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Bendy and the Ink Machine is an episodic first-personpuzzleactionsurvival horrorvideo game developed and published by Kindly Beast under the name of the game's in-universe animation studio Joey Drew Studios Inc.^[1][2] It was initially released to Game Jolt on February 10, 2017, as the first of five chapters, with a full release on October 27, 2018. A console port published by Rooster Teeth Games was released on November 20, 2018. On December 21, 2018, a mobile port was released for iOS and Android. The sequel, Bendy and the Dark Revival is in development.

The game follows Henry Stein, a retired animator who returns to his old animation studio Joey Drew Studios from the 1930s after an invitation from his old employer Joey Drew, and discovers a nightmare of cartoon characters seemingly brought to life by the titular Ink Machine.

Bendy and the Ink Machine was well-received upon its initial release, with praise centering on its vintage aesthetic and story. In the months following its release, it quickly gained a massive following from exposure on platforms like YouTube and Twitch, and eventually was approved through Steam Greenlight in mid-2017. Merchandise, as well as a mobile spin-off, was later introduced to further promote the game. Mike Mood, the game's programmer and co-creator, described the game as an 'accidental success'.^[3]

Gameplay[edit]

Bendy and the Ink Machine is a survival horror game that features a mixture of puzzle solving, environment exploration and combat to aid Henry on his journey through the darkened halls of Joey Drew Studios. Players explore through a first-person view and have limited physical actions such as running and jumping. Different items can be collected, some of which are required to perform various tasks before proceeding. Cans of bacon soup, a reference to the game's creator theMeatly and his partner Mike Mood, can also be collected for achievements and to restore Henry's health if he is injured.

Combat is primarily focused around a variety of different melee-based weapons, such as an Double barreled shotgun, pipe, plunger, or scythe. There are also long-range weapons such as a tommy gun or bacon soup cans. In-game enemies all have different strength levels and resilience to damage, forcing players to be tactical about keeping out of reach and striking when necessary. Failure to do so will result in a death. Henry can retreat inside Little Miracle Stations whenever enemies are nearby in order to recover or remain out of sight. If he takes too much damage, he can escape from the ink that consumes him and respawn at one of the numerous statues of Bendy that act as checkpoints.

In addition, players can find numerous audio logs throughout the studio that give more details about the game's story, particularly concerning the fate of the studio and its employees, similar to the systems used in games such as BioShock. Some of these logs can be missed and require further exploration to uncover the secret areas they often reside In.

Plot[edit]

August 1963, retired animator Henry Stein receives a letter from his former employer and boss, Joey Drew, asking him to return to Joey's animation studio and see something important. He visits the studio and finds it abandoned, but discovers an 'ink machine', installed sometime after Henry's departure 30 years earlier. He finds a tape recording that suggests Joey engaged in bizarre occult practices while making the machine, as well as a mutilated real-life analogue of Boris the Wolf, one of the studio's cartoon characters. Once Henry fixes and starts the machine, he is attacked by a creature known as 'Ink Bendy' that looks like an evil version of the studio's mascot Bendy. As the studio begins to fill with ink, Henry flees toward an exit, only for the floor to collapse and drop him into the studio's lower levels. Draining the ink from several rooms, he finds a chamber whose floor is marked with strange diagrams. He hallucinates seeing the ink machine, a wheelchair and then Ink Bendy before passing out.

Henry wakes up and begins to search for a way out, eventually reaching the studio's music department. Henry finds a stairwell leading to the exit, but the entrance is overflowing with ink. While looking for a way to drain it, he is attacked by a gang of ink creatures known as the Searchers; once they are defeated, Henry enters the office of Sammy Lawrence, the studio's musical director. After completing several tasks to drain the ink, Henry hurries toward the exit but is attacked by Sammy, whose body has been transformed into ink. Sammy intends to sacrifice Henry to Ink Bendy in order to regain his humanity, but before he can do so, he is dragged away by Ink Bendy and presumably killed. Henry frees himself and flees through the studio, pursued by Ink Bendy. Barricading himself behind a door, he waits until Ink Bendy has moved on and then comes to face to face with a living, intact Boris, called Buddy Boris.

Henry befriends Buddy Boris, and the two leave the latter's improvised safehouse to continue searching for an exit. In the studio's toy department, they find another ink creature called Alice Angel, who is a distorted version of the good character Alice Angel. Alice leads them to her lair and reveals that she has been harvesting the ink of other characters in an effort to keep herself beautiful. Henry must perform several tasks for Alice in order for her to let him and Buddy Boris go free, learning from tape recordings that Alice's original voice actress, Susie Campbell became bitter when Joey suddenly hired a replacement for her. It is implied that the ink transformed this actress into Alice Angel. As Henry carries out Alice's tasks, he must hide from both Ink Bendy and the Projectionist, an entity of projector operator Norman Polk. Henry completes the tasks and boards a lift to escape with Buddy Boris, but Alice forces it to crash to the bottom of its shaft and suddenly pulls Buddy Boris into the darkness, proclaiming that she wants to use him to fix herself.

Climbing out of the crashed lift, Henry ventures deeper into the studio in search of Buddy Boris and finds a lounge filled with the Lost Ones, ink creatures who show no hostility. He also discovers that Joey had been planning to open a Bendy-themed amusement park with the help of famed ride designer Bertrum Piedmont. Henry enters a large warehouse filled with rides, games, and props from the planned park. In order to reach Buddy Boris, Henry must restore power to the haunted house attraction by finding and flipping a series of switches, one of which is guarded by a ride merged with the remains of a revenge-driven Bertrum. After flipping the last switch, Henry is chased by the Projectionist, who is in turn ambushed by Ink Bendy and killed. Ink Bendy notices Henry but leaves him alone, and Henry enters the haunted house only to find that Alice has turned Buddy Boris into a hulking beast named Brute Boris. Henry is forced to kill him in self-defense. Alice then tries to kill Henry herself in a rage but is killed with a sword from behind. The wielder is Allison Angel, a physically intact and sane duplicate of Alice Angel. She is accompanied by Tom, a wolf character similar to Boris.

Allison Angel and Tom hold Henry captive, but he eventually gains Allison's trust and she gives him a 'seeing tool' that allows him to see hidden messages on the walls. After Tom inadvertently reveals the location of their hideout to Ink Bendy, he and Allison abandon Henry and flee. Henry escapes on his own and crosses a river of ink on a paddleboat, reaching a shantytown built by the Lost Ones. There, Henry is attacked by Sammy, shown to have survived his encounter with Ink Bendy at the end of Chapter 2 and blaming Henry for Ink Bendy's decision to abandon him. Unmasked by Henry, Sammy gains the upper hand and tries to kill him, only to be killed by Tom instead. After Tom gains Henry's trust, Tom and Allison aid Henry in fighting off the Searchers and Lost Ones, revealed to have been only kept in check by Sammy, and Henry falls into the administration offices. Tape recordings found there reveal the truth about the studio's downfall; after the Bendy cartoons declined in popularity, Joey began looking for a way to bring the characters fully to life and installed the Ink Machine as a means to this end. The first attempt resulted in the creation of Ink Bendy, who was rejected as a monster because he had no soul, and Joey tried to use his employees' souls to create better attractions. This attempt resulted in the creations of the other ink creatures and the studio's bankruptcy. Henry learns that Ink Bendy has stolen something important from the studio's film vault and enters his lair — a much vaster version of the ink machine than the one Henry fixed in Chapter 1 — to retrieve it. Allison and Tom remain behind, fearing that the ink will absorb and corrupt them. Inside, Henry finds one last tape recording by Joey, expressing his regret for everything that has happened and asking Henry to destroy Bendy. Henry finds the item Ink Bendy stole, a reel of film marked 'The End.' Ink Bendy chases him throughout the machine while transforming into a giant beast, called Beast Bendy. Henry eventually plays the reel, projecting a 'The End' title card on every available screen and causing Beast Bendy to disintegrate when he sees it.

The game suddenly changes to a flashback in the inside of a home, covered in letters and sketches related to characters and events from earlier in the game. Entering the kitchen, Henry finds an elderly Joey waiting to talk to him about the paths they took in their lives. After Joey suggests that Henry should visit the old studio, Henry exits the house and finds himself immediately entering it, repeating his opening lines from Chapter 1. It is presumed that Henry, Joey, and all of the studio's employees, ink monsters and ink characters are trapped in a time loop of unknown origin.

In a post-credits scene, the camera focuses on a framed portrait of Bendy, Boris and Alice, which was a gift from Henry to congratulate Joey for the success of the characters (alongside a rusty ink machine sitting in one corner of the room). Just then, a little girl's voice asks 'Uncle Joey' to tell her another story, implying that the entire game was merely a story Joey was telling his niece.

Development[edit]

The idea for Bendy and the Ink Machine came from theMeatly pondering the idea of a world that resembled a cartoon sketch. As he started developing the idea, he realized that it felt 'creepy' and needed a monster that inhabited it. Bendy was created to be that monster, but did not have a name. When the character finally received a 3D model, the name was chosen from a typo while saving it in a 3D modeling program, Blender. theMeatly was not a programmer and thus Mike Mood joined the production as he saw potential in the game.^[4]Bendy and the Ink Machine was inspired by the BioShock series.^[5]

The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One ports were developed and published by Rooster Teeth Games, originally intended to be released on October 26, 2018, while the Nintendo Switch port was scheduled to release on November 20, 2018, but both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One's release dates were pushed to the same date for Nintendo Switch's release. On December 15, 2018, a mobile port was announced by theMeatly and Joey Drew Studios Inc., and it was released on December 21, 2018.^{[citation needed]}

Reception[edit]

While the game was highly acclaimed by the community, the critic reviews are largely mixed, with aggregating review website GameRankings assigning the PlayStation 4 port a score of 77.50%,^[6] the Xbox One for 75.00%,^[7] and Nintendo Switch for 65.00%,^[8] but the original PC port was not received yet.^[9] The critic review from Metacritic was not received yet. It receives praise centering on its vintage aesthetic and story. In the months following its release, it quickly gained a cult following from exposure on platforms like YouTube and Twitch. The game has received the 'Best Horror Game' award by IGN and is listed as #1 in '18 Best Horror Games of 2017', while its percent score didn't receive from the site yet.^[10] The mobile port received the 'Game of the Day' award on February 23, 2019.^[11]

Sequel and spin-offs[edit]

A mobile spin-off called Bendy in Nightmare Run was released on the App Store on August 15, 2018 and on the Google Play Store on September 27, 2018. The game is an endless runner style game involving the player characters of either Bendy, Boris, or Alice collecting Bacon Soup while running away from large bosses chasing the player character.

A spin-off called Boris and the Dark Survival was released on February 10, 2020, on Bendy and the Ink Machine's 3-year anniversary. The game is a prequel, taking place before the first chapter of the original game. It revolves around Buddy Boris searching through different level of Joey Drew Studios while escaping the Ink Demon, Alice Angel, the Projectionist, the Butcher Gang, or Borkis, a yellow eyed version of Buddy Boris.

Galaxy on fire 3d models. A sequel Bendy and the Dark Revival was announced on April 14, 2019. A gameplay trailer was released on June 24, 2019, announcing the game's release for Fall 2019. However, in December 2019, a new trailer was released to say that the game was being delayed and will release sometime in 2020.

References[edit]

1. ^theMeatly (15 September 2018). 'What's happening to TheMeatly Games?! BIG NEWS.. AGAIN! :D' – via YouTube.
2. ^'Bendy and the Ink Machine'. Bendy and the Ink Machine.
3. ^'The Co-Creator of Bendy and the Ink Machine Talks Accidental Success'.
4. ^Villasenor-Baca, Antonio (February 10, 2018). 'Ink Demons & the Indie Canadian Game Scene: An Interview with 'Bendy and the Ink Machine' Programmer, Mike Mood'. Con Safos Magazine. Retrieved February 5, 2019.
5. ^'Creaing a Monster: Bendy and the Ink Machine' - Gamereactor
6. ^Bendy and the Ink Machine for PlayStation 4 - GameRankings
7. ^Bendy and the Ink Machine for Xbox One - GameRankings
8. ^Bendy and the Ink Machine for Nintendo Switch - GameRankings
9. ^Bendy and the Ink Machine for PC - GameRankings
10. ^IGN - 18 Best Horror Games of 2017
11. ^Apple - Terrifying Toons: App Store Story

External links[edit]

• Official website