Okay so after being constantly bothered to watch it, I watched Game Theorists' FNaF2 vid and... well aside from all the rambling and stating obvious shit that everyone should already know by now, there are only two bits that stand out to me.
- The Puppet is the crying child from the Take Cake to the Children death minigame, backed up by the fact that the puppet's eye lines resemble the child's tear lines. And also that he's still around in the first game in the wall posters
- The Purple Man, and ultimately the murderer of the five children is actually Phone Guy, because in the S-A-V-E-T-H-E-M minigame, the purple man's sprite looks like it's carrying a phone. And that he knows a lot about the puppets. And that he refers to management as "them" and talks about "the employees," as if his position isn't tied to the company.
The Puppet one could be valid, but I still think that's a bit of a stretch. PHONE GUY, however...
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- If that sprite is holding a phone like the theory says, that particular shape of the phone wouldn't be portable.
- Him mentioning Foxy is his favorite is relevant... how?
- If you don't follow MatPat's Puppet theory, Phone Guy's dislike of The Puppet is just "wow that thing is creepy."
- I don't see the problem in his company language. I refer to my coworkers as "employees" and my bosses as "them." Not all the time, but it happens.
- But the biggest bit is the phone call on Night 4 in the first game, where he says this:
Uh, hey, do me a favor. Maybe sometime, uh, you could check inside those suits in the back room? I'm gonna to try to hold out until someone checks. Maybe it won’t be so bad. Uh, I-I-I-I always wondered what was in all those empty heads back there.
If he was the murderer, why would he be curious about what's in the suits or heads? - Also if he was the killer that wore the Golden Freddy suit, why does Golden Freddy's kill scream play on Night 4 when he gets killed?
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Phone Guy is pretty naive to what's happening in the second game, but he starts getting suspicious in the first game. Note how when he talks in the first game, he's really optimistic about everything and denies that anything's wrong until Night 5. Night 6 his tone of voice hints that he's starting to put it together. Then when you play FNaF1, he sounds a little nervous as if he's trying to keep his job but his not trusting and trying to figure out what's going on in his off-time.
The only question is the circumstances of his murder. I'm going to just flat out say that it's probably just what motivates all the animatronics, and him getting ganged up on is just played up for dramatic effect.
ANYWAY, ignoring all of this, the offline image got changed AGAIN.
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Also the metadata got changed to read: "five nights at freddys, taking a break, Merry Christmas everyone! "
I really hope this means he's going to take his time and properly develop the third game.