The Hour of Joy was an inside job. You heard me right. Poppy Playtime's biggest and most consequential event didn't just happen because the toys wanted to rebel one day.

It all hinged on the help of one employee. And I know exactly who it was.

Hello, internet. Welcome to Game Theory. Today, we're diving, or should I say, falling,

back down the Bunzo Bunny rabbit hole that is Poppy Playtime Chapter 4. Last time we focused

on how this story is going to end, with us sacrificing ourselves to save everyone, but in the

end we'll actually save no one. The prototype would survive and go on to wreak more havoc on the world.

So with that positive outlook and the fact we can't really look much further forward than

that, I wanted to instead look behind us to the start of the prototype's plan, the hour

of joy.

The hour of joy is the moment from this franchise, the moment that separates the lore of

playtime's past from the games we're physically playing.

And just like last time, thanks to Chapter 4, we have been given a few very small, clarifying

details that tell us exactly how the Hour of Joy came to pass.

Because while the prototype is incredibly

clever and while the toys are incredibly strong and hungry, it turns out they couldn't pull off

this plan on their own. They needed help. They needed someone who would go along with their weird

plan, a plan that would almost certainly backfire on them for doing so.

Huh. Maybe what's your back theorists? As I've mentioned, in order to look back and figure out

an earlier part of the franchise, we need to actually take a closer look at one of the more

recent additions to the series and work backwards. Because it's not really an indie horror

franchise if you're not retroactively adding law to previous games with new ones.

One of the new VHS tapes in Chapter 4 presents us with an image of a character we haven't really seen in a good while, a resource extraction specialist.

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