room.That being said... Now I really have to go to sleep LOL G'night

It's a prequel. No problem, right?

Edited November 12, 201410 yr by PrincessHearts25

Well, it could be that the original animatronics were used somewhere else originally. In FNAF2 they were dismantled and in FNAF they had been repaired again. Not sure what wouldve happened to the remodels then, unless five children had been stuffed in them and pizzeria emplyees disposed of the remodels because of that.

Edited November 12, 201410 yr by replika13

First I want to say im not English so sry for bad grammar and all.

Now i will prove why its a prequel:

In the phone call of night 5 the dude mentions that there has a building before this 2 which has called Freddy's Family Dinner which has then shut down (i dont remember why but something evolving the animatronics) after that the GRAND REOPENING has this new building that you play in FnaF 2 and Old Bonnie, Chica, Freddy, and Foxy where probably from there they where then scrapped, deactivated, redesigned and reactived in the new Toy versions, when you finish the 5th night you receive your check which makes the reference to the bite of '87 but in the 6th night the phone guy says that before they close the restaurant they would have another event a birthday party (maybe when the '87 bite happened) and he said this exact word "when the restaurant re-opens I will probably take the Night Shift" so maybe Mike is the Phone Guy and the Phone guy from FnaF 1 is Jeremy and when he dies can make the reference to the bite of '87.

 Taking a look at the pay cheque for night 6 in the newspaper its said that they will scrap the new aniamtronics and rebuild the original ones which means that in FnaF 1 the animatronics that are after you are the improved forms of the Toy ones but what really makes the connection is that unlike FnaF 2 that the building is very big and doesnt run out of power in FnaF 1 due to the lack of cash they needed to downsize the building and it runs out of power because most likely they dont have cash to pay for constant electricity and needing.

 Now you may be asking about the five kids that died well they died when the restaurant has like in FnaF 2 and in the first game they are mentioning about the events of FnaF 2.

 For more proof i would actually advice you to hear to the phone calls and try making the crossovers between both games and Scott now could actually do another prequel where he would explain the events of the Freddy's Family Dinner and what happened there.

Hope you understood my theory and if you have any doubt dont mind asking or disagreeing