Chapter 1: Who is the Prototype and what are his true intentions?
The prototype has been revealed, and now we finally know not only who he is, but what his goal has been this whole time. Hello Internet! Welcome to Game Theory, the show that's ready to take you to a better place. A land full of answers and theorizing. Well, here we are again, folks.
Poppy Playtime has released its latest chapter, and as usual, the Internet is aflame with people arguing over whether the chapter is good or not. Even Markiplier got in on the debate. A chase sequence is not the time to introduce a new mechanic. The vast majority of people are going to die to that. As soon as you die, it loses all of its value.
But even if the gameplay might be lackluster for some, one thing I think we can all agree on that isn't lackluster is the lore. This thing is full of the stuff ready for us to chomp our way through like we're a wrong side outimal eating our way through a giant bronze toy. Oh yeah, Ron finally made an appearance.
Why they gave him the come-hither eyes is a little confusing, but nevertheless, he's here. For the main game itself, it's a lot of the classic Poppy you've come to love.
We start with a chase sequence running from a broken Huggy, we lose our grab pack with the all-powerful Omni-Hand, we meet some new allies in the form of Giblet and Chum Chompkins, I love him, and we learn more about the experiments, how the orphans were being brainwashed before and after being turned into toys thanks to a bunch of video recordings from a new employee, Miss Gracie.
We then continue to make our way through the factory, only to be trapped by another new toy, Lily Lovebraid, who turns out to be Miss Gracie, but she has lost her mind and has ended up isolated. Turns out the prototype aren't a fan of a staff member who helped turn the kids into toys. Speaking of, this is when we finally get to meet the prototype face to face.
That's right, we finally got to meet the man of the hour, and he is just as creepy as we were hoping for. He is a jester, just like we predicted, mixed with robot and human parts.
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Chapter 2: What are the gameplay mechanics introduced in Poppy Playtime's latest chapter?
He literally did make Huggy, Kissy, Catnap, and Mummy a part of him. Notice the extra arms and cape on his back. I do wish there had been a little more incorporation of the toy parts, like we saw in the catnap statue from Chapter 3. Apparently, that was supposed to be the idea, according to the original story director. But things change, and we roll with it. The prototype ends up breaking Poppy.
We then kill Lily Lovebraze during another chase sequence. The prototype kills Huggy and Missy. We do another chase sequence to escape the prototype's clutches. We are the chase sequence game. And we reunite with Poppy and Giblet to find the data center. We then get stabbed by the prototype and dropped in a vat of
which is weird because that stuff literally revives us and we arrive at the data center only to be met by a familiar face or eye well now this is a rather interesting turn for balance I'm so glad they brought him back. He was one of their most interesting characters. Needless to say, there's a lot going on. But of course, the main plot isn't really where the true secrets hide.
Instead, we're here for the secret notes, audio logs, and VHS tapes. Those are where the real secrets are. But this chapter did something very interesting with them.
Chapter 3: How does the lore of Poppy Playtime deepen in this chapter?
As time's gone on, the lore for each chapter has become a lot less focused on sowing mystery, and more focused on clarifying the answers. Chapter 4 did do this a bunch, but we still managed to make three videos out of the hanging threads that were left. But this time, I felt like a lot of it was just left out on the table for us.
For example, we got confirmation that the Young Geniuses program was from the 1960s. I guess, add that to our win column. We also discovered that it wasn't just Harley not present for the creation of Poppy, but that none of the Young Geniuses were present.
They may have been around for the early scientific process, but once Harley comes back in and brings them all with him, they have to reverse engineer Elliot's poppy gel, which they wouldn't have to do if they were there in the first place. A note from Leif shows that they didn't even know Poppy existed until the prototype tried to escape with Theodore.
But the biggest reveal of the entire chapter came down to the big bad we've all been waiting for, the prototype. And the thing we've all wanted to know, the thing we've been theorizing about since basically the very beginning of the franchise, who is this guy? And I'm pleased to announce they finally gave us an answer. Oliver, if you want to talk, I'm here. It was never about me.
I'm a test runner. The prototype. The prototype is Ollie. The real Ollie. He wasn't just mimicking Ollie's voice on the phone. He was using his original voice. I never thought my first ever theory as host would be right on so many levels, but you know what? I'll take it. Add that one to the list too, editor. But now the question is, Who really is Ollie? What is his goal?
Well, loyal theorists, thanks to that audio log, other hidden notes scattered throughout the facility, and some clear parallels to classic media IP, I think we can get a pretty good idea of not just what the plan is, but why, and how it's all going to end. During this tape, Elliot refers to Ollie as my boy, to which Ollie snaps and proclaims, You don't get to call me that.
That language, the use of my, a possessive adjective, shows Elliot feels a sense of ownership. Elliot also goes on to say, These two things make it abundantly clear that Ollie is Elliot's son, Poppy's brother. That's why Ollie keeps telling Poppy to come home. They are, or at least could have been, a family that shared a home together.
It also gives us an answer for the radio broadcast we heard in Chapter 3. At the time, we didn't know who this boy was. It only showed us that Elliot was aware of and conducting these experiments himself. But now it's clear that the body was Ollie's body. Elliot knew he needed larger subjects to bring Poppy back, and so Elliot performed this experiment on his own son.
hidden away in his home, away from the labs of Playtime Co. and the young geniuses he'd been training. Nobody was to know about this. But it gets worse, because not only was Ollie Elliot's son, it also appears that Ollie was his adopted son.
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Chapter 4: What significant character reveals occur in the episode?
toy factory. We believe that was referencing the idea that Poppy was brought back to life, bringing Elliot joy, and leading to the company's success. But now we have things like the Young Geniuses program, who made a bunch of cool and interesting discoveries during those years, which means it might have been referring to that rather than Poppy.
Plus, with Ollie having a room in the Playcare, that would mean that the actual human part of the experimentation, the creation of the prototype, didn't happen until after the Playcare was constructed in 1976. Elliot's experiments took a long time, because he was working alone in secret.
But he knew he needed larger subjects after Experiment 814, and so he designed the Playcare, a place to gather together dozens of those larger subjects. Children with no families, no records, and no one who would notice if they went missing. It wasn't Leif or Harley who came up with this idea of experimenting on kids. It turns out Elliot was the real monster this entire time. Sigh.
I guess throw him in with the rest of them, boys. But if he did have all these other options at his disposal, why did he pick Ollie? Notes scattered around the facility show us that Poppy was indeed 1007, and that the prototype was exactly that, a prototype for Poppy herself. Ollie even declares this in that same audio tape.
So for everyone who was wondering what I was smoking in that previous episode, I know I can be a bit out there sometimes, but I don't mess around when it comes to Poppy. But it does make me wonder what was so special about Ollie that he was the one Elliot chose to become the prototype for his perfect little Poppy. Well, theorists, it's because they had something in common.
Both of them were broken. I've already mentioned how Ollie used to be hit by his original father with a hammer, no less. But during Chapter 5, you can come across a VHS tape which tells you how to look after your humans. One slide shows us an MRI of a small child's head and brain, and an x-ray of a child's hand that is full of metal rods.
Clearly, a hand that has been broken, or more accurately, smashed to bits and replaced. I believe this was Ollie's hand. Why? Well, besides the obvious smashed hand part, take another look. Does it look at all familiar? It should. It looks like a smaller version of the prototype's hand. The chapter is even called Broken Things, and the prototype, Ollie, is our main focus.
Ollie was broken, mentally from the toll of being abused, but also physically. And Poppy, well... In the 1960s, an unfortunate family death had pushed Ludwig down to his lowest.
If Elliot was going to revive his daughter, he would need someone who, one, was also broken like his daughter in order to control for more scientific variables, but also who was, two, damaged enough that they could be deceived, tricked into going along with the process. That phrase actually comes up a few times throughout this chapter. The orphans are now in a better place, for example.
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Chapter 5: How does the Prototype relate to the character Ollie?
That's why he kills anybody who betrays him. They are leaving him, abandoning him like so many before. Honestly, the whole thing is kind of giving Frankenstein. In that classic story, a mad scientist is seeking resurrection and immortality. They create a monster using the parts of multiple dead bodies. Once it's made, they then reject the monster, leading to the monster feeling completely alone.
Sounds just like the prototype story, right? A monster made up of many toys, bones, and machines rejected by their creator. Both creators also used electricity to bring them to life, as we saw with Experiment 814. Heck, Mob even used a direct quote from Frankenstein during the Chapter 5 ARG. By the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.
But it gets real interesting if you follow it up with the Universal sequel, The Bride of Frankenstein. The Bride as a character was never part of the original Frankenstein novel by Mary Shelley, she was a creation of Universal entirely, but she's become more entangled in the lore since. The Bride was made, but while she was seen as a monster, she looks far more beautiful, more perfect.
Then when The Bride sees the original monster, she rejects him. Elliot continued his experiments and made Poppy, who is the perfected version of the prototype. She then rejects the prototype and his message.
There's also another character called Dr. Pretorius, who wants to continue Frankenstein's work, which could very well be an allegory for our favorite Doctor, who just so happened to show up at the end of Chapter 5. Well now, this is a rather interesting turn for me. But why do I bring this up now? Well, it's because of how it all ends.
In the end, Frankenstein, the bride, and Dr. Pretorius are all inside the lab. But after the bride rejects the monster, the monster decides that none of them are allowed to leave. He pulls a lever, which blows up the lab with all of them inside. That is how I think this is all going to end. Yay! It's simple, maybe a little predictable, but if it's done right, it could be really effective.
The Doctor has just been resurrected, and it looks like he's going to be helping us in the next chapter. He's never particularly liked the prototype, he only worked with him because the possibility of continuing his work intrigued him. Poppy has wanted to blow up this place from the start to kill the prototype, which leaves us with the prototype, a selfish and broken child.
If he can't have Poppy and the better place he always wanted, then no one can. he's not going to let Poppy and the Doctor escape after they've betrayed him again. And so, I think these three will end up in some kind of all-out brawl, bringing down the factory and themselves with it. And what about us?
Well, in The Bride of Frankenstein, Frankenstein, the human, not the monster, is actually allowed to leave before the whole place comes tumbling down. The human survives. So on a happier note, I think we too are going to be allowed to survive as well. We're an innocent party in all of this, really.
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