If you can stomach simple controls, poor combat, and boring backtracking fetch quests, I’d say Bendy and the Ink Machine is at least worth looking at. While there seems to be more gripes than I’d hoped for, I can’t say it’s much different than most of the other indie horror games I’ve seen these days. Mindlessly strafing around an enemy and mashing the melee button hoping to outlast them and then regaining your health before repeating the process is not good game design, it’s boring and unintuitive. Bendy and the Ink Machine programmed the combat so poorly, it almost feels as if they were obligated to include it and rushed it into the final product. The so-called “combat” is a clunky unpolished mess. While it’s nice to have a sense of not knowing where you need to go, as it makes the horror game aspect more enjoyable, I feel once an area has been exhausted, it should stay that way to avoid redundancy. Unfortunately Bendy and the Ink Machine is heavily reliant on backtracking, escaping and fetch-questing, which result in a long periods of restlessness. While the controls are simple, the movement isn’t fast enough for my needs. Some of sounds the enemies are a bit odd, but for the most part it’s pretty solid. Characters are voiced very well and the atmospheric background music is creepy. You move around, jump, interact or “melee” (more onto that later), and each action is mapped to its own button, with nothing convoluted ever being presented. The controls are very simple and approachable. The object manipulation and reorganizing of Bendy statues had me stopping in my tracks to prepare myself for a potential scare. It’s hard not to react to brash unexpected noises and fast movements it’s not so much scary than it is startlingly irritating. I myself am not really affected by the jump scare mechanic, but when I’m gotten, it’s done very cheaply.
You will tread around the environment and collect items in a particular order, with enemies jumping out at planned areas. But you can bet I am going to hold this game to Bioshock’s standards, especially if it’s going to imitate it almost unashamedly.īendy and the Ink Machine is your typical first-person horror game that has been done over and over before. Since Bioshock is a cherished game by many and Infinite being a Top 5 all-time favorite of mine, I appreciate the determination they went with. Though sometimes Bendy and the Ink Machine feels a little glitchy, the all-bright yellow feel to environment with the added effects of ink splatter is a very pleasant touch. While Bioshock had your character explore the depths of Rapture with a common theme of dark rooms and corridors, Bendy has you venture through the animation studio with a common theme of Sepia. From the beginning, I could sense the obvious Bioshock impersonation they were going for.
Bendy and the Ink Machine’s main focus is Henry Stein, a retired animator who has been summoned by an old employer to revisit the old studio he once worked in, only to ascertain that the area has been infested with possessed characters from the show he worked on, seemingly by the Ink Machine.
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