Ending kinda sucked.

[RetroGamer]

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love the heck out of this game almost everything in this game surpasses the original, but did anybody else think that everything past defeating Shipahoy Dudley was kind of... thrown together? I mean the ending room is so lazily put together it looks like something you'd see in a fan-made game using free assets. I mean there's a fisher (an enemy you literally never see in the main game before this) just doing this weird arm pump animation over and over again while Allison is above on a railing using a looping animation fighting a lost one who is ALSO just using a looped animation, its super lazy feeling which sucks because the fight against Wilson final form was super epic and was completely ruined by the Beast Bendy Section. I hope that "The Cage" can do a much better job at an ending than this. What do you guys think?

[Lunatic Pandorum]

I totally agree, the entire ending felt very rushed. Personally I think the whole game feels like it's missing several chapters. I love all the ideas they put into it but it feels like not a single one of those ideas is fleshed out enough especially the ending. Not to mention they reveal colored ink at the end and it is completely inconsequential.

[the-solar-system]

I agree, it should've been way more fleshed out. The whole situation with Bendy being the Ink Demon was super interesting and I assumed it would have some payoff in the end but it didn't really? We never even get to see what Audrey feels about it all. Same with the whole Joey Drew ghost thing. The last cutscene with Audrey and Bendy in her apartment is alright I guess, but it still feels unfinished, like we are just waiting for a sequel to come along and give it a proper ending. Which is exactly how everyone felt about the BATIM ending! Creating suspense for a sequel with an open ending is one thing, but having the quality of that ending completely RELY on the idea of a sequel is another. Instead of being like "wow i cant wait to see what happens next in Bendy 3!" its more like "i hope Bendy 3 gives us an answer to all these questions i have that BATDR could've easily answered if it was better written". A story should be able to stand on its own two feet without the need for a sequel, but BATDR doesn't. The ending is rushed, character arcs are left unfinished, and there is no proper payoff for anything. And with Secrets of the Machine introducing a completely NEW character (Riley), instead of fleshing out the myriad of unfinished characters we already have, I worry if the same thing with happen with The Cage and Bendy 3 and that we may never get proper payoff for any of the older plots and characters. (Like, i dunno, the namesake of the series? Bendy is so underdeveloped in his own game its insane.)