Game Theory: The Monster In The Shadows (Poppy Playtime Chapter 2)

it's been so long so good to see you again well not good really don't say anything mommy knows you thought you could just walk right in here didn't you as if nothing ever happened what a joke well they're all dead all of them and you did that tried to live knowing that for whatever brief time but hey that's just a theory right a theory a theory a theory [Music] hello internet welcome to game theory the show that's been popular for 11 years but still hasn't landed a movie deal don't know why i felt like mentioning it here on a completely unrelated note a few weeks ago we finally saw the release of poppy playtime chapter 2 flying a web and this thing was longer than a tech demo so hey big wins over part one but no the team wasn't content to stop there hoppy playtime's newest chapter went above and beyond requiring players to master not just one but two different gameplay styles whack-a-mole and simon says yellow we're duh violet every game is required to have a simon says segment for some reason i'm of course being facetious about the whole thing this new chapter actually offered a lot of awesome stuff cool puzzles thrilling chases and an oversized plush toy failing to pull a lever the animation is so adorable i could sit here and watch that all day oh and there are also collectible trophies now really challenging collectible trophies that'll push you to the limits of your gamer senses any secret trophies or anything that we see up here i need secret trophies secret trophies but we all know why we're really here it's not for the gameplay innovation or the collectibles it's for the hidden notes and cryptic clues ladies and gentlemen we have ourselves some lore to decipher and spoiler alert poppy isn't who we thought she was first here's what you need to know to understand today's theory puppy playtime chapter 1 focused on us the player returning to an abandoned toy factory in order to save some employees that went missing there 10 years ago we're told via mysterious note that we have to find the flower several puzzles and one giant muppet chase later we find the flower in the form of a giant wall mural of a poppy inside is a replica of a house and a doll named poppy playtime locked away inside of a glass case and of course we set her free without a second thought because players in video games have never seen a horror movie before anyway chapter 2 picks up immediately afterward poppy agrees to help us activate a train that'll help us get out of the factory so much for wanting to help save those missing employees but hey if a creepy talk and doll starts offering me ways to not be around the creepy talking doll i'm gonna take that offer but of course things are never quite that easy mommy longlegs a giant stretchy toy spider takes poppy hostage and forces us to play three mini-games in her game station in order to unlock each part of the train's code eventually we break out of our games which causes her to go complete sicko mode and chase us through a narrow escape sequence where have i seen something like that before in the end she gets caught in a grinder and her remains are dragged away by a mysterious claw we rescue poppy get on the train but surprise surprise she betrays us crashing the train and forcing us even deeper into the factory so those are the highlights from the chapter but we're still left with a lot of overarching questions who are we where are these missing employees we're so concerned about what's the true nature of the toys and who's secretly pulling the strings behind all of this well i think i have the answers to each and every one of those questions and the last one is probably the best place to start as i just talked about after defeating mommy we see her remains get dragged away by a mysterious claw no not burn traps claw but also yeah kind of burn traps claw see the hand we see pool mommy way is very different from all the other designs that we've encountered in the game so far most of the toys that we fight are brightly colored made of plastic or fur and you know look like actual toys this thing though is dark mechanical and could poke your eye out it's like an erector set on steroids and that's not all if you zoom in and enhance the image of the claw you can actually make out that there's organic material mixed in there bones and maybe even some veins mixed in with the metallic parts so yeah the comparison to spring trap burn trap call them whatever you want it isn't that much of a joke but what is this biomechanic hybrid doing within the context of poppy well back in chapter one we discovered the final vhs tape which catalogued the results of experiment one zero zero six nicknamed the prototype final log in relation experiment one 1006 the prototype coordination and cooperation is evidently within his skill set as well as the skill set of all other experiments of his type this along with a death screen that said experiment 1006 isn't he wonderful led us to believe in a previous theory that our big blue boy huggy wuggy was the prototype since you know he was kind of the only character that we met in chapter one occam's razor and all that however take a look at the hand on the tv screen that we see during that vhs recording look familiar we see that hand appear again and yet another vhs tape in chapter two log code zero eight five zero two in relation experiment one zero zero six the prototype the prototype seems to possess an unprecedented level of intelligence beyond that of all other test subjects as well as an alarming willingness to commit violence experiment 1170 huggy wuggy remains the optimal outcome due to his sufficient intelligence paired with maximum obedience obviously this outright tells us that huggy isn't experiment 1006 and that it's instead the owner of this mysterious claw so that's what the prototype is but what makes it so special well during that same vhs tape we also hear how the prototype takes apart an alarm clock and uses it to make a laser pointer in short it's smart and it's able to repurpose things which would explain mommy's concern in this moment she's gonna be reused and repurposed by this entity in order to help the monster escape kind of makes you wonder if the veins and bones or how this creature was originally designed or maybe that's what happened to all the other missing employees their bodies were added to the machine it's interesting in our last theory we predicted that mommy longlegs would be adding the bodies of dead toys to herself in order to become stronger we were right about the concept just looks like we were wrong about who it applied to as for how this thing is going to wind up looking anyone remember sid from toy story 1 sounds like we might have found one of his creations so right now it looks like the prototype 1006 is gonna be our overarching villain for the franchise taking pieces and parts of the other toys and maybe even pieces and parts of other people to grow stronger that being said one toy that doesn't appear to have been added to the prototype yet is huggy wuggy he may not have appeared explicitly in this chapter but hints of him are hidden around when you go into the chapter's water treatment room if you look carefully you can see some blue fur that's scattered around the pipes alongside trails of blood this appears to be the room that huggy fell through at the end of the last chapter and would seem to imply that huggy picked himself up and went full-on sus mode by venting away waiting to return until a future chapter which honestly makes sense he can't die yet he's basically the mascot of the franchise who even cares about poppy at this point i mean me i do because lore but i feel like i'm definitely in the minority on that one speaking of poppy let's talk about her shall we i mean it is her name on the title screen after all this isn't kissy missy playtime or cat b playtime you know well mere hours after chapter 2 came out the fan community did what the fan community gonna do they dug into the game files and by doing so they discovered an early build of this chapter hidden away and while the game itself is still basically the same the end is where things get real interesting normally you get on the train and poppy gives you this sinister speech about how you're not allowed to leave she betrays us and sends us hurdling deeper into the factory for reasons that are kept pretty darn vague terrible things have happened but i know that whatever i need you to do you are capable however in the cut version of this monologue we actually get a bit more detail on her motivations you have so much potential i know you came to find the ones who had disappeared all those years ago but they're gone they've been gone for a long time terrible things have happened and i am the cause being able to exist as a doll it has killed so many people now interpreting cut content is always going to be a tricky science do you use it do you not how do you use it here i'm only pointing it out because this seems to confirm one of our original theories that poppy is the reason all of this is happening she literally says that because she was able to exist as a doll people died which tells us two things one that she's been around since the very beginning she knows about the experimentation that's being done on humans she's witnessed it all [Music] yes yes we hear you you're very special you did it first secondly though it seems to tell us that poppy isn't who we originally thought loyal theorists will remember that last time we predicted that former employee stella graber was the person whose body and spirit were used to build poppy in chapter one we found a vhs tape talking about her desire to stay young and her love of children which all but seem to scream make me into an undying doll monster however after the clue seeded out in this chapter we know for a fact that she is no longer a candidate when we first enter the game station we're greeted by stella's voice hi kids welcome to the game station i'm stella and we've got three super duper fun games to play her name also appears on the bottom of a document outlining how to test children using the various game station modules quote give all reports to ms stella graber to sort through so stella was clearly involved with whatever experimentation was going on at playtime co and since these experiments were started because the living doll poppy existed in the first place stella can't be poppy in that same document we also see references to mommy longlegs now if you look closely at the mommy longlegs commercial that plays at the top of the chapter you can see that it's dated 1991 hoppy was meant to be the first living toy developed back in 1950. therefore if stella was alive around the time of mommy longlegs then she couldn't possibly be inside poppy so if poppy isn't stella then who is she well early in chapter 2 we visit elliott ludwig's office founder of playtime co it's here that we learned that he experienced a tragic family loss sometime in the 1960s in the 1960s an unfortunate family death had pushed ludwig down to his lowest this loss is what spurred him to work harder and build an empire around his toys now it's not actually clear who this family member was he would suspect his kid right kid dies or is dying and he finds a way to make her into a living toy yeah yeah i am broke and i will put you back together thank you fnaf go and do something else with your life make your lore more sensible stop trying to butt into other people's narratives okay other people's very similar narratives anyway as i was saying you would suspect that he's doing this for his kid right and that's who poppy is it's his daughter but there's a wrinkle to that and it's not coming from the game but rather the game's website you see we know via newspaper article hidden on the about section of playtime company's merch website that eliot's wife divorced him in 1930. this means that if a child came from that relationship that biological son or daughter would have been in their 20s or 30s when poppy was created it seems a bit old to be honest the loss could have been a grandchild that's definitely a possibility but for me i think the most likely option was that it was an adopted daughter in chapter one we see a lot of posters hanging on the walls talking about playtime co's adoption initiative what if that program was initially started because elliott had an adopted child himself and he wanted to bring that joy to other families thereby modeling it in those playtime company values and then when his daughter dies or is suffering he you know has to find a way to put her back together so his adopted child dies tragically and he tries something to revive her probably by fusing her with poppy and it works something he does works she's in the doll but he's not exactly sure what he did might i suggest trying remnant or agony sorry sorry now i'm just going out of my way to do it anyway we know that he's unsure based on a note that we find in elliot's office in chapter 2. this note talks about experiment 814 in which they try to bring rats back to life using the poppy flower my suspicion is that this is because he was somehow able to revive his daughter inside of poppy a doll who we're told has the essence of poppy flower built into her hair this is also why we find poppy hidden in the glass case it's so his daughter can be preserved protected and also studied it's because he saw it was possible and then he went on to repeat it which is why he's so happy about his wonderful experiment 1006 the prototype after nearly 200 additional experiments post poppy flowers and rats this is where he finally cracks the code he's brought things to life but the prototype is too smart it escapes and doesn't obey orders sending the factory into chaos this is why we hear that huggy wuggy is actually the perfect creation because he's smart but he's also obedient experiment one one seven zero huggy wuggy remains the optimal outcome due to his sufficient intelligence paired with maximum obedience and that my friends is the story of how everything started at playtime co we now know that elliot ludwig's adopted daughter is likely the entity inside the poppy doll and that our overarching villain for the series is the prototype the first successful recreation of that technology of bringing something back to life a toy that steals and uses the pieces and parts of other things to make itself stronger but there's still lots more to discover here who or what is inside the other toys are they employees or are they something else what about the mysterious death screens that we see each time we die what are they trying to tell us if people are inside of toys then what about the prototype is it someone important or is it just a random collection of people and probably the biggest question of all who are we in relation to all of this i suspect that i may have figured out our character's name and possible role in the company but answers to that and more we'll have to wait for next time just because i have a few other things that i want to double check inside the game first so make sure you grab pack that subscribe button to guarantee that you see our second part of chapter 2's coverage when it comes out here in a week or two and until then remember it's all just a few a game theory thanks for watching

Channel: The Game Theorists

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Id: DduGAca6hZU

Length: 14min 33sec (873 seconds)

Published: Sun May 22 2022

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