#I dont think bendy likes the new mask

[strawbyoa]

Buncha old scribbles and doodles

[inkdemonapologist]

wait wait so to add on to the person earlier who asked about the sammy/susie & tom/allison comparison thing:

isn’t it....... suspiciously odd that Allison was the one to kill Susie, and Tom was the one to kill Sammy? It’s like Allison and Tom are their ‘perfect’ counterparts, it feels almost too right.

On another note, I genuinely believe Tom is good. I don’t trust Allison in the slightest though, not since we found out she started working for Nathan Arch after she left JDS, and it looks like he could very well be our new villain for BATDR. Plus everything you brought up about her being the only one to leave no tapes and supposedly have no memory....... it just gives me a bad feeling about her. mm Dont Like It

OHHHHHHH????? OH THAT’S FUN…….. gosh dangit now I gotta aDD THAT TO THE PILE OF “WOW IT SURE IS WEIRD HOW WE KEEP DROPPING HINTS ABOUT SAMMY BEING A FAILED BORIS WHEN THAT IS APPARENTLY NOT ACTUALLY WHAT WE’RE GONNA SAY HAPPENED TO HIM”

LIKE,

idk, I have a genuinely great time losing my mind over why Sammy is such a unique monster and I love the ink-drinking thing, obviously, but also like… if Sammy WERE a failed Boris, it would be an easy way to explain the weird sheep obsession, it’d explain why he’s the ONLY non-Boris to have 4 fingers (lost ones and searchers and angels have 5!), and then there's these meta/narrative comparisons where Sammy and Boris have the same cower pose and there’s sheep songs posters specifically in a lot of sammy-branded areas, implying a tie between Boris and Music, and now this neat parallel, where it would mean the Alice and Boris who seem to have kept their minds intact kill the ones who didn’t…

AND LIKE……. Even in DCTL, there’d be room for this, because we don’t see Sammy transform: he’s human until the very very end, even when he’s downed a terrifying amount of ink, it doesn't seem to be changing him -- he’s still fully human and just acting strange. And then he disappears and shows up completely physically changed, sounding delighted with his new enlightenment and absolutely Done with Joey.

So if you had Joey take advantage of Sammy’s altered state or need for ink or whatever to lure him into the Machine as attempt number 2: Boris This Time after Susie came out in some kind of Wriggling Slug Form, then that’d be (a) why he looks like he’s sorta half-way to toon all of a sudden at the end, (b) why Sammy doesn’t blame his body on Bendy and can be excited about the transformation of his MIND but angry/ashamed about his body (he’s already wearing the mask, he’s clearly not thrilled abt his face), (c) why Joey’s excited to get a perfect Boris out of Buddy, as if he’d had attempts/failures before (and had a plan ready for what to do with his new Boris even though Buddy was SURELY a last-minute job), but doesn’t seem to fully expect what the situation will be vis a vis talking and Buddy’s mind still being in there, as if Buddy’s the first one to make it to Full Boris

IT JUST SEEMS LIKE IT COULD FIT???? And you could make the argument that this does not CONTRADICT canon……….. but it just seems like, if that’s what happened, Sammy would’ve mentioned it in his monologue SOMEWHERE, especially given how quick he is to complain to Henry about his messed up body, it jUST SEEMS LIKE,,,, some sentiment of “Joey may have ruined my body but my lord will set me free” would come up in there at SOME POINT, SO LIKE…… THIS IS PROBABLY NOT THE INTENDED EXPLANATION,

Oops i got distracted with sammy again,

Anyway a lot of my allison thoughts are Over Here, but in general I think they can be summed up with, I’m very fond of “genuinely well-meaning person who has ulterior motives,” and enjoy the idea of someone who is not being malicious, necessarily, but does not trust Henry and is hiding a lot of information from him, who is more ruthless and calculating than she lets on, despite having good goals. I don’t… actually expect BATDR to go this route, though, so I’m REAL curious if they’ll just play her straight as the Good Alice, or lean into all the places she doesn't quite add up and make more untrustworthy...!

[girlwiththegreenhat]

so i’ll start with rambling thoughts on the ch1 ~ 3 updates first

hoo boy those updates tho. sorry if this is a little messy, i’m trying to manage like three conversations and watch a stream and type this all at the same time. cuz i’m dumb, of course. anyway, onwards--

so oh man the new menu screen looks Dope As Shit, and i can finally say how Fucking Good the ink machine room looks, it’s... so beautiful. and really dramatic, given how it’s in the title of the game and everything. It rises out of the floor, there’s steam, man that’s wild. and hey did anyone notice how there were select viewing areas where you could see the ink machine being carried through the studio through the other three chapters too?? ...why does the ink machine need to be pulled through the studio. you only ever see like, the top of it going downwards, so if you’re not looking at it riiight when the door opens or riiight when you round that corner, wherever you are, if you’re not looking you will miss it and you’ll just see chains and shit.

anyway henry’s little “guess it took a few people to replace me” comment is great,  henry is.. .or at least, was a super hard worker confirmed.

i love how they have actual animation desks now, and I love how there’s actual cartoon-accurate animation frames on the tables?? and then you can play darts in the break room, and pool in another break room in ch2?? blessed updates. i wanna play darts or pool with sammy tho lMAO. speaking of sammy, that hidden room with the radio in chapter 1? it now holds the record, and sammy’s ‘HE WILL SET US FREE’ on some paper. I really like that... i guess you’d call it foreshadowing to sammy’s appearance in ch2?

bendy can grab you now and knock you to the floor over the boards, which fun fact! i screamed. i did not. expect him. to touch me. what the fuck. i ran screaming from that room.

chapter two looks great too, in general i really like how these updates brought the older chapters on-par with the newer ones. it feels... complete now. I’m really proud of the team for what they’ve managed to do. Also I finally got to see what that sign says:

"NOTICE: Anyone found faking illness will be docked a full week's wage. Not Sick, Not Paid."

so joey’s a fucking asshole, confirmed. docking a week’s pay?? in the great depression??? wtf man.

you meet this cute lil searcher down there with a hat by the way. i liked him. jack is a good little searcher, i actually felt bad i had to squish him :( wish i had a picture but i forgot to get one sdklfjsjkdlf

anyway enough about jack wHAT ABOUT SAMMY CAN WE TALK ABOUT SAMMY BECAUSE HE’S FUCKING RIPPED and has feet now AND A FACE??? you can see a jaw moving through the mouth of the bendy mask wtf

also the model just. looks really good in general. his clothes actually fit now and he has animations and... Damn Sammy, You Look Nice For Once. Congrats On Your Everything-

get the fuck away from my face

what is with things in this studio and touching me jesus fucking christ dont touch my face

he splatters out the door again btw, so i guess we can’t use that point for our ‘But What If Sammy Was Not Kill’ theorizing anymore

bendy still runs faster than the player but he runs a lot faster than the player now, i got killed at the end-of-chapter-two chase and... man that death tho, you have to climb out of the puddles or something? That’s what I interpreted it as anyway. I like that, it’s more interesting than just... oops you’re dead, there you go you’re back on your feet again. this. this is weird. weird is Good.

chapter three: boris was turned into even more of a good boy, he’s afraid of the daaark ; o ; if you take the light off him he cowers... god what a good boy. what a good boy. god. such a good boy.

I AM SO HAPPY WE GOT A LOG WITH BOTH THOMAS AND WALLY. in generally i’m happy we have a log with two people at once, i want more logs like this. I also love that they added the place from the chapter 3 trailer, folks kept asking where it is so they just. Did That. it’s there now.

and the FEEL FAMILIAR? thing at the end, heh. it sure does.

not a lot happened in CH3 in regards to updates, or if they did I either missed or forgot them, so I’ll just say overall these updates were Fantastic. I think my favorite parts are the Sammy remodel and jack the hat-wearing searcher :o I can’t believe how far chapters one and two came, like thinking back to the first iteration of chapter one... man. it’s like two totally different games!

i love the devs

i love the devs a lot

and i love batim a lot

now time to go type up the chapter 4 part because chapter 4 is literally the scariest chapter so far, moreso than 1 ~ 3 put together, and jesus christ i have things to say

[animmania]

Bendy and the ink machine sorta review.

bendy and the ink machine. alot of people have props been seeing its name going around lately and might not know what it is. sum up. its a horror indie game about a cartoon chacater coming alive though ink and you the player have to find out why everything thats happening is happening. thats the basic sum up.

i very much like this game alot and im really happy  to see it getting so much love. but alot of people dont like it and seem confused on why its getting so much praise . and i think thats an intersting point. one day it just showed up and got populaor. but why is that?? well i think its for a few reasons but ill get to them. ive been wanting to make this for a bit so im bascally going to cover as much about the game as i can. from story to game play. so lets start with a better look at the story. note the game is in chapters and i will be spoiling most things in the game so just a heads up to stop reading now if you dont want to be spoiled

CHAPTER 1 MOVIING PICTURES your name is henry a cartoonist who is coming back to his old animation studio after getting a letter from an old friend saying he wants to show you something you look around and find an ink machine. not knowing what it dos or what its for you of course decied you need to turn it on and see what it dos. after finding some iteams to "sacrafice to the gods". once you get them and turn on the machine the place starts to flood with ink and bendy appears. an old cartoon character that used to be famous. think mickey mouse and such. but someone trying to bring him to life made him into a inky black monster.. you run away and make it to the exist but you fall for the floor. after finding an axe you break some boards then reach a demonic circle and pass out after seeing some images.

CHAPTER 2 THE OLD SONG After passing out you wake up and and pick back up your axe. after some more wood chopping you find your way to the music department of the animation studio.here you find another exit but since the ink machine is going the exit is flooded and you cant get in. afetr some exploring and puzzle solving you eventually find out about sammy. the head of the music department and how the exit flooding was something that happened alot becuase of the ink machine. so they installed a ink pump in the exit that would get rid of the ink in the exit. you go to his office press the switch and as your about to leave your hit on the head and knocked out. turns out its good ol sammy. after being locked down there for so long and trapped by the ink machine he has gone mad. he wishs to be free and he thinks giving you as a saccrafice to bendy will do it. he ties you up and is about to sick bendy at you when suddenly bendy turns on him and off screen kills him. you get loose and grab your axe and start running until you run into the ol fool him self BENDY. he gives chase and you outrun him locking him the door. so now your safe but just as things get calm you hear a noise around a conor and behold. its boris another cartoon character that was made for bendy but he is more finished and not as monsterish looking as bendy thos in the game. then it cuts to black and it ends

and thats it for now. no other chapters are out.

now the story isnt anything ground breaking yes but its also not horrible. its a basic plot and it gets the job done. there are a few more characters i could have mentioned but they really dont matter all that much to whats going on. they are mainly for lore and to make it seem like this place used to be well run. ill let you guys find out about them if you decied to get the game your self

ok with the story done lets talk about the look of the game which i think is the best part about bendy and the ink machine.

given its about cartoons and such every thing has a very old cartoony look to them. from the walls to projectors every thing screams classic cartoons and its great they did a great job mixing the cartoony style  with 3d objects making it all seem natural. the lighting is also very good. using alot of yellows i noticed and using it to highlight things like doors or places that you might want to check out. the game also has a bunch of posters every were of bendy the main character and other cartoon characters. now there isnt alot of them so your most likly going to see alot of the same ones alot which isnt the best but it dos have a plus side ill get to later . the only thing id say is an issue with the look of everything is. stuff like the floors while do look good are pretty flat. most of the ground is made out of floor boards and it all looks flat. i think having some stick up from the ground slitghy would have been a bit better but its only a nit pick

but now what would a good looking game be without good looking characters to such as bendy. a small lil demon cartoon character. he was the face of the whole animation studio and boy it shows. his desgin is really simple yet really nice to look at and from an artist stand point very fun and easy to draw. he also has all the classic cartoon things. the big cloves. the dot eyes with the cut in them and  a bow tie. something else to note is he has no neck. not really sure why that is but its honestly nice. makes him stand out honestly which is good for a main character

the next character is boris. very goofy like being a doog person...thing. hes very cute and you see him from time to time in the game in full 3d. his model is very nice and he fits very well into the look of everything else.

finally we have the new cartoon character that was added in chapter 2 alice angle. her disney is meant to be a sorta oppiste of bendys i think. being an angle instead of a devil she has a slightly different look and is actually a human instead of a cartoon animal . her disgn seems very betty boob and minny mouse inspired. having some boob but still maintaining her cartoon look.with bendy arms and gloves and all. its worth to note she has a hole in her hand which i dont really understand but sure it looks nice

every other character in the game dosnt have a look besides from sammy. sammy being a person covered in ink wearing a bendy mask. there isnt alot to say about him other then i think he needs a bath.

now were onto game play. this is where i think most people start to spilt into the two groups of loving this game or hating the game. each with good points

the game is first person with the basic controls walk and look around. its worth to note that in chapter 2 they added a jump button and a sprint button. dont know why they didnt have them in chapter one but what ever. also on a short note the jump in this game dosnt really do much but it dosnt have alot of sound which makes it seem off. you dont need to jump so its not a big deal but its something that bothered me . you also have a attack button which is for swinging your axe at things in your way and enemys which is where issues start to come in. swinging the axe is fine but hitting things is another story. when ever i swing it i can never tell when im going to hit something. ive been right next to objects and swinging and it would not break and id have to start aiming at them in different angles till i found the hit box. i havent played chapter 2 but after watching a few people play it it seems the same goes for the enemys but not as much. now the enemys i think are the weakest part about the game so far. for 1 they arent really scary and dont really fit in with the world. they are just geniric looking sludge monsters  with no real features. and fighting them seems really unsatisfying. they go down with one hit and the sound effect sounds like your stepping in a puddle. also they arent really something you have to worry about. it takes like 12 of them to be able to kill you and even still as long as you dont run head first into them they will never kill you. but do be careful becuase if they do kill you you gotta start the chapter all over again . that is pretty bullshit.

then we have the other part of the game play which is looking for iteams and solving some puzzles. now alot of people hate these and i do understand. looking for iteams isnt that fun  but i dont think its all that bad. you get to look at all the details and find some secerts along the way. plus the areas you have to look in arent even that big so it wont take very long to find what you need.

now thats pretty much all the game play but theres another thing i want to talk about which is the music. now for as much as id love to say buy the soundtrack i really cant. besides from one track which i liked called *Hellfire Follies* all the songs seem like genirc horror music youd find anywhere. Hellfire Follies is the best mainly becuase its so different from the rest of the songs and also fits really well into the cartoon aesthic thats going on. the only other song id say is really good is the one that plays when your next to the projector playing a small animation of bendy in chapter 1. but its not in the soundtrack for some reason and i cant find its name any where.

so thats bendy and the ink machine. so what after all that is said and done those bendy desver to get all the praise it gets?? or is it just a over hyped game that isnt that good. me persnoally i really like. despite all its issues i still had fun playing chapter one and looking at all the detail and watching all the play thoughs of chapter 2 just made me love it more. if you came into the game with high expctaions thinking your going to shit your pants in fear your going to be dissapointed. a common issue ive seen come up with the game from people is that theres no real looming fear . no monster constally chaseing you or enemys that really make you scared. and those are fair complaints. but i think thats not all that bad of a thing. bendy and the ink machine is more of a game that wants you to get sucked into its world and wants to scare you with its tone and setting rather then with monsters or the fear of dying. i think the best way of looking at bendy and the ink machine is. dont think of it as a action horror game. but more as a puzzle horror game.

also despite it not being that scary its such a unique horror game. a game with such a cute cartoony style clearly taking insipation from old school disney. not alot of horror games like that out there which is way i think people like it so much. its just so nice and new. plus it not being that scary i think opens it up for alot of people.

its sorta like a lite horror game. something i think which could be a good start for people that want to get into horror games or horror genra as a whole but cant handle big things like lets say outlast or something.

but i think the best part about the game and what made me so in love with it is the commmuinty. the meatly the maker of the game trys so hard to be active in the community and dos so much for people who enjoy his game. even to the point in letting them chip in with art contest for the chance of getting thier art in the game with posters or so many things. and even reaching out to youtubers who have taken the time to write whole songs for the game and added them into the game as easters eggs which is just so cool. taking part in it is honestly is nice and seeing all the nice cool people in it makes it such a joy to be apart of . if i played the game and never even looked at fan art or all the community events id  honestly not be that intersted in this game and would have worte it off.

if you dont really care about that kinda stuff then it wont really matter and the game might not leave that much of an impact but for me it makes me want to get more into it because its just fun.

so thats my kinda review of bendy. hope i made some sense haha. and meatly if this some how finds your way. thanks for making such awesome games. keep up the work man