How Poppy Playtime Ch. 3 Creates Amazing Horror - (Poppy Playtime)
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- In this video, I talk about the newly released Poppy Playtime Chapter 3, and it's main villain, Catnap. Specifically, how and why this chapter creates one of the most amazing mascot horror villains in recent memory!
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The other scary thing about DogDay's jail is the way he's being imprisoned. The way he's held up looks the same as how in many religious paintings Jesus is help up on the cross which ties back to CatNap's whole "Prototype is the Saviour" theme. Don't know why but it makes it creepier for me.
The pose he's in is also similar to his pose at the end of the Smiling Critters animation
Also in the ending the prototype comes from a light above to “save” a dying catnap. Has very angel vibes
@@bluewind7988 Yeah I did notice that, I just think that it tying into the religious/cultist theme of CatNap is really horrifying cause it's a sort of twisted version of what you'd expect. The follower punishes the non-believers with the same punishment his saviour went through is something not usually explored in that way, it's really odd for a horror game about evil kids toys but still cool
FR. Esp. because crucifixion was intended for criminals, yet because of Jesus is also associated with saints. Really illustrates well how both groups (Prototype/CatNap VS Poppy/MC) view the situation
That's what I thought as well. Jesus was an innocent man put to death, similar to DogDay.
I would also like to mention that CatNap managed to kill all 7 other Smiling Critters bigger bodies. It was a 7 on 1, they were all the same size and he won.
He probably killed them one by one
@@kindallnight1615 the fact still remains that he managed to overpower every single one
@@sugarbumful probably has to do with the fact he has help from the smaller toys and can produce red smoke
Basicly Catnap was like the nemean lion completely unbeatable.
And the cardboards cutouts are explaining how they died
It feels like each poppy chapter/spin-off each main new villain is a different type of villain, huggy is the creepy chaser, long legs is the threatening talker, boxy the strategic jumper, and catnap the silent stalker, so who knows what kind the chapter 4 one will be.
Let's assume the next villain is the prototype. Yeah, I expect him to not hold back at all. It'd be fast, scheming, subtle, sneaky, & most likely huge. The way I see things, it'd practically be in the same room as you, hiding in plain sight as ruins. Then, when your guard is lowered, it will rise & kill you.
Assuming we’re going to the teaser amusement park next, I could see the next villain being the most basic of horror designs, and yet the one that elicits the most primal of fear. A huge beast. There’s something so simple, and yet, so utterly disconcerting about a creature so much larger than you. ESPECIALLY if it’s in water!
As for the final chapter, I could see the Prototype being all of the above. Huge, strategic, conversational, stalking, with a terrifying chase sequence to round it out. Here’s hoping Poppy Playtime sticks the landing!
I love that Boxy's been accepted as one of the main Poppy playtime mascots.
Personally, the mascot colour schemes have been mostly sticking to the end of the rainbow- Blue, pink, purple and red- so I think chapter 4 may have a green or yellow mascot that might be delusional and thinks it's actually being helpful, maybe.
@@simonsonian8977 like you said. There is an Amusement Park poster that could be a possible teaser for chapter 4, I think the monster for that chapter might be a flyer type enemy.
Boxy is not main monster.
It’s implied that at least a few Bigger Bodies experiments remember who they were before. Leith Pierre calls CatNap by his real name several times in his interview.
Also, the Prototype is the only experiment who canonically doesn’t need to eat.
Well I would think that the secret message in the Chapter 1 trailer was written a bit after the Prototype was created
I was under the impression that they could all remember their previous lives, and that was why they were so pissed off.
Hi sorry, watching more of the video, didn’t realize you were responding to something he said
I think the cutscene where catnap rips your gas mask off in the councilors office causing you to inhale the red smoke and hallucinate again kind of implies they do sort of remember who they once were before they got turned into toys.
Yes all of the toys have the need to eat as there was a comic of a bunzo bunny who fell into a hole and died of starvation
Both of CatNap's lines are in the game, but one can be easily missed due to it being in a VHS tape. Thought you would want to know this.
Yes
I really enjoyed the Monster CatNap because it was like he was using the gas to turn into his nightmare form- a starving being that's ravenous. His pale, clawed, skeletal form and gaping mouth speaks to what he really feels. Also, CatNap gives me strong Scarecrow vibes. The gas, that looking at him under the effects makes him more terrifying, just really strong Scarecrow vibes.
Now we only need is a Bat Critter
I think they should've pushed the monster side of him more. Like what I probably would have done if I got to design the monster catnap, I would probably try to give it an unholy amalgamation like look.
Multiple arms, about a 50 or so tails. Eyeless face and have a bunch of eyes orbiting the body in biblical ring, like a biblically accurate angel. He is the prototype's angel.
It's a difficult description and I even doubt it could've even been modeled in the time frame the game came out. But I still wish they went more crazy with it.
@@Tach-Naid His nightmare form?
@@ShortSkullDog yes
@@Tach-Naidthe devs did have a more creepy design with multiple tails and many many faces shown on his body and stuff but they scrapped it for who knows why.
I don’t think that the kids are dead because we don’t see that in the tapes and mrs delight expresses how she’s hungry and if given the chance to get near the kids she would devour them but catnap won’t let her near them. Also the prototype hated that the factory was creating toys out of kids like what happened to catnap and the rest. He also planned the hour of joy and got the toys to kill the employees for revenge and freedom but also to stop them from doing anymore harm to the orphans.
It’d add some wonderful tension if the kids need pulling out of the facility with all its various horrors and no staff but yourself to chaperone them.
@@tobysinbad having whiny children to take care of would kill the vibe for me tbh
Describing small children (and infants) who were essentially tortured is certainly... a choice.@@siduxjxhdgzhdjxhxuuxxyhgg1079
If the kids are alive and will escape by the players help, it’d probably be better to not have the kids be seen, kind of like if they were in the train from ch 2. I agree that they probably shouldn’t have us lead a line or crowd of kids out. However, given the ten year time skip, many would probably be adults by now.
I think they probably starved
I always thought Catnap's 'colourless' form looked like something straight out of Gorefield.
i always thought i looked like the Godzilla creepypasta red (the torso to be exact)
I think a lot of developers try to only market games for kids and that makes them of course less scary but they don’t realize a lot of children like playing thing they really shouldn’t specifically horror think of the original fnaf 1 that wasn’t marketed towards children at all and everyone loved it younger and older
I like horror withOUT the sex stuff not with I typoed
I don't remember the first game being marketed to children at all. Scott's earlier games and some of the newer FNAF games sure, but not the first one.
The first line from CatNap is in game, its just found in a secret tape where CatNap gets interviewed by PlayCo.
there's another one where he goes "LEAVE PLAYCARE OR I'LL GET YOU"
@@ok-ky1ns Yeah that was the second voice line he talked about. That's the one most people will experience in game
It seems that all the Bigger Bodies Toys toys started claiming their domains after the Hour of Joy so that could mean more places to visit than just one more chapter.
We need to see where the experiments were made, where failed experiments were kept, perhaps even Elliot Ludwig's estate to learn more about him and his kindness, yet oddness and why everything turned evil.
14:45 the second line “the prototype will save us” is in a vhs found in the playhouse the room after the first mini smiling critter attacks the player
14:43 The voiceline is from a tape that you can find in the begining of the playhouse area
Yes
can vouch
Yep. This is true.
Honestly. I think the less scary chapters helped the scary factor of chapter 3. Like you said. There was only a few tense moments in chapters 1 and 2. And that gives you a false sense of security in a sense. You go into chapter three with the expectations that it'll be rather benign with a tense chase at the end. But no. It pulled out the rug under us and succeeded in making usvery scared the whole way through.
CatNap is one of the best parts of the game. His usage being similar to Sammy Lawrence in BATIM CH2, his genuine horrific scenes, and the FNAF-esque minigame (from a conceptual standpoint), ending with him willingly being killed by his god after being burned by a combination of the gas that got the toy recalled and the hand that almost caused the death of, and thus sealed the fate of, his human donor.
I am so glad you made the comment that the Smiling Critters were like Care Bears. The reason they were all so scary to me, was because they all played on my childhood nostalgia of watching Care Bears DVDs at my grandma's house. That, my friends, is the point of mascot horror in the first place
One thing this chapter has that others lacked was a real sense of unease, and feeling like you were out and exposed in the open. You feel like there’s no where you can go that CatNap won’t be able follow and find you. The section in Home Sweet where you see him move behind a stack of furniture arranged like a blockade gives us this distinct impression that he knows where we are and he’s simply toying with us.
I love how well Chapter 3 did with building up the horror aspect of the game into a more darker tone compared to the first two chapters of the game. Two parts I did have a hard time on during my first playthrough of chapter were Miss Delight's School House and the final fight against Cat Nap in the Safe Room.
I just realized that in the smiling critters cartoon the asleep dogday has his legs covered.... coincidence or foreshadowing?
Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
all of the poses we see him in he has his hands above his head and legs covered, a really cool but sad detail :c
This chapter was such a big improvement. I wasn't expecting much, but wow. Insane quality. CatNap and Miss Delight are 100x more scarier than Mommy Long Legs (maybe 2x better than Huggy, he's pretty good) The ambiance is so good, and though most of the chapter is technically safe, it always feels off. The fact that CatNap stalks you too adds to that. Miss Delight is absolutely terrifying, whenever I watch gameplay of her fight, I get extremely scared. To me, she's scarier than CatNap. Mod Games really stepped up, if this continues then I think Poppy Playtime could be one of the best indie horror games in recent history.
Can’t wait for little Timmy to play chapter 3 and than be traumatized by catnap
Take that iPad babies
Nah they’re basically numb to it
Or even worse Miss delight
Nah they'll go back to normal when they start making minecraft videos with Catnap.
I'm anticipating them bastardizing the build up for their youtube channel content.
@@PhoxphorusKitKat my very first exposure to Catnap was prior to the actual release of chapter 3, staying at my aunt's place, with my little cousins having shitty videos pandering to children on autoplay on the TV. suffice to say I was pleasantly surprised when I more recently heard that he's actually a _good_ horror antagonist and not whatever the hell those videos portrayed him as. I mean, I knew they butchered everything, but I didn't expect what he really is to be so good
@@PhoxphorusKitKat They literally stopped Fazbear and friends. They aren’t going to make anymore shorts. They are back to music videos.
CatNap has Become one maybe even my Favourite Horror Monster the Teasers Building him up and they did and the Full Game made it better I Love The Big Purple Cat!
I would also like to add that novelty of him having a presence only works once. Subsequent playthrough you know he is scripted so you’re perfectly safe.
he still _has_ a menacing presence, just on a conscious level you'll understand when he is and isn't a threat
17:22 what makes it even worse is the fact that if you play on a wide screen the black borders will appear on the edges making it look like a cutscene.
Honestly this is Poppy Playtime in its prime for me. They have more horror and more darker lore than FNAF SB
the dialogue "THE PROTOTYPE WILL SAVE US" is from a VHS Tape near the Bobby Bearhug cutout at the start of the playhouse section the tape can be found in a room down the hall
I just love the dark story that you, the player. came to the factory because of the missing staff that were missing after 10y, you went through the factory, the game station, playcare, you fighted the monsters lurkin' in the shadows. all this journey and motivation, for then to find out this was all for nothing, the staff were killed in this thing that is called "the hour of joy" and you start to question i was suppose to be there, but i wasn't, W mob.
i think its interesting that catnap's voice box might be damaged because it seems like he speaks in a whisper (probably due to being a night time oriented toy) which means to be heard, he has to push his voice box to be louder than originally intended.
It's always nice to see a company--especially in the mascot horror genre--acknowledging that the horror is in fact important, and especially that horror is more complex than jumpscares.
Even FNaF lost a lot of that, and fast. Hell, the SECOND GAME deemphasized the animatronic-ness. Hard plastic shells don't have the same creep factor that the fur lends. They feel too "killer robot" and not enough "killer animatronic."
Hell, they gave the cast more and more personality... and then pretty much completely failed to make those personalities relevant to the creep factor.
...I dunno, the watering-down of horror elements in games has bugged the crap out of me since Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask got 3DS releases that stripped away a lot of the scarier stuff.
Same, I hope other game developers look at this chapter and realize the importance of horror is not just jumpscares and trying to make it as family friendly as possible. (Looking at you Fnaf )
Honestly, I think chapter 4 will be another monster, with chapter 5 being the prototype. I get the sense they have a bit more to go, as the prototype has really only been built up for 2 chapters, and even then, you didn't even know of the prototype until the end of chapter 2.
Boxy Boo perhabs with the Prototype taking the player in the end bringing him into the location of the final chapter
I so agree. I love how he had hardly any screen time but managed to maintain presence for most of the game. But for me at least, the quick time event was quite obvious that u had to actually use the hand. Like u said, the cursor was still there, Catnap just stood there for a few seconds, waiting for an input, I feel like that negativity was undeserved. Even if it did make you rage, it’s a one and done thing, you’re never going to die that way again. And having seen the trailers, and noticing that Catnap had a deleted boss fight scene where he would stalk you through the hallways in the councellors office and u had to scare him away with the flare gun, I think that what we got replaced that original scene. But I prefer it this way honestly. It would’ve felt too similar to the smiling critter’s section, which is probably why they deleted it.
never thought i'd be excited for a new poppy playtime chapter
Its no denying that Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 is a BIG improvement from the first two chapters.
this game reminds me a lot of Fnaf 1, disturbing things, enemies you don't even know you had and all of this in a so open yet claustrophobic to discomfort you in max
The one thing I REALLY wish the team had done would have been to make a jumpscare animation of Catnap in his Nightmare form. Not only is this form WAY creepier, but when you are being chased by Nightmare Catnap and you are caught, the jumpscare switches back to regular Catnap and it doesn’t make sense and kinda takes me out of the otherwise horrifying immersion. Love this series overall though!
It could make sense since Nightmare Catnap is an illusion caused by the Red Smoke. In reality, you’re being killed by the regular catnap.
@@mediarequiem1500 Yes that is true. I’m just like, how would we suddenly snap out of a drug induced hallucination because we got caught? I know it’s a small detail it just looks weird to me
I love how chapter 3 made CatNap seem Unkillable, Which technically it's true because when we do damage CatNap, he never dies
This thing felt like an oasis of quality after crawling through the barren wasteland that was banban last year
true
Hallucination catnap looked very memeie it was kinda funny.
My biggest issue with catnap there was not enough gameplay with him. Everything was a scripted event. Also the toys are starving they do need to eat. Except 1006. DogDay was living toy food for the smaller toys that sided with 1006. They crawled into him and ate him from the inside. They have been doing this for quite sometime, but they are running out of food, as he is the last one we see.
There’s only a small fraction of people who bring this up. (I think Kwite was the first who brought it up in his livestream) but the way CatNap “transforms” reminds me of scarecrow from Batman and his Fear Gas which has the same effect CatNaps gas has on people. Causes Hallucinations, he transforms with it, and it gives people violent nightmares. Also the smiling critters laughing hysterically reminds me of a meme someone used in a scarecrow Batman meme of a guy laughing hysterically.
I understand that, but honestly in my opinion, I really like hallucination CatNap’s design. It reminds me a lot of Red from Godzilla NES and Gorefield
Remember when Poppy Playtime chapter 1 Release was called A knockoff of FNAF and A kid Indie horror ❤
A FNAF knockoff??? It was much closer to being a BATIM knockoff.
@@WhyDoIDoThingsStill is but it’s waaaaaaay better rn.
it was actually well liked until the NFT thing
I mean, the battles against Catnap in chapter 3 is a lot like FNAF
@@5uspicious_Person but it does have its unique stuff, plus the very end being s8milar ahouldnt be a catasthrophe
Theo just can’t escape getting shocked by the Green Hand
This entire chapter was a major upgrade! Mob Games really redeemed themselves & I'm actually really excited for Chapter 4.
I think Boxy Boo might be the next obstacle but idk Poppy did say that CatNap was the last obstacles in the players way
Didn't he already get killed?
Boxy is dead in the spin off game, we might get a suprised antagonist who is "not gone insane" and is "definitely an ally from DogDay's rebellion"
@@blazer6127when are we told that boxy boo died?
@@ZAIM1X In the spin off game and the box in the monument of The Prototype
I just wish catnap stalked us through home sweet home and the counselors office, and be an actual threat
Exactly it was lukewarm.
But hey, hes actually stalking
This chapter convinced me to get a plushie (catnap to be exact, the only good antaganist so far imo)
I hope you won’t get nightmares….
Hey, just an FYI, the second voiceline, they "the prototype will save us" is in the game. It's found in the VHS tape right at the start of the section with the smiling critters.
The other Catnap voice line is from an optional videotape that you can find where it's Catnap being interviewed by a scientist.
14:40 the other line is in a VHS tape with pier interviewing catnap, actually calling him by his human name, "theo". After a while of non communication Catnap only had this to say:
The prototype will save us
I’m so happy this game is finally getting the praise it deserves after months of hate
The Catnap line “the prototype will save us” is from one of the tapes you can find during the chapter iirc
CatNap sayoing "the prototype will save us" is a vhs tape that can be found somewhere
For the hall thing in the final encounter. I believe its random, because for me, I kept forgetting they were they're and I kept dying because he went that direction. but that was just me. As for that other Catnap Voice line i'm sure there are probably many other comments mentioning this, but its found in one of the vhs tapes
This is a great video, and Poppy Playtime: Chapter 3 is a great Indie Horror game.
As an fyi, as far as we’re aware, only the older toys/older bigger bodies can survive without eating. In fact, Harley Sawyer specifically created and trained the BBI to eat human flesh as time went on. Catnap is weirdly caring that he prioritizes the smaller smiling critters above himself, not eating nearly as often. He probably also fed dog day to keep him alive as the littles ate him day after day. We can assume Poppy doesn’t need to eat cuz she was trapped in the case for so long. And it’s flat out stated the prototype doesn’t NEED to eat, but can and does hunt humans for the sport of it
I def gotta give them props. The previous chapters were creepy, but this one cranked up the horror tenfold. The stuff with the smiling critters is pretty sad and we as disturbing when you list to all their audio. DogDay was tortured and is chained up to only have the Smiling Toys crawl into him and take over. The Hour of Joy was just so well done. The laggy CCTV showing the disturbing massacre take place was so we accomplished as well as the very unsettling music.
The fact that catnap stalks u like ur his prey like a real cat is terrifying..
14:44 the first catnap voiceline is from a vhs
Imagine someone made a parody of all the chapters, 1,2, and 3, and we had the option to fight back. Like we can beat the monsters with anything, be it a toy or whatever. Imagine smacking the daylights out of Huggy with the Grab pack hands, beating Mommy Long legs with Poppy, then finally beating CatNap with the arm of the Prototype.
What would be even more funnier if the Prototype went haywire and starts beating Huggy, Mommy, and CarNap with his own hand and screaming at them how disappointing they are
The one thing I’ve really been reminded of from this chapter is how similar the story concept is to the infamous 2015 video, by paulsvids: shed 17. I won’t reveal the details of that particular video, but I will say that’s the type of vibe that I got from the story of chapter 3.
While i did find some puzzles anoyying , i can still absolutely asure myself that poppy platime ch 3 is rlly good , also WHY ISNT FAITH THE UNHOLY TRINITY IN S TIER
Because it's his opinion
Yeah, the catnap line about the prototype is found in a tent in the playhouse. Honestly the entire game improves when you realise in retrospect who these monsters were. Huggy and kissy don’t have confirmed names but with the ARG and now with the release of the CG5 song it is implied they’re both from the playcare. The first tape of the 3rd chapter is a debrief on nightmares suffered by a little girl who described catnap’s nightmare form, that little girl is the one who was eventually used to make mommy longlegs. Because part of the brain and nervous system is transplanted in the operation she remembers what the adults did to some degree which is why she’s so aggressive. Also in the tape where catnap talks about the prototype saving them, it’s been a few years since his transplant(?) so he’s 13-14 by that point. The person talking to him in the tape does note that his quietness is weird so based on that and that dogday speaks perfectly fine even with a big ass grin and no tongue there’s like two different options for his quietness/raspiness. Either he’s just not really designed to speak and more just to exhale over a bunch of children. Or. Because the nervous system is transplanted, he has a fried nervous system due to his injuries, it is the system involved in involuntary movements including muscles used when speaking. Not to hammer the thought home too much but Theo was 9 when he tried to escape, the electrocution he suffered was so severe his heart stopped and he was like 80% burns. Super traumatic injury. But the nervous system is one of those parts that’s always mentioned in the BBI paperwork as being important for motor function which is true. Unfortunately the nervous system is where most phantom pains and phantom limb experiences originate from. They transferred the part of him that would never forget the pain of his electrocution. Which makes the fact that you incapacitate him by electrocuting him kinda messed up. He’s no longer a child for sure, by the time the player returns Theo would’ve been 23-ish. Still. So messed up. Anyways!
The "Prototype line" comes from one of The VHS tapes. Specifically the one before entering funhouse with the Bobby bearhug cutout.
Chapter 3 and it’s teasers (vhs videos) made me a poppy playtime fan
the line where catnap sais "the prototype will save us" is in a VHS tape you can find before the catnap boss fight
when i played against catnap, i did find it hard to protect the left hallway since the grabpack is so slow. and when he would show up on the ceiling, would just stay there.
I kinda wish catnap acted as a stalker enemy it is his domain after all.
i kinda just felt he was eventually gonna spring up and stalk you, only for him to not give a crap.. yeah.. he was underutilized..
batim chapter 3 ink demon i could say at least in the betas he was an imposing threat, uncanny and everything. yeah i just love an enemy that gives a shit. too bad catnap had better things to do then play cat and mouse
They did an amazing job with chapter 3. The animation and sound design went hard, but to be honest the animations of every antagonist has always been good.
I do love CatNap, but 1 thing I would have added would be moments where you can see him clearly at distance, just staring at you at least 3 times
One thing to Mention is that Unlike the other Bigger Body toys, "The Prototype" similar the other "Toys" (But calling the prototype a toy would really by stretching the limit of whats defined as a "Toy") to Which all of them have Wired, functional Digestive Tracts for the intake of food to Survive. But the Prototype is actually the only one who does not Require food to survive strangely as it simply does not eat at all, while the other Toys do need to eat to survive.
14:40 The first line of dialog spoken by catnap is possible to hear in a normal gameplay, in one of the VHS tapes that are scattered around the playcare (specifically number 9, it can be found shortly before we find dogday, right before the mini versions of the smiling critters start to appear, in the room where the first one does, I believe, sorry if the explanation is confusing though), in the tape catnap responds with that line of dialog to a scientist who praises him for behaving and after he says "the prototype will save us" a scientist, remarkably annoyed, responds that this is catnap's home, and he will never be able to get out of there and also says that the prototype's home is in the labs, his exact words before the tape ends are "this is your life now, get used to it", then the VHS tape ends
The tape can be also found on youtube, if you wanna check it out without playing the game, I hope it helped, have a nice day!
there are alot of small instances of little glimpse of him in other parts similar to how u can see Huggy Wuggy in different parts of chapter 3, but they are all blink and ull miss it
There is a tape with the first cat nap voice
'All under the watchful eye of-I refuse to say her first name-long legs'
Lol
the concept art for nightmare catnap is so horrifying that they have to tone it down to what we have now
14:42 the other line is in game its just in a Vhs tape which is why it sounds different
The line "the prototype will save us" can be heard by finding a vhs tape and putting it in the nearby vcr player throughout the game (cant remember exactly where) it is not a beta thing and is in the full chapter 14:13
people thought this game would be terrible and look how far it has gotten.. this chapter is really amazing horror
The part where catnap says "The prototype will save us" is in a vhs tape. Its located in the smae area as dogday
Same
the light pvz soundtrack in the background goes hard.
The first voiceline comes from a VHS tape hidden near the beginning part of Playcare
DMuted talking about the lore of Poppy Playtime
Me not paying attention and vibing on the pvz song
Im glad im not the only one who thinks the longer mouth wasn't scary. Catnap looks scary without it, it honestly looks funny more than scary. And yeah, Catnap deserved a better final fight imo. But overall, I think this is the best chapter of the series so far. Glad they step up their game
Its a shame that they brought in such terrifying new characters, just to have them gone by the end of the chapter. I can't imagine how creepy chapter 4 is gonna be
I like the level of difficulty in chapter 3. It’s hard enough to be challenging on the first play through but it’s easy enough for it to still be fun
If I'm gonna be honest, the end of the game where you need to fire the green hand at CatNap as a "last attack" reminds me of what Portal 2 has where the bossfight has been completed, all that needs to be done is to shoot the moon. The difference, though, is that you cannot die during the sequence in Portal, let alone die after 3 seconds. I haven't been tricked by CatNap at the end of the fight, and I think it's a cool idea but more of an indicator needs to be added to make it more obvious.
my goat
yo this chapter was amazing because of catnap ( 4:46 to 5:32 I feel sorry for Theodore Grambell)
Honestly, I hope the next chapter keeps up with the dark and disturbing atmosphere. And I genuinely wish that other creators of mascot horror games will take inspiration from Poppy Playtime Chapter 3. It did a fantastic job to create an unsettling and creepy atmosphere with a really messed up story that gets under your skin.
Many mascot horrors fail to actually be scary because they cater too much to little kids and mostly involve tedious puzzles and jumpscares but lack the horror elements. Poppy Playtime, while starting at the same mediocre level, actually managed to improve a lot. And if chapter 4 will actually be the final one, I genuinely hope the creators will keep walking this path because there's still so much potential in this genre
This chapter is amazing
Wow... so far, you're one of the few to note that the Prototype didn't betray CatNap in that death scene but rather that CatNap willingly offers itself to the Prototype.
14:39 actually that line comes from one of the VHS tapes where catnap is being checked on
10:17 Yes, finally someone else talks about this design change. I absolutely loved how the original monster catnap looked, with his wide toothless smile, and gaping pits for eyes. Almost making it look like some kind of reanimated animal corpse. But then at the end of the chapter, catnap changes into this way too overexaggerated scraggly design, which I personally think took away the attributes that made him creepy originally. Like you said ¨trying too hard to look creepy¨. Aside from this though, I feel like the bigger more glaring issue with this final part of the game is the boss fight. To be completely honest, I think that boss fights don't really fit in this style of horror game, and that a final chase or something along those lines would fit a bit better. And don't get me wrong, Im not totally against it, it can work if done properly, with something like resident evil. But the horror aspect can lose a bit of its luster when you spend 20 minutes doing the same sequence over and over, until its more frustrating than scary. So, that's really my only complaint for this chapter, the first half is amazing, but the last part feels a bit underwhelming.
Imagine trying to explain to someone how a video game called “Poppy Playtime” has the main character trying to escape from “Huggy Wuggy”, “Mommy long legs” and “Catnap” is scary
I'd LOVE to hear people's thoughts on the chapter 4 too. It was like chapter 3, but even better.
I also think, keeping catnap in the shadows in most of chapter 3 is perfect ugly even more creepy because we don’t ever really get a full view of Kat until the final it’s still creepy
U forgot the vhs with Leigh Pierre and Catnap or Theo as he is called.
Ok I have a theory, The other bigger Smiling Critters aren’t dead.
I think people are misunderstanding what DogDay meant by he’s the last of them. I believe he means he’s the only one who hasn’t surrendered or just gone feral. We can assume that he got injured while fighting CatNap but if CatNap killed the other Smiling Critters then why didn’t he kill DogDay? I think Catnap strung them all up and tortured them until they eventually surrendered or gave into there hunger and need to eat. With PickyPiggy presumably losing it first the others gave up little by little also, as we go deeper in the factory I think we’re gonna get more of these freaks.
The other line comes from a tape you find. You likely just didn't find said tape. It's found in the latter half of the game, if I recall.
14:42 The line is found in a vhs tape near the final boss fight
Idk have you ever seen LumpyTouch's shorts on Godfield and other Garfield themed videos and whatnot? I get that sorta vibe from Gas Catnap.
Gas Catnap gives me the impression of a pseudo Messiah coming straight from BloodBorne. Heck, try Moon Presence. Maybe the mouth might be a bit extra and thus goes into goofy, but I think they where going for the Scream effect here, this is no longer a smile of any kind, just a dislocated jaw into a gaping abyss.
Not only that but you argued yourself right next that a character has to be scary *in context*. What is Catnaps context? Darkness and gas. What does gas and darkness prevent? Depth of field. You see the eyes first, then the smile followed by gaping jaw, thus the face > feet > movement and then realize he is much lower compared to the usual height then you realize "oh no, this is a different from than the usual, oh SHIT" etc. Then you see dude is practically CRAWLING. The mouth might be so extra so you can see it through gas and darkness easier! Also hence the flatness of the whole expression leading to it looking goofy and writing it off as "no longer scary". The expression's "prime time" IS at the moment of notice, no longer after. As far as I seen in the video, nobody has such a mouth effect in darkness, not even Wuggy.
I never interacted with anything Poppy Playtime until now, but these are my first toughts when watching, I could be wrong.
only problem I have with chapter 3 is catnaps monster design. I swear to god if I see another monster with a malnutritioned/skinny and tall design with a wide “scary” smile I’m gonna lose it