Bendy and the Ink Machine

Love this game can’t wait for the new one

Just a pencil and a dream

Pretty good game with a good story, good characters, and some really good lore. Honestly the only downside I can think of is the $20 price, but it goes on sale for like $1. 7.5/10

very ezz 61 achivements

good game

This game wins for having the worst gameplay I've ever had the displeasure of wading though over the several years I've been playing games. I honestly could write a whole dissertation about everything that's wrong with this game from a story and gameplay perspective, but I feel like doing that will be an exercise in futility. I'm also going to avoid talking about this game's (alleged) controversies which justifiably landed them in hot water. So I'll just say this, I don't find this game scary. It has some interesting ideas but so much of it is drowned out in fetch quests, sluggish movement speed, janky combat, terrible hitboxes, and endless backtracking. The pacing is abysmal and it kills any real tension that's built up. This game fails on so many fundamental levels and it sucks because something as simple as a mini-map, a faster running speed, better UI on the enemies, or some more unsettling death cutscenes like a jumpscare or a graphic noise could partially mend a lot of the issues I had with this game. Even something as basic as a controller or keyboard map in the settings to rebind your controls to your tastes was too much to ask from this game I guess.... To try to balance the negativity, I will say the best aspect of this game is the voice acting, the visuals, the sound mixing, and several of the characters. Specifically the character designs and the original soundtrack were very impressive and incredibly well done. The projectionist stealth segments particularly being a highlight and some of the audio tapes being interesting. But even then, a lot of those come with caveats. The best way to experience this game is to watch someone else play it, not play it yourself. Watching a gamer play the game cuts the tedium because they just edit it out the fat in favor of the the interesting and important stuff. And if that's the best format, I feel like it's safe to say it fundamentally fails as a game. This game also feels like it has so much missed potential because it could never truly pick a lane and decide what it wants to be. There's a lot of foreshadowing that never gets paid off properly and the ending was not properly set up. Nothing illustrates that to me more than chapter 5, which was such a downgrade from chapter 4 (in my opinion, the best chapter) in every capacity. It also feels like the finished product often mistook spectacle for quality, as it removed a lot of the demonic imagery such as pentagrams from the earlier builds. So yeah. Some may say this review is too harsh, since it's a game made for younger audiences and is supposed to be accessible horror. Does it have to be scary to be good? While I do have a fondness for this game for getting me into horror when I watched streams of it, I think a game entitled horror should know how to keep its moments full of tension rather than relying on certain mechanics to just be scary in themselves. Also, I stand by the fact that 1. this game is rated teen so I'm fully allowed to criticize it for its flaws because 2. there are so much better teen rated horror games out there. Little nightmares is an excellent teen horror game with an emphasis on visuals and it excels. As a result, I feel like this game has no excuse. Should we not demand more for our younger audiences? I feel like we should. This game really needs to overhaul its issues with both its story and its gameplay in order to redeem itself in my eyes, and it seems like the devs are uninterested in doing that in favor of making "the next big thing". Which is disappointing to say the least.

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