Bendy And The Dark Revival é provavelmente um dos melhores jogos de terror que eu conheço.

O jogo é uma melhora ABSURDA do Ink Machine e honestamente não tem comparação.

O jogo ganha ponto pelos gráficos LINDOS com a direção de arte belíssima, passando uma atmosfera incrível.

O combate é ótimo mas tem problemas justamente por ser simples demais fazendo pra mim a parte mais fraca do jogo.

A história diferente do Ink Machine que foi se construindo ao longo dos lançamentos de capítulos, aqui ela é totalmente escrita e elaborada - criando uma história FANTÁSTICA.

Comparado ao Ink Machine, esse jogo definitivamente te dá medo, principalmente com uma inimiga específica do jogo.

Além dos desings fantásticos tenho que dar destaque aos redesings que praticamente todos os personagens de BATIM sofreram - eles ficaram PERFEITOS, principalmente o Bendy e o Ink Demon.

Falando em Bendy, obrigado por colocarem ele no jogo, eu amo meu bebê.

9.8/10. BATDR é incrivelmente bom e espero que no futuro melhorem mais nos próximos jogos!

I don't know what to think about Bendy... pretty much nothing here is mediocre, every aspect of Bendy is either great or terrible, and so playing through it was an absolute rollercoaster. But unfortunately, I think the bad does outweigh the good here, and my takeaway tl;dr review would be 'unrealised potential' (and yes, this review is definitely 'tl').

I think it's important to state there are some things I really did like about this game though. In general, the art direction is very strong. The 'pencil-drawn' sepia-tinted monochrome aesthetic of the game is genuinely very good. I also particularly like how they subvert this near the end by introducing colour into the world just before the final boss. The world is very derivative of Bioshock's Rapture at times, but this art direction does give it enough of a character to stand out somewhat. The game is also pretty good at conveying both a dark atmosphere and a sense of adventure. The level design is generally pretty good and, while the level theming is pretty scattershot and abruptly changing at times, it does all contribute to the pretty decent worldbuilding. At times parts of the world of Bendy feel almost Lewis Carroll-esque, and these were where the game shined the most; I wish they had leaned into this side of things more and taken themselves a little less seriously.

But Bendy also has a strong tendency to set up interesting-sounding ideas, concepts or enemies, but then seemingly not know what to do with them. The aforementioned use of colour that I really appreciated in the moment just... abruptly ends two rooms later and is never mentioned again. The same goes for things like Searcher enemies or the Pit; things constantly referenced and bigged up in NPC dialogue, only to appear only very fleetingly or not at all. But there's also a fair bit of the opposite problem too. Plenty of set-pieces, and plot reveals happen with seemingly no explanation or reason I could see (e.g. when you get kidnapped from Wilson's Retreat by a character you've never seen before for like 5 minutes and then just end up back where you were before without anything being changed). I'm going to assume a lot of this is callbacks to Bendy and the Ink Machine, which I have not played: there's no problem having a touch of fan service in your game, especially if you are a sequel, but there really is a lot of this kind of thing in Bendy and it just comes off as incredibly underdeveloped.

Also on that front, the characters' visual design is... baaad. Nobody looks like they belong in the beautifully crafted world. Most standard enemy types boil down to 'Bioshock sploicer covered in glossy black slime' which never fails to look out of place in the deliberately very matte and straight-line based environments. The Ink Demon looks more goofy than scary, and Bendy himself... don't get me wrong, he's a nice character design in 2D and a great mascot for the series, but he just looks kinda dumb rendered in 3D. I wish they had had characters like Bendy and the Ink Demon just be 2D animations in the 3D world in the style of Who Framed Roger Rabbit or similar; especially because, despite Bendy being a game about a 1930s-style 2D animation studio, there is somehow no 1930s-style 2D animation in the game! Come on Bendy, if Cuphead can do it, so can you. Such a wasted opportunity!

The gameplay could be worse, but there really isn't much there to write home about. The main two options available to you in most encounters are stealth and melee combat, and neither is well-developed at all. The enemy AI and detection cones in the stealth sections are very very generous, meaning there really is almost no challenge here, especially as you can reset all enemy aggro by finding any designated hiding spot and sitting in it for 2 seconds. The combat is pretty dire; the only option you have is a wrench, with no ability to block or dodge, so every fight becomes 'whack the baddie in the face until either you or they stop moving'. This becomes especially pronounced when you realise there is no punishment for death; you just respawn in a nearby Vita-Chamber (or whatever Bendy calls them, it really isn't trying to cover up what it's stolen from Bioshock at this point).

There are two gameplay mechanics that really pissed me off though, and honestly they are the two biggest complaints I have about this game: Slicer and 'The Ink Demon is Coming'. Slicer is an enemy who likes to, at random intervals, suddenly appear in the middle of the screen with a big audio sting, whack you once for a bit of damage and then vanish. Bendy is full of cheap jumpscares that honestly I was willing to overlook, but Slicer is probably the cheapest jumpscare tactic I have ever seen in any media. And as far as I can tell it is completely random; I once had her pop up 4 times in one room in the space of about 2 minutes, and it's not scary it's just unpleasant. The Ink Demon thing is better on paper, but implemented very poorly. Every now and again, wherever you are, the screen will darken at the edges and you will get a message 'The Ink Demon is coming, Hide!' and you have a few seconds to find a hiding spot or die (you get a game over screen and everything, no Vita Chamber cheesing here). In theory, this makes you constantly on edge, advancing slowly through the world while making sure you always have a mental map back to the last hiding spot you passed. In practice it's just fucking annoying. If it pops up while you're slowly crawling in air vent (which apparently doesn't count as a hiding spot) or about to enter a combat set-piece where hiding is disabled, you just get to die and there is fuck all you can do about it. This is particularly bad when backtracking; if you aren't manually saving every couple of minutes, then these unavoidable deaths can set you back minutes because the game doesn't autosave when you're backtracking. So yeah, I guess I did 'Fear the Ink Demon', but not in the way the game wanted me to.

Basically, this review is as long as it is because I really do want to like Bendy. It really is commendable for an indie developer to tackle something of this scope, and there is strong promise peeking through some of the cracks. But the final product ends up being a Bioshock clone made by people who seem not to understand what made Bioshock great. And I think that's just a bit sad. It's not like I didn't enjoy my time playing Bendy, it was a decent enough experience on the whole and the unique world makes it quite a memorable one, but Bendy drops the ball in so many ways that I just don't feel like I can ever recommend it.

[There may be spoilers you have been warned]

So if you know what Bendy and the Ink Machine is, this is the second game of it, and if you know that then you should know that this is in the Horror genre. Honestly diving into it I was shocked because it didn't feel like bendy at all, it looked realistic and it was fucking eerie. Well little did I know that it changes and it starts looking like the good ol' cartoony feel of Bendy. I was still scared shitless though, they got 100x times better at the jump scares and even the voice acting was phenomenal.

I was super happy with the way the storyline turned out as well because it thickened the plot of Bendy so much. It really developed the first game too because it actually gave more information in this game which helped me to understand the first game so much more. I don't want to spoil too much from this one because it is just that good of a game compared to the first. Even the graphics and audio in this one turned out so good, my favorite part of the game was when the ink demon would talk, was it scary as shit? yes. but it made my skin crawl and it made the experience that much more enjoyable.

It was really heartwarming to see all the old characters too and to finally see the character that we played in the first bendy. I'm happy that they also utilized small bendy in this game because it was really adorable and I just wanted to squish him.

As for the mechanics of the game, overall gameplay was really nice but I had to fix my sensitivity so fucking much because it defaults as a turtle I swear to god. The game itself when fighting enemies was annoying sometimes because you get hit once and you already lose half your health but once you get used to the game it isn't really that bad. I'm pretty positive the game also allows replayability by selecting certain chapters and also having the ability to go through ink to past areas which is nice for achievements.

This is an extremely spoiler heavy review, because every spoiler is what makes me absolutely love this game. ………………………………………………………………………………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… ……………… Wilson is the dumbest antagonist I have ever had the pleasure of defeating. I really thought there was going to be some twist about him, there is absolutely no way that the cartoonishly evil old man is the actual villain right? Joey Drew is going to be revealed to be “Mr Bendy and the Ink Machine” himself? No, I waited several years to get a game where my role as the daughter of Joey Drew, is to sacrifice my soul into a character Fnaf style and take down ink satan with the power of OCs. I love this game so much.

This game is better than the first one. The Story is that an animator "Audrey" gets taken by Wilson into The Ink Machine so he can get her to help him with a plan he has to stop The Ink Demon from the first game, while you try to find a way to survive, this is an interesting idea for the next chapter in the series, the twists and turns are also good, minus a few dumb things like, Why didn't Evil Alice kill you earlier if she was going to do it anyway? Why was Wilson so slow when it came to capturing you, causing you to get away? and why was only The Ink Demon stopped, but not Audrey who was inside it? The Characters are good, Audrey is decent, nothing special about her, Joey Drew when he was younger is interesting to see, Wilson has an obviously evil persona, so it's no surprise when he does what he does, Betty is nothing impressive, little Bendy is adorable, and I want to raise him, and the characters from The Ink Machine are the same as before, only Alice is given more depth, and Evil Alice is given more time to shine.
The Graphics are improved from the first game, they look like if the first game has a much bigger budget for detail, and the atmosphere feel like an upgrade from the first game too. The Gameplay has you sneak, collect, hide, and attack like in The Ink Machine, although one disappointing change is how they handled hiding from The Ink Demon, now you go to hide when the game tells you, and you aren't told when it's safe to come out, because this time they don't show The Ink Demon or his shadow get closer or show at all when these happen, and the gameplay overall is better than the first one, but not much more, and I noticed a few annoyances while playing, there are no subtitles on the logs, some enemies teleported positions when I played, 1 time the Ink Demon chased after me in an area I couldn't find a hiding spot in, the enemies can get you even when you are about to finish climbing a ladder, and why do the creatures try to kill you after you defeat their ruler, and they are supposed to serve you? The Music is improved, and adds more creative atmospheric moods when you hear them. Bendy and the Dark Revival shows helps the franchise to grow slowly, but grow none the less.