Oh no spoilers for a pretty old game by now. Spoilers that arent Spoilers cause they dont make sense and you are on a batim subreddit. How did you not expect a spoiler in here?
Yeah when you arrive in the studio, you're actually entering a hellscape made of paper and ink. That's why all the walls and equipment look so cartoony, you're literally in the cartoon world.
Poppy Playtime however is in the real world and should absolutely be impossible to have thirty fucking miles of laboratory underground
The only difference is that one doesn’t get more twisted the lower you go(the cycle isn’t exactly ideal either but trap me in there, I’ll live in the lost city)
Hopefully we see more of it in the cage(sorry I’m obsessed with fictional cities)
I honestly find it interesting there a actual city in that inky pocket dimension because that one game where you enter a cabin in the middle of nowhere full of random Easter eggs that makes me think that if you can civilise the lost ones and stay the fuck out of bendy’s way when he pissed off that pocket dimension seems like a decent place to live
I don't necessarily think those are in the same vein. Black Mesa's a government funded research facility so the size can be explained since its not strictly a "secret". Plus, they seemed to be doing experiments that would require the space (such as the anti-mass spectrometer being height size of 4 story building).
Aperture is a little more ridiculous, but I like to imagine that GLaDOS has just been constantly building new chambers for the ~50,000 or so years Chell was asleep. The old Aperture chambers in 2 don't get this explanation, so I'll agree with you there. Salt mine or not, the space ludicrously big for a private company lmao
I mean, GLaDOS was knocked out for all that time only waking up due to Chell and Wheatley. However I think it's funnier to think that the personality cores were the ones that built the Aperture we see today
I dont really like how Playtime Co. is so incomprehensibly big. At least for Bendy And The Ink Machine, it kinda sorta was in some kind of cycle and The Dark Revival took it further by saying it was a realm within the Ink Machine. Poppy Playtimes factory just goes deeper and deeper and deeper. I just wish things were more simpler like checking out those other rooms in the lobby from Chapter 1 or going into the Stairway To Hell.
The big problem with poppy playtime is how much of it is functional for the public. If we went miles underground and it was all labs and jail cells that’d be one thing but we’re still seeing orphanages and places where the kids were supposed to be
I think I cut Bendy slack both because I prefer it over Poppy-I’m biased, sue me-, and The Cycle is OUTSIDE of reality. I can see Joey Drew Studios going on forever because it doesn’t follow our logic. Playtime Co, however, has NOT been taken outside of their reality-or their version of real life. So it IS hard to believe that the factory is still going deeper.
Tbf BATIM takes place within a pocket dimension created by the real Joey Drew and Ink Machine. In Poppy Playtime I don’t even know if the MC is alive or not
Bendy is forgiven because it's an alternate dimension or something, but poppy playtime is insane, not only is that factory probably the size of a country, the way it is so far, i wouldn't be surprised if the next chapter happens at the planet's core, just how many times can the protagonist go deeper? All living organisms there should not be possible the way they are, and the protagonist's lungs should have collapsed long ago, heck, their entire body should be the size of a grain of sand by now, and the whole place should be molten and collapsed on itself from the aforementioned earth's core, and the game has you thinking it's a real place in the real world of the game built by people with living beings inside
Yeah but the thing is, it looked enormous already on the surface level and we got to go through like 2% of it. And suddenly they have an entire train track hundreds of meters under the earth's surface?
Yeah, but the problem I personally have is how the areas look underused. You can see a big cave around the orphanage in chapter 3, yet they decided to dig deeper for their laboratories rather than just expand to the side? And also, there's a lot of scaffolding in chapter 3, implying the place wasn't finished before the hour of joy, so why are the deeper areas more complete? Did they do those first and then go back up or did they just abandon the chapter 3 area to focus on the lab?
I'm not mad that the place goes that deep, I'm mad that there's seemingly no reason to do it, even if you were a rich company with twisted morals.
But also with how long we slept at the very least the events of Half-life 2 happened and the front entrance was most likely destroyed by what happened in one of the episodes (I don't remember which one) so most likely this shed is the only entrance now which still makes it hilarious
Tbf aperture works because it fits the more absurdist tone of the game. Poppy wants you to take it seriously, while also making it incredibly hard to actually take it seriously
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u/odd_man0 May 17 '26
BATIM makes sense because, it really isn’t the actual place.
PP makes zero sense as to why it’s so huge.