{"id":8981,"date":"2018-04-19T12:42:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T16:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/?p=8981"},"modified":"2018-04-19T18:48:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T22:48:37","slug":"the-7-hour-playthrough-and-thoughts-bendy-and-the-ink-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2018\/04\/19\/the-7-hour-playthrough-and-thoughts-bendy-and-the-ink-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The 7 Hour Playthrough, and thoughts (Bendy and the Ink Machine)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 7 hour playthrough you say? It was actually more like 4 hours (most of the time was from minimizing the game and forgetting it was running). But that’s still a bit long (even for me).
\n(UPDATE: Chapter 4 now has a title: ‘Colossal Wonders’. Unknown if this is the official title, but it hints at something.. well, big that Alice Angel is planning)
\n—
\nAnd that’s why I’m here, to give my personal theories and opinions of the three chapters. And I shall get the ball rolling, with Chapter 1: ‘Moving Pictures’.
\nUpon seeing the letter given to Henry (the protagonist of the story) from a Joey Drew, I suddenly started thinking… does Joey Drew even exist (and it was Bendy who sent the letter)? Then again, who’s inside this ‘imperfect’ Bendy?
\nA friend of mine has theorized that Alice Angel sent the letter, given how she has human features. That’s possible as well.
\nMoving on (to the point where you’re tasked to collect the six parts to start the Ink Machine), there’s this video<\/a> explaining why it’s now quite frustrating to find them (and will only get worse in future updates). And I too was affected by this.
\n—
\nFor example, it took quite a long time to find the Inkwell and the Gear. Eventually found the gear behind a doorway (forgot where).. but the Inkwell took the most time.
\nI had to look in the wiki, only to be told the obvious “it’s randomized” answer. Yet it told me the several places where it might be (which is better than anything Google told me). One such place, is the new Art Room that was added in a recent update. According to that video, there’s ‘a 60% chance the item isn’t in the new rooms’… but I got the 40% chance it was. Finding the room, claims it was in the room with the dead Boris (behind the door there). Yet the game told me that doors cannot<\/strong> be opened (unless slightly).
\nWent there, tried to open the door… it opens, and there it fucking was, right infront of me. An hour of my life, wasted looking for this piece of shit! Wow.<\/p>\n

Moving on to Chapter 2: ‘The Old Song’. Most of the level went as expected (as I’ve seen in many Youtube videos), until I got to the point of entering Sammy’s sanctuary. You got to find the keys from this guy, which could be in one of several trash cans. Thankfully it didn’t take as<\/em> long to find the keys (compared to the Inkwell), mainly because the item now has an “I’m important, click on me!” glow effect. Then came the “learn Sammy’s favorite song” part. I entered the recording room, and Henry’s all “I know I need to do something, but I feel like I’m missing something.” I’m all.. “what?! You know the song, what more could you need?!” Never did it occur to me, that I needed to turn on the projector, and then<\/em> hit the right notes.
\nAfter that was done, there was an issue at the very end when Henry meets a very much alive Boris, where the game freezes up for about 30 seconds before the end credits roll. My friend tells me that’s ‘perfectly normal’… riiight.<\/p>\n

And the final (currently playable until possibly the end of April) chapter: Chapter 3: ‘Rise and Fall’. Most of the chapter (much like Chapter 2), played as expected. I wanted to try to get the tommy gun (of Alice Angel’s 6th request… huh, this is the second time ‘6 of something’ is used, with the first time being the 6 items needed in Chapter 1.)
\nThere was a few times I had issues. The first time (of when Bendy’s roaming the halls), I didn’t think of walking backwards when he appeared (and killed me). Second time (coming back from doing Alice Angel’s 4th request), Bendy is around the corner.. but isn’t moving. Find him stuck on a bit of the wall (shambling in place), and forced to let him kill me (just to reset the encounter).
\nThe 5th request from Alice (of killing The Butcher Gang), I died.. a lot. Soon discovered your footing in this miniboss battle is crucial, to prevent more Searchers from spawning in and making the battle harsher (as the pipe does less damage than the axe).<\/p>\n

And that’s about it. Completed all the chapters, and I’m currently waiting for Chapter 4. Hopefully they have removed most of the fetching quests that have been an issue for the first three chapters. I hope it’s a free update.
\nOne other thing I’d like to see changed, is the glow of the tape players being removed after listening to the playback (to show the player they’re not going to get any more info for listening to it multiple times).
\nAnd now, I bring you my own personal theories of Chapter 4. Because I see a major one just going by the Steam achievements (here<\/a>). Most of these achievements, seem to be hinting to possible carnival games. I am damn surprised no one has done a theory video of this. Though my friend (who I shared this theory with), feels the reason that its because you can hear the sound of carnival music at the end of the first Chapter 4 teaser trailer.
\n—
\nIn any case, I feel the purpose of the carnival rides are a way for Henry to ‘win back Boris’ from Alice Angel (while possibly dealing with more enemies, as the ‘angel’ doesn’t play fair). Because there’s also an achievement for reuniting with Boris, proving he’s not dead (yet).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 7 hour playthrough you say? It was actually more like 4 hours (most of the time was from minimizing the game and forgetting it was running). But that’s still a bit long (even for me). (UPDATE: Chapter 4 now … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8981"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8986,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions\/8986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}