I like this game but it's kind of dissapointing.

[joshraid]

It could have been such a great game and made good on the promise of BATIM, but it didn't quite do that. Because while it improved upon a lot of things in the game, Audrey is a better character than Henry, the plot is improved, the Ink Demon looks way scarier now, the game is overall prettier in terms of animations, there whole thing is much more of a complete game whereas BATIM seemed to become a real game in chapter 3, this game ended up creating a lot of new issues that made it not what it could have been.

To start, this game is just not scary. BATIM only scared me in chapter 3 and a part of chapter 4 and a part of chapter five was kind of scary, but BATDR didn't have anything like that. Carley is just a walking jumpscare machine, like she always got me but at the same time I knew it was cheap, she wasn't a real threat nor was her scare factor earned. I liked when she was revealed and was gone as soon as you looked away for half a second, but after that she was just nothing.

The lost ones were a step in the right direction at first but once you get the gent pipe stealth is just meaningless in this game. Banishing is just a more boring alternative to just hitting them in the face enough times, like it takes so long to do, and it's never so hard to get food that you'd be scared to lose health to one of them, and you can't loot if you banish so it's lost that way. And the spaces past the first one are just not built to allow stealth.

The ink demon looks better and he's a real character now but he's so much worse in this game. In chapter 3 he was wandering unscripted so he could be anywhere. But now the game just decides you need to hide from him but in this stupid way where it's not him bumping into you but the game up and deciding he's here now. You can't even see him around you before his jumpscare, unless he's in a scripted chase sequence. So there's no tension like "What if he's over there?" because he won't be, he'll just be around when the game decides he is. And the many many hiding spots make it very easy to not get caught by him. And the game having him just pop in and out of existence arbitrarily means I never for a second wondered if it was safe to come out of my hiding spot just yet, because I know he's not there.

And while Henry has better voice acting now, every monster except for Alice sounds like a child doing a scary voice, and even Alice has some of this with her Suzie voice sounding like an hissing car engine. The ink Demon doesn't have a gravelly voice he has a gargly voice. His throat sounds wet and gurgly. Everything is the most over-the-top tryhard edgy demon growling, and it makes him impossible to take seriously. And Wilson is not much better, neither are the Keepers. They don't sound like they talk like this they sound like they're trying to be scary.

The Keepers are a step in the right direction as a monster but the game makes them so easy to avoid, they are not going to pop out at you at any moment, they can't hear anything and they can barely see either. If I can get right behind the monster with no consequences then that just takes so much of the fear factor away from having to maneuver around it. Especially when the environment is so clean and well-lit. The best part of BATIM was level 14 with the projectionist, and that's specifically because it's so dimly lit and claustrophobic. I don't think any single environment in BATDR tried that no matter how far into the game we got.

And beast bendy. I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate beast bendy. The whole sequence you cannot die, and you're just slowly and repetitively running around and smashing through walls as cool stuff happens around you, and the fact that I can see his defined muscular butt makes this sequence impossible to take seriously. It's a victory lap that to me just feels emotionally hollow.

[Duckiebabie2]

The Ink Demon having a gurgly voice is kinda expected from a creature literally called "The Ink Demon." Also Henry is still voiced by the theMeatly, just that he put more emotion into his voice.

[joshraid]

Originally posted by Duckiebabie2:

The Ink Demon having a gurgly voice is kinda expected from a creature literally called "The Ink Demon." Also Henry is still voiced by the theMeatly, just that he put more emotion into his voice.

I don't see why him being the ink demon means his voice has to sound like that. Even if it did, that doesn't mean it's okay. It sounds like when a child does a "Scary voice" but with water in their throats.

[Duckiebabie2]

Originally posted by joshraid:

Originally posted by Duckiebabie2:

The Ink Demon having a gurgly voice is kinda expected from a creature literally called "The Ink Demon." Also Henry is still voiced by the theMeatly, just that he put more emotion into his voice.

I don't see why him being the ink demon means his voice has to sound like that. Even if it did, that doesn't mean it's okay. It sounds like when a child does a "Scary voice" but with water in their throats.

I didn't know children had such deep voices. Unless they be smoking. If that's the case then I'm in.

[joshraid]

Originally posted by Duckiebabie2:

Originally posted by joshraid:

I don't see why him being the ink demon means his voice has to sound like that. Even if it did, that doesn't mean it's okay. It sounds like when a child does a "Scary voice" but with water in their throats.

I didn't know children had such deep voices. Unless they be smoking. If that's the case then I'm in.

I mean just that sort of fakeness. He sounds like he's doing a voice. Like this creature is projecting his insecurites onto you, but can you honestly imagine him being in a situation where he is afraid? Or sad? The only emotion his voice can project is "Scary demon man" and it's so extreme it sounds Juvenile. Actual cartoon villains sound scarier than this horror monster that's meant to be a corrupted evil version of a cartoon villain.

More accurately it sounds like an adult doing a scary demon voice, like if I really forced the deepest raspiest register of my voice. I don't hear a monster I hear a man straining to sound scary.

[joshraid]

Originally posted by joshraid:

Originally posted by Duckiebabie2:

I didn't know children had such deep voices. Unless they be smoking. If that's the case then I'm in.

I mean just that sort of fakeness. He sounds like he's doing a voice. Like this creature is projecting his insecurites onto you, but can you honestly imagine him being in a situation where he is afraid? Or sad? The only emotion his voice can project is "Scary demon man" and it's so extreme it sounds Juvenile. Actual cartoon villains sound scarier than this horror monster that's meant to be a corrupted evil version of a cartoon character.

More accurately it sounds like an adult doing a scary demon voice, like if I really forced the deepest raspiest register of my voice. I don't hear a monster I hear a man straining to sound scary.

[Duckiebabie2]

Originally posted by joshraid:

Originally posted by joshraid:

I mean just that sort of fakeness. He sounds like he's doing a voice. Like this creature is projecting his insecurites onto you, but can you honestly imagine him being in a situation where he is afraid? Or sad? The only emotion his voice can project is "Scary demon man" and it's so extreme it sounds Juvenile. Actual cartoon villains sound scarier than this horror monster that's meant to be a corrupted evil version of a cartoon character.

More accurately it sounds like an adult doing a scary demon voice, like if I really forced the deepest raspiest register of my voice. I don't hear a monster I hear a man straining to sound scary.

Yeah I know I'm a bit late to this but I don't see the Ink Demon showing emotion like being afraid or sad or happy and so on and so on. It kinda makes sense for him to not show any at all as he is a demon. Demons are supposed to be this evil unloving monstrosities whose only purpose is to kill any living thing they come across or do some other ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up stuff. For me his voice fits but I guess it's not for everyone. At first I also wasn't so sure about him having a voice until it grew on me. Also I possess a question for you. What would you think would fit an Ink Demon better as I'm curious.

[joshraid]

Originally posted by Duckiebabie2:

Originally posted by joshraid:

Yeah I know I'm a bit late to this but I don't see the Ink Demon showing emotion like being afraid or sad or happy and so on and so on. It kinda makes sense for him to not show any at all as he is a demon. Demons are supposed to be this evil unloving monstrosities whose only purpose is to kill any living thing they come across or do some other ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up stuff. For me his voice fits but I guess it's not for everyone. At first I also wasn't so sure about him having a voice until it grew on me. Also I possess a question for you. What would you think would fit an Ink Demon better as I'm curious.

Something like slade or darth vader I think. Neither of those characters as his voice quite sound right but something in the general ball park of those two could fit.

[Serch]

Maybe its dissapointing, but at least fixes the horrible ending we got in BATIM

[Zentrobi]

Got this game on a sale, just finished it and to be honest, i'm not even interrested in buying any more games from this dev, the ending made me regreat even putting in time in any of the bendy games at all.

[catnap chambeador]

bendy never was scary

[joshraid]

Originally posted by catnap chambeador:

bendy never was scary

I thought chapter three could be scary, and chapter four had the one scary moment with the projectionist. But yeah overall it was never a good game to play if what you wanted was horror, even a little bit, and I'm not even sure if chapter 3 would still work on me. Outlasts least creepy moments outclass Bendy's most creepy moments.