Hey everyone! I'm just writing this quick post to clear up some understandable confusion in regards to the current storyline of FNaTI and the canonicity of FNaTI 2020. I briefly talked about this in an earlier devlog for the game, however, it seems not many of you caught onto what exactly I'm doing in regards to writing.

Have any of you seen Evil Dead 2? Well, for those of you who haven't (I'm sure most of you aren't horror movie nerds like me), Evil Dead 2 is a rare case of what is called a "requel." A sequel, but also a remake. Sam Raimi (The creator of Evil Dead) was forced to slightly retell the first film in the franchise after he lost the rights to it. He let the first film still exist in the story, however, the events of the first film were changed, some parts were retconned, and the overall story was updated for the sequel.

The same can be applied here. While yes the events of FNaTI 2020 do exist, I was not fully happy with the story I wrote for it back in 2018. I have a lot more writing experience now than I did back then and looking back at some of the things from the older story really irk me. I have been updating my story for FNaTI for quite some time now, and it is basically the same, however, things such as character backstories, character designs, voices, and more have changed.

It's really hard to explain this all without spoiling things, however, when it comes to looking to FNaTI 2020 as "canon" I would use it very loosely. The events exist, however they are slightly changed in the new story introduced by Casa. Not necessarily retconned, just slightly changed to fit with what we're going for currently. Don't be confused if returning characters from FNaTI 2020 look different in Casa, as it's most likely the result of what we're doing with the lore. (and also because the old models suck)

Anyway, I hope I did well at explaining this all here. It's 1 AM right now and I need to get some sleep, but a post about this was overdue. If there are any further questions, feel free to ask in the comments and I'll do my best to explain whatever is necessary.

PS: I should also mention the cutscenes that play after every night in FNaTI 2020 have been retconned. The worst part of the game and a useless part of the old story so we cut it out. Rest in piss.