doki doki literature club solved bendy and the ink machine
solved five nights at freddy's solved maybe then then kind of retconned and solved again
i don't know it's kind of solved yeah remains to be seen anyway today there's a new challenger
poppy playtime and with only one chapter available this thing is ripe for the theorizing we've seen
children's toys and games trying to kill us in the past but it's never been anything like this
hello internet welcome to game theory where today i wanted to start off by
introducing you to our latest piece of merch say hello to the maddie pally doll
matty pally the perfect friend for every theorist but hey that's just a theory and
that's not all he can say he's actually full of all the favorite catch phrases from the channel
i'm coming to get you mad oh okay very funny who changed the voice box no one did matpat
okay going to kill you and that's no theory and we're done with that one why do i always end up
with all the creepy possessed stuff this is just kind of the brand now but hey if you like all
things creepy why not hit that subscribe button if you don't well let's just say that i can't
guarantee your safety from whatever scary toys you have lurking around your house to be fair i can't
really do that even if you do push the subscribe button but still pushing that button won't hurt so
poppy playtime the latest horror craze fill in the void of emptiness as we asymptotically approach
the release of security breach if there is a formula for indie horror this thing checks all
the boxes simple creative gameplay check horrific childhood playthings check mysterious hidden lore
sprinkled throughout double check so today we're gonna look at the first chapter to start piecing
together what's really going on in this game and what's gonna be coming in the future installments
and let me tell you this well it may certainly look similar to the dozens of indie horror games
that we've seen in the past this one has some unexpected twists that make it all the more
surprising and the more terrifying and i gotta say for the first time in what seems like forever
there's no malicious ai trying to steal your identity to escape their video game prison by
hopping into your body no matter what else this story entails big props on being creative on that
one when we boot up chapter one we're told that we're taking on the role of an ex-employee of the
playtime company finally returning to the factory years after everyone mysteriously disappeared
inside if that's not a theorist invite i don't know what is what happened why are we the ones
who remain one click into this game and already there are so many questions circulating around so
to start our adventure we receive a note informing us that these missing employees never
actually left the building alongside of the hs tape that introduces us to the titular character
poppy playtime a doll with hair that smells like poppy's weirdly realistic eyes and the ability to
have actual conversations she is the first truly intelligent doll in the world a little girl can
talk to her poppy gives her answers what you gotta say is a whole lot of red flags right off the bat
i've played enough horror games over the years to know that when inanimate objects start talking to
you you start running in the other direction but i don't know it's a game what else am i gonna do
i'm curious so off to the factory we go right off the bat we find a giant version of the
popular playtime company mascot huggy wuggy huh those cold dead eyes aren't ominous at all
sure nothing bad is gonna come from this guy now watching playthroughs of poppy playtime there is
one thing that immediately stands out everyone high-fives huggy high five high five buddy
hey high five man let's go let's go even me high five huggy boom apparently there's just some sort
of primal reflex in our monkey brains raised hand equals high five from there we unlock the second
hand of our grab pack we get to build one of the toys and look it's that muppet reject that we met
earlier except now he's trying to kill us oh no who could have seen that one coming i mean to be
fair it is a legitimately terrifying encounter once we managed to escape the nightmare by
throwing them down into the factory abyss we see a large flower on the wall along with all sorts
of warnings about why we shouldn't go through that door but nah those people clearly didn't
know what they were talking about we plow our way inside and find poppy herself resting inside a
glass case without any forethought or concern for our own well-being we rip open the case because
of course we do do horror games not exist in these universes we almost died in the arms of
this giant sesame street reject let's uh just make our presents known to the creepy living doll now
the lights flash poppy's eyes open and we get the final line of the chapter you opened my case
and that's it big old cliffhanger for the next installment but is it just me or did it feel
like there was something more going on here who am i kidding of course there's something more going
on here this is a modern indie horror game there's hidden lore all over this thing for starters let's
rewind a bit to take a closer look at huggy woogie himself we know from the opening placard that the
toy was made in 1984 and became playtime company's most popular mascot but how do you go from this
to this toys just don't come to life unless toy story was right all along
they don't so what is this thing well for obvious reasons i immediately jumped to animatronic but
the game actually gives us clues that he's something else entirely something even more
horrifying than we could have ever anticipated if you're unfortunate enough to get killed by huggy
during the chase you get a randomized death screen with a message that ranges from it's not your time
to don't let them inside but mixed in there is the chance of you seeing one that reads exp 1006 isn't
he wonderful this would suggest that someone is asking us what we think of their experiment the
monster that just killed us this isn't the only time that we see huggy referred to by this name
either throughout the game we discover vhs tapes with recordings from various factory employees the
last one you receive is simply titled unknown and on it we hear this message final log in relation
experiment 1006 the prototype coordination and cooperation is evidently within his skill set
though still missing today's events are no doubt in relation to him we must forge onwards in the
name of science whether those who are beneath us understand it or not so he's an experiment within
the facility that escaped and clearly created an incident within the factory but this still doesn't
explain why i think his creation is different from something like the animatronics and fnaf
but in the trailer for the game we get our first look at huggie walking towards us while bits of
text flash up on screen these messages seem to be excerpts from documents of playtime co but before
you can read them most of the text disappears to reveal a new eerie sentence but you know
i'm gonna pause the video and read all the frame perfect stuff right most of the vanishing messages
cover pretty standard stuff mostly about grab pack safety that is until we get to the 43 second mark
of the trailer where suddenly we have a giant wall of darkened rolling text happening behind the main
message hold the phone things that are hidden in the dark what is this a 2015 snap 4 teaser image
so true to form i do what i do best i lured the contrast i up the brightness and voila we got this
experiment 1006 the prototype he seems serviceable as the prime example for the type of vessel which
we're trying to create despite his digestive tract being wired properly the prototype finds
no necessity for sustenance unlike the others all other experiments can only survive while
subsisting on much larger portions huggy as well as these other experiments has a digestive system
that's not something an animatronic possessed by the soul of a dead child would need it leads
me to believe that huggy is a living organic creature not just a stuffed toy turned sentient
although if we're reading this right huggy just kills for fun he doesn't need to eat unlike the
others plus if we take a look at the scene where you caused the walkway to collapse huggy falls
into the factory blow hitting two pipes along the way notice anything unusual here's the before and
after shot to make it easy for you you see there's blood on the pipes huggy bleeds he is definitely
organic a literal living breathing monster but how are they turning toys into organic creatures
for that let's actually turn our attention to the perfect toy herself poppy when we're
introduced to her in that initial vhs tape we're told that she's perfect she has hair that smells
like poppies which side note i looked into and it turns out that poppies don't really have that much
of a smell unless of course you're talking about opium poppies in which case you're opening up a
whole lot of messed up there in the olden days opium was used to relax and help you to sleep no
wonder this thing was a hit especially with the parents but i'm getting myself sidetracked here
anyway the important part of this ad is that a child can have conversations with poppy and
that she can talk back to give answers which seems like a strange level of ai for a company that was
around during the 1950s and 60s unless of course she's not an ai in the teaser for poppy playtime
we see a tutorial on how to look after your puppy doll near the end of the video the voice box gets
pulled out and we see that it's dripping with blood again leading me to believe that these
toys are actually all organic but with poppy we can actually go one step further and figure out
how she's been made organic see the hardest secret to find in poppy playtime chapter one is
a pink vhs tape right before the final chase wait wait wait wait wait wait oh my gosh is that it
oh no way oh my gosh that was it well done wow i'm assuming the game
really doesn't want me to do this but i don't care because i i found the lore oh no
if you manage to find it before getting locked out the tape shows you an interview with a prospective
employee stella graber she's a woman obsessed with living forever wanting to be more like a child and
longing to bring joy to children like her toys did for her your body just gets older and older
and then you die human bodies just can't stay young forever this tape feels really random
in the grand scheme of things like why would we be shown this well it starts to make much
more sense in the context of living organic toys based on the way that she talks stella would be
the perfect candidate for some experiments that playtime were running i believe that they used
employees specifically stella to make poppy not just transferred her consciousness either
but used her physical body their digestive systems their brains and in the case of poppy
stella's eyes it seems like an extreme leap to make but look at poppy's eyes in the video
tell me that those aren't human you don't just add capillaries to your cute little doll's eyes
this would also align with the whole bleeding thing organic bodies made of flesh and organs
that can bleed it's also worth mentioning that the voice actor for stella is the same as the
voice actor for poppy this may just be because of limited voice actors but it also feels like an
interesting detail to call out if i'm right about stella and poppy being one in the same i think it
gives us a pretty good idea of what her part is in the wider story the general consensus online
is that poppy is gonna be the big bad i mean the game's got her name on it after all but for me
i'm not so sure i don't believe that stella would be mad about being turned into a toy i think
that honestly she'd be delighted she would not be delighted however in being locked away in a sealed
glass case listen to that final line again when we open the glass case at the end of chapter one
you opened my case it sounds like a confused but thankful response by being locked away she hasn't
been able to go out into the world and bring joy to children it's not much of an existence living
inside a tiny box believe me i know doing this many videos every week i've become very used
to the confined space of my recording closet us coming along and freeing her i think that's gonna
be the rescue that she's been longing for some of the death messages also lead me to believe that
poppy isn't trying to kill us look again at these screens i need you alive it's too early to die
death isn't permanent who is talking to us in these screens well i think it's poppy she's the
only other character that we've been introduced to so far so if it's not her it kind of has to
be someone else that we haven't really met yet she's calling out to us she needs us and it's not
just for her sake either another death screen reads more lives are at risk than just yours
whoever this person is they're hoping that we can help all of the vanished employees and
it doesn't end there there's one final death screen to call out this one which looks like
somebody head desk their keyboard repeatedly but it actually appears to be cyrillic characters or
at least approximately close to cyrillic characters for those of you don't know cyrillic
is the alphabet used for slavic languages places like russia bulgaria the ukraine you know the
countries that give new meaning to the word gold who knows maybe the languages all look this way
with the extra accents and swoops because people trying to write them are shivering all the time
anyway for it being so relic it actually looks to be a simple substitution cipher
with different characters representing different characters from the latin alphabet that we're more
familiar with notice these two in a row right here probably e e or o o using that as our base
and trying lots of different combinations we can't come to a definitive conclusion there just
isn't enough letters here but stay they need help certainly fits the pattern that we're seeing in
the letters which again hints at the fact that these are people ex-employees trapped inside the
bodies of the monsters looking to escape all of this points to poppy becoming our companion maybe
she'll help us solve puzzles by getting into spaces that we can't or she'll be able to
distract the monsters while we progress or she'll just be our guide through the factory maze kind
of like glados the potato from portal 2. but in some small way i think that she's going to be
helping us both save herself and all the others so if poppy is our helper then who's our big
bad well remember the trailer while discussing huggy it mentioned others so did the vhs tape
we know that huggy is experiment 1006 which if this scientist has any respect for logical
procedure would imply that he's actually the sixth experiment they've created sure they call him the
prototype but he's gained that name because as the trailer said he seems serviceable as
the prime example for the type of vessel that we're trying to create so they thought they'd
got the experiment right that time but clearly there were others before him all with cognitive
ability but these ones are gonna be hungrier they're gonna be more bloodthirsty than huggy
gotta admit he was already pretty bad so then who or what came before well during the course of the
game we're actually made aware of five other toys that playtime creates candy cat boogie bot
brawn cat b and a pink version of huggy which we'll call ms huggy if huggy was experiment
1006 with five other toys available i think it's likely that they're gonna be the monsters that
show up in future chapters but kicking us off in chapter two i believe will be cat b
why well because as much as there are references to all the other toys throughout the factory
cat b's the one that has an active part in this chapter of the story after getting the storeroom
tape we see a conveyor belt which is covered in cat-b parts once we crawl through the vents we
end up at an assembly line where we then proceed to activate and create a cat b toy the others have
all been background characters to the chapter but we actively create catbee which seems like
a metaphor for the humans creating monsters and that points me in the direction of catbee being
our next big bad but all of it leaves me with one final question clearly poppy put playtime on the
map in the 1960s based on the vintage style of the poppy ad and the fact that the ad is actually in
color which is something that wasn't available until the 1960s huggy wuggy was invented in 1984
after poppy so if poppy was a human experiment and she was perfect then why are huggy and all
the other experiments than monsters well my theory is that poppy was a human experiment done back
in the 1960s and was a roaring success but the secret to how it was done was kept under wraps
and as dolls came out of fashion the company had to evolve creating new colorful toys like candy
cat and huggy wuggy we can see based on the toy packaging that this went on for some time
huggies packaging is very similar to those in the 1980s boogie bot and candy cat look much
more like toys from the early 2000s clearly the company was able to survive for a long time but
it wasn't enough to keep the company afloat and so someone in the factory decided to pursue new
innovations to bring playtime code back to its former glory innovation is key after all as we
see in one of the death screens without any knowledge of how they managed to successfully
create poppy the scientists get to work trying to recreate the magic toys that would come to life
acting like pets for children bring them joy once again they succeed in creating something
organic but they miss the one human element that made the original poppy experiment successful
willingness stella was the perfect subject she seemed like she'd be over the moon with living
forever as a child however our scientist may not have known about stella and what made her and
therefore poppy special i bet you that characters like the disgruntled storeroom worker rich that we
meet in the tapes are people that have been turned into these monstrous toys he doesn't seem all that
pleased with the company making his life difficult and we know that although they may have a clean
sparkly outward image playtime don't tend to treat their employees very well wouldn't be too hard to
believe that they saw the tape of rich complaining and decided he needed to be disciplined in a very
special way but rich doesn't have that child like wonder of stella or that natural love of toys and
so when he gets made into one he becomes a monster the experiment backfires and starts killing the
employees the scientist locked himself away in the same room that we found poppy she was patient zero
locked away in the case to protect and study her until of course we come along and set her free
there you have it friends my predictions for poppy playtime was i right was i wrong i guess we're
just gonna have to wait and see but hey that's just a theory a game theory thanks for watching
you