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The Return to Freddy's Classic (formerly known as Five Nights at Freddy's 3 Fan-Made and just Five Nights at Freddy's 3 before that) is the first game in the TRTF SAGA and the first game in Volume 1. The next game in the series is The Return to Freddy's 2, though The Return to Freddy's 3 would chronologically be the next game.
Plot Summary
FNaF 3/FNaF 3 Fan-Made
When Mike Schmidt was about to quit his job, he found an article on the news paper mentioning the animatronics being fixed: The "Ever So Popular" Pizzeria's Animatronics have been fixed and repaired at last! They have also fixed and brought back everyone's favorite pirate fox, Foxy. The murderer of the four children and one missing child has yet to be found. They also brought back something from the old pizzeria. Something to bring back to the hopes and joys of children and grown ups alike! But the building has yet to be cleaned... Not responsible for injury/dismemberment. $150.00 a week. To apply call 1-888-FAZ-FAZBEAR.
TRTF Classic
As Mike Schmidt was about to quit his job, he found the news article about the pizzeria saying: The "Ever So Popular" Pizzeria's Animatronics have been fixed and repaired at last! They have also fixed and brought back everyone's favorite pirate fox, Foxy. The murderer of the four children and one missing child has yet to be found. They also brought back something from the old pizzeria. Something to bring back to the hopes and joys of children and grown ups alike! But the building has yet to be cleaned... Not responsible for injury/dismemberment.
Gameplay
The player assume the role of Mike Schmidt, and to defend himself from the animatronics, He has to put on his head the Freddy Mask and spare the power in the building. If this isn't done the player will die resulting in a Game Over.
Development History
On December 23rd, 2014, a Game Jolt user named BFPFilms424 (real name Tyler Ahlström) released the first ever iteration of the game under the name "Five Nights at Freddy's 3", as the official FNaF 3 wasn't out around that time. While some people figured out that it was fan-made, others thought that it was the real FNaF3 and sent complaints to Scott Cawthon. Due to widespread confusion and controversy among the community about the game and it's name, he changed the name of the game to "Five Nights at Freddy's 3 Fan-Made" to help alleviate this. Soon after this, Scott Cawthon contacted Tyler asking him to change the game's name completely so that no more possible confusion could occur, with Tyler deciding to rename the game to "The Return to Freddy's". He re-released it under that name on January 5th, 2015.
Differences
There are three main iterations of The Return to Freddy's Classic ("Five Nights at Freddy's 3", "Five Nights at Freddy's 3 Fan-Made" and the current iteration). These all have many notable differences between each other.
Differences between FNaF 3 and FNaF 3 Fan-Made
The monitor drained the player's power much faster in the original version of the game in comparison to how it was in the rebranded version. This change carried over to the game's final rebranding.
The jumpscare noise was originally completely different in the original version of the game. The one originally used was taken from a fan-made Five Nights at Freddy's 3 trailer created by a animation group called "GoldenLane Studio", while the scream used in the rebranded version of the game is the one from Five Nights at Freddy's 2. This change carried over to the game's final rebranding.
The Custom Night icons for Bonnie and Chica were also taken directly from the original Five Nights at Freddy's in the original version of the game, while in the rebranded version of the game, their icons are taken directly from Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (although Bonnie's is edited to include her face). This change carried over to the game's final rebranding.
Differences between FNaF 3 Fan-Made and TRTF Classic
An additional animatronic was included in the game's roster in the first two versions of the game who was named Sugar, but she was removed during the game's final rebranding.
Shadow Dug originally looked look very different within the first two versions of the game when in comparison to how he looks within the game's final rebranding. Within the original two versions of the game, he appears to be much lankier and skinnier than he is within the final version of the game.
The doors were originally able to be opened and closed freely in the game's original two versions, however they do not actually do anything to aid the player or drain the player's power. This is in heavy contrast to the immobile doors in the final version of the game.
Their textures also originally were the exact same as in the original Five Nights at Freddy's in the original two versions of the game, without the edits applied to them in Photoshop that were done to make them look like they were broken which were added into the game in it's final version.
In the intro cutscene of the game, the desk in front of you originally did not have any plushies and toys on top of it within the game's first two versions, which is in heavy contrast to how it looks in the final version of the game where it is covered in many.
The keys for saving and loading the player's progress were different. Within the final version of the game, the player has to use N to save their game and M to load their game. In the original two versions of the game, the player has to use F5 to save their game and F6 to load their game.
Major Updates
The Return to Freddy's Classic would have received a major update in 2016 (along with all of the other games from Volume 1). This would've included original models, new mechanics, minigames, and more. However, these updates were eventually scrapped, the new models and changes never being shown. According to Toonster (one of the former developers of TRTF 5), Tyler showed him during a skype call the .mfa file of the updated TRTF Classic, which had completly nothing done yet.
These major updates were eventually cancelled however they were uncancelled for a time in 2017 and put under the control of TannerFeline, until they were cancelled once again. In 2018, Tyler had actually wanted to and started remaking all of the TRTF Volume 1 games, including TRTF Classic, which was going to use the The Return to Freddy's: Chapter One animatronic models along with some other new assets. However, he ended up cancelling them since they would've took too much time, and he wasn't pleased with the community.
Characters
Animatronics
Sugar (Removed in the game's rebranding)
Hallucinations
Humans
Trivia
This is the only game in the TRTF series not to be made in Clickteam Fusion 2.5, it was instead made using an earlier version of Clickteam made before Clickteam Fusion 2.5 known as "The Games Factory 2".
The randomly bolded letters within the final version of the game's Game Jolt decription make out the phrase "I AM HIM".
The animatronics in this game don't actually run on a AI System, they are all programmed to move at very specific times.
The game requires the player to manually save their data by pressing the N key (F5 before the rebranding) in order to keep the progress for once they exit the game. Failing to do this will result in the loss of all of the player's data. To access the data that the player has saved previously, the player has to manually load it in later by pressing the M key (F6 before the rebranding).
The game had a trailer made for it when it was known as "Five Nights at Freddy's 3" that heavily utilized footage from, Garry's Mod however, the trailer has long since been lost.[1]
The render of Freddy used within the newspaper of the game was taken from the online artist Nexus Drakeson.
The Return to Freddy's 5 was originally going to be a reboot of this game, titled The Return to Freddy's: Remastered, but the game was later reworked to be an entirely new mainline installment in the series.
