HD Games./Puppet

Puppet is a survival horror Roblox game created by HD Games as a crossover of the indie horror video game Granny and the television show Sesame Street.

The game was inspired by the popular Horror game Piggy.

Criticism
The game had been somewhat criticized due to being very similar to Piggy when it was first released. Both games featured characters from preschool television series. The first maps and chapter sequence used to be similar to those in Piggy. The game icons also used to be very similar as of the Chapter 3 update for the game. Though there were many features and some new ones that eventually got brought into the game that differed itself from the features in Piggy. The description of the game also shows credit given to Piggy.

Statistics (Game Description)
Puppet was one of the many popular Piggy inspired games. It was also HD Games' 2nd most popular Roblox game, after Saber Simulator. The game had over 140.7 million visits before getting put under review in July, 2020. It also had 539,583 favorites as well as over 86,000 likes. The amount of players that can join and play in a server in the game is 9.

Deletion
On July 8th, 2020, Puppet was shut down. This resulted in the game not being playable for a duration of time and there no reason was given for the deletion yet since its shut down. Later that day, only an announcement from one of the HD Games' developers, ErickThePresident, wrote "Puppet is shut down for some time, we will keep you updated on the status of the game" on the HD Games Roblox group and in their Discord server.

A YouTuber named Devoun made a video on the news. According to him, it was most likely due to copyright because of the pictures of Elmo around the maps, the theme songs that play when puppet get close to a player, and the models that resembled very closely to Sesame Street characters, but he wasn't too sure. Supporting this, the game now uses new models that look less than the characters from Sesame Street as shown in Puppet Work Environment.

The original game was held under review by Roblox's authority for over 4 months until November 20, 2020, where the game was then finally set as 'private'. No other updates were made, except for two of the Passes in September 2020.

Return
On August 4, 2020, Ev3rSoul posted on Twitter that they were trying their hardest to return the game to the platform. On October 29, 2021, it was released again on Roblox, but due to the 2021 Roblox outage, it was later playable after the outage was fixed.

Difference to the original game
The skin models have been changed, appearing to have stitches on their faces and mouths, their heads are a bit more oval-shaped, most having changed colors, and some have new hair styles, most likely so that the game won't be copyrighted for having the models appearing as the characters from Sesame Street. The weapons and clothes have stayed the same.

Two of the game passes (the 2x killer chance and the VIP game pass) in the store of the original game were also updated and changed on September 12, 2020. It is unknown whether to buy the gamepasses in the game's store since the game is still private as of November 2020.

Story
Puppet's story is chapter-by-chapter and each chapter is a different map that you have to use keys/tools to escape that chapter's exit. The story is mainly presented in cutscenes at the beginning and ending of each chapter. Though little information is shown about the story during gameplay other than the player (s) planning to escape the chapter maps of the story.


 * Chapter 1 (House)

When the person (your Roblox player/avatar) arrives to a house for a party, they realizes the house is empty and there's no party. The player then gets trapped in the locked house with the evil puppet Milo. After escaping with relief, the player soon gets caught by police and gets put into prison.


 * Chapter 2 (Prison)

After getting put into prison, which will of course be locked, the player (s) gets trapped in a cell and needs to escape due to being wrongly arrested. After escaping the cell, Copper (the chapter's bot/threat), and then the prison, the alarms go off and the police chase the running player to the forest where the player then hides in an empty cabin and gets haunted even more.


 * Chapter 3 (Forest)

After the player hides in the forest with the police still after him, the player finds out the forest is also roamed by another evil puppet (Abbey). After escaping the haunted forest, the player then finds a sleeping bear sitting against a tree with a lost right eye.


 * Chapter 4 (Lake Cabin)

The player walks to the sleeping bear, who then wakes up out of 0.confusion asking "Where am I?" The bear and player have a conversation with the bear telling him he forgot his name and the player telling the bear he's being chased by evil puppets and the police and not knowing why. The player then brings the bear along with him to help him remember his past. They both walk and find a dock which sparkles the bear's memory making the area look familiar. After escaping the haunted lake cabin, the player and bear hop on the boat to leave, then the bear has a flashback, revealing that he was in the underground lab of the lake cabin and was forced to go through a procedure by scientists. Then, suddenly the bear regains his memory of the experiment and then confesses to the player that he remembers his name (Teddy).


 * Chapter 5 (Library)

After the boat ride, Teddy and the Player arrive at a city. The Player tells Teddy they needed to find out why the scientists done the experiment on him and that the Library should be a good place to start finding answers. They then proceed to ride in a nearby taxi, which took them to the Library, and was huge in size. After unlocking the haunted library's exit, Teddy and the player go into one of the computer rooms and look at a news article online showing that there have been many murders committed that may have came from the puppets that were after the Player. They then found out that there was one person who was able to escape the puppet attacks named Alfred M. who's was in critical condition at the hospital. The Player then tells Teddy that they should go meet Alfred M., as he may know who or what is responsible for all of the events that took place.


 * Chapter 6 (Hospital)

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