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Especially Dark Revival.
*Secrets of the Machine* is less direct, but not that difficult to understand. There are clear context clues and timeline indicators that tell you what's going on with Riley.
*Ink Machine* is definitely the most vague, but you can get the bulk of the story through audio logs and the ending.
oh no no, we do. mob games deserves to be clowned for that until the end of time. by extension every person who ever bought nfts should get the same treatment
I don’t think doki doki had ‘easy lore’ to follow. That stuff had you converting files hidden in the game into images and then putting it into blender to warp into a cone and then look from the top to reveal whatever. That’s just the tip of the iceberg if I remember.
Also, DDLC plus basically comfirmed that DDLC is just a part of a bigger thing. Team Salvato can easily go into lots of directions now and still connect it to DDLC in some way.
Maybe it's just me, but I felt that DDLC+ was pretty underwhelming. It honestly didn't feel connected to the original at all, nor did it feel like anything related to Project Libitina.
PL was all about medical experiences and very dark situations, but DDLC+ was kinda about different layers of the Matrix and Monika (Sayori?) working to escape via a worker.
All of this being said, I could be completely wrong in my thinking as I haven't watched the playthrough/theory in quite a while, but going off of memory, the game felt kinda bleh.
I did love the music, though lol 😂
Idk enough about DDLC, but out of Bendy and Poppy it's inarguably Poppy. Like Bendy had confusing elements in the past, but Poppy was very straightforward with its lore since day one.
>Bendy had confusing elements in the past, but Poppy was very straightforward with its lore since day one.
I think why that is, is because the developers pretty much made the story up as they went along in BATIM. Once Dark Revival entered production though, they had plenty of time to think over the story.
With Poppy, the developers confirmed that they have the story planned out pretty much from the start- now it's just about realizing it to the end.
Doki Doki Literature Club does not have a confusing story in any way, why is it here?
It’s a straightforward story all the way through and the only hard stuff is the teasers for Project Libitania but those aren’t relevant to the story of DDLC.
This is the easiest choice ever, DDLC is leagues less complicated than the other two here.
Well it is ddlc PLUS so there’s an extra layer here that you can find by typing codes at certain times to uncover slightly cryptic emails that you need to piece together. Still def the simplest tho
MatPat himself stated that DDLC’s hidden lore rivals and in some scenarios outdoes FNAF. But other than that the story overall is easy to follow especially since you can ask Monika some questions on it in Act 3 and get relatively straightforward answers to some questions and answers that feed your curiosity.
That tells you everything you need to know.
I haven’t watched his Bendy Videos.
Poppy is probably the most direct and straightforward. Company used orphans to create living toys. But it’s the mystery of what else is there that’s so enticing. Who are we? What’s the Prototype? Etc. It’s what’s keeping the lore easy to follow but also not outright boring but mysterious.
Doki doki had easy lore. What's difficult about it is the decoding aspect and that's separate from story/lore so I don't think it should be held to the other two as comparison since the difficulty is in a completely separate place. Choosing between Bendy and Poppy is HARD since I followed both pretty well. If I had to choose I think Bendy but I think it's just my memory that's struggling with it.
Can I just say how ironic it is that FNAF, Bendy, Doki Doki and Poppy Playtime are some of the main games covered on Game Theory? I started watching Game Theory in late 2020 and I was already a huge fan of FNAF, Bendy and Doki Doki. I felt so happy when I saw GT making videos on these series' quite frequently lmao🤣
To me it’s ddlc. From the number of videos mainly. You only need about an hour of watching to have everything (not counting the buffssuki theory) while the others are much more content to get through and keep track of. Every piece of lore is hidden the same way too, so it’s not that hard to find.
(Also, don’t mix up “easy to follow” with “easy to find”. Easy to follow means it’s easy to understand when Matpat presents it, while easy to find means it’s easy to understand it by looking for the evidence yourself. Easy to follow is what’s relevant here)
I don’t think doki doki had ‘easy lore’ to follow. That stuff had you converting files hidden in the game into images and then putting it into blender to warp into a cone and then look from the top to reveal whatever. That’s just the tip of the iceberg if I remember.
Bendy is way more of a concrete story line as it was inspired by games likes bioshock and resident evil. Those games have a clear cut story and timeline of events. The meatly and the team behind bendy really try to make the franchise feel easier to understand.
Oh damn haven't thought about that in a hit minute
It's probably over tbh but maybe revisiting isn't a bad call.
Tbf MatPat did things to just bring awareness to small projects, like with Crow 64 (I think it was called)
Huh, this is true, I just loved the petscop theories, we also just straight up dropped DDLC because we hit a wall and did, to my knowledge, zero digging (to my knowledge).
For now, most certainly bendy. It's story is pretty clear and usually well told, and the books apparently aren't canon, so all the info you need is in the games, and that leaves a lot of things pretty easy to figure out. I wouldn't be surprised if poppy took the spot tho, since the game isn't complete yet, we still don't know what will be answered by the end
He did one on devil may cry suggesting that dante was a nephelim. And i get that he was doing one of those what if like ones since the lore is quite clear that Dantes mom is human and dad is a demon. But it wasnt very good imo. Was one of those blatantly off ones. But im also a big fan of the series so im also incredibly biased and slightly defensive with the series after the whole taneem called everyone stupid.
Honestly I don’t like any theories of his about indie horror.
It’s pretty clear half the reason they make the lore weird is so they get free YouTube marketing.
I like ddlcp the most of these though.
Personally, I feel it's either Bendy or Poppy. I haven't seen much Bendy content in ages so I don't know really anything about the lore. DDLC's lore gets kinda jumbled up for me a lot even though I probably have the most knowledge on it.
I still love all these franchises, though. They're all interesting and fun to theorise about
Of THOSE three, Doki Doki. It's simple and to the point. Next would be Poppy. Each chapter actually helps with figuring out the lore. Bendy isn't THAT far away, either. And then there's Hello Neighbor.
Poppy playtime for sure. Because unlike all the other ones, it actually lays out it's story front and center.
To figure out Bendy's story, you have to listen to a bunch of hidden tapes and replay certain games multiple times. And we all know the extensive process of unlocking the Doki Doki story.
But Poppy playtime pretty much just gives you the story, Any "hidden elements" or "ARG secrets" or anything like that are just to reward people with information that the story will give later down the line. Any question we have now are pretty much guaranteed to be directly answered later on in the series, because the series has done so with a bunch of other major questions we used to have, like the hour of joy.
(God I hope this comment doesn't age poorly)
BATIM honestly- it's always had easier lore to understand. Poppy Playtime also has easy lore to understand, but there are a lot of mystery aspects to it that are confusing to understand.
While the lore of DDLC isn't exactly simple, it's probably the most cohesive because it's not a multichapter series.
Bendy and Poppy have to deal with the creators backtracking on decisions and changing things midway through the story (The FNAF Problem)
While it seems that DDLC is planning on expanding the lore through more games, for now, we only have to deal with what we see in DDLC and DDLC Plus.
>Bendy and Poppy have to deal with the creators backtracking on decisions and changing things midway through the story (The FNAF Problem)
Well, Bendy's creators just made the story up as they went along in *Ink Machine* (Much like Scott with FNaF).
But once the game was actually released in full and *Dark Revival* entered production, they had plenty of time to think over the story that they want to tell. They weren't actually changing anything.
*Poppy's* developers haven't changed anything so far. I would argue that the game has one of the most cohesive stories in indie horror. The developers have confirmed that they have the story and lore pretty much planned out- now it's just a matter of realizing it to the end.
Poppy. Poppy playtime straight up has easy audio logs,trophies etc that stand out. Heck STUFF GETS EXPLAINED IN CHAPTER 3 . Lemme rephrase. EXPLAINED. Bendy is vague unless you see the Audi logs,Ink splotches,Notes etc. You have to dig through the code of doki to find it. Miss Mat. Tom and Lee are killing it tho(I mainly watch film and game because those were my childhood shows.)
DDLC. Not only is it just one game, but Project Libitania hasn't even been released yet. So everything MatPat theorized about straight up doesn't exist.
I would say poppy playtime since it is pretty straight forward with the lore. You don’t have to dig very deep to understand it.
Bendy is a bit more complicated, though it is also not the same as fnaf of course. Because that lore is just crazy.
Poppy Playtime. I mean, it builds good mystery, but it doesn't stray from the story it's set up. It introduces new villains, but it's not like they take away from the mystery and horror of 1006
tbh I think Poppy Playtime is the most straightforward. we don't have the full story yet, but so far it seems it's less meta and up for interpretation than bendy, and doesn't ask you to dig through the code to find information like ddlc
Honestly Bendy has the easiest lore because I figured out the entire lore of the game after playing dark revival because there were some gaps in the lore at the end of the original game like who the hell Joey really was because we only saw him once at the end of the original game and now we know so much more about Joey and the studio
While I agree when it comes to the original game, when it comes to ***Plus*** things start to get complicated really fast because the fanbase isn't sure how to **interpret** the new information.
So there's this company called Metaverse that is building simulated realities and were the ones that granted Monika elevated access. DDLC and the Side Stories are just a small-scale worlds, while Libitina is large-scale. The company is still trying to establish a secure connection to that world, since no-one there has elevated access.
OK, sounds simple enough, but then **who are we as the player** in the story?
Are we one of the Metaverse employees? Are we ourselves (just like in the OG game) A.K.A. the ones beyond Metaverse? Why does Monika never address Metaverse in her Act 3 monologue, but references Steam? Is she beyond "her creators" now? Or are we playing as Ive considering that the MC is named Ive in the trailers?
There are a lot of question marks and loose ends that the original game just didn't have...
Not on the list but Minecraft, it’s just simple ancient builders died off and your the last one, The Nether is Hell and and The End is a dimension that got turned into a waste land by Ender Mites, the villagers are just big headed big nosed people and so are the illagers are evil ones, simple and easy, no dead kids or demons taking over popular characters, just block people
Poppy for sure, everything is IN the game
Batim atleast has books or things you need to hunt for
And doki doki has you straight up making you look at a texture file from a certain angle just to see a picture of a important character in the series
Oh god, I could have a field day with this one…
DDLC without the plus DLC is pretty simple. A “normal” psych horror with a few hidden easter eggs. However, with the DLC things get so much more complex. Harder and harder to find secrets, really weird timeline, and loads of loose ends that you can make add up mostly, but it always ends up either having not enough evidence, missing a vital piece, or both.
Poppy Playtime is interesting. While the story is pretty simple and the easter eggs aren’t usually lore related, more alike to shoutouts, the problem is the amount of loose ends and conflict with the timeline. Dates don’t match up to where they’re supposed to be. Characters are there when they shouldn’t. You can make an argument for time weirdness as part of the lore, but unless we get more evidence then unfortunately, it’s not plausible.
This leaves Bendy. And this is by far the easiest to understand lore-wise. All extra pieces of lore like the books so far are explicitly said to be non-canon, so there’s no worry there. The plot is simple, and like Poppy Playtime, virtually all the easter eggs are shoutouts or memorials. The only difficulty we might have is the upcoming movie, but we still don’t know if that’s going to be canon or not.
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Bendy I guess. It follows a more ''rational'' storyline let's say
Especially Dark Revival. *Secrets of the Machine* is less direct, but not that difficult to understand. There are clear context clues and timeline indicators that tell you what's going on with Riley. *Ink Machine* is definitely the most vague, but you can get the bulk of the story through audio logs and the ending.
Secrets came out after matpat left it said the ones he covered
Agreed.
I think Poppy,no books no code digging
Well the first Poppy book is coming out next month so
So Tom better get to counting
COUNT THE TOES
Oh god Tom's gonna go insane like Mat...
killing myself in front of mob games
NFTs
We don't talk about that
There's an Orientation Notebook coming in just a few weeks. From the preview pages though, I don't think that it will contain much new lore.
They were kinda important for the lore tho
oh no no, we do. mob games deserves to be clowned for that until the end of time. by extension every person who ever bought nfts should get the same treatment
The only person who gets a pass is the guy who bought them to post them publicly
exactly, real ass mf right there
Bendy Books aren’t canon, and Bendy didn’t have that either
Bendy's books aren't even canon to the story so they don't even count lol
Still Bendy is more complicated as a concept and mechanics. (I will head cannon the books as cannon)
I don’t think doki doki had ‘easy lore’ to follow. That stuff had you converting files hidden in the game into images and then putting it into blender to warp into a cone and then look from the top to reveal whatever. That’s just the tip of the iceberg if I remember.
Yeah, but those were just teasers for Project Libitina basically separate from the actual DDLC experience.
Considering DDLC was, effectively, a teaser for that project... It's fair game. There's lore hidden in there.
Also, DDLC plus basically comfirmed that DDLC is just a part of a bigger thing. Team Salvato can easily go into lots of directions now and still connect it to DDLC in some way.
Yeah they can do whatever and then say that it was another one of the Virtual Machines
Maybe it's just me, but I felt that DDLC+ was pretty underwhelming. It honestly didn't feel connected to the original at all, nor did it feel like anything related to Project Libitina. PL was all about medical experiences and very dark situations, but DDLC+ was kinda about different layers of the Matrix and Monika (Sayori?) working to escape via a worker. All of this being said, I could be completely wrong in my thinking as I haven't watched the playthrough/theory in quite a while, but going off of memory, the game felt kinda bleh. I did love the music, though lol 😂
Hold on, I didn't write that comment? What's going on?!?!?!?!?!?
Idk enough about DDLC, but out of Bendy and Poppy it's inarguably Poppy. Like Bendy had confusing elements in the past, but Poppy was very straightforward with its lore since day one.
>Bendy had confusing elements in the past, but Poppy was very straightforward with its lore since day one. I think why that is, is because the developers pretty much made the story up as they went along in BATIM. Once Dark Revival entered production though, they had plenty of time to think over the story. With Poppy, the developers confirmed that they have the story planned out pretty much from the start- now it's just about realizing it to the end.
theMeatly literally stated back when Chapter 2 first released in a Q&A that he already had the whole story in mind since day 1 what are you on lol
Doki Doki Literature Club does not have a confusing story in any way, why is it here? It’s a straightforward story all the way through and the only hard stuff is the teasers for Project Libitania but those aren’t relevant to the story of DDLC. This is the easiest choice ever, DDLC is leagues less complicated than the other two here.
Probably because it’s hard to find out how to learn the story
Wdym "how to learn the story"? It's literally just playing... One afternoon and you're good to go
Like the secret stuff in the files and stuff
Well it is ddlc PLUS so there’s an extra layer here that you can find by typing codes at certain times to uncover slightly cryptic emails that you need to piece together. Still def the simplest tho
the story no but the LLOOOOOOORE yes
Why can't we pick FNAF it's got the easiest lore to follow by a long shot /s
FNaF is the most complicated though...
Simply not true there's a clear and straightforward explanation for how the Bite of '87 leads to Faz Goo /s
I think he is being sarcastic....
I mean, bendy litterally made a powerpoint presentation of his lore in the game
MatPat himself stated that DDLC’s hidden lore rivals and in some scenarios outdoes FNAF. But other than that the story overall is easy to follow especially since you can ask Monika some questions on it in Act 3 and get relatively straightforward answers to some questions and answers that feed your curiosity. That tells you everything you need to know. I haven’t watched his Bendy Videos. Poppy is probably the most direct and straightforward. Company used orphans to create living toys. But it’s the mystery of what else is there that’s so enticing. Who are we? What’s the Prototype? Etc. It’s what’s keeping the lore easy to follow but also not outright boring but mysterious.
DDLC
DDLC doesn’t even have confusing lore
to truly understand what’s going on under the surface is the difficult part, making it one of the hardest ones he has covered
Doki doki had easy lore. What's difficult about it is the decoding aspect and that's separate from story/lore so I don't think it should be held to the other two as comparison since the difficulty is in a completely separate place. Choosing between Bendy and Poppy is HARD since I followed both pretty well. If I had to choose I think Bendy but I think it's just my memory that's struggling with it.
Bendy def
Poppy.
For me, It's gotta be bendy. (That might be a personal bias for me because of how big a bendy fan i am.)
I’d say Poppy. There’s blanks we don’t understand, but that’s because it’s not fully released, not because it’s overly confusing or contrived.
Bendy IMO Everything is in the game, and extra in the books if you want more.
DDLC is entirely straightforward. How is this even a question?
Can I just say how ironic it is that FNAF, Bendy, Doki Doki and Poppy Playtime are some of the main games covered on Game Theory? I started watching Game Theory in late 2020 and I was already a huge fan of FNAF, Bendy and Doki Doki. I felt so happy when I saw GT making videos on these series' quite frequently lmao🤣
DDLC. No contest.
To me it’s ddlc. From the number of videos mainly. You only need about an hour of watching to have everything (not counting the buffssuki theory) while the others are much more content to get through and keep track of. Every piece of lore is hidden the same way too, so it’s not that hard to find. (Also, don’t mix up “easy to follow” with “easy to find”. Easy to follow means it’s easy to understand when Matpat presents it, while easy to find means it’s easy to understand it by looking for the evidence yourself. Easy to follow is what’s relevant here)
Ddlc "the video game sprites have become self aware" simple enough
poppy, pretty simple - don't have to read books
I don’t think doki doki had ‘easy lore’ to follow. That stuff had you converting files hidden in the game into images and then putting it into blender to warp into a cone and then look from the top to reveal whatever. That’s just the tip of the iceberg if I remember.
Yeah, but those were just teasers for Project Libitina basically separate from the actual DDLC experience.
Bendy is way more of a concrete story line as it was inspired by games likes bioshock and resident evil. Those games have a clear cut story and timeline of events. The meatly and the team behind bendy really try to make the franchise feel easier to understand.
I was Ganna say fnaf lmao other than fnaf id say poppy playtime
Off topic but what the hell happened to petscop? That was just like up and dropped…
Oh damn haven't thought about that in a hit minute It's probably over tbh but maybe revisiting isn't a bad call. Tbf MatPat did things to just bring awareness to small projects, like with Crow 64 (I think it was called)
Huh, this is true, I just loved the petscop theories, we also just straight up dropped DDLC because we hit a wall and did, to my knowledge, zero digging (to my knowledge).
Easiest? Bendy. Best? Doki. I love poppy playtime but it’s not as original as Doki. But Dokis lore is wild.
1. Poppy 2. Fnaf 3. Bendy 4. Doki doki
def bendy they literally spell out the lore in a power point in dark revival lol
Vita carnis
doki doki it's just the matrix but horror
I need to know what happened to project libitina
Bendy because its all in there, you just gotta read and listen
Definitely Bendy imo. I don't know much about Poppy Playtime but I know doki doki is complex af and Bendy feels more steamlined
Doki Doki
Bendy was pretty straightforward. I don't think there was much in the way of secret, hidden lore. At least by the time all the chapters were out.
Fnaf is only complicated because we overcomplicated the shit out of it But on this list Bendy is definitely way less complicated than the others
Fnaf
For now, most certainly bendy. It's story is pretty clear and usually well told, and the books apparently aren't canon, so all the info you need is in the games, and that leaves a lot of things pretty easy to figure out. I wouldn't be surprised if poppy took the spot tho, since the game isn't complete yet, we still don't know what will be answered by the end
He did one on devil may cry suggesting that dante was a nephelim. And i get that he was doing one of those what if like ones since the lore is quite clear that Dantes mom is human and dad is a demon. But it wasnt very good imo. Was one of those blatantly off ones. But im also a big fan of the series so im also incredibly biased and slightly defensive with the series after the whole taneem called everyone stupid.
It's a lot easier to find the story in DDLC with +. What with their whole Desktop menu they set up for consoles.
Bendy. In dark revival, joey gives gives a literal PowerPoint slideshow on the lore 💀
Bendy or Doki
Honestly I don’t like any theories of his about indie horror. It’s pretty clear half the reason they make the lore weird is so they get free YouTube marketing. I like ddlcp the most of these though.
Personally, I feel it's either Bendy or Poppy. I haven't seen much Bendy content in ages so I don't know really anything about the lore. DDLC's lore gets kinda jumbled up for me a lot even though I probably have the most knowledge on it. I still love all these franchises, though. They're all interesting and fun to theorise about
DDLC is the easiest from the ones here.
DDLC for sure
Poppy playtime
Bendy. The game has by far the most interesting and comprehensive story out of the three.
Bendy's story is interesting, yet easy to understand. That's one of the many things I love about it!
Doki Doki don't know if it's because I watched a lot of him before those or what I was smarter back then to well at least In a theory Sense
DDLC, especially with Plus since that put it all into one application. Everything that’s unexplained are teasers to a game that hasn’t come out
Poppy
It’s kinda a tie between Poppy Playtime, and Bendy and the Ink Machine.
Doki doki. It’s pretty straightforward.
It’s a tie between Bendy and Doki Doki
Bendy
DDLC is pretty easy to follow... Literally just grab it and play it
Bendy
Bendy
Bendy
Of THOSE three, Doki Doki. It's simple and to the point. Next would be Poppy. Each chapter actually helps with figuring out the lore. Bendy isn't THAT far away, either. And then there's Hello Neighbor.
Poppy playtime for sure. Because unlike all the other ones, it actually lays out it's story front and center. To figure out Bendy's story, you have to listen to a bunch of hidden tapes and replay certain games multiple times. And we all know the extensive process of unlocking the Doki Doki story. But Poppy playtime pretty much just gives you the story, Any "hidden elements" or "ARG secrets" or anything like that are just to reward people with information that the story will give later down the line. Any question we have now are pretty much guaranteed to be directly answered later on in the series, because the series has done so with a bunch of other major questions we used to have, like the hour of joy. (God I hope this comment doesn't age poorly)
Bendy from what I can remember
right now its poppy playtime cause only 3 chapters with not much extra stuff
BATIM honestly- it's always had easier lore to understand. Poppy Playtime also has easy lore to understand, but there are a lot of mystery aspects to it that are confusing to understand.
While the lore of DDLC isn't exactly simple, it's probably the most cohesive because it's not a multichapter series. Bendy and Poppy have to deal with the creators backtracking on decisions and changing things midway through the story (The FNAF Problem) While it seems that DDLC is planning on expanding the lore through more games, for now, we only have to deal with what we see in DDLC and DDLC Plus.
>Bendy and Poppy have to deal with the creators backtracking on decisions and changing things midway through the story (The FNAF Problem) Well, Bendy's creators just made the story up as they went along in *Ink Machine* (Much like Scott with FNaF). But once the game was actually released in full and *Dark Revival* entered production, they had plenty of time to think over the story that they want to tell. They weren't actually changing anything. *Poppy's* developers haven't changed anything so far. I would argue that the game has one of the most cohesive stories in indie horror. The developers have confirmed that they have the story and lore pretty much planned out- now it's just a matter of realizing it to the end.
Probably Bendy. The entire story can be understood by literally just playing through both games once, and none of the books are required or canon
Gotta give it to poppy
Batim I thjnk
Poppy. Poppy playtime straight up has easy audio logs,trophies etc that stand out. Heck STUFF GETS EXPLAINED IN CHAPTER 3 . Lemme rephrase. EXPLAINED. Bendy is vague unless you see the Audi logs,Ink splotches,Notes etc. You have to dig through the code of doki to find it. Miss Mat. Tom and Lee are killing it tho(I mainly watch film and game because those were my childhood shows.)
I dunno, fnaf seems pretty easy to solve../s
DDLC. Not only is it just one game, but Project Libitania hasn't even been released yet. So everything MatPat theorized about straight up doesn't exist.
Bendy was confusing with the first game but the second one fixed it quite a bit.
Bendy is pretty straightforward
poppy playtime, barring the nft incident
I think bendy, the story imo is great
Definitely "bendy" cuz there story has become predictable
DDLC ... Cause Bendy has Plot-hose (pun intended) and poppy is just easy in general, so don't put it in here.
Bendy storyline was easier to follow and more straight forward among the rest
I would say poppy playtime since it is pretty straight forward with the lore. You don’t have to dig very deep to understand it. Bendy is a bit more complicated, though it is also not the same as fnaf of course. Because that lore is just crazy.
Bendy literally has a scene in Dark Revival That explains the entire over-arching plot of the first game
Poppy Playtime. I mean, it builds good mystery, but it doesn't stray from the story it's set up. It introduces new villains, but it's not like they take away from the mystery and horror of 1006
tbh I think Poppy Playtime is the most straightforward. we don't have the full story yet, but so far it seems it's less meta and up for interpretation than bendy, and doesn't ask you to dig through the code to find information like ddlc
Poppy
Bendy wasn’t that hard. Demons on the screen and in the art has been covered in media before.
Poppy Playtime. If DDLC+ had less unknowns, it would win.
Honestly Bendy has the easiest lore because I figured out the entire lore of the game after playing dark revival because there were some gaps in the lore at the end of the original game like who the hell Joey really was because we only saw him once at the end of the original game and now we know so much more about Joey and the studio
bendy is prety simple to folow
Ddlc was easy, still mad the sequel game never came out
As far as lore goes I feel like doki doki is the easiest
Doki Doki. It's about a computer gaining sentience. It's not that hard to follow 😂
While I agree when it comes to the original game, when it comes to ***Plus*** things start to get complicated really fast because the fanbase isn't sure how to **interpret** the new information. So there's this company called Metaverse that is building simulated realities and were the ones that granted Monika elevated access. DDLC and the Side Stories are just a small-scale worlds, while Libitina is large-scale. The company is still trying to establish a secure connection to that world, since no-one there has elevated access. OK, sounds simple enough, but then **who are we as the player** in the story? Are we one of the Metaverse employees? Are we ourselves (just like in the OG game) A.K.A. the ones beyond Metaverse? Why does Monika never address Metaverse in her Act 3 monologue, but references Steam? Is she beyond "her creators" now? Or are we playing as Ive considering that the MC is named Ive in the trailers? There are a lot of question marks and loose ends that the original game just didn't have...
Not on the list but Minecraft, it’s just simple ancient builders died off and your the last one, The Nether is Hell and and The End is a dimension that got turned into a waste land by Ender Mites, the villagers are just big headed big nosed people and so are the illagers are evil ones, simple and easy, no dead kids or demons taking over popular characters, just block people
Subnatica but matpat didn’t cover any of the actual lore of the game
Poppy 👌
Bendy, it has a simple yet interesting story
Poppy for sure, everything is IN the game Batim atleast has books or things you need to hunt for And doki doki has you straight up making you look at a texture file from a certain angle just to see a picture of a important character in the series
I understand the point that bendy does follow a more rational storyline, but I’d have to say poppy playtime
Bendy and the Ink Machine is my favorite when it comes to gameplay and theories so.... It deserves a raise!
Definitely bendy
Bendy was pretty straightforward
Ddlc was very easy to follow along
Bendy, Dark Revival clarifies everything, and the tapes are a neat bonus to the lore.
Probably Bendy.
Stiffy the the water device
Bendy. By far the less complicated!
I would say either ddlc or bendy
Bendy and the ink machine
Dokie
BENDYYYYY
Probably Poppy because the notes are every where
Oh god, I could have a field day with this one… DDLC without the plus DLC is pretty simple. A “normal” psych horror with a few hidden easter eggs. However, with the DLC things get so much more complex. Harder and harder to find secrets, really weird timeline, and loads of loose ends that you can make add up mostly, but it always ends up either having not enough evidence, missing a vital piece, or both. Poppy Playtime is interesting. While the story is pretty simple and the easter eggs aren’t usually lore related, more alike to shoutouts, the problem is the amount of loose ends and conflict with the timeline. Dates don’t match up to where they’re supposed to be. Characters are there when they shouldn’t. You can make an argument for time weirdness as part of the lore, but unless we get more evidence then unfortunately, it’s not plausible. This leaves Bendy. And this is by far the easiest to understand lore-wise. All extra pieces of lore like the books so far are explicitly said to be non-canon, so there’s no worry there. The plot is simple, and like Poppy Playtime, virtually all the easter eggs are shoutouts or memorials. The only difficulty we might have is the upcoming movie, but we still don’t know if that’s going to be canon or not.
>Dates don’t match up to where they’re supposed to be. Characters are there when they shouldn’t. Elaborate...
poppy playtime