Talk:Five Nights at Toys for Bob/@comment-25057292-20151219101104

I've seen this article listed for Article of the Year, but here's my critique- There are far too many theoretical Fn@f games on the web. It's just too easy to make up something new- e.g. Five Nights at Treasure Island, the (admittedly playable) Fnaf rip-off/fangame which takes creepypasta characters and puts them in Fnaf gameplay. That game is so unpolished that it is considered acceptable for the creator to say ' oh, that Donald duck is transparent because it ripped of the coating' even though it's just because he got lazy. Two of the characters are generic human shapes with blank colours on, for crying out loud! Now, a good example of a joke/fan game based on FN@F is Five Nights At Wario's by Wwwario, a famous Youtuber who usually uploads videos of Mario games. It's genuinely scary, but still pokes fun at FNAF and is easily approachable. What made this game different was that the characters were not animatronic versions of the real characters. They were GHOSTS. As in classic 'spooky' stories. While it took the naming convention from FNAF, it wasn't a copy.

As for FNATFB, I think it would be better if this game went down a FNAW route, and rather than having the same naming convention as FNAF, instead it had some kind of new name like 'Toys For Bob: the unseen horror' (or preferably something less cheesy and more creative than mine). It could keep the fazbear reference, even the animatronic part, because they make sense. But the screen idea is very bare and undeveloped, and the characters just follow the same old FNAF character archetypes- there is one 'unknown' animatronic with broken parts, stuff like that. I like the idea of Lou being the Phone Guy replacement, but maybe it would be better if you got a letter with the 'call' in, and then it played in the character's mind. Plus, the malfunctioning on Night 5, while paying homage to FNAF2, is hopelessly unoriginal due to that.

I'd say that if you follow this advice, give or take a little from your personal opinion, this could be a much scarier and/or more original spin-off/crossover between Skylanders and FNAF.