Poppy Playtime: Chapter 3 - The END of Mascot Horror 

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At a time when mascot horror was doomed to be stuck to the same drivel of child-friendly pig slop, Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 comes out and proves that you can have bright and colorful visuals and still be scary as fuck.

another fun fact for dogday: the screamer in his cutout isn't just him screaming. *_it includes the sound of his legs hitting the ground._*

Ollie: "No ouchies or lost body parts?" Us, covered in in gravel, mud, and blood, forever traumatizied by what we saw: "Wouldn't you like to fucking know"

I feel like poppy playtime looked at Garten of banban and said, "Yea we're not becoming THAT."

I love how Mob Entertainment decided one day to give up the kid-friendly act and be like "You know what fuck them kids we are giving them nightmares"

Miss Delight took “You’re not yourself when you’re hungry” to a different level

I love how after Dog-Day dies, playcare issues a sunset as the backdrop. Since his life is now over, so is any sunshine the playcare has. Reminds me of the “when the sun sets on my time here and rises with you” from the Lion King. Very powerful stuff.

CatNap being skin and bones adds to his fearful look. He's starving and it shows.

the Hour of Joy clip alone gave me everything I wanted in an indie horror game that I haven't seen a while, FNAF for example, was very heavy on implying that people are getting murdered, but you don't really get to see or know about it not until you know the lore and dive deeper into the game. Poppy Playtime was not shy at all at showing you explicitly that there are people getting murdered within the game, the Hour of Joy clip showing dead bodies scattered across the factory was so disturbing yet it's such a breath of fresh air that the developers we're taking this game and story very seriously

One thing I love about this chapter is how it tells its lore. While it has hints about the Hour of Joy throughout the setting, they actually do tell you what happened and what the people at Playtime did to the children. I’m actually much more interested in what Poppy Playtime is trying to say with its story now that it’s not being theorybait for theorybait’s sake.

Scott and Steelwool listening to criticism about Security Breach and the Fnaf Movie TheMeatly saying Bendy and the cage will have gore and blood in it Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 breaking the rules of "Mascot Horror" We are so back

ive seen a lot of people say that catnap is offering himself to the prototype in the scene where he dies, like "i want to be part of you, accept me like the others", but ive always interpreted it as him *asking for help.* he's injured, he's frightened, and his god is reaching down towards him, hand extended, in a way that could be seen as beckoning. and then, when he gets on his knees, expecting salvation, hes just killed, mercilessly, and his body is dragged away. (especially considering the backstory there-- the kid who became catnap, theodore, was horribly injured by electricity and saved by the prototype, his "imaginary friend", and maybe, deep down, theo was hoping his friend would save him again)

I chalked Ollies tone up to trying to sound like a Dora-esque childrens tv protagonist. Like, i could totally hear him saying "congratulations! you found the map! now do you know what to do with the map? *pauses*"

8:04 For me personally I think the cutouts reveal important details about the character's and their demise. Like all the smiling critters (Atleast most) seem to have a scream at the end indicating their death, the pig one talks about how yummy certain animals are, indicating that the pig probably ate some of the smiling critters. The bunny and chicken sounds like they were trying to escape but failed.

dont think anybody noticed how dogday sounds like a kid in all the merch and cutouts but sounds like a full grown adult when we see him, which makes me wonder how long he has been tortured since he sounds in his 30s

48:57 actually, the children were spared, if you pay attention, Miss Delight mentioned that it’s been several weeks after The Hour of Joy, and that she was locked away in the school. However, after killing and eating her sisters, CatNap opened the gate and they made a deal with her. Later, she asks someone if the children were safe, to which the thing she was talking to confirms that yes, they’re safe and not with the employees, which were already mentioned by poppy to be used as a food source. This confirms that the Children are safe, and are still somewhere in the Factory.

Poppy Playtime has gotten so much darker and I am proud, next thing you know there’s gonna be a vhs of the toys ripping apart Harley Sawyer and Leith Pierre, and I don’t mean the screams, I mean the WHOLE footage.

I know it was meant to be a failsafe so that we would be able to close the door on her and it would still make sense, but seeing Miss Delight speed up almost instantly to Sonic the Hedgehog levels of zoom was terrifying

41:49 Everyone keeps missing the last line- Crafty’s cutout has one more line after the scream😭

32:38 Pastra’s taste never ceases to astound me

At 9:08 I got an ad right after he said announce So it sounded like he said “That is why with enormous pleasure that as the founder of Playtime Co., I announce…AMAZON GO!”

I respect Catnap enough to build my own shrine for the B I G B A T T E R Y

42:19 Screw the bigger bodies initiative, when we have the bigger batteries initiative.

The Hour of Joy VHS Tape was crazy af. That alone made me go like: "MOB Entertainment ain't playing no more!". I honestly enjoyed Chapter 3 more compared to the other two chapters. Hell, Chapter 3 is a better game than Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League to. Can't wait to see how they'll go all out for Chapter 4, do not FUMBLE IT

They got EXACTLY what they wanted. Massive traction, Mass amounts of money from multiple games. Then build the company produce better shit/ Show what you can do, Get better Move up. Their plan worked pretty damn well. Chaper 3 was a 1000x glow up from the old games and it shows what money and support can do from people.

I will say that Home Sweet Home, while not having a direct threat, had set itself up to where you think you are in danger of something attacking you. From Catnap wandering the halls, the giant moving Bobby Bearhug statue, to the strange noises you hear around, I felt on edge the whole time just waiting for something to attack so I wouldn't really criticize it too much for not having a threat when it gives you that sense of dread regardless.

Mascot horror: going very downhill and bad Poppy playtime: Hey, you want to see something cool?

One little detail about the "Ruined Critters" in the Playhouse that I think is easy to overlook because of how much of a creepy nuisance they are: They all sound like babies, and Home Sweet Home did have a lot of cribs...

When I was watching the Hour of Joy tape. I was disturbed and horrified seeing so many bodies littered around where I used to be. Watching Huggie rip the heads off of people and mommy literally grabbing the workers and taking them like a spider predator. Catnap also felt like a constant threat looming over my head during the entire chapter. It was amazing and scary af. And then seeing that the bodies from the hour of joy tape were all eaten by the monster toys it makes me think. In this game. There is no happy ending. There is no one to save. It’s just us and poppy against the prototype

I love the added detail of Dogday being related to the sun in contrast to Catnap being related to night. When Dogday dies, the sun is setting, since the "day" has ended. As "night" approaches, it alludes to the upcoming encounter with Catnap in the climax of the chapter. Truly some peak foreshadowing.

I’m glad MOB Entertainment cleaned up their act and delivered something that was actually scary

I'm seeing a lot of people saying that CatNap gave up its life for the Prototype when it showed up, but I gotta ask, why are so many so quick to believe that? Could it be more that CatNap, seeing the Prototype's hand out stretched to him, believed the thing he saw as a god was coming to rescue him once again, to heal him from the wounds he just suffered, only to be killed by the very 'hero' he looked up to? That's how I saw it at least

I think that Huggy, Mommy, and Catnap employ different styles of horror antagonists. Huggy is a twisted visage of something innocent that stalks the player. Mommy is deranged manipulator and schemer who becomes frenzied when her game falls apart. While Catnap is a prowling predator stalking his prey. It is also important to note that the first 2 chapters were made as low intensity horror accented with high tension sections, while the 3rd chapter was made to be moderate to high intensity horror.

Catnap also has another appearance in the nightmare section in home sweet home, there’s a slightly open door (idk where) but if you look through it you can see catnap walking backwards.

The problem with Ollie being the Prototype is that he tried to convince us to trust Poppy. If he was the Prototype, then shouldn’t he be doing the opposite?

Honestly I think the Cut outs being funny is better than if they where actually scary, also if one started out screaming then apologized that would be even funnier but also an actual jumpscare

The fact that Dogday's cutout doesn't do the scream but instead somberly tells you that you need to go and leave him behind hurts me on an emotional level.

I love that the flare gun gives the player a sense of false security!! The game explicitly demonstrates that the flare gun is supposed to be used to scare off the critters (when we encounter the first one) and after using the gun to save yourself over and over again from them we meet DogDay. When the critters crawled inside of him my first instinct was to try the flare gun (which I also noticed after watching different gameplays aswell), not only because the critters have crawled inside him (critters which the flares worked against) but also because Dogday is just a bigger version of them, which prior to this scene we've been able to scare off with the gun. When I realised it didn't work against him it just added another element of fear for me!!

If there's one thing I want to praise them for, the monster designs look wild and I love the genuinely terrifying looks of them now. The Smiling Critters toys look genuinely creepy with their vaguely eyeless designs and giant toothless smiles. Genuinely unsettling. The Dog Days scene is my personal favorite. That is such a visceral design and sequence with them. The whole freaking Judas with their entrails hanging out angle they did is perfect. And then the parasites enter his body and freaking puppet him, absolutely terrifying. I feel like this kind of stuff is what was missing with stuff like Mommy Long Legs. Personally I think her look in the teaser trailer feels more unsettling because she looked bigger and more imposing compared to her in game model. Catnap I wanna say is like a more developed Huggy Wuggy with their whole stalking angle and imposing figure. Though I do think them becoming a crusty monster is kinda hokey honestly. Giving me some real Lord X vibes with that smile and crusty body.

i think the screams from the carbord is the sound of pain comming from the other smiling critters being crusifyed or worse

I think this is the start of mascot horror part III: Part I: normal mascot horror (FNAF and other like that) Part II: child mascot horror (poppy playtime Chapter 1 and 2, banban, other like that Part III: the split, most go to original mascot, but some will stay with child mascot

I have not really heard anyone talk about this but since catnap is in home sweet home when the player is knocked out he could have killed the player right there but decided not as a way to torment the player since catnap knows the player is afraid of him.

While I do agree with the cutouts kinda falling short, I do think the first one with Bubba Bubbaphant is the most effective one. Not just because it's the first so the structure hasn't been established yet, but also because imo it's actually kinda clever. Him following "Want to know what I remember about you?" with horrific screaming lines up with the chapter's theme of the Player character's involvement and subsequent guilt regarding the experiments.

24:15 you don't know why she's here? My guess is that before becoming kissy missy she was probably a child at the playcare, it's possible she's looking at a portrait of herself.

42:23 fun fact: big battery is actually a speedrun strat.

While I wasn't completely engrossed by mommy long legs' death, it was the point where I knew that this series could really do something. It was a gross death scene with her thorax popping and being grinded down, but chapter three did so well with the more gruesome scenes and has really won me over. I can't wait for more

I love how you find Ollie's stilted actor-like mannerisms endearing, while MatPat, whose son is all-but-confirmed to be this character's namesake, finds him immediately suspicious and untrustworthy for the same reasons.

Chapter 1 is the introduction of the horror with one great chase scene. Chapter 2 is where some of the questions are answered as you dive deeper, founding more of the abominations trap there. And then Chapter 3 is where everything starting to make sense. A horror frenzy along with the realization of what is actually happening inside the facility.

Poppy Playtime had a glow up like no other. Going from being known as simply YT Kids Content Farm material to a horror masterpiece that instills fear into the hearts of man. Poppy Playtime and it's devs completely won me over.

Cat nap doesn't transform, the protag is hallucinating due to the gas. If you let Cat Nap kill you while in this form it shows his normal form in the kill scene

I love characters like catnap that when faced with death don’t automatically cower in fear and stick to their beliefs

I love the catnap death. He expects salvation from the prototyp, and instead gets killed. But he doesn't fight back. He worships the prototyp so much that he doesn't even care.

8:43 My guy literally gave the Andrew Ryan speech.

I am honestly so happy that Poppy Playtime is finally moving away from that children's demographic and putting focus on the real horrors that Mascot Horror was truly about. Makes me wonder how all the parents reacted when their child wanted to play the newest chapter to only fight just how gruesome the game is and had their kid stop playing all together because of how scary it is now. Like Mascot Horror was never intended for children in the first place. The age demographic for any horror game is at youngest, Teenagers, and definitely more fitting for young adults and older. People who are more mature and would be able to react to horror in a bit better ways then children would. They believe fiction a lot more. They can get scared easily and can lead to a lot of harder times dealing with fears like horror. This is why horror games and media was never targeted towards children in the first place. Yes you may have merch targeted towards younger audiences, but this shouldn't be the focus of a mascot horror game. I get it that they wanted to try something new and give horror to younger audiences but sometimes it's best to leave things as they are. Let the older demographics handle these horror games. They were made for them and still are and can show just how good a game can be when it isn't being tainted by the focus of merch and the younger demographic. The horrors and story and lore and characters and environments and music is what fans love and we wanna see all the care and attention being put there for the real audience to enjoy.

43:53 The blue battery actually appears from the ceiling but it's like never explained so it just seems like it spawned in lol

Honestly I enjoy Ollie, he’s kinda a king to just be talking from his heart whether it makes sense or doesn’t

Honestly loved the section on the gas mask, unironically. It's great to hear about little awesome details from people who are clearly enthusiastic about the topic!

I love this, poppy playtime was always my most favorite game, Mob Entertainment is honestly a smart and creative company, they torture us with lore secrets and answers, they fix their mistakes such as the (cough.. cough.. nfts), they ACTUALLY listen to their community (unlike ROBLOX), and they never really fail to suprise us with their new games.

My favourite part of Ms Delight, hands down, is the sound of her footsteps. Everyone in paths facility is a monster. Ms Delight is not an exception, however, she does do something different. She’s… terrifyingly humanoid. Not human-that fact makes itself clear the second you get a good look at her-but human-like enough that, when she walks by, the sound of her heels can almost fool you into believe there’s someone in here like you. A worker, a staff member. A real person who’s shoes you can hear down the hall. Maybe it’s just me, but somehow that glimpse of a real, _grounded_ danger-ESPECIALLY in the after hours school environment-is just as terrifying as any monster.

the discord notificatiob popping up when catnap enters trought the door during the bit before the final boss fight made me chuckle, intended or not that was increadible timing

To be honest, for some reason whenever I hear “Don’t Wake the Angels,” I think of Minecraft, and I don’t know why. But, then again, Minecraft does have scary ambiences, not to mention the “peaceful” music always keeps playing, meaning there is a chance of hearing the main Minecraft music whilst hearing every cave sound, not to mention the existence of disc 11 and 13. Why the heck am I talking about freaking Minecraft in the comment section of a freaking video about Poppy Playtime!?

i hope one day when poppy has finished its final chapter i hope they enhance the other chapters like updating the rest of the chapters to the finished graphics and maybe changing some gameplay and music. Edit: and fix bugs and in general just make the rest of the game better

Poppy playtime really pulled its shit together, and i am both shocked yet very happy to see the full potiental of it come out.

Daggz is def correct when they say that mob is good at making the antagonist feel like they're constantly present as in home sweet home I was so scared lmao. The nightmare sequence and the appearances of catnap throughout made me constantly think every noise was catnip, and I was doing 180s spins to see if he was watching me in the darkness lol

Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 is one of the few bright spots in terms of the sort of mascot horror genre we been getting for quite some time that isn't garbage. Which is quite the accomplishment. Along with having a nice nice level of care and quality put into it that makes me really excited for future Chapters.

Someone should make an edit where there’s a counter that ticks up every time Daggz says the word “Allocate.”

The thing about CatNap... The player falls fully unconscious two times. And CatNap really could've gone ahead and kill the player right then and there,and sure one could say he obviously doesn't or else there's no game,but storywise CatNap *enjoys* the hunt. He *enjoys* making its prey's life miserable. Although there's also the last warning,would've CatNap stopped if the player left or would he kill the player anyway just for pleasure? We don't know... And I like that

22:15 Another detail about the gas mask I like is the colors, they kind of remind me of the mickey mouse gas masks from WW2, which for those who don't know where gas masks created for British children during the blitz. the gas masks were made to be in the shape of mickey mouse to make them more Appeling to kids because a lot of kids at the time were scared of gas masks. If this detail is intentional, it would be really cool and make sense a lot of sense considering the employes would have worn the gas masks around the kids.

losing it over the rizzed up chicken screaming

One of my absolute FAVORITE parts is when Elliot Ludwig is introducing Playcare. It reminds me so much of Andrew Ryan introducing Rapture, and I adore it a lot!

Just something to note; the room where we have our nightmare huggy wuggy encounter could definitely be seen as a sick bay but based on the layout, the basins right next to the beds etc… it looks more like triage. I had to have surgery last year and the layout, aside from the sanitation, is almost exactly the same as triage and the ward where I recovered. Just something else to note, while the video doesn’t go into detail on the vhs tapes they play a much more significant role in the 3rd instalment than the first two. The first two were mainly from the perspective of adult humans, while humans were used as the medium in ch 3 the content on the VHS is definitely more focused on characters we already know. They’re easier to find in ch 3 for a reason, the first one that can be found discusses a girl named Marie having nightmares due to the poppy gas, in all likelihood Marie Payne. The girl who was transformed into mommy long legs. You have the joy of hearing the desperation of a caretaker wanting to find out what happened to this young girl after killing her. Yay. Of course we also get to hear from Theo aka the boy who was turned into catnap and he’s by far my favourite part of the game. Yeah catnap is a really fun design n all but Theodore is actually significantly more interesting. Part of the drip marketing covers the story of Theo and his ‘imaginary’ best friend who just so happens to be a disembodied hand, who prompts him to steal files and eventually steal two grab packs and try and escape with this imaginary friend but in the process the grab pack he’s using malfunctions and Theo gets severely electrocuted. His heart stops and his body is fried. The prototype, his imaginary friend, gives up on escaping in order to return the boy to playcare in the hopes of saving his life, instead inadvertently dooming Theo to becoming catnap. His body is just too damaged and he was already on the list of candidates to become catnap. Part of the transplant process for the bigger bodies is using the brain and nervous system in the new body, notably the nervous system is in theory the main culprit behind phantom pains and limb which means when you electrocute catnap this is the second time Theo has felt the pain of severe electrocution. Idk if that was a deliberate choice by MOB or if it’s just a coincidence with them trying to round out Theo’s arc but that’s a fun little thing. Theo was also 9 when he ‘died’ and the last we hear of him in his VHS is 3 years later so when he was 12, game starts 10 yrs after the hour of joy so best guess is Theo is approx 22 when you find and electrocute him again, same goes for dogday who would likely have been in the same age range. MOB has made it pretty clear that toys made out of adults are less cognitively aware after the procedure and the toys made out of children will immediately attack them so for all the smiling critters to be walking around playcare and functioning together they would’ve all had to have been made as children.

I'm just scared of finding out who was turned into dogday with the bigger bodies initiative 😢 if he was a child that would be so depressing.

"anyways to hell with her. We have a GUN NOW" was so funny

I’m so happy that Mascot Horror games are actually becoming darker Poppy Playtime chapter 3’s amazing and Bendy: The Cage will be much darker than the other games *(which LET’S GOOOOOO AAAAAA)*

To be honest, mascot horror should've always been about grabbing inoccent, colorful and childish things and twisting them into something terrifying, not "kid-friendly horror games" like a lot of people think it is.

I was a HUGE Poppy hater when the game first dropped but the huge quality increase with Chp 3 has swung me all the way around to loving it. I'm so glad they put in the work to make a genuinely scary and well made game. Catnap seeing the Prototype as this holy figure, even giving himself up while bathed in his god's light, is just soooo *chefs kiss* It's such a fascinating way to play a character who is also a being that causes nightmares and hysteria. Also hes purple hehe

36:50 You bastard, I left to go check my discord, and it was you all along.

The Gasmask rant was the best part

I like to think that the portrait Kissy Missy holds at 24:16 isn't just the picture of any child, it's her or someone she knew before she was turned into a toy. Just a silly little theory but it adds a lot to the depressing, spooky element and it gives that extra "holy shit, this big furry monster was actually a child once" vibe. Just a big thing that made me enjoy this chapter even more lol

Okay, for gas mask. You got most of the info correct. The mask used in game is indeed a dual-port CT12, a modified variant of FM12, an improved version of S10, the difference here is that CT12 has no drinking tube, while FM12 does, there's also a version for S10 but its called N10, here's a tip for differentiating between FM12 and S10, its the PSM (Speech horn), if we look at the 3 lines as angles for a triangle, FM12 points to the ground, while S10 points upwards, another somewhat reliable way is to look at the nose, S10 nose looks more human like.

46:01 I don’t think that he was expecting it to be an execution, I think he saw it as like “oh he’s come to save me again.” Not to mention that this is basically history repeating itself if you know the backstory for the kid turned into Catnap

I'm glad things are turning up, hopefully we won't be seeing anymore slop-games soon. And to think this Mascot Horror genre which overthrew the horror game market all started from a silly Robot Bear back in 2014... Well actually it was a bit of a greyzone up until around 2018 I would say

youre right, no one else that ive seen went into detail about the gas mask, and it was very interesting!!! i didnt realise that type of gas mask was that recent

edit: lol'ing at the replies i love the internet My favorite part of Chapter 3 wasn't CatNap, or the environments, or the antagonists---it was the third news broadcast in Home Sweet Home. "Despite Playtime's proclamation of Ludwig's innocence, many believe his reclusive and mysterious nature displayed over the previous decades lends suspicion to this claim. When questioned, Ludwig's neighbors indicated that he would often return to his home in strange hours of the night, and depart again before sunrise. Some believed he was sick, others, that *DON'T MOVE. DON'T MOVE AN INCH.* Playtime Co., it seems, intends to keep Elliot's name within its brand regardless. What is sure to be a long legal battle will follow." When I heard that for the first time, i fucking NUTTED. Like what is the point of even making a horror game anymore. You can't beat a scare like that.

I don’t think Mascot horror will ever die or be irrelevant. I think it will just evolve and grow in many different shapes and forms like any other type of internet horror media. Amazing video and keep up the amazing work.

bro really left that in there and thought we wouldn't notice 36:48

7:45 thats just the brian griffin pose

I never want the cutouts to change they are so funny and goofy I love them. It makes the smiling critters that don't have major appearances still have a ton of personality. My favorite gotta be kicken chicken getting obliterated by the sun.

it’s catnap from poppy playtime!

We also have Indigo Park on the horizon for the first chapter Not to mention Funset Studios which sorta just dropped out of the blue is also getting close to being done as well Hopefully both will release this year I will be baffled if Indigo Park Chapter 1 gets pushed to 2025 cause they are literally getting ready to release the first chapter

Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 has now made me a fan of Poppy Playtime. And I don’t regret it.

36:50 you got pinged 44:10 you got pinged again

I applause Mob Entertainment, I hope they keep up the momentum because Chapter 3 is genuinely really good.

i enjoy referring to fnaf as the bear like disney is the mouse

Seeing the little creatures puppeting Dogday's desecrated body made me realize that Mob Entertainment isn't pulling its punches anymore.

To think that MOB both started and finished an entire era of all these primary-school horror games, all by themselves...is something I don't know exactly how to define.

I’m actually pretty relieved that Poppy Playtime went down this route. The story is getting scarier now and hopefully it stays that way.

Poppy Chapter 1 is what is claimed and is most definitely the source of the state Mascot Horror reached for the past couple years, so if Chapter 1 did that then I'm sure Chapter 3 will have the same effect but instead it will be pushing the themes and ideas of its chapter, the good sides of Mascot Horror, which could put us on the starting line of some absolutely amazing games in the future. I cannot wait to see what comes next from Poppy and Mascot Horror in general as well as what series will take a similar path. Bendy might be with their upcoming game (which a dark game featuring Sammy Lawrence would go so hard its not even funny) and maybe Hello Neighbor could if/when they do 3 which might redeem that series partially.

I've got to say, I'm a new Poppy Playtime fan, and I just discovered you through this video. And gosh, is it a good video. 52 minutes, but no time to really be bored, really funny bits, good development mixed in a perfect ratio fun/serious moments. Everything to make, in my opinion, an awesome video. HUGE subscribe