It’s nice to have a kind of collectible item in a game, but having hundreds per level is kind of overdoing it.
Throughout the game you’ll find tons of cans of bacon soup you can eat. It was also fun to see the cardboard cutout of Bendy following you around as you walk through the game. Things like seeing a partly dissected cartoon character on a table is actually more kind of funny in a gruesome way than it is scary. However, the monsters don’t really feel that scary. The variety in interaction with the monsters is pretty nice it builds tension. You’ll often get glimpses of the monsters already, even when there’s no real danger yet. Sometimes you’ll just need to run, and sometimes you’ll be able to fight the monsters. There are a few jump scares and the usual treat of monsters as expected in a game like this. Sometimes you’ll notice certain objects standing out, even before you’ll encounter the puzzle they belong to, but you can only interact with these objects after you’ve found the actual puzzle. Luckily, the area you’ll need to explore is never too big, so you’ll find your way eventually. However, it can be hard to find the corresponding items as it’s pretty easy to get lost in this game, since the hallways are all in the same colors, so they tend to look alike. The puzzles are rather simple it’s easy to see the solution to any puzzle you’ll encounter. You’ll walk around a lot, encounter puzzles, backtrack to get the items for the puzzle, and proceed to the next area. Environmental sounds are also great, they fit for the objects you’re manipulating, and often sound properly spooky.īendy and the Ink Machine is a typical horror puzzle adventure game. You’ll also find films and radios playing music, which fits the classic cartoon style. You’ll encounter other beings as well, all fully voiced, and you’ll find many tape recordings of people telling about their work at the animation studio.
Throughout the game you’ll hear the character you play with walk around, and commenting on the things he encounters. The game has a nice spooky soundtrack, great to put you in the mood for playing a horror game with all the lights dimmed. While the graphics are pretty cool, they do tend to lose their novelty as you are playing through the game. The ink sometimes spawns inky monsters too, made of the same shiny substance. It fits, but looks a bit strange since it’s not in the same cel-shaded style. Next to these graphics, there’s the ink, shown as a thick black shiny fluid. Even the radios playing music are animated like radios in cartoons were: bouncing up and down. The fact that everything in the game is like a cartoon, but in 3D, is pretty awesome when you start walking around in the game. The style the game is emulating is inspired by classic black & white cartoons, but in this game everything is yellow & black, presumably to give it an aged, yellowed look. The graphics are in a cool looking cartoon style inspired by the early cartoons from around 1930. It’s a nice mechanic to introduce more story into the game. Many of these stories also contain hints for the puzzles you’ll encounter. Scattered throughout the game are several tape recorders, telling a bit more about the studio and the animators and voice actors working there, and the several cartoon characters. Meanwhile, you’ll clearly get the impression you are being followed around by the main cartoon character of the studio, Bendy. Once you are there, you’ll quickly discover a strange machine named the ink machine, which produces far more ink than would ever be used by the animators.
You are Henry, a former employee at an animation studio who receives a mysterious invitation from the studio’s boss, Joey Drew, to visit the studios once again. Encountering cartoon characters may not sound very scary, but rest assured that they are plenty scary in this game! The whole game is in a yellowed black and white cartoon style, making it look pretty unique. Bendy And The Ink Machine is a horror game set in an animation studio from the 1930s, the early age of animation.
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