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The monsters you come across are far more sinister and take more hits to take down and some can’t be killed at all requiring you to hide in a handy cupboard while it makes its way past. Don’t get me wrong it’s pretty creepy throughout but it really goes up a notch as you progress. It isn’t until chapter 3 that I felt the horror aspect really started to kick in. Luckily the enemies early on only take one hit to kill but later in the game this became very frustrating.

After a while I simply found myself walking backwards whilst flailing blindly with my axe.

I found the timing to be way off and didn’t feel any connection to the timing of my button press to the action on screen. Combat is clumsy at best, you only have one attack option and that is simply to swing your axe and you have no way of defending yourself other walking backwards. You can also use your axe to stick it to the ink monsters that you will start to encounter. Your starting weapon of choice is an axe that you can use to cut down boards blocking doorways. You will also find various tape recorders scattered around that play an audio log and help fill in some of the back story.Ĭhapter 2 is where you will start to experience the combat aspects of Bendy and the Ink Machine. You are also required to backtrack somewhat as doors that were previously locked become usable as you solve various puzzles. I also found it a bit tricky to keep track of where I’d already visited as everything starts to look the same after a while and there is no map. This was easy enough although some items were tricky to find given the limited colour palette in use, this was despite the fact that the items you need give off a slight glow. Most of the puzzles are like this or you might be required to turn on a number of switches rather than find items.

The game starts off pretty slowly, literally as your character walking speed isn’t much faster than a shuffle and you don’t unlock running for a while, as you get acquainted with your surroundings and mainly consists of find this or that item and bring it to specific place.

Bendy and the ink machine alice angel screenshot