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the-offical-raishas-circus · 2 days ago

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My experience and review of the bendy books!!

So I read the bendy books. It was… an experience. I just want to say that Adrienne Kress went ABOVE AND BEYOND for these books and they are wayyy better then the FNAF ones (No offence to my babygirl Millie Fitzsimmons and the Tftpp Books but Bendy just crushed you and you will never recover.)

*Spoilers ahead!!!*

Dreams come to life (book 1)

• Ok, ok! New book! Let’s go! It’s probably gonna be like the FNAF ones tbh

• Hi Buddy I love u already

• he’s going to die isn’t he

• Omg Dotttt I love you Dot

• MR SAMMY THE LAWRENCE?!?!?????

• SAMMY CONTENT IN THIS ECONOMY????

• Yo

• this is actually kinda fire

• OHHH MY GOSH HE WANTS TO ART MY HEARTTT 🥹🥹🥰🥰

• he’s actually so cutttteeee

• HIM GOING TO THE LIBRARY W/ HIS GRANDAD?!?!???

• THEM LEARNING ART TOGETHER?!?!?!?

• ADORABLE

• Ngl the historical context in this is very good my girl DID HER RESEARCH

• ALLISON HIIIIII BBY

• OOOOOOO SAMMYS BACK

• HES SO GRUMPY LMAOOO

• SAMMYS UP TO SMTH

• Omg guys I find it so funny that Sammy low-key is a Ink Chugger

• he drink that ink

• THE FORESHADOWING!?!?!?

• THE SUSPENSE?!?!?

• Wait he met Joey Drew

• did I miss a page

• wait now Mr Drew is taking him to a party????

• I definitely missed a page

• ALIISON IS BACCKKK

• W/ TOMMMM

• YEAH THE POWER COUPLE

• Omg the gang breaking into the studio?!?!??

• this can only end badly

• Nooooooo the poor violinist

• WAIT WHERE IS SAMMY

• HES NOT HERE

• HES MISSING?!?!???

• Nooooo not my favourite little ink chugger 😩😩😩🙏🙏🙏

• J O E Y D R E W

• THE INK DEMON OOOOOOOOHHH GODS

• HES COMING

• THE INKKK BUDDY NOOOOO

• DOT RUN

• I hope Dot escaped

• Buddy F*CKING DIED?!?!???

• I knewww ittt noooooo

• WAIT

• JOEY

• JOEY WHAT HAVE U DONE

• He can’t talk oh no

• WAIT

• WAITTT HOLD UP SMTH AINT RIGHT

• BUDDYYYYY NOOOOO

• HES BORIS?!?!??

• HES BUDDY BORIS!!?!????!

• W A T

• oh so this is the Boris that Alice wants

• Aw crap Buddy nooo

• HES SO TRAGIC

• someone write a fanfic where Buddy takes Joeys offer

• it’d be so tragic

• RIP Buddy he was a Buddy till the end

• JUSTICE FOR DOT AND BUDDY BORIS‼️‼️‼️

• And Sammy is still knocked out Rip

• Wowie really good read 10/10 loved it

She really killed it with this one! Really enjoyed the horror aspects, not as graphic as the FNAF books but just graphic enough to make it creepy! Shes really good at 1st person POV I hope she continues! Also great historical accuracy, with the social norms of the time and everything, the references to the war, ect. Great dialogue, descriptions, the style of writing flows really well, and the story is really well paced, with just enough suspense to keep me reading. It also made me really want to figure out the mysteries of the studio with Buddy even when I have all the info from the games! Well done! 10/10 book would definitely recommend!!

The Lost Ones (book 2)

Ok! Next bendy book, let’s go!

Right so we are NOT in the studio this time…

That is NOT SAFE

the poor horse rip

Again great historical accuracy

I love the MCs already

Bill, Grant and Constance I love u

I can relate with Constance a LOT

Ooooo is she Ace???

She might be Aroace chat omggg

MR THOMAS CONNOR?!?????

Ooooo he’s helping Mr Tom?!???

INK MACHINE YOOO

GET HIM CONSTANCE!!!

ANGER ANGER ANGER RAHHHH

J O E Y D R E W

OOOOO INK LORE?!????

She a scientist!!!

Nooooo he got inked 😩😩

Hiiiiii Ink demon bbyyy

Oooo so she’s making a cure?!???

Cure for the ink woahhhh

IT WORKS WOOP WOOP 🙌

OK HES BACK

BASH THAT MACHINE BESTIES GOOO!!!

Ok so they are splitting up…

Go Constance!

Run run run!!!

WAIT WAIT BUDDY?!????

BUDDY BORIS SAVED HER!!!!

YEAHHH BYE BUDDY BYE BABY!!!

R UN CONSTANCE

Noooooo they ink creatures now :(((

KEEP IT UP CONSTANCE!!!

Hitchhiking time…

Oh no

Oh snap

EXCUSE ME

MR JOEY THE DREW PLEASE

😡😡😡😡

Welp she dead

Well that ended badly

Solid plan tbh too bad Joey was there

Crap I liked Constance

Oooo they moving the machine oooo

Well! Book 2 read!! Really the same as the last one, all the same feedback. Uhhh, I liked the difference in character pov, really helped flesh out the story! Also a 10/10!

Fade to Black (book 3)

- Alright guys, we’re back for book 3!

Ok, we are starting with our girl MC Rose, I like her, I like her

So when is this set????

After The Lost ones Probably

Ok… she’s getting a job! Good for her!!

Ooo yeah I like her optimism!

Hey new friend!!!

JOEY I SEE U

J O E Y D R E W

NOT

NOT NEW FRIEND

THATS NOT A FRIEND THATS JOEY DREW

anyway

Oooooo wait another new friend! Gladys!!

Oh poor girl

Oh poor baby

Nooooo Rosie it’s ok you won’t get fired 🥺🥺

Shes such a sweetie omggg

JOEY WHEN I GET YOU JOEY

JOEYYYY YOU MADE HER CRYYY 😡

Oh ok good Shes not fired

But she’s getting moved to Joeys show

That might be worse actually

SHE HAS A STALKER???

IS IT TOM???

Idk????

Ohhhh nah don’t say yes to the experiments

Crap she said yes

I feel so sorry for her family guys her younger brother seems so sweet

This is gonna make me cry

I just know it

Ok so she has the TV now

And she met that Ethan guy

Now Shes getting lessons????

Yay good 4 her

Oooo TV PARTY

This can only end badly

Them glasses kinda sketchy as heck

BABY BENDY

BABY BENDY MENTIONED‼️‼️‼️

Ok but JOEY DREW WHEN I GET U JOEY

ok so Creepy English Stalker Guy makes a reappearance

WAIT THATS THE TRAIN FROM BATDR

WOOOOOO ITS COMING FULL CIRCLE

that was not a pun

Ok so Creepy English Stalker Guy is actually good

His name is NOT Tom he is ACTUALLY Archie

He is an ink creature??? Kind of???

OH so it’s GENT

ok so she’s went to a party

And ALLISON WAS THERE

Allison’s such a sweetheart actually

BUT ALSO

WILSON

WAS

THERE

WILSON

being his Creepy ‘sweeeetttt *hack* Audreyyyyy *cough cough*’ self

Guess what he’s younger tho

So I guess he’s just always been like that

Anyway blah blah blah also Ethan gets fired

For breaking Joeys super special glasses

And then she left and hallucinated a train (the one mentioned in BATDR) and almost threw herself onto the train tracks but her Stalker who is called Archie and is a sweetie caught her

And OH her brother is hallucinating Bendy and hurting ppl

So yeah it’s the glasses

ALSO DOT IS BACK‼️‼️‼️

Dot my babygirl

SHE ESCAPED ‼️‼️‼️😩

So yeah she has THE ILLUSION OF LIVING

So Rose is reading it

Yeah the Joeys goddamn books trash guys

Ok so Dot Rose and Archie are meeting at a cafe

So they are telling each other they’re stories

And ARCHIE WAS A GENT EXPERIMENT

ok so this has HUGE lore implications

So this ties in with secrets of the machine and Riley

SO ROSE DOT AND ARCHIE ARE GONNA BREAK IN AND DESTROY THE INK MACHINE THATS IN THE BASEMENT

this isn’t gonna go we’ll chat

I remember the last time someone tried to destroy this machine

(Hint hint, it was book 2)

OH NO

OH SNAP

ETHAN GOT KNOCKED OUT BY ARCHIE

ARCHIE FREAKING DIED OR WENT BACK TO THE NETHER WORLD OR WHATEVER

ROSE AND DOT ARE PLAYING TUG OF WAR WITH ETHANS BODY WITH THE INK DEMON

CRAP THEY ARE KILLING ETHAN

ETHAN IS GETTING RIPPED APART WHAT

WHAT IS EVEN GOING ON

CRAP LET GO!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOO ETHAN DIED

THE INK DEMON GOT HIM

ROSE AND DOT RUNNNN

ok ok they got out

Rose is going home

ROSES BROTHER TRIED TO STAB THEIR MOM

BENDY GRHHHHH

ITS BENDYS FAULT

wait wait wait so Shes going into the nether realm to find her bro

THE PROJECTIONEST

YOOOOOO NORMAN MY MAN 🙌🙌🙌

Sammys not herreeee 😭😭😭😭😭😩😩😩😩

OH she found him!!! Her brother yeahhhhh

She found ARCHiE!!!

THERES OTHER PEOPLE

THEY ALL HAVE TO ESCAPE NOW

WAIT

J O E Y D R E W

ITS J O E Y

JOEYS GOT THE IDEA TO MAKE THE CYCLE OMG OMG OK OK ITS HAPPENING

THE INK DEMONS COMING

WALK ON AIR ROSIE U CAN DO IT

THEY MADE IT OUT

THEYRE AT HOME

OMG OMG

PLOT TWIST

LEAVE ME ON A CLIFFHANGER WHAT

NOOOOOOO

ok ok books over

OK GUYS THAT WAS A RIDE. Ok so first of all, same feedback as the last two books, it’s so good, written amazingly, ect. Definitely darker in this one, literally a guy got ripped apart in human tug of war so um. Ties in the rest of the books really well, huge lore stuff happening, so I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens next game!!!

Overall way better than the FNAF books and I think Adrienne Kress really stepped up here and shined as a writer and I can’t wait to read more!

Really disappointed Alice didn’t make an appearance but I guess I can’t have everything.

Adrienne Kress make me a Alice Angel book RIGHT NOW 😩😩😩🙌🙌🙌🙌

#Bendy and the ink machine #Bendy books #Bendy novels #book review #Batdr #Batim #bendy dreams come to life #bendy the lost ones #bendy fade to black #bendy and the dark revival #ink demon

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thatonecrookedsmile · 6 months ago

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It's been a little over a month since I read FTB and I wanted to do (and say, I think) a few things related to it. So here, take this. FTB stuff I was wanting to share.

Including some drawings/my designs for some characters (the ones above), some separate sketches, and giving some long thoughts on the book. (This post is looong so I'm going to put everything under the curtain. Enjoy!)

Starting: Rose, Evan and Archie. They are the ones that, I admit, are what I wanted to draw/design most while/after I read the book. Now, at least, if I want to make something involving one of these three one day, I have designs ready to go! Hooray! Evan is the only one of the three that I actually had to design from scratch. With Rose I had made a sketch 1 year ago conceptualizing the idea for her design, and it was only recently that I came back to this idea to finally solidify it. And I had already done Archie's design last year while I was doing my designs for the human cast of BATDR, so I was already prepared without even knowing it.

Also,Ink!Archie!! The poor guy got screwed pretty badly. First two designs in the first image are based on the events in the book. The one on the left is him seen mostly in the book (alive) and the one on the right is when he is in the Ink Realm, post-death. The design in the second image was supposed to be a stylization/variation of his Cycle design. I tried drawing him with a visible mouth/teeth similar to what I did with Sammy in a recent drawing and in some sketches that I didn't post here. I'm not sure about the beard tho. I think I exaggerated it. Next time, remember to draw less beard in this design. (And maybe, for the design that is more "close to canon", don't draw the ends of the hair and beard in the Cycle design)

Any other character in the book, either I don't have a design and I don't plan on making a design for them now, or I do but it will take a while to show them. (I promise I'll show Dot one day)

I also have some additional sketches. So if you want to take a look at that too, here it is:

Ollie Sorenson. This wasn't quite the way I had imagined him when I was reading the book but 1. the hair I tried to draw for him before didn't work out well, so I went another route and 2. Ollie isn't particularly a character in this book that I'm going to I think a lot in comparison to the others (he's still cool, tho) and I doubt I'll make another design for him, so let's go with this one. Not a bad design,so,eh.

Rose. Sketch on the left was made last year. I'm almost certain it was done after the book synopsis was revealed by Kress. The sketch on the right was made last month when I was reading the book. I took the idea from the sketch on the left and tried to solidify her design better.

Evan. Some other sketches made when I read the book. I had just completed his design and wanted to test it a little more to, you know, see if I can actually draw him. Verdict? I think I can.

And now uhhhhhh what I thought of the book! I previously considered doing a separate text post with these thoughts only but I don't do text-only posts in general and if I were to make a separate post it would take a while and it would come out more than 1 month/probably 2 months since I read the book and it would be kinda awkward. And I'm already writing this post, so why not put it all here now, right?

(Warning: My thoughts on the book ended up being MUCH LONGER THAN I EXPECTED TO WRITE. You don't need to read them if you want, they are just more additional and optional things. But if you are going to read them, be warned)

(Spoilers: I may have strayed a little off topic when I started talking about Archie. Don't mention how long his paragraph is, tho)

But yeah, Fade To Black. That was something else, I tell you (and I mean that in a positive way). Probably reading this book after all the fuss that happened about the books a while ago wasn't the best idea possible. But even with…all that in mind, I still wanted to read this for a long time, and I'm glad I went ahead with it. I had a lot of fun with the book! And thinking about it a little over a month after finishing it, I think I can say that this book is up there as, like, one of my favorites of the Bendy books that have been released to date. Before this, I would have considered DCTL my favorite of the books, so I'm somewhere between saying that both of these two are my favorite books in this series and that I like them equally, or that FTB has now become my favorite book of the series, surpassing DCTL. (Maybe I'll have a better idea of this later this year when I reread these books once again)

I really liked the story told, its concept had already interested me since its synopsis was revealed last year - the setting in the 50's, the TV show, the whole 3D glasses thing - so it's no surprise that I was very interested in what this book had to tell. And since I already brought that up: I liked the new concepts it brings to the table,specifically,of course,the glasses and the TV. An idea that,I admit,at first is something I thought was a bit different (and dare i say unusual?) from what I usually see in the Bendy universe (although, it's not something so out of the ordinary from what we've seen before in the series) but I have to say that it's something that I thought was cool even so. 3D glasses that end up transporting your mind into the televised cartoons (and,by all accounts,the ink realm). The jokes I saw that Joey created virtual reality in this book weren't so far-fetched after all lol. But still, it's a concept that I admit to having been interested in, and that it might be cool to play around with in fanon stuff. I also considered this could open doors for other, more "wild" ideas to be explored in the books (as long as they still make sense for a >Bendy< book, of course). I also liked the whole segment taking place in the ink realm at the end of the book, and I hope that this can open up possibilities for future novel stories to take place there, either partially (as in this one) or in full (I accept an entire novel taking place in the cycle,ngl). The additional lore for the ink realm is a nice treat and adds more to what we have in the games. I admit that, at the same time, I feel a little thoughtful about a certain part of this additional lore that - assuming the way I understand it is right - leaves me wondering if this "extended origin" of the cycle coupled with what we already know of its lore would make sense in the games, and how these ideias would be acknowledged in future entries. But at the same time, I may be overthinking this, and the stars may still be aligned, and I've gotten the information wrong. Despite everything, I liked what was told about the ink realm in this book, I appreciate this "extended origin" at the end of the day.

I really liked the cast, both the new ones and the old faces. Rose is great, I really liked her as the protagonist. She's already one of my favorite book characters, I hope we hear from her again in the future. Also, it's good to have a protagonist in these books who survives in the end. Okay, sure, she didn't come out of it 100% unharmed, considering what the ending implies, but still. Again. It's good to have a protagonist in these books who came out of this alive at the end. Evan is also very good. Even though I want to slap him on the back of the head, I also hope to hear from him again, especially considering the way he "exited the story" (is that how you say it?). I talked about the possibility of a future novel taking place in the ink realm, I think that would give a good chance of bringing him back, now as an ink creature. I don't have much to say about Ollie, but I also thought he was cool. The scenes between him and Rose are very nice and the scenes related to the "Bendy Visions" caused by the glasses is another concept that I found very interesting (Tense moments, but cool ones nonetheless) Very happy to see Dot again. I like her character, and I always wanted to see what happened to her after the events of DCTL (TLO had already implied that she was still alive, but I wanted to know more, you know). Her participation in this book is very good, and a chapter that I have to highlight is the one where she meets Rose and they talk in the cafe. Their conversation alone is very good, but the specific part that got me was Dot talking about Buddy, what happened to her after the first book, and Buddy's family. That part was like. A slap in the heart, I'm not going to lie. This chapter made me sad, 10/10. Favorite chapter of the book.

Archie Carter was a big surprise (not really, I already knew he would be here before reading the book), and he is another of my favorite aspects of the book. It's good to see one of the characters from BATDR's human cast ending up being used more in a story. Archie in the game, like other characters we saw in the audio logs in DR, is a "One and done" situation where we only hear from him once and that's it, combined with the fact that he is ultimately just another background character who exists mostly to fill the world and give information that is not necessarily integral to the main things that occur in the game and is more to tell about different things, people and events that were also occurring inside the studio and in the outside world ( those of the lost city and Gent Workshop, essentially) pre-game events. (I really don't know how to explain this properly, but I would say that the "thing" of the information given by the new human cast (with the exception of the Archs) is the same thing as the characters who are giving such information: filling the world. I hope you get the gist of what I'm saying) And while I wouldn't say the information on these tapes is really irrelevant (in Archie's case, he provides some of the most interesting), and in my case, I don't mind the addition of the newbies, I don't blame other people for not being interested, don't get attached to or even dislike these new characters who don't do much in the grand scheme of things in DR and in comparison to the BATIM cast (or at least, the majority of the IM cast). So seeing at least 1 of these newcomers being used more deeply in a story and having their characters expanded is good! And I liked what was done with Archie here. You know the guy who worked at Gent as a test subject and who saw bad things happening at the company? Guess what! Same company screwed up his life and now he's a half-human-half-ink creature guy infected with evil ink and his current situation is not good at all! He's going through horrors unfortunately (especially in the cycle), but I really like what Adrienne did with Archie in this book. Again, he is one of the highlights of this book, and I hope that something similar ends up happening with other DR characters in future stories (manifesting the novel that uses Bill Danton and/or Grace Conway in some capacity 🙌) Plus, I also think it's cool that of all the DR characters to be used, it was the one voiced by SuperHorrorBro who ended up being chosen for this book (I like SHB, what can I say)

Joey (like in the other books) is a standout (and considering what we specifically see of him in this book, he's especially a standout here). More of Allison, even though in the end it's just a small one-scene cameo. Finally, I'm being fed the bread crumbs I craved. And I think now I have another version of Henry to talk about. My collection is growing strong, now I have 3 versions of my favorite old man! Among the new ones, and especially the secondary and tertiary ones, Papa D and Gladys are nice, even though they don't have much time in the story. Oh, and Wilson showed up too. He doesn't do much either, he's just there to be creepy. But I will acknowledge him.

I also enjoyed seeing some of the ideias showcased first in BATDR here (which makes sense, this book came out well after the game finally released). I always found it interesting to see more of Gent in the spotlight, and reading and knowing a little more about the things they were doing after JDS closed is nice. (And I think it's good to see more reaffirmation of what BATDR had already implied. That Gent also had eyes on the Ink Machine even when the studio was still open, and when the studio collapsed, they still continued the ink experiments in their own facilities. Again, this was already something that had been shown in DR, but it's good to see more reaffirmation here) The appearance of the Siverlane Express was something that I really appreciated, even if it was something very short. I ealready talk about Archie in one giant paragraph, and again, Wilson is here too.

There isn't really anything I "disliked" about this book, but at most, I only have a few nitpicks. The Ink Demon appears in the story, but compared to DCTL and TLO, I feel FTB is definitely the book where he appears the least. I mean, yeah, the story isn't about him in the end, but it's still something I managed to notice. I also feel that, in my opinion, this is the least "scary" of the 3. Not that it doesn't have "scary" elements but still, compared to moments in the other books like Buddy in the infirmary, or the TLO trio in the old factory, I don't know if this book would be the most "scary" of the trilogy. However,FTB still has several suspenseful scenes (the Bendy visions, some scenes with Ollie, Archie's pre-introduction, Wilson in the library), which I also like anyway. And I'll admit. While this idea isn't that far out there - and in the context of the story, it makes sense - I kind of raised an eyebrow a little at the whole "using your mind/imagination to get out of the ink realm" thing. It is not bad! And again, with what we saw in the book, this idea actually fits with what we had seen so far in the story. But I can't lie that when we got to this moment I was like "oh, this is something that happened, I guess", you know? But even so, I didn't dislike the idea.

(I once saw someone describe this part of the book as "they canonized no-clipping in Bendy" and you know what? I think that's funny. I think we need to start referring to this idea in the book as that instead of "using the imagination" /hj)

But even so, even with these small "nitpicks", I still had a lot of fun with this book. I really enjoyed reading it, and not only is it now one of my favorite Bendy books so far, I dare say it's one of my favorite things about the franchise in general. Like, if I had to make a top 3 of my favorite things from the Bendy series so far, I'd say it's this book and the first two mainline games. I guess this is to show how much I enjoyed the book!

And with that, my journey with the Bendy books ends. At least, with the books I managed to have access so far. I have no plans to pursue the updated version of the Employee Handbook so far, but from what I've heard and seen so far, I'm not missing anything too important. And the DCTL graphic novel….exists. It's definitely a graphic novel that exists. Dare I say that it is definitely one of the graphic novels of all time, alright. But what have I read so far? It was what I would say, a good journey. I've been interested in the Bendy books for a long time, and it's been a while since I read them, and I'm glad I did, despite recent events. Of course, they have their flaws and problems too, I have things about them that I myself identify as bumps in the road (and that applies to the novel trilogy too btw) But even with them in mind and acknowledging them, I still think that they are worth something. And I hope people still continue to recognize them and give them a chance. Even with its flaws, and with their whole canocity thing that happened a while ago, I still believe that people should check out the books eventually. Give it a chance, you know? If they did, and liked what they read, great! But if they don't like it, that's okay too! In the end, at least they, on both sides, gave it a chance. And that's what I at least want to see. I don't like the idea of discarding these things and pretending they don't exist just because the devs said they aren't canon to the games (because, in my view, just because the books aren't canon doesn't make them without value or that you can't have fun with them after all)

WOW, this is getting long, I think I got carried away. I think that's all I had to say. To conclude everything, here is my list of the Bendy books that I like the most and the ones I like least:

Fade To Black (I've already talked a lot about this book)

Dreams Come To Life (hand in hand with FTB being in first place. It has its flaws, some that may have already been mentioned before, but I still found myself liking it in the end. For a first novel, it worked out fine)

Crack-Up Comics (Really liked the comics. It's good to see more things related to the cartoon characters, and I like some of the characters introduced. Pretty fun stuff)

The Lost Ones (it's not a very "Bendy" focused book compared to the others, and I don't blame those who didn't like this one because of the lack of many Bendy elements, but I confess that I still liked it as much as the other 2, and I loved the protagonists of this one. Even so, of the trilogy, it is the weakest book)

The Illusion of Living (In itself, it's an interesting read. It's really cool to see more of Joey from a deeper angle, and see more of his past. But I confess that it's not my favorite read, and I still prefer the main novels. Not bad, tho)

JDS Employee Handbook (2019) (For the first Bendy book overall, it's not bad, and I like the lore tidbits it has. But compared to the rest, it's actually the weakest)

The TL;DR is: Fade To Black is fun and my favorite, I liked its story and characters. I liked the books. Check them out if you want. If you liked them, cool. If you didn't like them, that's cool too. Read in general.

And if you've read this far: Thank you! And at the same time, I'm sorry! Have a good day/afternoon/night everyone. Peace.

#bendy and the ink machine #batim #bendy and the dark revival #batdr #bendy: fade to black #bendy ftb #rose sorenson #evan ftb #archie carter #ollie sorenson #crookedsmileart #SORRY FOR 2/3 OF THE POST BEING LONG AS HECK #I got carried away a lot and there was no way back #I considered kind of deleting everything and rewriting it in a shorter way #but then I would erase a work that I could not erase #So there it is; my review (kind of) of Fade To Black #a book that changed my brain probably #and for now; my marathon of rereading the Bendy books is over #for now at least #I'm going to reread the trilogy again this year; I hope lol #Now I wait for a fourth novel #I really hope we get past 3 novels #I doubt we won't have a fourth book written by Kress #But still #I hope this really happens #I had a lot of fun with FTB; I don't want to stop here; you know #as a side note; I have no plans to read the books that will come out this year #not in the tradicional way at least;#i'll figure it out;just saying #blink;blink

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thechechogp · 10 months ago

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angelofthepage · 2 years ago

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Joey Drew's All-Star Music Review is the very first Bendy Fambassadors project. It was made with love as a collaboration of the BATDR Voice Cast with a group of fans who brought the visual aspect of it to life. Using their character voices, the VAs had a blast singing various songs and parodies for this musical line-up. It's so full of, well, character! The Fambassadors were responsible for the album covers, pngtuber styled character models, vector graphics, animation, video editing, typography, and even a little audio editing when it came to the promo trailer. It was a massive undertaking for three weeks, and we hope you enjoy the fruits of our labor! This was made with love for you, our wonderful fan community. <3

We've gotten a lot of requests to have singular tracks available for these songs. Lauren Synger released all of the songs from this project as MP3s over on her Twitter page. In the effort to make sure those get to the people that want them, I'm linking all of those posts here for your convenience under the cut. Think of this as an unofficial masterpost of sorts. Also, fun fact, each of the MP3s have the album covers embedded in them, so they’ll display on your music player when you play the songs!

Warning, there are spoilers for the musical line-up and BATDR, so viewer discretion is advised if you don't want to see that just yet.

MP3s:

Heidi's Introduction

https://twitter.com/LaurenSynger/status/1606335243471900674?s=20&t=vlSX4SzSt99Pzbjgv0Kt5A

https://t.co/EMq9n18gM3

Bertrum Piedmont and Angus Newman - If I Didn't Care

https://twitter.com/LaurenSynger/status/1606335975633870854?s=20&t=vlSX4SzSt99Pzbjgv0Kt5A

https://1drv.ms/u/s!At8YGixOZa4L6jmrTaRboKm052Me?e=hHfAqw

Keeper (Lani Minella) - Keeperlujah

https://twitter.com/LaurenSynger/status/1606337469263319040

https://1drv.ms/u/s!At8YGixOZa4L6jVj5s56UqSsqYdj?e=QAR8xv

Dale Little - 41-uhhh...

https://twitter.com/LaurenSynger/status/1606338813348945920

https://1drv.ms/u/s!At8YGixOZa4L6jcEf3a2ySlkK9V0?e=oUhRxb

Grant Cohen - Contract Made of Fire

https://twitter.com/LaurenSynger/status/1606339598115799040?s=20

https://1drv.ms/u/s!At8YGixOZa4L6jYsfU9F9efnSt5W?e=orh71P

Keeper (Jason Charles Miller) - We Are the Keepers

https://twitter.com/LaurenSynger/status/1606340731097882625?s=20

https://1drv.ms/u/s!At8YGixOZa4L6jgxIFTABbGeufHp?e=xabY6q

Betty - Man! I Feel like a Woman

https://twitter.com/LaurenSynger/status/1606342191466569729?s=20

https://1drv.ms/u/s!At8YGixOZa4L6jpI8t838XaRGfh2?e=nH0KzP

Wilson’s Greatest Hits (Compilation)

https://twitter.com/LaurenSynger/status/1606343883922837521?s=20

https://1drv.ms/u/s!At8YGixOZa4L6j2eIkWEn3ZtNVjI?e=MgcR3G

Sammy Lawrence - Can I Get an Amen?

https://twitter.com/LaurenSynger/status/1606344485557997578?s=20

https://1drv.ms/u/s!At8YGixOZa4L6jwU9RrVP0eLOpHr?e=bimOjd

Twisted Alice Angel - Inky Girls Need Love Too

https://twitter.com/LaurenSynger/status/1606345155392540673?s=20

https://1drv.ms/u/s!At8YGixOZa4L6j9Ky-NrtsxO5Mr8?e=cQZpTc

Audrey - Hopeless Gloom

https://twitter.com/LaurenSynger/status/1606345854880620545?s=20

https://1drv.ms/u/s!At8YGixOZa4L6j6eF9GbNVdxGQ_-?e=8loTbx

Porter Show! (Compilation)

https://twitter.com/LaurenSynger/status/1606347477631741952?s=20

https://1drv.ms/u/s!At8YGixOZa4L6jF9jScxzzDZOor1?e=eELTfb

Joey Drew - I’ll be Drawing You

https://twitter.com/LaurenSynger/status/1606348277259145218?s=20

https://1drv.ms/u/s!At8YGixOZa4L6jKZOI4syUSBJlEQ?e=tfdgc4

Ink Demon - Never Gonna Give You Up (Finale)

https://twitter.com/LaurenSynger/status/1606636727170392072?s=20

https://1drv.ms/u/s!At8YGixOZa4L6jP9qulbu8kjCJca?e=Jq6vCn

Promotional Teaser Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKUyTaVnItA

Final Video File

https://twitter.com/LaurenSynger/status/1606363708631810048?s=20

https://1drv.ms/v/s!At8YGixOZa4L6i_y6vqwmZBQXvsB?e=J6osiy

Yes, the team decided to include a download of the entire project for those of you who are watching in regions where the original is blocked.

As of this point in time, no one knows what’s gonna come next for the Fambassadors, but goodness knows whatever it is, it’ll be one exciting ride! I don’t expect it to be completely comprised of video projects, but for the sake of organizing the ones that are video related, I’ve made a playlist on my own YouTube channel so that they’re organized and easily accessible.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwxN-wSp5QCoRxMIF0sDLtDosuinn6_ye

Once again, thank you all so much for your love and support on this project, it means the world! I hope you continue to enjoy it via these audio files, goodness knows I love to pop them on while I’m cooking or drawing. XD Take care, here’s wishing you all a fantastic day, go make your dreams come true!

#batdr #bendy and the dark revival #joey drew #joey drew all-star music review #bendy fambassadors #bendy #batdr spoilers

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ahmedmootaz · 2 years ago

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Bendy And The Dark Revival: Thoughts and Opinions.

Yup, exactly what the title says this is. I just finished the game (~<1 hour ago as of the time of writing), and I had a few opinions I wanted to share. Consider this a sort of mini-review.

And obviously, this post is going to be the absolute motherload of every single sort of possible and impossible spoiler that may have spoilered in the history of spoilering since The Greatest Spoilering Of All Time.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Firstly, let's talk about the good parts! That's always a good way to start these things off, eh?

-First of all, he graphics are GREAT, the improvements done by The Meatly here are impeccable; the shadows and the general graphical atmosphere really sucks you in, even when playing on the lowest graphical settings, and some areas can be a treat to observe and watch, like the city in Chapter 4 when you're watching it from the glass window where you first meet little Bendy. I cannot understate how good the graphics can look at some points, and this also extends to entities and enemies, as they have unique designs that sill feel as if they belong to the Bendy universe, alongside the classic ones like the Butcher Gang, of course.

-The movement of Audrey is a whole lot smoother than Henry's ever was. When I played the original Bendy And The Ink Machine, the movements were sluggish almost, and the mouse sensitivity was either non-existent or too speedy that I couldn't notice it. Overall, I'd definitely consider it a plus that moving isn't actively impeded by some development hiccups this time around. Sprinting and running around is also fun to do and can lead to some tense moments when you're escaping an enemy.

-The game rewards exploration of its areas with the various rewards it hands out, like Audrey's upgrades or Gent's various contraptions and bits and bobs that simply lay about in the Studio with how useful they can be for the Gent Pipe upgrades. The same goes for exploring and finding the coins necessary to be able to heal yourself and buy coffee/food.

-The game's areas can be very diverse and even beautiful at times. The world itself is very well-crafted, and the fact that it loops on itself with the metro system and the areas being interconnected was a delight to experience, especially the connection between Wilson's manor and its northern and southern wings. I was delighted to find out I had re-entered the mansion through the closed doors I couldn't open when I first entered. The level design was definitely a highlight at points.

-BATDR is absolutely magnificent with friends. For context, I played this game from start to finish with my siblings on hard mode, and it can be a hilarious, tense, and sometimes terrifying journey. Discussing theories together or trying to beat a difficult part or ranting about a boss or two was never more fun than with friends, and I don't know if this is just me, but I felt that I enjoyed playing BATDR with my siblings a bit more than BATIM, probably thanks to the better controls not frustrating them.

So, for me, those were the very, very solid and good parts that this game provided, alongside the notably fewer amount of bugs compared to BATIM, of course. Those really helped me enjoy my journey throughout it a lot more, although that doesn't mean I enjoyed everything, unfortunately. Despite that fact that the bad parts should've been overshadowed by the good ones, I felt they always stuck out like a sore thumb whenever they were there, and one of the MOST prominent ones to me was:

-The dialogue. I often don't like disparaging game dialogue, but the dialogue throughout much of the game was rather painful to listen to. While the audio-logs were as good as they had been in BATIM, the dialogue between characters was especially jarring. From the very first piece of dialogue between Audrey and Alison, I found that the way the dialogue flowed was rigid. The introductions were awkward, and they lacked crucial information from both sides, instead going for vague descriptions like "he likes to smile...and he kills everything that moves!", which...almost breaks the immersion that the game tries building so very hard.

My biggest issue is that this is not limited to a specific section; the dialogue's tone shifts wildly in the same scenes, the phrasing and the words themselves don't fit, and rarely is important information conveyed through the dialogue. I found myself involuntarily laughing at parts that were meant to be serious due to how they were phrased, and I cannot blame the voice actors, as their work was very well-done, especially the Joey and Wilson actors, and although their dialogue was some of the best in the game, it was still awkward at points, perhaps due to the fact that none of the characters, Audrey excluded, had too much screen-time, which meant that they needed to convey as much information as possible and also play a role in the game's plot in their limited time, hence needing compact dialogue that fit everything at once in a short period of time. Speaking of which...

-There were too many characters for the game's length. I have heard that BATDR had some development trouble, so I understand that they had to make-do with some of the parts they had already, but the focus on Gent Corp. was, while very interesting at points, ultimately harmful as there was no payoff save for the teaser after the ending, seeing how the game revolved around Wilson and he rarely mentioned them except in a few parts, and for the most part, they had no relation to Wilson; instead, most references to them mentioned how they worked with Joey during the last days of the studio, which, for a game focusing on Audrey and Wilson, doesn't really make them the focal point of the game, so I don't understand why they got so much attention.

But there were also so many characters in the audio-logs that appeared for a single time and then disappeared forever. I get that they were meant to worldbuild with Gent, but when Gent themselves didn't play a major role in Wilson's story, it only helped split the game's narrative focus, at least in my eyes, especially seeing how very few logs talked about Wilson, and those were mostly by Wilson himself.

I know this is also present in BATIM, however, I felt that a good portion of the characters in audio-logs were very much related to Joey and the Studio, and we also had recurring characters, which helped build their stories without seeing them, like with Norman, Sammy, etcetra... Something that's not really repeated in BATDR, with the notable exception of Wilson.

-Speaking of Wilson, his role was very...meh. Everyone and their mother predicted he would be the villain, but what really, really disappointed me was how they treated his double-turn as a surprise. I thought that they were going to subvert expectations and have an ending where we side with Wilson and another one where we don't, but the fact that they treated his face-heel 'reveal' to be a big surprise was a letdown because it was really foreseeable. They had so much potential with him, and yet we know so little about him since, unlike Joey in BATIM, Wilson rarely has anyone else talk about him, whether in audio-logs or notes.

His motives were also hilariously absurd, though not in an especially good way. I remember that my siblings and I burst into laughter when his motives to rule the ink-realm was that his father didn't support him, and you know what? Sure, that CAN be a valid motive with enough backstory, but the thing is that there's no buildup. There's no anticipation or hinting at Wilson's relationship with his father. It is daddy issues at the most basic of levels and it's revealed during his face-heel reveal, and it's also not exactly the sort of mistreatment that makes someone subjugate a realm and kill (ink)people. Overall, Wilson had a lot of potential...it's just a shame barely any of it was used.

-Speaking of issues with the narrative, the story felt all over the place at times. Alison appeared at the start of the story, disappeared, and then talked to us after the first boss, but then she went away again and appeared to kill Alice, which was a cool moment, don't get me wrong, I just wasn't attached enough to her to appreciate the parallels to her saving Henry BATIM, seeing how she virtually has no screen-time.

Speaking of whom, Alice?! What was she doing there? How did she appear all of a sudden? Why was she there? How did Wilson not notice or neutralise her? How did she get into Wilson's manor? Why was she free but everyone from Henry's loops in BATIM caged? Her appearance was so sudden, and although I did really enjoy her return since her voice-acting and fight were fun, I just didn't enjoy how, thematically, it didn't make a lot of sense to just include her for no reason at all when it also didn't carry as much emotion and meaning to it like it did with Henry in BATIM, seeing how we dealt with her over the course of multiple Chapters.

This is actually one of the things that irked me most with the narrative; the game didn't seem to know what to do with the old characters. At first, I thought that with Alison appearing so soon, that we were going to meet the original BATIM crew and try and team-up with them against Wilson, but when she disappeared, I thought we were going to focus on the new characters, but then we met Henry and the old crew in the Cycle Breakers room and I believed they would play an important role in the fifth Chapter, but again, we only spoke with Henry once and then saw him again at the end of the game, which, I must admit, was quite cool in the heat of the moment as Beast Bendy, it was just underwhelming to think "Wait, that's all?" after the credits started rolling.

This hits especially true with the example of Sammy, who was hinted at throughout the entire game and across multiple Chapters, only to be shot at the end and die in a scene where most would've missed him. I wasn't his biggest fan myself, but I know how much a lot of people like him, and so treating him like this was a bit unkind to his fans, I feel. He could've been entirely absent from the game and nothing would've changed.

-Speaking on one, final note about the narrative, it felt as if there were a lot of unneeded and unnecessary gameplay decisions that broke the cohesion and flow of the story and caused a lot of frustration...At least for me. This is most apparent in the parts where you needed to back-track to earlier areas, especially the one part where you needed to return to the very first area of the game to get the heart you needed to feed to big ink monster, though it wasn't the only part where you needed to backtrack. There were also side-stories with the Lost Ones that interrupted otherwise grandiose and important moments, like the entry to the Cycle Breakers room being interrupted by a Lost One. While her quest was very sweet, I didn't really feel a sense of satisfaction when I finally found her as much as I went 'Finally!'.

-On the gameplay front, I almost felt like there were too many Lost Ones. I lost track of how many times I died to them, regardless of how many I killed, or how many times I encountered Demon Bendy, which lowered the value of their jumpscares. It was also annoying, in fact, the constantly worry about Bendy's incursions and saving every five seconds to make sure I lost no progress, something I felt was unnecessary with how often he popped up...However, this could also be entirely due to the fact that I was playing on Hard mode, so I will not hold this point against the game.

-And lastly, somehow, I don't feel as if there were that many tracks that stood out to me in the OST...Although that in particular can be my rose-tinted glasses remembering BATIM's soundtrack more fondly that it actually was.

So those were my thoughts about Bendy And The Dark Revival! Admittedly, while it can seem as if I had a lot of negative things to say about the game, that's mostly because I care a lot about the story in games like these, and I felt it wasn't really as gripping as I had hoped, even though there were plenty of things that made it a good game, it's just that standing up from BATIM's shadow was never going to be easy, and there were a few missteps, in my opinion.

Still, the game was quite fun to play through, and I have to give it either a 6.5 or a solid 7 out of 10 for me. It's worth trying for sure, though I'd temper my expectations going in.

#bendy and the dark revival spoilers #BATDR #batdr #batdr wilson #BATIM #(in a way)#batdr spoilers #review thingy #Sorry if this isn't my usual style of posts #I just thought I'd try it and see what everyone thinks #Do you agree or disagree? Share your thoughts! I'm eager to hear them!#This game is great for making me laugh with my siblings whenever we banished a Lost One while yelling 'CONSUUUUUME'#Seriously play this with a friend or a sibling you won't regret it

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dicasmarkt · 1 year ago

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gbhbl · 2 years ago

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Game Review: Bendy and the Dark Revival (Xbox Series X)

Bendy and the Dark Revival leaves an impression. Showcasing the sequel virtues of ‘bigger’ and ‘bolder’, but not quite hitting the ‘better’ mark.

It has been a long wait for the much-anticipated follow-up to the first-person horror game, Bendy and the Ink Machine. Released in October 2018, the game was developed and published by Kindly Beast under the name of the game’s in-universe animation studio Joey Drew Studios Inc. In it, players take on the role of Henry Stein, a retired animator who used to work for Joey Drew Studios. He gets an…

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#Bendy #Bendy and the Dark Revival #Bendy and the Ink Machine #Game Review #Xbox Series X

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inkdemonapologist · 7 months ago

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are you excited for the big role sammy's going to play in Cage?? im apprehensive... i love him a feral amount and i was real disappointed with his 2 seconds of screentime in BatDR

also just saying ur sammy drawings give me life he looks wonderful in hats

brought to u by ⭐️ anon

Hehehe aw thank you!! :D

There’s a lot of things in Dark Revival I ended up disappointed about, but despite my love of Sammy Lawrence, Sammy barely appearing was not really one of them. At the time, I’d commented to friends that the complete lack of Sammy mentions in the hype leading up to BatDR meant he was either very important or had only a cameo appearance, and I was actually pretty delighted about the Cyclebreaker cameo – it’s a moment that takes him startlingly seriously, that wasn’t just him quoting one of his four catch phrases; it’s... a kind of moment we haven’t seen from Sammy before. The part where he gets shot was like, where my expectations were, so the cyclebreaker thing was a pleasant surprise.

But like, ever since The Cage was announced… we knew Sammy kind of had to be in it. Like, Henry says “how did WE escape” and it’s set in the SPECIFIC place and time that Sammy also is; literally the only reason for Sammy to not be a significant character is if the creators actually didn’t want anything to do with him. So I have to admit the announcement that WE CAN CONFIRM that SAMMY WILL PLAY A MAJOR ROLE IN THE CAGE!!!!!!! RESTORED TO HIS CHAPTER 2 CREEPY GLORY! is just…… ugh, it’s hard to articulate why this tweet frustrates me so much.

Like………………….. "he's in it more" is not the only thing people care about, surely! What is he doing? What is his role in all this? What does he even WANT? In a review, "he's back to his chapter 2 creepy glory" would be a powerful recommendation; in a tweet from the creator right after preorders go up, it feels more like, "Hey, remember the thing you wanted? we DEFINITELY did that thing you wanted and we did it SUPER WELL so preorder our game please!!" Give us an intriguing line of dialogue or a hint about what he's doing (opposing you? helping you? uneasy truce? trying to find bendy?) and you wouldn't even need to promise us that he plays a major role; we'd be curious to learn more.

So this reassurance ends up doing the opposite, for me, because I still don't know if the creators even understand what I like about Sammy. The thing is that the circumstances of BatDR (there's a little Bendy running around, the Ink Demon is claimed dead but actually it's not, Wilson is trying to become the Lost Ones' new Big Brother) could've been INCREDIBLY relevant to Sammy -- that's why people wanted him to show up in BatDR, to see what he thinks of these developments and how he would react to them!! So if you're interested in Sammy, the character, then it would not be hard to hint at like, what his deal is – "Sammy knows the Ink Demon is out there somewhere and Henry is the key to finding him" or "after the disappearance of his Lord he's become a desperate man who's as much an obstacle as an ally" or even "Sammy was defiant when he went into the Pit -- what will Henry find when he encounters him now?" or w/e -- simply insisting HES LIKE HE WAS IN CHAPTER TWO, THE ONE YOU GUYS LIKE instead of being able to think of a single character-based hint that we might find compelling is, tbh, rather un-reassuring!!!

My complaint about Twisted Alice’s role in BatDR was that ultimately, it felt like they were just trying to capture the vibes that Twisted Alice had in BatIM instead of really exploring what that character would be doing HERE, in THIS situation. Nothing she’s doing really makes sense, and what IS there seems to have forgotten what her actual deal is, but she’s doing it with the right flair, so it feels like she’s in-character enough for the scene to be fun. Like an episodic cartoon that just forgets what happened in previous episodes depending on who’s writing this one. So… I think that’s a real risk for Sammy. For the people who just want him to show up and whisper cult-ish things so we can hear his voice more and go HEHEHE ITS HIM, this isn’t really a concern lmao, that will probably happen. I don’t have high hopes that he’ll make sense as a character, but tbf I don’t know that he ever has.

And IDK, its still early, its possible the cage will come out and I'll look up spoilers and be like OMG NM I LOVE WHAT THEY DID WITH HIM. A game that's supposed to be psychological horror could, in theory, be a really fun place for Sammy!! Maybe the people actually writing him will give him more care, haha. It's a little silly for me to be so worked up about the marketing for a game that I am not going to buy b/c I’m still not interested in giving JDS, Inc. my money. AND YET DESPITE IT ALL I STILL… CARE ABOUT SAMMY LAWRENCE LMAO….. I think my main emotion about The Cage is just curiosity, though. I do want to know what they do with him. I’m curious if he’ll play a major part in the story, or if he’s like Henry or Porter in BatDR, with one big scene where he gets a bunch of lines and then runs off. A lot of people really want to see Henry and Sammy team up in this, but I’m not writing off the possibility he’s an antagonist of some kind, so I’m curious which way that’ll go. But I don’t feel like I have any strong expectations, so I guess we’ll see!

#sammy lawrence #i know you have questions you always do #bendy saltposting #finally makes a tag so u can mute me being salty abt the franchise if ur not here for that!!

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insane-control-room · 8 months ago

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Some things are meant to be remembered; for the right reasons.

i've posted this review on steam, but i think that i want to say it here, too.

Here is my review of the 'promotional' material (according to steam) Secrets of the Machine

What I liked: the art appeared to be a true return to form; the style had its original charm with updated lighting techniques and slightly better optimization than previous games in the Bendy series. The audio design was also nice, with good ambiance and nice composition.

And now, the jank.

The game handles reasonably well; but it is clearly slapdashed together and is missing important components. There is no starting menu. There are no loading screens; and it is very jarring. There are no options in the game menu - you cannot minimize the game, you cannot brighten the game, you cannot make the game run any better on your computer, and it is incredibly laggy. If you have a potato laptop? Nah, get out. No game for you. There are no subtitles that you can enable, and voices are very muffled. Additionally, the game is very dark, and as mentioned, you cannot adjust that in the settings of the game, nor in steam settings. You have to do so from your computer.

Controls are extremely janky, as you cannot run, you cannot jump, and there is no indication for interaction with any objects. There are no control settings for remapping, and you cannot even see which keys do what.

Puzzles are boring and confusing; with no guidance. There were no hints, no rhyme or reason. There was more puzzle in the BATIM chapter 1 demo release. This thing is very confusing, especially when you cannot see anything at all. You will spend a long time walking back and forth between two rooms, wondering how you can progress, because you've done everything you could: you smashed cutouts; you hit targets; you opened and closed hands; you found posters for future games, but nothing that could move forward the one you were playing at the time. If you look at the community page, you will see that most people simply spent their time clicking on the soup can dispenser to see how many cans they could get.

If you have epilepsy, nah get out. Oh? I didn't mention the flashing lights? Well the developers did not either. Not only did they not mention the flashing lights, not in the game nor in steam, but they included TWO car crashes without warning - one audio based, and another that was directed at players. This is not only rude, but it is dangerous. Warnings exist so that people can make educated choices whether or not to interact with content that may be sensitive to them. Warn people appropriately. This 'game' did not take any measure to protect its players. There are many instances of sudden loud noises, flashing lights, and jarring location switches (not to mention the car crashes).

The story was lacking, and has nothing to do with the puzzles that a player is faced with. It feels like three disjointed tracks, and none of them align, all of them crashing together in a discordant, unsatisfying, confusing mess. It brought in more new characters that had nothing to do with the original story nor interested players, and had content that went against previously established material. It was (as you can tell, from a writer's perspective) a bad story.

It was less of a demo, less of a playable trailer, more like a tech demo with a few morsels for fans to pick apart and wish there was more of, wish there was more effort put into, wish there was more love and care for them, the players who arguably were the foundation of this game. There were teasers for games that, honestly, lacked the soul that the very first game had, and here's a point to prove it: there was an easter egg that if you clicked something 414 times (very funny.) it would rise in the air and then fall down without further ado. In the game files, the name for that sound effect? Sting. Yeah. It did. Games are a collaborative work; between the creators and the players. Blatant disregard and flippancy towards half of the collaboration is not acceptable behavior. This is a development team that mocks those who once loved them most, those who poured over their coding and carefully crafted world to marvel at what they had made, and coaxed in others with the rich promise of a delightful story that anyone could engage with on any level. The spite the creators have shown for the individuals who, essentially, had given rise to their stature in the first place, is painful.

Finally, by the time that I got a chance to sit down and actually play the game- I personally could not. The developers, by constantly updating a clearly unfinished game, had made their final update - that of a wood board blocking the actual place where gameplay takes place. You cannot go to any of the places shown in the screenshots, because the game is locked on the opening area. I've seen many people complaining of it; hoping that they can play the game.

Now, in the fashion we've seen common of JDS, they have rescinded their terrible design choice - but without notifying players that it is now possible to play the game; without telling players that this was purposeful; without telling players anything aside from a big old screw you. It is entirely possible that the only reason they put the game back into a playable state was the torrent of negative reviews that spawned after their. interesting. choice. regardless, those who care about their playerbase would have informed those who complained that it was a temporary gesture for storytelling reasons. They, however, did not, and there are a multitude of reviews marking the game as unplayable.

No matter what, the bottom line is this: This is not okay.

I'm not sure how much more eloquently I can put the fact that I'm heartbroken. This game, unlike any other, shows how much scorn that a developer can have for their own fans and playerbase. I am glad that there are people who enjoyed it, but I wonder - what did you really like about it?

Is it the memories?

#control critique #secrets of the machine #bendy #batim #bendy secrets of the machine #bendy and the ink machine #bsotm #bsotm review #game review

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sky-lia · 2 years ago

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Congrats on being a part of the All-Star Music Review!! 💛

Aw thank you so much !! :D 💛

#ask #all star music review #multi-level-shipper #batim #bendy and the ink machine #batdr #bendy and the dark revival

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victorsandvanquishers · 4 months ago

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In Dreams Until My Death, I Will Wander On

Fandom: DC Comics

Ships: Bart Allen/Kon El

Ratings: T

Warnings: cosmic horror, mental illness on 9000, tasteful nudity that is not at all sexualized, area man becomes a god and has a hard time processing it despite having a hot babe of a boyfriend

Summary: After Bart’s realization about his part in the Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths, he wonders if he can keep it together long enough to complete his end of the bargain with The Great Darkness and The Speed Force. It’s a bargain he doesn’t even remember making, but it’s the one keeping Kon safe. And maybe, it’ll help him find the rest of his friends and family too.

[post-House of Brainiac; disregards Simon Spurrier's The Flash; direct sequel to 'The Deification of One Bartholomew Henry Allen II'; written for 2024 BartKon Week (Heart & Bones Edition), Day 6 - Realizations & Confessions + Only Lovers Left Alive]

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Title gently borrowed from Audioslave's Like a Stone.

To appreciate this story to its fullest, I recommend reading/rereading Zero Hour: Crisis in Time by Dan Jurgens. That, or at least look up what happened with Hal and Ollie. :'>

If you want a playlist running in the background as you read, I recommend playing Audioslave's Like a Stone, Goo Goo Dolls' Iris, and Red Hot Chili Peppers' Can't Stop on loop. :3

This is probably my MOST self-indulgent story in all of the DC Comics fanfiction I've written this past year and a half. I wish Bendis and Gleason got to finish their story for Bart and Kon, but alas, we carry on. Mayhaps in another reboot ten years down the line, they will finally kiss in canon. Until then, I will fill in the blanks :'>

Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoy the rest of the shipweek! Don't forget to leave a review~ (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

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fishymom-art · 2 months ago

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Hello everybody, I'm the nostalgia critic, I remember it so you don't have to!

Today well be reviewing A tumblr blog that has been around since November 9th 2019 that first posted about bendy and the ink machine: dark revival! with fanart of Audrey.

This tumblr blog inspires alot of heart, soul and feeling into it's content, and has touched us all for years, bringing us good times and bad times, a tumblr blog for the ages!

I gotta say I rate it a 9 out of 10!

aawwww that's adorable actually

also holy shit it's almost my 5 years anniversary on this blog woah

#fishymom-ask #bringing us good times and BAD times????? XDDDDD #that wasn't me i swear that was the anons that harassed me

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tearsofthefilmreviews · 10 months ago

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I AM A FAN OF MADAME WEB AND HERE’S WHY - REVIEW

Madame Web is perhaps the most controversial and hated of Sony’s attempts into this universe. I went into this hoping to like it, but having in the back of my head that I might not. My friend predicted a 2/10 or 8/10 from me…and let’s just say it definitely came out in the higher end of things for me. I’ll start this review off with the main negative that loses the film points, and then get into the great stuff it has to offer, and why I think it is an overhated film.

Without further ado…

-The Main Negative-

Our villain, Ezekiel, is the main cost of points. This is mainly due to writing issues with him and the performance being the most lacking of the film, and his vocals feeling too overdramatized. It feels off at times and serviceable otherwise. This is my main criticism of the film, and caused a decent chunk of point loss due to it. There isn’t much else to say in this respect besides the villain overall is messily handled compared to the rest of the film. It’s unfortunate, but it didn’t ruin the film for me whatsoever; it just made it not a 9/10.

-The Technicals-

Before getting into the narrative and acting, I want to touch on the filmmaking aspects of Madame Web. There are a lot of interesting shots and visual effects employed through the film; particularly, whenever we see Cassie’s visions of the future playing out, as well as moments replaying themselves around her, I thought it was very visually interesting and engaging, and really sold the chaos that she must be feeling as this all goes on, and the deja vu that is remarked on. It was honestly one of my favourite aspects of the film, and I am happy it was used to its potential and not just discarded after one use; we see many moments like this through the film. I’ll go into detail on two scenes in particular and why I thought they were executed fantastically.

(Diner Scene)

This scene is one of the highlights of the film, as is the other scene I’ll get into below. The diner scene has both its moments that felt great, and also some quite funny moments. A chunk of it is to the tube of Britney Spears, and there’s what feels like a clearly intentional hilarity to this big, dramatic fight sequence happening with a pop song in the background. I also thought the cinematography during this scene was great, and the transition when Cassie gets stabbed is honestly super satisfying visually. It is another great example of the future sight and rewind powers being used to great effect, and it also uses the setting in a good way. It’s also the prime example of Cassie starting to really come into her powers, as she changes the future that she herself witnessed and participated in; changing the timeline of the web that she and the girls are in. I also really like the lighting in this sequence, between the dark forest roads and the diner itself, the atmosphere of each location is sold clearly. This goes for the whole film as well.

(Metro Scene)

This scene is also excellent, and is a fantastic showcase of the editing prowess in the film. Its mind-bendy in such a fun way. In particular I am talking about when Cassie and the girls are all on the train, and Cassie is seeing the girls dying over and over, as they get on and the conflict begins to kick into gear. It really does a wonderful job of showing how chaotic it is at first for her, having these visions of the future, as things are much more fragmented here than say, in the climax. The train passes by multiple times, people repeating lines and sitting, visions of the deaths…it all blends into a great, chaotic inciting incident as Cassie’s responsibility becomes the girls’ safety. The scene is one of the better ones from Ezekiel too, as is the above diner scene.

(More technical details)

I think there are a lot of interesting - and sometimes funny - shots and editing moments in the film. In particular, the funniest moment has to be the dramatic setup to Cassie trying to climb on walls like a Spidey, only to slump down along the wall to the floor, the dramatic music cutting out as she does so. The film has a very solid script in my opinion; a couple of moments that falter, but they are very few and far between. I really like a lot of the cinematography of scenes in general; it looks very nice, and is visually engaging. There’s many great stills from this film that I can pick out easily, and will definitely apply as wallpaper and profile pictures sometime in the future, when more become easily available online. I really like the visual style the film is able to keep throughout, particularly aided by the cinematography and editing, as well as very solid colour grading.

i think that Sony finally got super-suits down well in this film; they all look very good and fit the characters well…Julia’s in particular, and Ezekiel’s is honestly quite good-looking as well.

Overall the film is fantastic in the technical department, and is directed quite well save for a couple of oddities with the lesser performances, described below.

-Narrative and Performances-

First off, let us get the obvious out of the way. Dakota Johnson absolutely kills this role throughout, and I also especially enjoyed the performances of Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, and Celeste O’Connor, though out of the three the show-stealer is definitely Sydney, who nails the awkward, geeky personality. Costuming was also on point all around; I really liked Cassie’s outfits for the whole film, and Julia’s sweater getup is gorgeous. But yes, they carry the film to upper heights with their portrayals of these characters, and Dakota Johnson continues to cement herself as a great actor. She brings a great energy to the film. Also, I do need to mention that again, Ezekiel’s performance is the weakest, followed by Ben Parker, who doesn’t do much and is more just fine than negative-leaning.

As for the narrative itself, I honestly do quite like the direction they took it. It is interesting and fun, and also really develops Cassie’s character very well, as well as those of the girls. It is to the film’s benefit that they didn’t give the girls their powers yet, because it allowed us to explore their characters before they even have that concept in their heads, as well as truly leaving more room for Cassie’s character development and coming filly into her powers by the climax. Not having the same physical strength sort of powers, Cassie has to be quite clever about solving the conflict since she cannot do a physical fight, and I thought that the filmmakers pulled that off super well; she absolutely outsmarts the villain, and I liked the fact that her powers, while incredibly powerful, aren’t all she needs to win the day. She has to think on the dot as well, and really shows how far she comes from the beginning to the end. She becomes more open as a person as well, less awkward in the ending than she is in the beginning, something that Julia comments on after their initial escape. I also found the moment where Cassie sees her mother’s past very touching, especially when she gets to hug her mother. I do also want to touch on the resolution of the film, and in particular, the moment where the girls revive Cassie after she falls into the water and is blinded. It’s a very well-formed moment, and also a strong foreshadowing example; earlier in the film, Cassie taught them CPR, and it comes into play in a strong way by the end. Thematically the film’s mainly about controlling your fate, and having agency in your life. It also makes a clear connection between its main characters besides simply being acquainted; they have all gone through some form of familial hardship, and are able to further their bond because of that. The girls, while maintaining their agency, also learn to think before they act, particularly forwarded by the diner scene.

I really liked the tone that the film had throughout. It’s very engaging, while having fun and funny moments in there as well. The film, to me, really all comes together through the different aspects of it, and makes for a great experience with a compelling lead and interesting narrative that uses the Marvel universe well. I also consider this film overhated, a term I don’t use very lightly. It has so much going for it that films like Venom and Morbius never had, so that fact it is being compared to those (in a way that’s despite them being made by the same company) is kind of crazy to me, let alone being called worse than Morbius. Dakota Johnson’s performance alone makes this film better than the rest by a lot, in my opinion. I know I will be in the minority to be so positive towards Madame Web, and I am fully fine with it, because I do genuinely like so damn much about this film.

-Cassie-

I do wish to get into Cassie’s character before closing off this review. Cassie is a very interesting character, and the way she discovers her powers is intricately linked to it all. She discovers them when she quite literally dies, and begins to see everything in the future, including much foreshadowing for the film itself. She’s both selfless and reserved; her occupation involves saving and helping lives, yet she is quite awkward when appreciation is shown for it. She also has her priorities straight in her head though; she saves the girls and helps protect them despite being initially frustrated with the turn of events. She scolds them after the diner scene for getting themselves into danger, but its at that point that we see how much she clearly has come to care for them, despite her frustrations. She defeats the villain not just with her powers, but with her own cleverness that she demonstrates throughout the film.

-Conclusion-

Overall, Madame Web is a film I am very happy with, and it held up wonderfully on the rewatch. There’s a lot that I like about it in the technical side as well as the narrative side, and though it isn’t perfect, the lead performances along with the other strong aspects - particularly cinematography, narrative and editing - make this the best Sony Universe film, and a great film in its own right. Interesting ideas and characters as well. I’m a fan!

8.2/10 —> 4.1/5

#films #madame web #dakota johnson #sydney sweeney #sony #spider woman #unpopular opinion

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