History VideoGame / FiveNightsAtFreddys2

''Five Nights at Freddy's 2'' is the sequel to the hit 2014 horror-themed strategy game ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys1''. Creator Creator/ScottCawthon released the game on November 10th, 2014 — a full three months after the first game (making it one of the fastest-released sequels on the market), and a month ahead of its announced December release. You can buy the game on [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/332800/ Steam]] and the App Store, with a version of the game on [[UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch Nintendo Switch]], [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 PlayStation 4]] and [[UsefulNotes/XboxOne Xbox One]] also being available as of November 2019, like its predecessor.

* FloatingHeadSyndrome: As seen above, the "cover" is simply Freddy's [[SmugSmiler ominously smiling]] head next to the title.[[note]]As a side note, the UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} banner is the same thing, except it does away with the title, assuming Freddy's distinctive, instantly-recognizable-to-the-fans face is enough to tell everyone what it is. It worked.[[/note]]

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: This game offers a new possibility for why the animatronics attack you in both games: their facial recognition systems are malfunctioning, and they're unable to differentiate between you and the murderer. You'll sometimes run into people in the Death minigames, and they have no distinguishable features, reinforcing this theory.

* AIIsACrapshoot: The new Toy animatronics display the same levels of aggression towards adults- including the night gaurd- that the originals do, despite the possibility that they may not be haunted.

* EldritchLocation: The original five animatronics - and the Puppet - have already been haunted for years, but this fails to explain how or why the Toys attack the nightgaurd, why decorations disappear and reappear at random, or who or what the Shadows are.

* ThirteenIsUnlucky: The overtime check is dated November 13, which in 1987 fell on a Friday. The check is laid on a newspaper that announces the pizzeria's closure and eventual reopening following the [[spoiler: murders earlier in the week.]] The very next day turns out to be even worse when [[spoiler:the Bite of '87 happens]] during a birthday party.

''Five Nights at Freddy's 2'' is the sequel to the hit 2014 horror-themed strategy game ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys1''. Creator Creator/ScottCawthon released the game on November 10th, 2014 — a full three months after the first game (making it one of the fastest-released sequels on the market), and a month ahead of its announced December release. You can buy the game on [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/332800/ Steam]] and the App Store, like its predecessor.

* LivingShadow: Two EasterEgg characters are this; Shadow Bonnie and Shadow Freddy don't just send you back to the main menu when they kill you, however. No... ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou they]] '''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou crash the game.]]'''''

* MetaphoricallyTrue: Given all the references to the "New and Improved Freddy Fazbear's", you would assume [[spoiler:this game is a sequel, and it replaces the location from the first game. It's actually a prequel, and the pizzeria from the first game is the one that is the successor. Well, the pizzeria in this game ''is'' a successor… of the then-unmentioned and unseen Fredbear's Family Diner]].

* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: [[spoiler:The [[http://33.media.tumblr.com/1465beb67df43c885eed94640a8696d5/tumblr_nev7ntjSk11u12kv9o1_1280.jpg paycheck at the end of the game]] is dated November 12, 1987. It's a prequel.]] Which really doesn't explain why the four main characters have both Toy and Withered versions. Also, why is it still referred to as "new and improved"?

* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: The animatronics of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza are equipped with facial recognition software, can climb into air ducts, and have some implied sentience ([[spoiler:haunted or not, it's still impressive]]). Such features were near unheard of during the game's ''year of release'', let alone in the game's setting of [[spoiler:the late eighties]].

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: After playing the first six nights as Jeremy Fitzgerald, you play the custom seventh night as [[spoiler:Fritz Smith,]] who might be the [[spoiler:Phone Guy]].

* AllYourPowersCombined: Downplayed; Golden Freddy seems to have multiple ways of attacking, ranging from [[DidntNeedThoseAnyway throwing his head at you to mimic Foxy]] or [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys repeating his old strategy]] of teleporting into your office.

* HistoryRepeats: This isn't the first time the robots came after the night watch, [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys nor will it be the last]]]].

* StoryBreadcrumbs: The game expands on the backstory that [[Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys the first game]] described, except it's detailed through post-death minigames, meaning if you don't die much or are simply unlucky, you won't see much of it. That, coupled with several important revelations[[note]]most of which concern the [[TheManBehindTheMan Puppet]][[/note]] requiring having played the first game to understand, turn the reveals into this trope.

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Congratulations, and welcome to your new job as night watchman at the new and improved [[SuckECheeses Freddy Fazbear's Pizza]]! Your job couldn't be simpler: you just spend your nights watching the security cameras for any sign of trouble...not that you would expect any from [[BlatantLies such a quiet and innocent place]].

** Even with the Puppet problem, at first you would think you can just tag in/out the cameras and the Freddy mask whenever you put them down. You don't need the flashlight at all. Then Foxy is introduced in Night 2, and the flashlight's purpose becomes clear: you ''need'' the flashlight to ward Foxy off from the hallway, and you cannot put on the Freddy mask or use the cameras at the same time as the flashlight.

* DemonicDummy: Toy Freddy and Toy Bonnie have ventriloquist-dummy aesthetics, to make their "friendlier" designs actually creepy. Regardless of whatever the Puppet is, it definitely falls under this category. The theory that Mangle was a ventriloquist means that its second head was in itself a creepy dummy.

* ThirteenIsUnlucky: The overtime check is dated November 13, which in 1987 fell on a Friday. The check is laid on a newspaper that announces the pizzeria's closure and eventual reopening following the [[spoiler: murders earlier in the week.]] The very next day turns out to be even worse when the [[spoiler:Bite of '87 happens]] during a birthday party.

* TheEighties: The Bite of '87 is a large part of the game's main story.

* ABirthdayNotABreak: The pizzeria hosts a birthday party on the day before it closes down, and it's hinted at that the [[spoiler:Bite of '87 happens]] at that party.

* HarmfulToMinors: During a birthday party on the restaurant's last day of service, it is suggested [[spoiler:that the Bite of '87 takes place]].

* ToothyBird: Chica was already this in the first game, but her classic version in the new game has an even more nightmarish beak full of twisted metal.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** The Puppet. [[spoiler:It most likely got trashed and there's no music box in ''1'', but it still begs the question: Why are there so many references to it, then? Did management keep the drawings of it? Did they keep it, but in a much more secure way?]] The between-night bumpers suggest it's still around, however. [[spoiler:The fourth night's cinematic shows you the view from inside Freddy as he wakes up on the first game's Show Stage. You look at Bonnie, look at Chica — and then The Puppet appears directly in front of you and won't let you look away.]]
** Downplayed with the new animatronics. While not completely gone, they do start showing up a lot less during the later nights.