Poppy Playtime Chapter 4: Review In Progress
picks up where the last chapter left off, after showing another VHS ad for one of Playtime Co.'s toys from when the company still operated. This time, Doey takes the spotlight in both the ad and the concerning home video clips that follow it. Taking place in a prison this time around, where Playtime Co. is no longer hiding the sinister experiments they conduct behind the guise of innovation and making children happy, how does live up to expectations?
Sometimes, a game with chapters or an episodic structure runs the risk of losing its core as it progresses, but that isn't the case with. The atmosphere consistently left me on edge and feeling like I was always being watched. doesn't hold back when it comes to the horrors of Playtime Co, but it doesn't lock out new players, as demonstrated by a short early-game tutorial, which is great if you've forgotten the controls during the time between chapters.
This review will be updated with Final Thoughts & Review Score after our reviewer has beaten the game. For now, this article is being published as early thoughts and Review in Progress, unscored.
starts off with open spaces that offer a sense of the sheer scale of the area under the Playcare, which was already a massive underground location. However, the prison is not as refined as the Playcare, showing how the fictional Playtime Co. wasn't concerned about appearances for this section, and the company focused on functionality instead. Compared to previous chapters, the area used in has a completely different feel to it. It's more utilitarian, but that adds to the overall atmosphere as we know the purpose of this location was to hold experiments.
Chapter 3 of Poppy Playtime has left players with many unanswered questions due to its ending, and keeps fans guessing on what chapter 4 has in store.
There's also a sense from the beginning that the small Smiling Critter toys could show up at any moment to start a fight or chase sequence, especially since some of them move in
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