Huh? What's mascot horror doing in your timeline? First good question asked all night. The second is "will you be my pookie bear?" but I guess it's too soon for those kind of demands. I know I won't play no kind of mascot horrors anytime soon hides Security Breach but I'll judge what I watched. I know I just admited to reviewing something I haven't experienced for myself but, honest, I feel like that's true of many reviews for this genre, bonus points because I spared myself the stress these lil plushes would have given me. They remind me of mini-Marios but they eepy cweepy.

The lore is fucked up as one would expect, inviting theorists to throw their hat in the ring (or well, see if their hat is still unscathed, this is its own chapter debunking theories from the previous ones after all). I imagine they placed all their hope into MatPat only for him to bow out the grind. He'd say shit like, huuuuh catnap puts me in beauty sleep mode wake me up when the boss fight is over. It's not the tried and true run for your dear life end sequence... it's kind of a miss but I respect trying.

Lile the previous chapters, there's a great ambience. It's more polished than it ought to be considering the controversies around the game since day one. I'm only now realizing, but selling merch of evil plushes killing kids to actual kids is wild. Who wanna sex on the momma long legs bed wearing the huggy wuggy onesie with me? Man forget I asked. I need to solve another ray puzzle before ms. baldi chases me in the hallways. Teachers these days go through iron shutters while I go through manic episodes and they think they have every right to do so because they're on strike. Forget it this review is done and dusted.

"In the terms of our Great Society the Mascot Horror games and their ilk are losers - dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are rejects looking for a way to get even with a world in which they are only a problem.The Mascot Horror games are not visionaries, but diehards, and if they are the forerunners or the vanguard of anything it is not the "gaming revolution" in vogue on indie developer spheres, but a fast-growing legion of young unemployables whose untapped energy will inevitably find the same kind of destructive outlet that "kino" like the Mascot Horror Games have been finding for years." -Poppy S. Thompson, Mascot Horror's Angels

I have been banbaning it so much recently I completely forgotified this shit can be good. Mob entertainment has proven two brothers that could or could not be euphoric can in fact make a pretty fucking decent horror game, for the kids at least. It's kind of amazing how much they have upped their A-game on this one. The wait was well worth it, if you ask me (I did not wait for this piece of shit, I infact forgot it even existed for like two years).
Everything just kind of clicks on this one, getting through an extremely solid experience with actual puzzle solving and exploring some arguably fun platforming situations. This fucking thing also has very good monster designs for the most part and an honest to god creepy atmosphere, getting a good scares out of me and the things I call friends who pestered me to play this on stream for 4 hours, most of which felt like actual game time and not padding. The game is still kind of buggy, with a lot of possibilities for sequence breaking and jumping out of line to skip sections of the game (sometimes unintentionally)


"The videogame sphere is crowded with devs who create as if their sole purpose in getting behind the keyboard is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and refunds.” -Poppy S. Thompson, Mascot Horror's Angels.

Quite possibly lightning in a bottle, I'm not confident they can top this one because of the track record of videogames in general, but if they do it right and hire me as a psychotic latino they might become a staple of this genre.

Man, past me would kick my ass for this, but... this was pretty damn good.

They seem to have listened to a lot of feedback, and they really ramped up both the horror and the story here. I'm a sucker for some horror game lore, and this was all kinds of up my alley. The puzzles were a little trickier and more engaging, the areas were varied and interesting, new and returning characters were both frightening (Catnap, the Prototype, Miss Delight) and loveable (Dogday, Kissy), and the atmosphere is getting genuinely great.

Ending was pretty predictable (the Kissy stuff, not the Catnap/Prototype stuff which was interesting), but I'm genuinely intrigued to see where this goes, particularly when it comes to the Prototype, Ollie, the protagonist and their previous role in the experiments, and who ends up as genuinely on our side.

Nossa, de verdade a sensação que esse jogo passa é sensacional! Conheci a franquia após o lançamento desse jogo, ouvi falar muito bem e corri para jogar o primeiro e o segundo jogo, que foram incríveis. Cheguei nesse com uma expectativa gigantesca e super animado. Esse jogo consegue proporcionar tudo oque um jogo de terror precisa ter o seu ar próprio, simplesmente magnifico. Com certeza uma enorme evolução do primeiro e do segundo jogo. Melhoraram todas as questões, possuindo gráficos incríveis, gameplay magnifica, história maravilhosa, terror e suspense perfeitos, absolutamente tudo feito com maestria. Me diverti do inicio ao fim, tomei vários sustos, quase morri na vida real algumas vezes, mas logo conclui com magnitude. Super recomendo!

Esse é de longe o capitulo mais bem produzido de toda a série, ele tem mecânicas novas, um conceito de mapa totalmente novo e interessante, inimigos super bem feitos, mas que infelizmente o triunfo do capítulo se desmorona no final, além de que o fato de ter mais puzzle do que terror, me incomodou um pouco pois o jogo não é nem um pouco intuitivo.

Esse começa tão mas TÃO BEM, e ele decai no final de uma forma que não tem nem explicação, o que falar daquela boss fight final? simplesmente patético e frustrante, potencial desperdiçado.

so hard to rate this one. it excels and improves tremendously over the previous chapters as a horror game, offering more tense build up and interesting and terrifying scares through huggy, catnap's stalking, and the various areas of the playcare we start to explore. the moment you start playing, you can FEEL how much the developers have taken their time with this and crafted something that feels bigger than just another "mascot horror" game.

despite this, poppy playtime 3 fails as a game. the puzzles themselves are interesting and decently fun, albeit a little glitchy at times, but it irks me how little catnap featured despite how excited I was for him as an antagonist. he was genuinely terrifying, but his final boss fight is anything but. i dont want to spoil much, but its so underwhelming when compared to how wonderfully executed mommy long legs and huggy wuggy's chase sequences were. i think the new direction they chose to give catnap fits the cat character more, yes, but its just so painfully boring. it reminds me of the whack-a-huggy minigame in chapter 2, except that one was actually fun and didnt overstay its welcome. the playtime devs are definitely able to create fun and stressful minigame situations (especially obvious thanks to chapter 2) but they really missed the mark on its ending which sullies my feelings of positivity for chapter 3.

regardless, it is pretty fun and genuinely very scary when it tries to be. i really admire the direction the poppy devs are taking the series!

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I was always ready to defend Hagga Wagga from those who saw in it only an attempt to parasitize on scare characters, well.. now the arguments of the haters will become more weighty,
The first 2 episodes provided a truly unique experience of interaction with stretchable arms, the devs stated that their goal was, first of all, interesting gameplay in an indie horror game,
Either they ran out of ideas, or they were lazy, or the shitty Project Playtime took away resources,
But in the third episode I won’t be able to praise anything except some little things,
To make you understand right away:
here 1 location copies PT, the first boss copies SCP (defeating him is the same as before), and, of course, FNAF mini-game, the last one is too easy, which additionally devalues ​​it,
For the authors it was the first semi-open location, street space, and 5 buildings that we will gradually pass, we can’t return somewhere, but it still looks larger in comparison with prev. ep., so, probably, the idea was to incorporate all the best practices (tested by the people) in a large-scale episode,
and there would be no questions if it was done creatively, but no, it’s just something that you’ve already played or seen on YouTube, without any compelling reason for it,
And, alas, this is not even the tip of the iceberg, in a measured puzzle adventure - they added “Platforming”,
at first a bit of basic jumping on multi-level cylinders ala Half-Life - it’s okay, crooked, but forgivable, the problem is in the basic mechanics of the new Hand, they haven't come up with anything better than giving you the ability to jump high diagonally forward by pressing a button vertically below you, it's not exactly terrible, but still inconvenient, and in some places it can give you a "headache", not to mention the fact that physiologically it wouldn't work.
I won’t even talk about the gas mask, everything is clear here, you put it on - you don’t die, but you start to see worse in the bad smoke effect, the same thing with new batteries, you find it - insert it into the slot to start the mechanisms,

The second main feature is a “pistol” hand, or rather a lighter, a fireball hand, an interesting corridor is connected with it, when we need to fight off little plush assholes, and they are afraid not of fire, but of a shot, so each one will need a separate cartridge, of which there are 5 in total in a clip with an cooldown, they interestingly flock together, but at the end of the level they all got stuck in bugs, and, in general, the game design of the labyrinth was strange,
They could have made a whole “Poppy PLaytime: Survival-horror” out of this, ala resident,
But most of the time the glove is used to illuminate dark places, which, as you understand, is not very fun, but changing hand attachments it`s cool ASMR, I admit.
In the puzzles, they added stationary glove launchers, which you will need to aim at a new mechanism capable of redirecting your hand 360 degrees, but all these sections are too obvious, you don’t have to rotate and aim a lot,
basically, you can brake only if you don’t immediately notice a lever somewhere, it`s not about interesting solution ala Portal, which would give you dopamine in the brain,
The plot has clearly become larger, even a couple of scripts with friendly characters have appeared, but it’s all a template horror story (and it’s starting to smell a lot like fnaf and Bendy), believe me, if you’re not a fan of the cuteness of Hag Wag and all sorts of Kiss Mis, then you don`t need this, the only thing is that now you can pick up a note hanging somewhere on the ceiling with your hand, but usually there are also a couple of unimportant sentences like “blooood I ate everyone boo”,
At first I thought that at least they hired a normal designer, beautiful shots could be found, but after the first 30 minutes the chapter lives up to its name “Deep Sleep",
no unique charm of the factory ever appeared,
And the new “Cat” is not crooked enough to be scary, but the spider mommy in the second one was really good, and Hugga Hug is at least funny,
It seems like they upgraded the interface a bit, added some sorts of effects like beetles and flies, and a cool script with a clockwork machine clearing the way (and added FSR for those who have very weak computers)

In general, now I don’t know how to protect this, and whether it’s necessary at all, either the developers were lucky, or I’m stupid, It’s hard to believe that they have enough ideas to make Chapter 4 good,
If you are thinking about buying it, then it’s better to take the second chapter “Flying in the Web”, you probably only watched it on YouTube, and this is really good gameplay, it’s not about the screamers, just believe me, try to play it yourself.

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Я всегда был готов защищать Хаггу Ваггу от тех, кто видел в этом только попытку паразитирования на страхолюдных персонажах, ну.. теперь аргументы хейтеров станут более весомыми,
Первые 2 эпизода предоставляли, действительно, уникальный опыт взаимодействия с вытягивающимися руками, сами разрабы говорили, что их цель - это, в первую очередь, интересный геймплей в инди-хорроре,
То ли у них кончились идеи, то ли банальная лень, то ли каловый Project Playtime отнял ресурсы,
Но в третьей главе у меня не получиться похвалить ничего, кроме разве каких-то мелочей,

Чтоб вы понимали - сходу: тут 1-ая локация копирует PT, первый босс копирует SCP (победа над ним такая же, как и раньше), и, конечно же, без FNAF-подобной мини-игры не обойдётся, причём последняя сделана чрезмерно просто, что дополнительно её обесценивает, для авторов это была первая полу-открытая локация, типо "предбанника" - уличное пространство, и 5 зданий, которые мы будем постепенно проходить, возвращаться куда-то нельзя, но это всё равно выглядит более масштабно, в сравнении с тем, что было раньше, поэтому, наверное, идея была в том, чтобы вобрать все лучшие практики, проверенные народом, в масштабном эпизоде,
И ладно бы это сделано креативно было, с добавлением чего-то нового, но нет, это просто уже то, во что вы уже играли, или что уже видели на Ютубе, без какой-то весомой для этого причины,
И, увы, это даже не вершина айсберга, в размеренной бродилке-головоломке, они добавили "Платформинг", вначале чутка базовых прыгулек по разноуровневым цилиндрам аля Half-Life - это ладно, криво, но простительно, Проблема в базовой механике новой Руки, они не придумали ничего лучше, как сделать возможность высокого прыжка по диагонали вперёд, путём нажимания кнопки вертикально под собой, это не прям ужасно, но всё же неудобно, и в некоторых местах может доставить вам "головной боли", не говоря уже о том, что физиологически это бы не работало,
Про противогаз я говорить даже не буду, тут всё понятно, надеваешь - не умираешь, но хуже видишь в плохом эффекте дыма, тоже самое с новыми подбираемыми батарейками, находишь - вставляешь в слот для запуска механизмов,
Второй же главной фишкой является рука-"пистолетик", а точнее зажигалка, рука-fireball, с ней связан интересный коридорчик, когда нам надо отбиваться от маленьких плюшевых засранцев, и, они боятся не огня, а именно выстрела, поэтому каждый потребует потратить патрон, которых всего 5 на бесконечном кулдауне, они интересно сбиваются в стаи, но в конце уровня у меня они все забагались, да и, в целом, геймдизайн лабиринта какой-то странный был, а ведь они могли сделать из этого целый "Poppy Playtime: survival-horror" аля резидент - сейчас это тоже модно, Большую же часть времени перчатка используется для освещения тёмных мест, что, как вы понимаете, не особо весело, но щёлкать - менять руки между собой, кайфовый асмрч-ик, да,
В головоломках же добавили стационарные перчаткомёты, которые вам надо будет нацеливать на новый механизм, способный перенаправлять руку на 360 градусов, но все эти секции слишком очевидные, много крутить и целиться не придётся, в основном, расчёт на то, что вы не заметите где-то вверху жёлтый рыжачок и из-за этого застрянете, а не на каком-то интересном решении аля Портала, которое дало бы вам дофамина в мозг,
Сюжета стало явно больше, появились даже пару скриптов с френдли-персонажами, но всё это шаблонная хоррор-история (да и сильно фнафом и Бенди попахивать начинает), поверьте, если вы не фанатее от милоты Хаг Ваг и всяких Кись Мись - то вам оно и не надо, единственное, что тут теперь рукой можно подобрать записку, свисающую где-то на потолке, но там тоже пара предложений что-то типо "уууу я всъех съел вы моё мясо" ничего такого,
Вначале я подумал, что хоть дизайнера нормального наняли, можно найти красивые кадры, но после первых 30 минут глава оправдывает своё название "Глубокий сон", в целом, никакого уникального шарма Фабрики так и не появилось,
А новый "Кот-Дермот" недостаточно кривой, чтобы быть страшным, а ведь мамочка-паучиха во втором реально внушала, а Хагга Обнимага хотя-бы весёлый,
Немного интерфейс вроде прокачали, добавили всяких эффектов типо жуков и мух, ну и прикольный скрипт с заводными машинками, расчищающими путь, (и добавили FSR - super resolution для тех, у кого совсем слабые компы, поэтому и требования у 3 эп. послабее стали)

В общем, теперь не знаю, как это защищать, и нужно ли вообще, то ли разрабам везло, то ли я наивный, вряд ли им хватит фантазии теперь на что-то годное в аж 4 части,
Вы, если подумываете купить, то лучше второй эпизод "Полёт в паутине" возьмите, наверняка вы смотрели её только на Ютубе,
а это прям геймплейно добротно, не в скримаках дело, просто поверьте, попробуйте сами поиграть.

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O maior Hype de 2024, uma grande qualidade acabou chegando pra esse capítulo, tendo como foco principal, o terror psicológico, que é simplesmente o ponto mais forte desse capítulo. o jogo não deixa claro de primeira qual é o seu inimigo e deixa você ansioso cada vez que você houve pedaços de suas lore, além da Evolução gráfica, o jogo é simplesmente incrível em atmosfera e terror, fazendo sua experiência ser totalmente marcante e aterrorizante.

o jogo é bem escrito do começo a o fim, porém o jogo tem um problema sério em relação aos seus puzzles, os puzzles são muito repetitivos, chegando a ser super irritante toda vez que vocÊ se depara com um puzzle, e qaunto mais longe você for no jogo, mais difícil são os puzzles desse jogo.

outro ponto negativo é a batalha final, que é totalmente sem graça e simplesmente estraga o terror psicológico que o jogo inteiro desenvolveu.

o terceiro capítulo de poppy playtime é incrível, porém sua boss battle não cativa tanto, sendo uma gameplay de monitoramento de recuros...isso estraga a boss battle pra mim, por mais que a animação da morte do catnap seja muito bem feita.

Catnap como vilão, por mais que não apareça tanto, ele consegue representar bem o perigo dele e de seu gás alucinógeno, e demonstra pesença em todos os lugares do jardim dos smiling critters.