end of the line

Chapter 5 is the worst chapter by far imo.

MOB has started sticking to a formula and it’s become abundantly clear: a chase scene, puzzles + platforming, some character cutscenes, then back to puzzles + exploring, more puzzles + platforming, then Big Villain dramatic ending cutscene + “boss fight”.

What was the purpose of the Inside-Outimals? Why do they even need to exist? Why not just give us the Nightmare Critters instead?? Then we can actually have some lore on them in-game, instead of the random Baba Chops boss we got last chapter that felt like it came out of the blue.

We got 3 characters I absolutely LOVED: Giblet, Chum Chompkins, and Lily Lovebraids, and all of them were underutilized. We saw Giblet and Chum like 2-3 times for each, and all of Lily Lovebraids’ stuff was just shoved in at the very end. I’m still confused on how she is/was Miss Gracie. How were they talking together? How was the human Miss Gracie’s corpse in Lily’s bed?? Did they not use her organs and bones to create Lily?? Why did Miss Gracie get chosen to become a Bigger Bodies experiment? Why would they turn her when she was good at doing her job of brainwashing kids into becoming toys???

Also, why the fuck was the Prototype writing physical notes?? Using a typewriter/computer??? What???? It gives me the funniest image of that bigass Prototype crouching in front of a computer, his needle fingers carefully typing away.

The majority of the chapter were puzzles and platforming and I got so bored watching it. I don’t even understand what the plant section was or why it was even there. It just feels like filler material.

The reveal that the orphans are dead was SO underwhelming. Damn okay, guess the player has been traveling to the earth’s core through Playtime Co. for fucking nothing.

Best parts of this chapter were definitely Giblet, Chum Chompkins, Lily Lovebraids, and the brainwashing tapes (because they were SO well done). I liked that we saw the perspective of a recently turned Huggy Wuggy, but I don’t understand why we saw it.