A lot of folks think that the Nightmare Critters are for teenage orphans and I like that idea. I never put a Halloween special idea to this squad before but it makes perfect sense. People of all ages love Halloween and Baba and Poe alone would guarantee a contract with their universe's Hot Topic long after Halloween passed. They could've been successful and Playtime could've been on the verge of a comeback, which led to The Hour of Joy going forward to prevent that from happening. I don't know which Nightmares are gonna make the cut but my wish is for most or the whole chapter to be a King Dice Boss Rush of them trying to kill the player leading up to The Prototype itself. It would be such a missed opportunity if they didn't!
Leading up the prototype's hand to kill the nightmare critters or to encounter the prototype and do a boss fight? Because encountering him IN CHAPTER 4 and entering a boss fight, and the prototype on full body is so stupid, especially considering the fact that THERE IS 6+ CHAPTERS
Is safe to say that the Nightmare Critters are a Popular Trope from the 80s and 90s or the Pular Opposite of Characters like the Smiling Critters with Negative Traits that we shouldn’t do and perhaps the NC are Teenagers to the Bigger Bodies Version as Playtime might taken the advantage of Orphans that are at Age to Experiment in their Twisted Work but was Scrapped because of the Catnap Controversy and the Issues in the Experiments.
I feel like there will be multiple nightmare critters using their abilities to stalk different areas of the factory, you have baba blending with the trash dump in a landfill area, allister and Maggie hiding in some sort of sewer area, Icky in a chemical mixing area, Rabe,Poe, and Simon flying around big open areas,Touille in the vents or another small areas the others can’t get to, etc
I like to imagine that they are the EXACT opposites of the smiling critters . Like while almost all of the smiling critters are good (except catnap ofc), it would make sense that out of all of the nightmare critters , there is ONE that is on OUR side while the others are hunting us . I don't know which one it could be tho cuz like , unlike catnap that clearly stands out from the rest of his squad , all of these critters seem to fit together with no one really being that unique , at least design wise . I guess Baba sheep has the most chance .
Allister Gator and Poe are my favorites of these anti Smiling Critters, but there are recognizable toxic (people) personalities for all of them. Mako is the most obvious antithesis, Picky Piggy, but I believe you can find opposite pairings for all Smiling Crotters.
The only thing about these characters is that we’ll most likely only see them for around 10-20 minutes each considering that they’re just side characters and we’re also going to have a new big bad + The Prototype and maybe Boxy Boo.
It honestly would make sense if all of them were one off characters for a Halloween special, or at least were the main cast as another possibly scrapped spinoff show catered to the teenage orphans that never came to light, idk, this is the only way i personally can justify not hearing about them at least ONCE in chapter 3 or even there being hints they existed at all.
Yeah i mean I dont know how else they would fit into the lore without feeling "forced". Like how would we have spent ALL of chapter 3 learning about the smiling critters to NEVER hear one thing about the nightmare critters lol
I feel like maggie mako will be our villain. You see, everyone likes chocolate, and her scent is chocolate, she can attract people with her chocolate scent to kill them.
not everyone, vanilla is better, also, why would a critter be the main villain again if we already had this happen last chapter 💀, plus, the devs already said the nightmare critters were not going to be the main villains and weren't going to be the only toys in chapter 4 neither
@@bobbydenney8368 they're not going to make the gameplay longer just to do a separate chase scene every 30 minutes of EVERY NIGHTMARE CRITTER on their bigger bodies 💀
My biggest thing is in the steam page for chapter 4 is that the devs want you to have ATLEAST 60gb of space which makes me think that we will see ALL of the new Nightmare Critters in their "Big Bodies Initiative" form and have to defeat them each in a special way!
These are fun! But I hope PPT doesn’t just get hung on the Smiling Critters. I wanna see some more different horrific, variants of popular real-life toys
@@FazbearAfton82udx I’d be cool with that. I’ve just really enjoyed the diversity between each of the toys. This just feels like a redo of the Smiling Critters
Ok, so I see in this video the ARG website has the date 2002-10-10 I wonder what that means? Because that's around 7 years after the Hour of Joy. Could this be the date the Nightmare Critters were maybe tossed away by the Prototype?
I honestly think they should make all the nightmare critters appear in the chapter. Either following the chapter 02 way which I ment is by giving all of them a separate boss fight or just completely go out and make a boss fight/chase scene with all of them. I know it's a lot of work but it's cool to see all of em. Watch y'all think?
2002 and yet I am wondering what it all could mean? 7 years after the Hour of Joy. Could this be the date the Nightmare Critters were maybe tossed away by the Prototype?
@@BurningFlamesofDivineDragon I don't remember, but if it used to be year 2001 on the computer terminal date, then, it probably was fu##### new years and other stuff, so it's year 2002, nothing special at al
All the email says is "We've processed your request for help, and our I.T. department will reach out to you as soon as they are able! As always, we appreciate your continued work on behalf of Playtime Co. and our much beloved products!" So we probably have to wait, once something is ready, we get another email to instructions.
Are we supposed to get something later? I just clicked on the ARG website and I get nothing other than one of Playtime Co's computer screens. Am I supposed to click on the icon titled "Command Line" or am I supposed to type something in the black box?
I almost completely disagree with the points made. No company will make an entire set of characters for a Halloween special these characters are their own related but distinct brand from the Smiling Critters. Instead I think that after the Catnap controversy teens started buying up Smiling Critters toys because they were thought to be dangerous by their parents. Playtime Co wanted to capitalise on this interest from an older demographic and created the Nightmare Critters which have more adult scents and character traits to appeal to teenagers. I also do not think the Nightmare Critters will represent earlier bigger bodies experiments. We know the Bobby Bearhug bigger body was barely functional, they couldn’t walk or talk and the scientists were not sure if they could understand what was happening around them. If the Nightmare Critters came before this they likely would have died in the creation process or been completely non functional. I instead think the Nightmare Critters bigger bodies came much later near to the hour of joy. The bigger bodies had all been made but had not yet had the psychological work required to make them act like the characters they were made into yet. This would explain why they were still in containment in the labs rather than assigned to a specific area in the factory.
I think they were going to be released when the show was on or part of a Halloween event, but got cancelled after what happened with the CatNap plushies
i hope this is not all mob has been working on… this feels like an attempt for another huge merch push. i do not want more annoying huge mouthed critters in the next chapter its time for a new monster and toy line. these guys are stupid.
@@BurningFlamesofDivineDragon I followed instructions that were dropped before the arg the first thing was icepick.bat next it will ask you to identify the target and we’ve been given that as well
A lot of folks think that the Nightmare Critters are for teenage orphans and I like that idea. I never put a Halloween special idea to this squad before but it makes perfect sense. People of all ages love Halloween and Baba and Poe alone would guarantee a contract with their universe's Hot Topic long after Halloween passed. They could've been successful and Playtime could've been on the verge of a comeback, which led to The Hour of Joy going forward to prevent that from happening. I don't know which Nightmares are gonna make the cut but my wish is for most or the whole chapter to be a King Dice Boss Rush of them trying to kill the player leading up to The Prototype itself. It would be such a missed opportunity if they didn't!
Yeah, I hope we actually see them, unlike the smiling critters
@@Enven37same
Leading up the prototype's hand to kill the nightmare critters or to encounter the prototype and do a boss fight? Because encountering him IN CHAPTER 4 and entering a boss fight, and the prototype on full body is so stupid, especially considering the fact that THERE IS 6+ CHAPTERS
Is safe to say that the Nightmare Critters are a Popular Trope from the 80s and 90s or the Pular Opposite of Characters like the Smiling Critters with Negative Traits that we shouldn’t do and perhaps the NC are Teenagers to the Bigger Bodies Version as Playtime might taken the advantage of Orphans that are at Age to Experiment in their Twisted Work but was Scrapped because of the Catnap Controversy and the Issues in the Experiments.
I feel like there will be multiple nightmare critters using their abilities to stalk different areas of the factory, you have baba blending with the trash dump in a landfill area, allister and Maggie hiding in some sort of sewer area, Icky in a chemical mixing area, Rabe,Poe, and Simon flying around big open areas,Touille in the vents or another small areas the others can’t get to, etc
I don’t think any of the Nightmare Critters will have Bigger Body versions, instead they’d be like the smaller Smiling Critters from Chapter 3
Given the description of Maggie Mako, particularly her eating habits I feel like it would make more sense for them to be a tiger shark.
I'm more supprised that their scent is "Chocolate" I was expecting it to be something like Ocean Waves.
I like to imagine that they are the EXACT opposites of the smiling critters . Like while almost all of the smiling critters are good (except catnap ofc), it would make sense that out of all of the nightmare critters , there is ONE that is on OUR side while the others are hunting us . I don't know which one it could be tho cuz like , unlike catnap that clearly stands out from the rest of his squad , all of these critters seem to fit together with no one really being that unique , at least design wise . I guess Baba sheep has the most chance .
I think Touille would be on our side because he seems the least evil compared to the other nightmare critters
Y'all going to be having sum fun in chapter 4
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Allister Gator and Poe are my favorites of these anti Smiling Critters, but there are recognizable toxic (people) personalities for all of them. Mako is the most obvious antithesis, Picky Piggy, but I believe you can find opposite pairings for all Smiling Crotters.
The only thing about these characters is that we’ll most likely only see them for around 10-20 minutes each considering that they’re just side characters and we’re also going to have a new big bad + The Prototype and maybe Boxy Boo.
It honestly would make sense if all of them were one off characters for a Halloween special, or at least were the main cast as another possibly scrapped spinoff show catered to the teenage orphans that never came to light, idk, this is the only way i personally can justify not hearing about them at least ONCE in chapter 3 or even there being hints they existed at all.
I never heard anyone think that the Nightmare Critters were a Halloween special interesting theory
Yeah i mean I dont know how else they would fit into the lore without feeling "forced". Like how would we have spent ALL of chapter 3 learning about the smiling critters to NEVER hear one thing about the nightmare critters lol
Imagine if the ARG in this universe stood for, Advantageous Retrieval Goodies, know it’s actually the other way around tho
4:11 Is touille not one word😂
And I pretty sure Poe is a raven
I came looking for this comment
Yes
I Imagine he’s a crow like Poe the crow
@@Hoppyhopscotch8556 no Poe is a raven for Edger Allen Poe's poem is the raven you numb nuts
I feel like maggie mako will be our villain.
You see, everyone likes chocolate, and her scent is chocolate, she can attract people with her chocolate scent to kill them.
not everyone, vanilla is better, also, why would a critter be the main villain again if we already had this happen last chapter 💀, plus, the devs already said the nightmare critters were not going to be the main villains and weren't going to be the only toys in chapter 4 neither
i will be so mad if they only use like 2 of the characters
Me too that was the only issue for chapter 3 for me I really wanted to see all of the smiling critters bigger bodies
@@bobbydenney8368agreed
Same
@@bobbydenney8368 they're not going to make the gameplay longer just to do a separate chase scene every 30 minutes of EVERY NIGHTMARE CRITTER on their bigger bodies 💀
@@FazbearAfton82udxthey don’t have to be chases, like they can roam around an area and you have to hide from them or smth.
My biggest thing is in the steam page for chapter 4 is that the devs want you to have ATLEAST 60gb of space which makes me think that we will see ALL of the new Nightmare Critters in their "Big Bodies Initiative" form and have to defeat them each in a special way!
in a "special" way 💀
These are fun! But I hope PPT doesn’t just get hung on the Smiling Critters. I wanna see some more different horrific, variants of popular real-life toys
what if they just come out with toy ideas that aren't from real life
@@FazbearAfton82udx I’d be cool with that. I’ve just really enjoyed the diversity between each of the toys. This just feels like a redo of the Smiling Critters
Ok, so I see in this video the ARG website has the date 2002-10-10 I wonder what that means? Because that's around 7 years after the Hour of Joy. Could this be the date the Nightmare Critters were maybe tossed away by the Prototype?
Or something eventful that doesn't involve the Nightmare Critters
@@multilad816yes that could be the case.
I honestly think they should make all the nightmare critters appear in the chapter. Either following the chapter 02 way which I ment is by giving all of them a separate boss fight or just completely go out and make a boss fight/chase scene with all of them. I know it's a lot of work but it's cool to see all of em. Watch y'all think?
I like that idea
Truth is I have each one pictured out in my mind about how each of the nightmare critters will try to stop the player
Also it's interesting that year is 2002 on arg terminal when you type in date, rather than 2024
@@Frostwolf_103 the dates will also continue to change as if it’s moving forwards with time
2002 and yet I am wondering what it all could mean? 7 years after the Hour of Joy. Could this be the date the Nightmare Critters were maybe tossed away by the Prototype?
@@BurningFlamesofDivineDragon I don't remember, but if it used to be year 2001 on the computer terminal date, then, it probably was fu##### new years and other stuff, so it's year 2002, nothing special at al
4:15 i saw in Terico theory that Poe maybe is the big purple bird we saw in one of the draws in the last trailer of chapter 3
And yarnaby is main antagonist
If done correctly, you should receive an email in response to solving parts of the ARG
What do you have to do?
Yes I would like this email as the poster above me what do you have to do?
All the email says is "We've processed your request for help, and our I.T. department will reach out to you as soon as they are able! As always, we appreciate your continued work on behalf of Playtime Co. and our much beloved products!" So we probably have to wait, once something is ready, we get another email to instructions.
@@terrifytee interesting 🤨 thanks for sharing that information
Also, the dragon have a gold simbol of money, because dragons nest usually have a lot of money, gold and jewelry
Simon smokes will be in CH4 and tbh if alister is in the chapter it'll prob be a ally
Why do you think that
I definitely think the nightmare critters are the more a holes than the smiling critters who were sweet as pie
What if the nightmare critters are going to be in project playtime as a Halloween edition
Could the critters be like the seven deadly sins except baba? Like baba is the “black sheep” of the group
I understand where you're going with this
Alistair gator sloth
Maggie mako gluttony
Simon smokes pride
I'm not sure about the rest
My favorite is Baba Chops which one is yours?
Mine is lcky licky
@@bobbydenney8368 Neat
@@bobbydenney8368 Yo same
It's hard for me to choose, but my favorites are Maggie Mako and Poe!
@@ghost.stryker.requiem Excellent
Dud I think simin is a jerk
well y'all's next year nightmare critters is gonna be on top of the world yeet 😎
Are we supposed to get something later? I just clicked on the ARG website and I get nothing other than one of Playtime Co's computer screens. Am I supposed to click on the icon titled "Command Line" or am I supposed to type something in the black box?
I think they're still figuring it out
@@daiquimm Ah 👍
Bro that's cursed if i type date of dead on poppy playtime chapter 4 ARG it shows 2002-10-11 08:47:38
I almost completely disagree with the points made. No company will make an entire set of characters for a Halloween special these characters are their own related but distinct brand from the Smiling Critters. Instead I think that after the Catnap controversy teens started buying up Smiling Critters toys because they were thought to be dangerous by their parents. Playtime Co wanted to capitalise on this interest from an older demographic and created the Nightmare Critters which have more adult scents and character traits to appeal to teenagers.
I also do not think the Nightmare Critters will represent earlier bigger bodies experiments. We know the Bobby Bearhug bigger body was barely functional, they couldn’t walk or talk and the scientists were not sure if they could understand what was happening around them. If the Nightmare Critters came before this they likely would have died in the creation process or been completely non functional.
I instead think the Nightmare Critters bigger bodies came much later near to the hour of joy. The bigger bodies had all been made but had not yet had the psychological work required to make them act like the characters they were made into yet. This would explain why they were still in containment in the labs rather than assigned to a specific area in the factory.
I think poe and baba chops or every of nightmare critters will in chapter 4
Weren't the Nightmare Critters discontinued? I don't even know if they even got released.
I think they were going to be released when the show was on or part of a Halloween event, but got cancelled after what happened with the CatNap plushies
So just to be clear is the sheep the main villain in chapter 4 or one of the other nightmare critters?
The main villain will not be a nightmare critter, the creator said so in a Reddit post I'm pretty sure. Or maybe it was a private discord.
@@BlackDogsAndLadybugs really thanks dude for the info
Where is link terrify tee??????
In description
Baba Chops is my favorite
Mine is Maggie.
None there all the best
Poe is the coolest
I like Simon smoke
Same with maggie
Rabie baby IS MY FAV I LOVE BATS
i hope this is not all mob has been working on… this feels like an attempt for another huge merch push. i do not want more annoying huge mouthed critters in the next chapter its time for a new monster and toy line. these guys are stupid.
Well, let's wait and see what the story of CH 4 is for Poppy Playtime. Each CH gets better and better as more is revealed about Playtime Co.
date of hour of joy
2002-10-11 08:49:29 (on ARG)
Anyone able to crack down the terminal code?
I was able to get an email from playtime co
@@Ecoenvy Oh right, the support thing
@@Frostwolf_103 yeah sadly that’s about as far as I’ve been able to get so far
@@Ecoenvy How did you get that email may I ask?
@@BurningFlamesofDivineDragon I followed instructions that were dropped before the arg the first thing was icepick.bat next it will ask you to identify the target and we’ve been given that as well
date of prototype
2002-10-11 08:55:54
date of poppy
2002-10-11 08:53:58
Wear is the link
It's in the description
So how do I use the commands lol?
You cant yet. If im remembering correctly, it took 3 months before anything was added to the ARG for chapter 3
@@terrifytee …
date of catnap
2002-10-11 08:54:26
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Guys poe actually girl or boy? 😭 PLEASE HELP ME-
Since he said they I’m guessing trans. But in the 90s is just wild💀
None. just use they/them pronouns like a normal person.
@@King_of_Fools That's not normal. Normal would be male or female. Especially in the 90's.
@@j.m.2110trans people still existed in the 90s bro😭
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Poe isn't a crow Poe is a raven for the poem is called the raven