Funny / Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted

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Sure, the thought of playing Five Nights at Freddy's on a VR headset is really scary, but you know what the best part about it is? You can play Five Nights at Freddy's on a VR headset and still find some amusing moments!

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• Scott's description in this post about playtesting the Funtime Foxy level:
  "I'd played the Funtime Foxy section in an early build but wasn't impressed (it was unfinished and Foxy was MIA), so I complained about it. [Steel Wool] basically said, "Hold my non-alcoholic beverage," and they spent the next three days off the grid. They sent me a new build, and again I entered the darkness with Funtime Foxy. I flashed my beacon, again and again, and crept forward. I won't go into detail here, but I will say this, I have never screamed like I screamed that day. I screamed like a kid falling off a roller coaster. I threw the VR headset off of my head, and it was reflexive, like when you jerk your hand off a hot stove. It was an instinctive NOPE. I told Steel Wool that I would never test that section again. My son Braden, also an eager player of the VR game over here, has also said that he'll never play that section again."
• In the game's intro, Scott himself (or at least an Author Avatar of him) is shown in a supremely goofy pose while HandUnit refers to him as a "complete lunatic." Self-Deprecation at its finest.
• In the footage from the FNAF 2 office, Toy Freddy is walking down the hall as the lights flicker. But every time we can see him, Toy Freddy is walking with the most swag strut you'll ever see◊, nonchalantly strolling down the hall to the office to choke a guard.
• In the FNaF 2 levels, you can actually grab the phone off its base and hold it. If you throw it, it'll fly a little distance before suddenly bouncing back to the base like a paddle ball.
• Every time you successfully complete a level, you get a gift for the prize corner. Very rarely, however, sometimes Plushtrap will be waiting inside instead. As in, the living one, ready to scream in your face just to keep you on your toes.
• The minigame where you repair the Freddy animatronic ends by having the player close his chest cavity... by pressing the "Large black button in the center of Freddy's face." Yes, the sound effect for pressing his nose is still there.
• Balloon Boy's walking animation after fooling him with the Freddy mask looks like he's waddling his way out of the office.
• It's entirely possible for you to eat your prizes; this includes action figures. Complete with choking noises! If you do this three times, you'll end up getting a game over because you choked yourself to death!
• Speaking of which, you can also eat the prizes that are actually edible. Unlike in Job Simulator though, you consume the whole snack or drink in a single bite, including the wrapper or the can itself.
• There's a couple of ways you can mess around in the Parts and Service minigames without getting punished with a Jump Scare, which implies that the animatronics don't mind you goofing off on the job a bit. In fact, you'll be rewarded with coins for doing these things, which can either mean the animatronics rewarded you for amusing them or that they're exasperated at your antics and would rather you stop, so they give you something for you to get back to work.
  • In Bonnie's minigame, you can start strumming the strings on his guitar.
  • Chica will let you hand-feed her slices of pizza.
  • You can do the "Coin Behind the Ear" trick with Freddy. As mentioned, you get an actual coin out of it.
  • When repairing Foxy, you can wear his face as a mask instead of putting it back on his endoskeleton.
  • On the flip side, there are certain trivial things the animatronics will jumpscare you for, which can give off rather humorous Blue-and-Orange Morality vibes on occasion...
    • Bonnie will jumpscare you if you don't tune his guitar properly on the first go around, or if you take his eyes out/put them back in the wrong order.
    • Chica's minigame ends with HandUnit offering the player a slice of pizza... if they refuse, Chica will get all up in the player's face about it.
• At the end of Pizza Party, Glitchtrap celebrates his successful murder... by gleefully jumping around and dancing in front of the stage. It's as goofy as it is disturbing.
  • It becomes twice as funny when one realizes that the one celebrating is in fact William Afton. The Greater-Scope Villain of the franchise William Afton. The Serial Killer of children William Afton. The utterly sociopathic William Afton. The goddamn complete monster William Afton. And yet here he is, dancing around like an idiot. He must really enjoy getting to murder somebody again.
  • Speaking of Pizza Party, at one point the player ends up in the Kitchen, where they have to choose the pizza flavor for the titular Pizza Party at the end. In the middle of the room, there is a pizza box with pepperoni pizza, and Chica would occasionally appear to eat a slice (jumpscaring you when she eats all of the pizza before you manage to leave). You can actually beat Chica to a punch and eat all of the pizza in the room yourself. If you do that, Chica will reappear and stare at the now-empty pizza box in disbelief... and then will slowly turn her head in your direction, clearly not amused by the fact that you ate all her pizza, and will give you a jumpscare and end your game.
• There's an unused song, with the main FNAF1 stage trio finally voiced (after all three of them went unvoiced in Ultimate Custom Night but Foxy actually got voice lines). It's as goofy as you'd expect, and then there's the disclaimers read out twice in the middle of the song, which seem like blatant attempts for Fazbear Entertainment to cover their asses legally (and also legally pointless) but is also as counterproductive as you can get PR-wise...
  "Freddy Fazbear's Pizza! Where Fantasy meets fun!"
  (Fun not actually guaranteed.)
  "Freddy Fazbear's Pizza! Where all the kids are safe and sound!"
  (Fazbear Entertainment offers absolutely no guarantees regarding guest safety.)
  • Overlaps with Heartwarming Moments, but at one point, Chica sings her line in a silly, faux-scary tone, like a mother playing with her kids, or reading a monster's lines in a story. It's just plain adorable:
    "But keep an eye on your pizza, 'coz I'm a bird who likes to eat! Nom nom nom!"
• The Pirate Ride attraction is a welcome break from the horrors of the Curse of Dreadbear DLC, both in how easy it is and how goofy it is.
  • Right away, Foxy is seen wearing an old naval uniform and tiny captain's hat, something he doesn't wear in the cutouts shown on the ride. Its as if they tried to cover up the fact that he's a half-broken, ratty old animatronic with exposed mechanical parts.
  • He tells you to do your best, or he'll "send ye to Davy Jones' Locker." He's not joking; if you get a score so low you don't even get the lowest ranking, Bilgerat, he attacks you.
  • A story is told of you and Foxy fighting off the Kraken. Midway through, you both get dragged underwater, meet a mer-chicken (played by Chica), and have to fight off a pair of Ghost Pirates (played by Freddy and Bonnie). When you get to the end... Foxy and the Kraken have talked it out, decided your birthday was more important and throw you a surprise party. It's the right combination of incredibly cheesy and incredibly sweet.
  Foxy: The real treasure was friendship all along! Happy Birthday!
  • Of course, if you were very bad at shooting the targets, this moment gets undercut pretty quickly.
• While undeniably terrifying in-game, the animations for the animatronics in a broader view and neutral environment, yield some hilarious images.
  • Plushtrap, Nightmare BB and Bon Bon all have animations of them quickly hiding behind a corner. In order to achieve their quick movements, their bodies clip into themselves at the point that they'd already be hidden from view.
  • Marionette's walking animation and movements are finally revealed outside of their jumpscare in FNAF 2 and their limbs wave about like octopus tentacles despite their spindly legs being able to support normal bipedal walking.
    • Taken up to eleven with Nightmarionne, whose legs and huge fingers wiggle much faster.
  • When Freddy, Chica, Bonnie, their Toy counterparts and Nightmare Fredbear approach the player's area, they look more like regular people than the in-game perspective would suggest. The FNAF 1 and 2 cast look like they're slowly marching down to give the player a piece of their mind, and Nightmare Fredbear looks like he's stomping after a toddler like a father would.
  • During the Bad Ending, where Glitch Bonnie traps the player in Freddy at the menu, we can really only make out his dancing silhouette. In its full glory, the dance is much goofier, especially knowing now that his feet never really leave the floor, resulting in very graceful footwork.
  • The video also blesses us with Springtrap crawling through the vent... without the vent. He looks absolutely melodramatic, as if he just got out of bed on a school day.
• In the Halloween DLC, sometimes in the DLC hub world a ship appears in the background. And sometimes the Kraken comes to destroy it. Now granted, that's probably a reference to Foxy, but it's so out of place it's hilarious.
• The Plushbaby jumpscare is just the doll being shaken around very close to the player. No grabbing, no biting, just some very violent wiggling. It doesn't even bother to pull a Nightmare Face.
• The fact that Phone Guy's calls make a return means Fazbear Entertainment, on top of everything else, had the audacity to use recordings of a dead employee, included the call showing his death. It's so grossly tone-deaf of them, it bounces right into hilarity.

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