Hot take: chapter 3 is good but extremely overrated
Like the only good part is the horror. It is the most scary poppy playtime game. The nightmare scene is amazing, and the designs for catnap and ms delight are great. Plus the atmosphere is really good. But besides that it kinda is mid.
The gameplay is boring. It’s way worse than 5. At least in 5 all the puzzles are different. Here so many puzzles are so repetitive. And there are way more puzzles then in 5 and no they aren’t spaced better. Home sweet home and the councilor office are just puzzles. Ms delights section while having an enemy is still just a puzzle. And then there’s all the cave puzzles. Plus the catnap boss fight is awful.
Like besides the boss fights it’s really boring, the mini critter section is not fun. There’s also a lot of walking.
Also while I did like catnap being more of a threat behind your back, there was so little of him.
And while the story it added was good, the characters were all flat.
Also I don’t know why people think the animation is better than 5, there are tons of glitches and errors. The only error I’ve seen in 5 was huggy holding a non existent wall.
Like I have my issues with 5, the first third is really boring, though fixed lilys chase is still bad, and there isn’t much horror, it’s still better. At least unlike 4 it had an unsettling factor again, being ms Gracie. It also was fun besides the first third with characters who weren’t one dimensional. And the prototype boss fight (yeah it’s not a chase it’s a boss fight) was actually fun to do.
To be clear I’m not saying chapter 3 is bad. If I were to rank chapters it’s my second favorite, with 5 in front (total ranking would be 5 3 4 2 1 project playtime Roblox games). I’m just saying it’s not as good as people said. People are like “this was the best mascot horror game ever and all the other chapters are horrible” and that’s really not true. It’s good but not that good.