
Anyone else think it's suspicious how little Toby has teased Chapter 5, compared to how many hints about it are in Chapter 4?
As of now, we have no teasers at all related to the Chapter 5 dark world, only scenes from Castle Town and the light world, and Toby has stated multiple times that showing anything else would be a massive spoiler. This seems perfectly normal, I get why he would want to keep the dark world secret, but I just think it's odd considering we have gotten a view inside each chapters dark world before it's release. Before Chapter 2 came out we had screen shots from Cyber City and the Cyber City theme, as well as Noelle's dark world design. Before Chapter 3 we got tons of teasers from the Spamton Sweepstake and the Nintendo Direct Trailer showed views of Chapter 4s dark world, all but confirming it was the Church.
This is even more weird when you think about how many hints in Chapter 4 there are towards the location of Chapter 5s dark world. Paying close attention to small details and having a general understanding of where the plot is heading has lead most to believing the town flower shop is up next for a dark world.
So that's the big question. If Tricky Tony wants the dark world of Chapter 5 to be a complete secret, going further than he ever has before in withholding details, why include all the almost blatant hints towards it's nature as a flower shop dark world? We have a couple options:
Nothing Burger: Toby just wants to be extra secretive for funsies. Valid, and most likely answer tbh
The surprise isn't that it's the Flower Shop, it's that something about the design of the world and characters are special/shocking (E.g. Heavy Undertale references, Photoshop Flowey aesthetic?)
Misdirection: By giving us hints that the dark world is the flower shop, and then hiding all other details of it's nature, Toby gives us a sense of confidence in our prediction, only then to subvert this by making the dark world somewhere else or have the chaper differ from our expectations in some other radical way.