The idea that Catnap’s presence is always around even when he himself isn’t there reminds of how The Wolf from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish was utilized. He may not have had that much screen time, but almost every choice made in that movie was because of him.
Something subtle that really seperates Poppy Playtime from other big mascot horror games like fnaf and Bendy is that it doesn’t deal with supernatural antics like spirits and possession. Instead the lore about the living mascots in Poppy is all about theoretical science, human experimentation and surgical procedures
which also adds to the horror when you realize these live children were being vivisected and placed into bigger bodies, and were locked up when not in children's view in direct supervision.
@@OfficialToxicCatIt's not just that that separates Bendy from other mascot horror franchises, it's the concept of bringing cartoons to life through ink infused with memories. Bendy himself doesn't have souls in him or anything like that, he's just an amalgamation of cartoons that became what could honestly be called a non-digital artificial intelligence. You could say that the will of his creators became part of him as well, but he's a new creation either way.
The thing about dogday, is that there are many, MANY hints that he is important. He's the leader of the smiling critters, he's a dog and catnap is a cat, he's daytime (good) and catnap is nighttime (bad), in the smiling critters cartoon tape, dogday is the only one on the couch with catnap after they are put to sleep with a blanket covering his legs (hinting that he lost his legs), and he's just the polar opposite of catnap.
I took the visual cue of them being the only ones on the couch as a representation for the fact they are the only 2 alive with the others on the floor being deceased. This is supported right down to his pose and the fact he has the blanket obscuring his legs
Which is pretty ironic cause in the animated short of Dogday’s house you can see a picture of him and Catnap together hugging implying they are probably besties in the smiling critters tv show.
The cool thing about catnap is that you can tell he isnt eating the other toys, or at least he doesnt do it often. He basically rules the place but he’s still starving. He could have eaten the little smiling critters but he didnt. Either he’s smart and is rationing to live longer or he has some allegience to the other toys.
I mean look at him, he is skinny asf, well you see he gave a open mouth but can't close it, also it can't put meat or flesh in it mouth since its have no hole
@@ashuraomega1000 "doesnt eat the other toys *or atleast doesnt do it often*". second half of the comment is saying that he may kill the toys, but not a rampant murder. i suggest looking up the definition of rationing food
Has anybody else noticed that we don’t see any remains of the other teachers that she ate? Like there is no trace bod them. Normally we would see doll parts, or something of that nature. This tells me that she was so hungry. She quite literally cleaned her plate.
I believe Playtime Co built the Ms Delights as "life sized dolls" and then transferred their basic organs across. I don't believe she had a human jaw or even a human stomach, so she could fully eat her sisters without harming herself in any way.
FINALLY someone who agrees that Capnap's Presence is not lackluster! if He just showed up and started talking to us like Mommy, it would diminish his Fear factor...bro, the section after we Breathe the gas is scary man!, all the ambience and the impact of his presence wouldn't exist!, One of the moments I think is really cool is when we encounter catnap's cardboard cutout, when we already heard the other ones from rest of the smilling critters, so we expect to hear him in his cartoon voice, but no... it's just the sound of him sleeping... like a beast, and Come to think of it.... We never hear him say something, not in the cartoon, cutouts... nothing
we only hear him in the first (i think only tape) we get in the playhouse and when he's telling us to "leave or he's coming for us" after he "attacks" and takes our mask in the counselors offices.
*((I found the comment im referencing! It’s by LiD0349 on jacksepticeyes chapter 3 playthrough))* Avtually 🤓 i read somewhere that the sound that plays sounds identical to ”agonal breathing” which is what happens when the brain is not getting enough oxygen. He was probably very very close to death during that recording. Like, ”as close to death as humanly possible”, which explains why he wprships the prototype inbthe way he does because essentially his life was literally saved by iy
@@_tyler32Someone mentioned this in a different Poppy Playtime video and it's so cool yet horrifying. Also, Catnap's cardboard cutout must have been even more horrifying for the people that already knew about agonal breathing. I heard someone talk about how they knew what agonal was and they could tell it was agonal breathing just by hearing it. They said that the second they heard it, they felt extremely concerned and terrified. It apparently made Catnap even scarier for them. They also said that during Catnap's death, because they knew what the agonal breathing was and after hearing about how Catnap was in a serious accident before being turned into Catnap. They felt much more upset about his death because they sympathised with him more. They saw him as much more of a victim than other people because they understood just how serious the accident was, and what he went through. A sad thing that *I* noticed is despite Catnap obviously growing older over the 10 years, (Since he's a biological creature) he never truly got the chance to learn to act and think like an adult. He's still mentally a child. He'd still be reliant on others. Still need someone to guide him. To care for him and protect him. Which leads me to believe that Catnap doesn't treat the prototype like a god _just_ because he saved him. I think that he might also worship the prototype because he sees it like a parent figure in some strange way. The prototype protects him and guides him. Just like a parent. So the prototype would definitely give Catnap some comfort in some kind of way. Especially for a young orphan. That's why he did what he did to Dogday. Dogday was someone who was against the prototype. Trying to take the prototype down. The prototype is Catnap's comfort, his _only_ comfort. Something that gives him a sense of warmth and safety in a dark and scary place like the factory. So of course and understandably he wouldn't want anyone to take that away from him. So all of this made the fact that it was the prototype that killed Catnap all the more heartbreaking for me. Catnap didn't deserve this fate. Not one bit. He's a victim of the prototype too. An innocent child deep down inside that was simply misguided by a terrible and cruel being. Everyone is a victims in different ways. But they're _all_ still victims to the _one_ being: The Prototype.
catnap holding toast with bedroom eyes is not something i expected to see today edit: what have i caused. every reply notif i get takes 1 year off my life
@@SoftLolietehe was like 10-11 when he was transformed into Catnap and the game is set 8 years after the factory closed, you need to add time between his operation and closing.
Small detail about the Ms. Delight chase that's really great design is that the green wall power things are always placed in such a way that when you back up while facing them, Ms. Delight's entrance point to the room you're in is always near the left or right edge of your screen. You're walking backwards facing her, and the obstacles on the floor kind of force the player into specific spots where she's always just barely in or out of frame while looking at the power things. It's also cool that for each section, she refuses to move and is stopped by a fence, so when the final fence comes down, she's fighting her own beliefs and desperately running in full view because she knows it's her last chance to get you.
The cool thing about Miss Delight's "playing dead" mechanic is that it actually works a lot! Most people don't realize she's a weeping angel off the bat, and think that she's broken or glitched (which can be synonymous with dead in a game), often disregarding her as a threat and coming dangerously close to her, where they will then die. So the strategy actually works!
There is one thing I noticed about PP Chapter 3. We have an entire building that is just, never mentioned. Ollie never talks about it, and after looking at the 'map' of the place, you never think of it again. The Toy Store. A game about monster toys, and you don't go into the Toy Store. Does that not seem OFF to anyone else?
yeah, it does seem like the toy store was cut, probably do to pacing issues. As to what it's purpose was supposed to be ama just take a shot in the dark and say it was supposed to be an actual "church"
Cut content basically, it was originally where you would see the "Shrine". TetroBitGaming goes over the cut content like maps, audio, and lost bits of the chapters.
I think devs listened to you, btw. In the patch 3 20/02/2024 they add this "Added an Ollie call to help guide the player after plugging in the Counselor’s Office plug", that's pretty cool tbh And also "Added on-screen subtitles while doing the tutorial in the Final Encounter"
1:26 so true, Poppy playtime dev said while making those toys they made them too scary at first and it doesn't look like a toy that a real toy factory would make, so they redrew them. like mommy long leg was supposed to be spider-like. That's why in the chase scenes some paths are blocked by spider web
2:44 fun fact: It is theorized that buggy is trying to play with you throughout the intro, but becomes aggressive after noticing what you’re doing/who you are
Poppy Playtime always had the potential to be a damned good Horror game, not just a decent Mascot Horror game, and Chapter 3 realized that potential fully. Everything about Chapter 3 was an improvement and I hope MOB keeps this same energy for the rest of Poppy and whatever games they come up with next. How they handled DogDay and reveal of The Hour of Joy was brilliant and absolutely disturbing. Like legit nightmare fuel. And the OST was peak.
I find it wild how PP is the only Mascot horror that has actually improved itself as it went on FNAF excluded most seem to either stay the same or get worse Also it's besides the point of the video but Happy's humble burger farm is two years old dang that is wild I didn't think it'd been that long
FNAF has been more of a rollercoaster than just a simple "gets better" or "gets worse". For example, Security Breach was one of the worst games, but the two following it have been some of the best. But that has nothing to do with your main point, that PP has indeed gotten better with each entry.
I'm a programmer. Changing the rng bounds like you describe would indeed be easy. Odds are, they wanted catnap to only occasionally have a fast or slow turnaround, and for it to happen once or twice per attempt. The extreme luck you've seen probably didn't come up in playtesting, but when it released, that's lots more chances for people to have catnap spam or catnap absence. Fixing that issue while still having the occasional fast or slow turnaround is non-trivial but still very achievable.
Fun fact about the end of the game that not many people talk about If you go to the gas chamber with the battery, but decides: "You know what? I'm dipping." And you get out through the door of the gas chamber, walk a little bit away, and look back to the door? Catnap will be there, looking at you. Walk more, and he will disappear, and when you reach close to the middle of the map, you'll die. And as someone who commented on the video said before "It's a callback to what Ollie said to you at the start of the game. 'And when you're on your most Vulnerable, he'll kill you!'"
Those aren't bedroom eyes, people. Catnap is just being smug because he's better than Mommy Longlegs! Edit: on second thought... I'm less sure about that anymore...
The greatest strength of this chapter is for me the pacing. They introduce you stuff in safe area first to get familiarized or to anticipate what's to come, They throw you a moderate threat the jungle with the puzzle / the moving around, They give you another mechanic in another area to test it, but this time with ennemies to show you that this mechanic is for "confrontation" too, and then they put you in "real danger" to let you utilize everything you learned in this chapter. You really feel like the you at the start of the chapter and the you at the end of it are completely different in terms of you relationship with the environnement.
Chapter 3 made me incredibly happy right at the beginning when I saw they added PROPER TUTORIALS ON THE MECHANICS. The lack of that in Chapter 2 made me so incredibly mad, you don't even know
Yeah I agree 100% that they could have explained well at all what to do during the 96% power part. Like it's as simple as have Ollie call back when it stops charging and go " Oh no! We are a little short, and you can't stay here much longer. Hmm. Oh I know! Do you remember that panel that Poppy used to get you up into the sky dome to restart the power? Go see if there is one more plug in that panel, here I'm sending you the key now." That alone would clear up a good chunk of the confusion during that part.
Another thing that makes it more gruesome once you realize it is that every time DogDay is depicted in these cutouts, story boards, etc. he's posed with his arms up... as if he's bung by them.
i think they should make catnap creeps on the player in the counselors office more becuase the things that oliie said before going in and the perfect place imo are the vents, the door puzzle, the engine puzzle and the key section
Honestly Catnap not having a huge presence makes a ton of sense in the context of him being a cat. Cats generally aren’t going to be all on someone they aren’t familiar with or dislike. Since most of the hostile toys hate employees, it makes sense for a cat-themed toy to not do that (and I understand Catnap isn’t a real cat, but the characteristics make a ton of sense). Catnap stalking honestly made for a totally anxious gameplay because I truly, truly did not know when I would see Catnap full on and that stressed me out entirely. That whole “Leave Playcare or I’m coming for you” line was absolutely terrifying. The mystery behind Catnap is what made him so scary, and honestly not all monsters should present themselves the same way. Huggy’s shock and fear came from the fact that originally not everyone knew that he was sentient, we just knew a giant statue toy was there, disappeared, and is now chasing us. Mommy was with us throughout the gameplay which made it scary up to the final chase scene because I knew she was getting more and more frustrated with us winning the games, and the stress of a raging Mommy was enough for me. Catnap’s fear is really stemming from the fact that we knew we were being stalked and having to constantly guess when we would see him was anxiety inducing enough.
true. I Just wish catnap had more stalking scenes on home Sweet home. I also thinks he introduction for the gás mask was horrible. Like. In the trailer. It was originally in the wall. In the game place where we First find the gás mask, but in the actual game. It's literally hidden in the hole that we jump in. I Saw an youtuber literally pass the entire home Sweet home área without even getting the gás mask. He only returned to get the gás mask after people told him on the comments of the vídeo. I think a much better introduction would bê smth like this: You enter in a Room, And you suddenly Hear loud Bang noise right Behind you, Someone has closed the door. You Hear something crawling through the vent and suddenly a red smoke comes out of the vent. You search on the Room desperately for a gás mask. And thankfully, you find It. You then open the vent and start crawling through It to get out of the room
Huh, never really thought about the starvation angle in Poppy. The Prototype either never thought about that as well, or he's counting on it, to get eventually rid of all of them. For some reason. And with Poppy trapped in a case, and with how small she is, she probaby doesn't need to eat either.
1:07 This actually made me so happy? I’m going after a creative writing degree, and hearing this come from Rye makes me feel like it’s going to be worth it.
BRUH AIN'T NO WAY CATNAP GIVIN THE BEDROOM EYES. Also good video, they did cook with ch. 3, I can only wonder what else they have on the menu to come up with 4 and 5 (if there would also be a 5th one which I feel like there will for some reason, not sure why).
They can most definitely change the mechanics. If you watch Dawko's play of the game, Miss Delight wasn't a "weeping angel" but it was changed to that at some point after his play thru.
It's great that MOB added a patch that has more dialogue for both the sky dome key area, and CatNap's boss fight, making it a lot easier to understand! It's little things like these that help make a great game even greater!
The first person i saw play chapter three (can’t remember who) encountered a different version of miss delight, as in she only moved when the lights were off/she was in the dark. Strange stuff.
some people got an earlier copy (like superhorrorbro just to name one) where she'd move when the lights were off, looking at her didn't do anything. the one everyone else got has the weeping angel mechanic of not moving when we're looking
I really appreciate you calling out that we shouldn't be comparing Poppy Playtime to FNaF (and, as a tangent, for calling out that the original animatronis were not actually scary). They have two completely different methods of horror, with FNaF relying on you sitting in one place, only able to see your environment through something as incomplete as a security camera, and Poppy's relying on you being able to navigate your environment while knowing that it is hazardous and necessary. Furthermore, Poppy's story does not work within FNaF gameplay methods. By thd nature of this story, the player has to be in an anvironment that they can explore and interact with, and they need to be able to run from the threats they find by doing so.
Saying CatNap is under utilized in Chapter 3 is like saying Sauron is underutilized in the Lord of the Rings. He's not a villen, he's the embodiment of an environment a hostile one. A challenge to overcome, not a character. Which is an entirely valid way to craft a villen.
Correct me if I'm wrong (it feels like it's been years since I watched Dawko's playthrough of Chapter 3 lol) but I believe all the keys the player gets from Ollie have keychains, no? And if I'm not mistaken, the Sky Dome key has a poppy flower keychain, which immediately reminded me of the cutscene where Poppy (with Kissy's help) opens the control panel for the Sky Dome lift which has a huge red poppy flower on the front of the panel door. I think it might have been more of a "Well, did you pay attention during the game play?" *kahoot music starts playing* - move of the game devs. I personally think it's completely fair game to include something like this at the end of the game and I really like it because it forces you to remember everything that you've witnessed throughout the chapter to find a solution and therefore engage more with the subject matter at hand instead of blindly running along ignoring everything else (not paying attention really gets punished here but I honestly find the big bright red poppy flower really hard to miss imo) I like it, but as a fellow ADHD person I can see where you're coming from. Maybe a little extra reminder in case some players have trouble spotting context clues and connecting the dots would be helpful :) -(Edits: Yes I wrote the comment before you mentioned it in the video but my point still stands? I think. Sorry I'm impatient xD)-
I absolutely love it when you branch out and do things that aren't related to FNAF. This entire video was just wonderfully done and it a lot of the best issues that the game has both good and bad. Reminds me of one of your members only videos. The one on resident evil village
I think your clue to getting the plug by the sky dome lift is in the counselor building when catnap takes your mask, in the mist illusion, we hear poppy say find the flower. And the flower that stands out to me is tge flower on the electrical box that poppy uses.
I love when you cover things outside of FNAF. I love FNAF but this is how we discover other amazing franchises that need opportunities to grow. I was ‘eh’ on Poppy Playtime at first but it’s grown on me A LOT through each chapter (especially Chapter 3) and I wouldn’t have gave it a chance otherwise. Keep up the great work. Sometimes the numbers won’t be huge at first but I think it will be a slow investment towards an amazing channel.
The Thumbnail for this video was Stunning, I loved it. Now let's get into the video, my apron's ironed and on! I guess steam is supposed to be able to clear up some of the Red Smoke, or is hot enough to repel CatNap, but we're not going to know that until we're seconds from death and he's right in our face. I adored Chapter 3 from a storyline perspective, to the point that I am miserable, because we won't get a hint of Chapter 4 for a /long time./ At least we have amazing theories and fan art to keep us busy until then. I just started watching @PoppyTheory 's videos yesterday and they have a lot of well-put together ideas, coupled with a tidy script and subtitles they added in themselves. 👍
Also notice the belt around dog day’s lower half that belt is there to keep his organs from spilling out onto the floor also notice the position he’s in. In every smiling critters art of dog day he is always jumping for joy with arms held high, what position do we see dog day in when we encounter him his arms are held high instead of arms out in joy he is being crucified I love detail like that really shows the developers care about telling a story
The only reason why i beat the Catnap Boss fight after dying a bunch of times was because on one try, during the last minute i didnt get attacked at all so i just waited out the clock😅
My thoughts on the last section of the game conflict with most people's experience, it seems. I didn't think the CatNap boss fight was exceptional or anything, but I also didn't think it was some difficult-to-understand mess. Even with the player rushing the whole sequence, I still felt that the mechanics were intuitive. I didn't need to know beforehand that the blasting of the steam kept CatNap at bay - it was the only thing it _could_ have done, once you test everything out. And by the time you actually need to use them, you've already figured out that shooting the flares doesn't do anything other than erase fake-CatNaps, so the only thing left at that point is to activate the steam. I don't know, I just don't feel there's anything there that makes the entire scenario muddled. The only issue I have with it is one you mentioned: the RNG of where CatNap may show up. While I didn't have this happen to me, I've definitely seen streamers that have had CatNap essentially just use the roof's vent door over and over and over again, which makes the fight ultimately a cakewalk since you don't have to utilize any of the mechanics other than keeping that vent shut.
To the Councilor office: it was a big lore dump confiming thingbfrom previous chapters. Everyone is looking atbthese chapeter as insular games, but im looking at it as a incomplete full game, Deep Sleep is when everything in a game gets harder & scarier, whereas chapter 1 is a basic tutorial, and chapter 2 is the complex tutorial- minimal explicit story high focus on mechnics. The slipage of not being focused on the mechanics only happens with mechnics you *should* remember from chapters 1 & 2
23:13 While I only saw yours and gtlive's playthrough I want to thank you(?) for helping others for that section. Have to say that breaks the game momentum a lot. (Don't know how to phrase better)
I just realized that along with there being little to no food left, Catnap is probably so thin because he spends so much time worshiping the Prototype, and eats only when necessary.
Something that I noticed is that a lot of the horror elements in chap 3 are call outs to old horrors. The nightmare huggy wuggy came out of the TV straight out of the Ring, the entire hallucination segment is PT, etc. It's practically displaying credentials. That, combined with the fridge horror of the franchise and the revelations within the chapter... it REALLY horrifies if you're an empathic person, because you understand what has happened, why, and what has happened since. I genuinely wonder how they're going to top this in 4, but I know some of the lore elements they COULD explore, and the sheer anticipation is already coiling around my spine.
Loved how this was written and done!! I think this video and the Phisnom tweet you showed capsule it best. The game was 10/10, I LOVED seeing people you’d never expect play it. It’s just the ending that left a bit of a taste in a player’s mouth. Luckily I watch people play before I play it so i knew vaguely what to do (adhd brain forgetting specifics) but the RNG of CatNap was brutal. I appreciate you bringing up gore as well. The reason I love mascot horror is because our body has an intense Vasovagal syncope reaction to sight of blood. We’ve been able to manage it a lot over the years down to being able to watch anime and games with a bit of blood(movies etc still being an issue at times and irl lol) but too much blood still gets me as well. Thats why I can rely on mascot horror and analog horror-they’re safe for me. It’s not gore just for gores sake. I really do think MOB Games listens and improves. So if this is Chapter 3 and they can improve even more next installment, I’m terrified(in the good way) of what awaits us.
I hope you don't mind me jumping into the comments to add my 2 cents. Generally speaking, I do agree with a lot of your points on the game, but I actually think Chapter 2 had a bit more of a consistent pacing than Chapter 3. Not to say chapter 3 was BAD, it did have some really good moments, but to me, the pacing felt really padded in many areas just to add length, and many of the grabpack puzzle sections felt pointless and overall poorly integrated into the larger narrative except for maybe the school and Playhouse sections. It was always "go here, flip this switch, put the batteries in the slot" for the ENTIRE chapter. Hell, at least in chapter 2, there was considerable variety in the tasks the game forced you into, with the various minigames. Those minigames also served as ways for other secondary characters that were introduced in that chapter - Bunzo, PJ, and the mini Wuggies - a time to shine, even if they didn't get any real characterization beyond "trying to kill you." Heck, of the 5 characters introduced in that chapter, only two - Daddy and Baby Long Legs - didn't get any screen time whatsoever, and those two were in a single blink and you miss it poster. Chapter 3, on the other hand, introduces not one, not two, but *ten* new characters. (Even if we assume "Ollie" is another character we've already seen, like the Prototype or Baby Long Legs, he's still *presented* as a new character, so my point still stands.) Of those ten new characters, only four get *any* screen time at all. And this is on top of all the characters introduced in chapters 1 and 2 that haven't gotten any screen time aside from being dead bodies littering the levels, like Boogie Bot, Bron, Catbee, Candy Cat, and Daisy (Daisy is on posters, she counts). This is doubly baffling, because ever since November, Mob Games had been hyping the Smiling Critters up like crazy, advertising them alongside Catnap as the mean feature of the chapter. Images of them are EVERYWHERE in chapter 3, but you never actually see them. Their Bigger Bodies versions weren't even mentioned at ALL, not like Catnap was. Even Catnap's presence feels like an afterthought in many ways. I was expecting he'd be a constant looming threat, Huggy Wuggy on steroids, always just out of sight, ready to pounce if you stayed in one place for too long, lending urgency to your quest, maybe a couple big chase sequences before the finale to keep you on your toes like in Home Sweet Home or the counselor's office. But no. He's just. Not a threat at all until the final set piece of the chapter. Like yeah, you *see* him a couple times just lurking here and there, but to me at least, he doesn't really feel like the sword of Damocles hanging over your head just ready to fall. In chapter 1, Mob Games holding Huggy Wuggy back until the final set piece is understandable, one, because the chapter is so short, and two, because the world of the factory is new to the player. Nobody knew what to expect from the place or from the game, which really helped in building tension, and you do see him here and there a couple times, staying just out of sight. Chapter 3, however, is NOT chapter 1. The audience is now experienced with how the game works, and the chapter is much longer than chapter 1. You cannot use the same tactics and expect them to work the same way. I'm not mad that Catnap wasn't in the School or the Playhouse, it makes sense that he wasn't and his presence is still very much felt, but we should have seen at least a little more of Catnap in Home Sweet Home and the Counselor's Office, imho, and it's a missed opportunity that we didn't. Speaking of missed opportunities, let's talk about the other Smiling Critters. I felt certain that they would be the breakout characters of this new chapter. And they have been, to an extent, but not because of any effort on the game's part. Before the chapter came out, I theorized that Dogday would be the Big Good of the chapter, being diametrically opposed to Catnap in every way from design, to theming, to even their names, with him helping the player bring light back to the Playcare to chase away Catnap's darkness, with the other Critters being split down the middle on whether they would be on Dogday's side or Catnap's, and try to aid or hinder the player during the chapter. Instead, all we got were a cutout of 6 out of 8 characters with about 4-5 lines of dialogue each, while the Bigger Bodies version of Dogday only gets less than a minute of screen before he's killed by the mini Critters. Hell, the mini Critters get more screen time than any Smiling Critter except Catnap. And Catnap doesn't eclipse them by much! Why does a random character like Miss Delight - who was in no advertising and got no buildup at all - get more screen time than any of the characters in this chapter outside of Catnap and maybe Ollie? Even *Poppy and Kissy* don't get as much time dedicated to them as her. tbh I think that it would have been way better if Ollie and Miss Delight were replaced by other Smiling Critters, maybe Dogday and Craftycorn. In general, Mob Games seems to have a problem with asset creation and utilization. Instead of using the characters they already have (and they have a lot of them) to their fullest potential, they'd rather come up with reams of new characters every chapter, and even then, most of them don't even get screen time. I get that Playtime Co. is a toy company, it makes sense that they'd have come up with a lot of toys in their time, but in a game about living toys, why are only some of them considered worthy of giving screen time to? Why are the dead toys littering the factory only Boogie Bots, Catbees, Candy Cats, Bunzos, Brons, and Huggys? Why have we only seen 1 dead PJ Pug-A-Piller? Why have we not seen ANY dead mini Critters except for the ones on CatNap's shrine? Or other Poppy Playtimes? Or Kissys? It just seems rather lazy on the part of the developers. You have the assets already modeled, so why not use them? Anyways, good video, I'm glad Chapter 3 is getting some positive attention and people generally seem to enjoy it, because it did to a lot of things right. I just think that with some tweaking and if the developers hadn't tried to cram SO MUCH into it, it could have been nearly flawless.
While the game definitely is a step up, I find it's lacking gameplay disappointing, especially since the last one was pretty engaging, while this one feels more and more like "Walk and press E simulator" like Banban Especially with the miss delight part, the game feels clunky at times and somehow the fear factor is lost IMMEDIATLY once you realize that she doesn't move while you look at her, since the space is so open and she's only 1, with most of the deaths I've seen happen have been because she moves anyways, because she teleports at the gates and because people get softlocked on some doors And the end of that sequence is the worst, she out of nowhere starts charging at you completely ignoring what the game taught you about how to combat her, d it was so easy to fix, just make it so she shouts and then charges you or do anything that works as a warning Also the mask was severely underutilized, and I think the Catnap fight suffers from it, since there's no real risk to use it apart from limited view and you use it like 3 times through the whole game so there's no chance to make the player learn it like it was a mechanic like the Ruin mask is
i had that exact thing you mentioned where catnap just didnt do anything one attempt, it felt really weird and i was stressed as hell but he just did nothing another issue i have with the boss fight is the fact the left side is harder than the right side, the right side just requires you to pull something away and activate a green thing, which is fine, you can pull the thing with your blue hand while you do the other thing with the green. This changes with the left side, because you not only need the green hand, you need the purple one too, so you have to quickly swap between them, jump up there with purple, then swap back to green so you can properly hit the button, which is REALLY irritating with how fast catnap can sneak up on you sometimes
You needed 5-6 tries to figure out the Catnap boss fight? Damn even Matpat figured it out pretty much immediately and he's notoriously bad at videogames
rye toast dont worry your videos are really nice and cool even if theyre not fnaf videos and i really love seeing you talk about other games and topics!
One of the things I found myself thinking is that I wish there was more of a sense of progress. With all the generator stuff, and the cords going through the entire playcare, it felt like there was no real progress being made. I wish instead it was something like a lever to find, and all the places power up individually to reboot all of playcare. I think that seeing other place slit up one by one creates a sense of accomplishment and progress
Oh to be a well loved cat resting upon the lap of someone talking about their interests. Might not understand the words but them good vibes be contagious! Only found ya just now but I like it 👍
I agree with the sky dome issue but just to explain it (because I see everyone is quite confused with it, which again fair) we have to connect the sky dome thing because when Poppy turned on the lights she used the backup power so you need to get it back basically. Ollie even mentions it in passing before the council I think.
14:22 also, catnap isnt the main villain of the story! he shouldn't be compared to bendy in terms of utilization. in fact i feel like he has more in common w sammy lawrence in batim chapter two
I'm pretty sure CatNap just gave up for the last third of my winning boss run. I'm someone who actually read everything the screen told me, but it still took an embarrassingly long time to figure out how to open that door on the right. After figuring it out, I seriously love the boss fight, though.
Having Ollie tell you those things over the radio instead of just the TV would help. And they could have CatNap break open a pipe and spray himself, place doesn't really look well-maintained.
I love when you mention happy humble burger barn bc I also really liked it and thought it had a great story but was underrated. Would love to see you revisit it on the channel
I WISH i really do wish that the counselors office came first and after everything else then home sweet home come happened where you could see catnap like in closet or under a bed and then we could learn about CatNap dislike of steam OR they could have gone full in on CatNap not likeing the ligth like all the rest of the tiny critters!
I think there could've been an interesting section with the steam mechanic in the caves. Maybe the red smoke is seeping into the caves (after catnap takes the gas mask) and you need to do puzzle to get steam to blow away the red smoke. It'd introduce the mechanic prior to the fight and would give an explanation as to why the steam counters catnaps attacks. Still think its one of the best mascot horror experiences.
In terms of the councillor’s office I feel like the context of the game plays a lot more into the actual mechanic of it. It’s the only place in all of play care that was designed with adults in mind, it’s not supposed to be appealing to children because it’s not a child’s space. It’s for the adults that run play care and specifically the ones who would’ve been most involved in the experimentation on children. Theo was a troublemaker so he would’ve been there a far bit before his surgery for counselling and also to steal documents the prototype requested. As we go through catnap doesn’t have a presence so much physically as he is present with the red smoke. You actually see in home sweet home that the red smoke eventually dissipates if not constantly supplied but as you go further into it the red smoke appears more often and more intense. Catnap is no longer playing he wants the player character out. A few players have mentioned that it seems like our character is actually really scared of catnap, while he’s described as being capable of getting smaller or larger, whatever is required, the mutated form is never part of his abilities. This appearance is entirely based off of our character’s fears and based off of dialogue from Ch 2 and the fact that we see what appears to be our office in the play care it’s not a stretch to say we were very much involved in the experimentation on children. We see later that catnap essentially gassed all of play care through the hour of joy, that was his madness was just flooding everyone with red smoke. That is his attack when he’s not playing, his version of senseless slaughter is throwing gas around willy nilly. To me that accounts for the tonal shift; catnap isn’t making himself known because he’s more just sitting there watching you like “the audacity of this bi-“ before doing something about it which means ripping off your mask and shutting you in a room and assuming it’ll be enough to scare you away so the prototype can nab the kill instead.
