bendy and the ink machine alice angel icon

#Bendy and the ink machine alice angel icon series

'STRIKER'Edgar's monster form is the least recognizable of the three, to the point that I wasn't originally certain he was supposed to be the same character. The very moment we come across this poster in-game, we're shown how out-there this game is really willing to get with its enemy designs. At least, I'm not sure what else has fangs, a fat body and long legs besides a cartoonified spider. How adorable is that?! As we could basically figure out on our own, this Boris turns out to be the latest in a whole line of less viable Borises.Ĭhapter Three soon springs on us three more characters from the Bendyverse, a trio of what are presumably 'villains' or 'rivals' to Bendy, consisting of a sea captain named Barley, a smartly dressed ape(?) named Charley, and some sort of giant spider named Edgar. We get to see where he's been living and we even get to feed him soup.

When we begin the third chapter? Boris, while incapable of speech, is our full-fledged sidekick. In chapter one, we come upon the eviscerated corpse of a Boris lookalike, but in the final shot of chapter two, a living specimen seems to greet us with no violent intent. Whatever its tone, I thought it was shaping up to be a cool story and admirable independent project.but the final shot of Chapter Two definitely implied some more fanciful developments, and when Chapter Three finally dropped during the Halloween season, things took a pretty stellar turn for the wacky.īoris the Wolf is one of Bendy's two sidekicks in his in-universe cartoon shorts, and let me just say I love seeing a wolf more reminiscent of Goofy than their cool and romantic image in everything else.

I'll say now that I still would have supported where Bendy appeared to be headed. We've all seen plenty of gore, ghouls and demons in this genre, but Bendy and his friends are cute. Interest in the 'demon worship' aspect of the storyline took a rather abrupt backseat to the 'living cartoon' aspect, and that's fully understandable.

#Bendy and the ink machine alice angel icon series

Meanwhile, the Bendy fandom - bearing in mind I'm an outsider looking in, here - looks like it began to crank out a downright overwhelming volume of its own content from day one, and most of it has taken a whimsical tone than the series itself seemed to be heading. Still, you can see how these first two chapters of Bendy seemed to err more on the side of dark, gritty Hollywood style horror than anything else, avoiding too much humor in favor of more traditionally threatening slasher-looking villains and the zombie-like searchers. It's a theme we've only seen in a few Disney creepypastas up to now, and they didn't elaborate much further beyond 'there was this one really messed up Mickey cartoon!' It's all very classic Occult Horror Cthulhu-esque stuff, again not usually my biggest cup of tea, but the fact that this is all revolving around Fleischer-esque cartoons is a lot of fun. If we ever do meet a 'perfect' Bendy in-game, it feels like something best reserved for the final chapters.Īppearing in the second chapter, Sammy was once in charge of writing music for the original Bendy cartoons, but was at some point transformed by the Ink Machine - or the things that came out of it - and now worships Bendy as some sort of demonic god. The face half-drenched in ink is a cool, easily memorable image and it's overall exactly what I would expect from an imperfect, living manifestation of a cartoon being. This design, however, still feels reasonably fresh and different to me among the throngs of modern horror icons, in and out of video gaming. This design is scary and menacing in obvious ways where a perfectly on-model, 'cute' little representation of Bendy may have been plenty jarring enough to encounter as a living, three dimensional entity. I can see that, sure, and it's a sentiment I've held about many other creature designs myself. There are some who might feel that this design goes a little too hard. 'Demons' aren't typically among my favorite explanations in a horror narrative, and I'm still not sure the theme is completely, totally necessary to what's already a good enough tale of unnatural cartoon-monsters, but I certainly find these demonic entities more interesting than most. The first thing we ever see crawling out of the Ink Machine's goop is, of course, a crude and monstrous semblance of 'Bendy' himself, already a cartoon caricature of the devil or at least a devil.