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Rarely do I play a game that can feel so epic with a small scale environment (for the most part) while also being terrifying. This is definitely the scariest PEGI 12 game I have ever played. It is loaded with all types of scares from start to finish. When Bendy starts coming for you the tension rises extremely high as from that point on, you never feel truest safe from the Ink Demon. The Slicer further raised suspense levels, as every corner I took after uncovering her I felt like I was going to get jumpscared by her. The Lost Ones serves as a cool fodder enemy that are easy to take down when there is only one but hard to take down when there is a large group of them patrolling. Apart from the Slicer, the other members of the Butcher Gang aren’t encountered that much, but with the few encounters they do have they still have their scary looks carried over from the first game. The Keepers are really cool and creepy addition as they further add to the lore and remind me of the Projectionist from the first game. The bosses are also all really cool and scary in their own ways. The Crawling King, while not too tricky, is a creepy looking first boss about halfway through the game. Lord Amok is hardly a boss, but is quite a clever idea with the reward for beating him, even if it isn’t taken any further. Alice Angel is cool to see again and finally fight as a boss. The final boss, Shipahoy Wilson has a terrifying design and a quite creative boss fight, and the sequence after that, getting to become Beast Bendy, is an epic conclusion to the story, especially since Allison, Tom, Henry, Sammy, and Joey Drew all make one final appearance in this sequence. I really like that the characters that died in the first game that returned in this game actually had some sense behind them in the story, and the for what little amount of new characters there were in this game l, they were written well. Audrey, while being the central protagonist, had a pretty good character arch and Wilson was a creepy overarching antagonist throughout the whole game. As for gameplay aspects, the Gent Pipe is good weapon to have and it is quite creative how it is basically used as a key for most of the game, only requiring a full charge to open the doors that need it. The new abilities are also amazing too. The Banish feature is easily the coolest form of an assassination I’ve seen in any game and the Flow ability is really fun to use in all situations. When I first started this game, I didn’t thing it would be nearly as good as Bendy and the Ink Machine, but I’m so happy to call this better as well as one of my new favourite horror games

Reviewed on May 01, 2023


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