Five Nights at Freddy’s 3
Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 takes place in the same location as the previous games, except things are a bit different. Set 30 years after the restaurant finally closed down (shortly after the first game), the pizzeria has been transformed into a museum/haunted attraction of sorts. After the mysterious disappearances of the children all those years ago, rumors of murder, and everything else that contributed to the demise of this once fine establishment, people in the area grew intrigued. Now the player must look over a place actually built to scare the snot out of patrons, should be a walk in the park, right?
This time around, there is only one animatronic to worry about, Springtrap. Normally, that would mean this is going to be much easier, but that couldn’t be far from the truth. There are also things called Phantoms. These are hallucinations of the original mascots. Their eyes glow, and they appear to be awfully burned and disfigured. The good thing is that they can’t harm you, unless you count real world harm, in which case they have the potential to give you a heart attack. But everything in this installment serves Springtrap.
Springtrap is faster and a lot more cunning than Freddy, Bonnie, Foxy, and Chica from the previous games. Some would say that he’s almost human-like. Looking at him shows a lot of wear and tear, as well as what looks like human remains within the suit. It may seem like it’s just your mind playing tricks on you. That is, until you play Five Nights at Freddy’s mini-games.
If you are able to earn the cake in every mini-game so that each child can be present in the final one, players can finally find out what happened to Purple Guy from Five NIghts at Freddy’s 2. The children’s spirits, sporting mascot masks, corner purple guy in the secret room of the restaurant where it’s believed that each of their murders occurred. Purple Guy hides inside Springtrap, which appears to be a much older version of Bonnie. This is an animatronic that can be worn as long as the mechanisms within the suit are locked against the outer layer. Unfortunately, these locks aren’t the most reliable, so when Purple Guy successfully fools the children he jumps in excitement leading the springs to snap, thus crushing his body to death.
This means that there is a very good chance that the Springtrap the player is forced to deal with is in fact the same one, possessed by the spirit of Purple Man. It would explain why Springtrap is able to move so quickly, and is also so smart. Another thing to note is that Purple Man is always depicted with a smile, which conveys his sadistic nature. That can be why he’s so intent on killing you, when the other animatronics in the previous games seemed to just follow a pattern.
Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 has three endings. The bad ending shows the heads of the four mascots (Freddy, Chica, Bonnie, and Fox) sitting on a table with their eyes glowing, along with a fifth head that many believe to be Golden Freddy. The Good ending shows the same image of just the four heads, only this time the lights are off meaning the spirits of the tortured children have finally moved on. The neutral ending sees the building burn to the ground. Unfortunately it appears that Springtrap has escaped (you can see this if you brighten the newspaper article that is a part of this ending).
