Poppy Playtime

"Poppy Playtime: Chapter 4" marked with its release a new remarkable piece to the lore of the PPU or as called "Poppy Playtime Universe".

Its big announcements, marketing and hopes promised a dark and really good game but in fact, it has gotten some small fragments mistakes that require a lot of charm to not be seen as "problematic mistakes".

The game itself delivers a huge turn in their franchise from the big childish factory style to a dark metaphor for hopelessness.

As Poppy and the main Character continue searching on for contributing their fate to revenge they meet new friends and allies gaining their fate within.

But although the game itself brings a lot of storytelling, it requires a big amount of performance updates.

It's clear to say after playing the game for just more than 30 minutes, it is packed with a lot of bugs and glitches. Those themself make the game almost unplayable and they turn it into a unwatchable session of mess.

Hard critic might some say. The best thing the makers of the game should have done was delaying it at least for some days after to solve the problems but they didn't.

They wanted to release it - but that's okay.

Despite all the complaints about bugs and glitches, the game also delivers a really heartbreaking experience for individuals and does what it should be doing.

This game has A LOT of potential, Even though the first chapter felt more like a demo more than anything and was only like 20 minutes long, This game is really promising!

First of all, The environment looks fantastic, The old abandoned factory setting (while yes, it has been done before a lot) is really cool, The puzzles with the packbag hands thingy were really unique cool too, Really wish more horror games had more of these type of gimmicks, and the animations were fantastic, Especially the chase sequence near the end, Oh my god, My heart was racing like crazy, It was SO GOOD, Huggy Wuggy's movements and animations combined with the sound design were absolutely terrifying!

And you could tell that the people behind this game REALLY knew what they were doing, with all the lore, history and tapes they wrote for this game and the amazing cutscene in the beginning, You could Clearly tell that a lot of care and love went into the making of this game.

I just hope this game doesn't go the FNaF route.. Don't get me wrong there's nothing wrong with having some inspiration from another big indie horror title, But I just hope this game will be It's own thing, and not just another game made for YouTubers so they can make like 300 videos theorizing about the characters and lore so kids could watch them and give them millions of views, You know what am I talking if you have been on YouTube long enough..

So yeah to summarize it for you, This game was a pleasant experience, Not gonna lie, It's kinda hard to judge the game right now with only one chapter out, and I'm kinda curious to see what will they do in the future, Will Huggy be the main antagonist of the game? Will the backpack still be the main game mechanic or will we get a new tool every chapter to solve puzzles with?.. I don't know really, But either way I will be checking out what else this game has to offer in the next chapters, but until then I'm pretty satisfied with my rating.

6/10.

Poppy playtime fell off man. Like, I never really got into it, but at this point it's likely going to fail, and honestly? I'm kinda for it. The fact this was made by Enchantedmob says a lot about why it exists considering what Enchantedmob is at this point and what they've done in the past. This is definitely popular with residential 4 year olds everywhere, but the gameplay is truly lacking, only having around 2 or 3 different puzzle types within. The main antagonists are given little to do with themselves, as one doesn't speak, and the other doesn't really do that much in terms of presence in the story. The fact that they made the fantastic decision to make chapter 1 free, then double chapter 2's price compared to the first and not compensate people who bought chapter 1 is a little confounded, and this IP is only really being used for merchandising, remember the NFT's? Honestly, the fact that Enchantedmob decided to make poppy playtime but it's dead by daylight is absurd, the game itself is so obscure by this point that it doesn't even have an Imdb page at all.

Honestly, Poppy playtime fell off spectacularly, and I hope that it dies along with most modern mascot horror.

Wait, what about boxy boo.?

This game and the people behind it fell off spectacularly in a way I couldn't have imagined. The company behind it is effectively a minecraft mascot horror animation content farm, with people behind it that actively rip on other content creators that try to do things that are similar, to the point of making entire youtube channels about it. The game itself was kinda obviously made to be a merchandising cash cow, with plushes, merch, and nft's galore. The game uses the chapter format first seen in bendy and the ink machine, in which both first chapters are effectively demos to show what the rest of the game may look like, and feature a 2nd chapter in which you go further down into the games setting, with a new antagonist that is different from the antagonist of the first. BatIM does this much better, as it's much more stylized and smaller environment help build tension, especially with it's 2 colors, though Poppy Playtime has a much wider color palette, which takes away from it's fear factor. What's worse is the price, as Poppy Playtimes team decided to make the first chapter free, but double the price of the 2nd chapter compared to the first's, which is an extremely scummy move.

Don't give any money to the people behind this "passion" project.

Wait, what about boxy boo?

The game is really good especially with its scary atmosphere. Poppy Playtime builds tense throughout the gameplay but unfortunately the duration of the first chapter was really off putting. I could complete the game in a small amount of time but overall its a great game with fantastic graphics and i would recommend buying it if you're into games like 'Five Nights At Freddys'.