Bendy and the Dark Revival

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Oh my god.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to The Other Castle.

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No, no, I don't feel welcome.

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What the fuck was that?

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We've been gone for months, we come back to season seven, and now you're a demon?

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Well, yes, because I am the possessed version of Tom.

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Well, I'm the confused version of Andrea.

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And this is The Other Castle podcast, where we break down the plot, lore, and more of video games.

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That includes development, the creators, the performers, then the actual plot of the game, which I'm assuming and truly hoping are tying in to your little whatever is happening at you.

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Oh, sorry, no, I just had a little tickle in my throat.

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That's all that was.

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Uh-huh, yeah, you felt real ticklish there.

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And I'm sure they're all gonna be like, is Tom okay?

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It's gonna be a wellness check for Tom this week.

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And I am so excited to be back starting season seven with this guy.

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Yes, season seven, because honestly, our Bendy and the Ink Machine episode is our most listened to episode by a very long shot.

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And so people have been begging us to do Bendy and the Dark Revival.

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Ooh, now from my understanding, I have not played this.

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I haven't played either Bendy, but this is like a sister sequel rather than a direct sequel.

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We're gonna get into that.

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It's gonna depend on how you feel about it.

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Okay, fun.

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A choose your own adventure lore.

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Yeah, a little bit.

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It is a little bit, but it's a little bit more direct as well than the first game, I would say.

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I can appreciate that.

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The first one did get a bit abstract in parts, but it was, you know, as part of that same indie wave of like the mid-teen years where we're like, let's just do weird shit for being weird, and it'll work, because that's what everyone wants to play right now.

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Yeah, well, TheMeatly, who is the creator of Bendy and the Ink Machine and the whole universe and stuff, has always said that this universe is full in his mind.

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He knows it very well.

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He's just trying to translate it out to everybody else.

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Okay, he's like, I have the full story in my head.

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I just need help getting it there.

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Sometimes.

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But before I begin, I want to give a bit of a warning to anyone that is like a massive fan of this game and franchise as a whole.

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Oh no.

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Because the development portion of this game gets really fucking ugly.

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Oh shit.

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And the people involved do not come out looking great.

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Oh shit.

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So this might turn some fans.

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Yeah, if you don't want to think negatively of the people behind this game, you might want to skip to the part where we just talk about the game itself, which yeah, I'll put the timestamp for that in the description.

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Perfect.

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And some might argue that what happened in the story was nothing personal.

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It was just business, but it's still pretty awful.

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I don't like where this is going.

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I'm usually very excited, and now I'm nervous.

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Well, Bendy and the Dark Revival is the brainchild of artist and creator, TheMeatly, along with his business and creative partner, Mike Mood.

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They created the original Bendy and the Ink Machine together under their studio called TheMeatly Games, which later changed to Kindly Beast just before release of the final chapter of the first game.

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And the reason for that was TheMeatly didn't want people thinking he made the game all on his own.

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Oh, that's actually very sweet and thoughtful.

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Yeah, he's like, I had a whole team working on this game.

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It wasn't just me.

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Yeah, like it's a little egotistical to just put my name on it because that doesn't represent the other groups of people that made this happen.

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That's, I appreciate that.

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That's thoughtful.

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Yeah.

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And as we learned in our first episode, TheMeatly loves Bioshock more than Ken Levine.

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More than most people, and everyone loves Bioshock.

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Right.

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And he borrowed the Kindly from Bioshock's big twist.

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Oh, cute.

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And Beast from his titular character's final Beast form in the first game.

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Cute, love that, perfect.

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And in fact, long time listeners of our show will know we have a running gag called The Bioshot.

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Oh my God, please don't do this.

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It's been a joke, and now I'm just truly encouraging people not to do a drinking game to this fucking show.

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Yeah, it's just the way we call out a game when it makes a reference to Bioshock because so many games do.

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That's true.

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And it doesn't mean you have to drink alcohol.

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I don't.

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It's just a thing we say.

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Have that apple juice ready.

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But here's the thing.

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The Bioshot made its debut in our Bendy and the Ink Machine episode.

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And it's just a joke we've refused to let die, unfortunately, but it still makes me laugh a lot.

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Yeah, we don't even say Bioshot yet in that episode.

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We just say, take a shot.

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Oh, shit.

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Every time Bendy references it.

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We didn't get to the portmanteau of Bioshot, like it's right there.

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I know, I think it was like the next episode we came up with it.

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Okay, it took us a whole nother week to come back around.

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Right, and I assure you, this game will not be any different.

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Oh no, yeah.

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So again, please don't actually play the Bioshot drinking game.

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If you do, do it with water.

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Yeah.

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You know, a nice purified water.

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Wheat grass or something.

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Stay hydrated.

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Anyway, the Meatly took the role of creative director and Mike Mood became CEO of Kindly Beast.

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So originally the Meatly was an internet artist, right?

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So that makes sense he stayed in the creative realm of the world.

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Yeah, it's all his like kind of creative mind that kind of powers the entire studio.

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Gotcha.

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Okay.

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And then Mike Mood was like the business end.

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So he would be the Joey Drew in the analogy and Henry would be the Meatly.

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Very much so.

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In the years since, they worked on a few other titles related to the Bendy universe, such as Boris and the Dark Survival.

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Was there also Bendy Royale?

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There was no Bendy Royale.

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That was an April Fool's Day joke.

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It's a great April Fool's Day joke.

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Like I really like the trailer they put out for Bendy Royale.

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It's really great.

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You should definitely check it out on YouTube.

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In Boris and the Dark Survival, you control Boris from the first game in a top-down exploratory adventure through Joey Drew Studios.

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Not only that, they also produced a series of actual Bendy cartoons.

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Seven in total starring the characters from the game and made it look like actual 1930s rubber hose style cartoons.

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That's really cute.

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I love that.

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There was also a non-Bendy game called Showdown Bandit, which only released one chapter and then was never heard from again.

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I was just gonna say, I don't think I've heard of that.

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That makes sense.

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Well, after the first chapter, the Meatly and Mike mood decided to pack up their California-based Kindly Beast Studio and move it to Ottawa, Canada.

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Oh, is this for tax reasons?

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Not really sure why, but in doing so, they let go of over 50 team members.

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Oh, shit, that sucks.

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On Thanksgiving.

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Shut up!

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And weren't even present at the layoff.

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Oh, my God.

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So first of all, they laid off everyone in person on Thanksgiving.

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Yeah.

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And then they didn't have the balls to be in the room when it happened.

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Right.

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That's ass.

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Oh, I'm so upset right now.

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Most of the 50 were working on Showdown Bandit, effectively canceling it.

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Yeah.

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50 is a lot of people, too.

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Yeah, for a small studio especially.

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Totally.

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I'm assuming that's a majority of their workforce then, right?

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Yep, it was.

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Oh, fuck.

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When Kindly Beast arrived in Ottawa, they renamed it to the now much more fitting, Joey Drew Studios.

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That is ominous as fuck.

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Are you kidding me?

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Yeah, the bad guy from their first game, because they lived long enough to see themselves become the villain.

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This feels bad.

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It's pretty fucking awful.

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Holy shit.

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Oh yeah, that's horrific.

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It's about to get worse.

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Ow.

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The news broke and they received some pretty deserved harsh feedback from the gaming community about this.

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Reasonably so, yeah.

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Mike Mood decided to attempt some damage control.

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No, oh, oh no.

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So he hosted an AMA on Reddit.

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Shut up.

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Out of all the media outlets to do this on, he picks the one that can't be crowd controlled.

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Well, the ex-employees lined up for that one.

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Hell yeah.

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And they ripped Mike Mood to pieces.

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Fuck yeah, absolute fucking lootily they did.

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Making some harsh accusations, such as telling the team there was gonna be two studios, and that nobody needs to worry, and that they would all still have a job after the move.

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That is fucking diabolical.

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Well, thanks to the Bendy series, as well as his family, Mike Mood has a lot of money.

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And according to ex-employees, likes to remind people of that fact often.

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By driving expensive cars, wearing fancy suits that he would casually mention the price of, like he's fucking Job in Arrested Development.

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Jesus Christ.

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He would also say things like, it would take several years of zero sales before he would ever have to even consider selling the company.

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Ugh, he's so Icky.

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And again, this is according to ex-employees who were angry at losing their job.

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But there were enough of them corroborating the story that it should have some grain of truth to it.

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Yeah, I fully would not question that story.

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Then, the head of HR stopped by to give her two cents, defending the company and how it was handled.

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Oh, God.

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To which the ex-employees revealed, the head of HR was Mike Mood's sister.

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I don't even, you can't write shit this bad.

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Well, if the verbal ass-beating wasn't bad enough, Oh, no.

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one of the most cringe things you can imagine happened next.

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Did he get a ukulele and sing an apology song?

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Even worse than that.

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How, oh my God.

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Mike Mood's mom stopped by the AMA No!

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and shared her opinions on the people being mean to her son and daughter on the internet.

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I can't.

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Could you even imagine?

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My brain can't wrap around this.

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I'm fucking fucked up right now.

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This sounds made up, right?

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Yeah.

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Like, this is fucking insane.

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Well, the AMA shut down.

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Yeah.

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This breaks the internet.

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And Mike Mood has not made a single public comment since then.

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Since his mommy came out for him?

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Yeah.

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And he is still the CEO of Joey Drew Studios.

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Oh shit.

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But they removed his name from the credits of Bendy and the Dark Revival as a result.

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Wow, he just omitted entirely?

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Yeah, they later included it as simply Mike when it released on console a few months after its release on PC.

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Just Mike.

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Bendy and the Dark Revival was made by teams from both Kindly Beast and Joey Drew Studios, as it was in development for seven years before its release.

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Oh goodness.

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Though Mike Mood claimed in the AMA that they restarted development of the game after the move to Ottawa with a team of just 10 people.

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Just to be cunty though.

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Yeah.

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When it was first announced prior to the move and the AMA, Mike Mood said that it isn't a sequel, it isn't a prequel, it's its own thing.

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And he's mostly lying when he says that.

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No way.

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He's such a slime ball.

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I'm just going into this with weird energy.

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I get why he says it, but it's very much tied to the first game.

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Okay.

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It just has a new protagonist, it takes place 10 years later, and the setting is the same, it just looks different, which should sound familiar to fans of Bioshock 2.

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Oh, there it is.

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It's not a direct continuation of the first game's story, but it's still the sequel.

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Now for the voice acting, we have a ton of returning voices.

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Oh, I love that.

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As well as some new ones.

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For our new protagonist, Audrey, we have Erin Len, who only has a couple small roles prior to this in TV and voiceover.

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Returning for Alice Angel is Lauren Singer.

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She was so great in the first one.

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Yeah, she's another actress with a few credits to her name.

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As well as a guy who's not a voice actor at all.

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A man named David Eddings, who returns to voice lunatic CEO, Joey Drew.

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Oh, great.

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So David Eddings is the head of console development at Rooster Teeth Games.

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Oh, oh, shit, fun.

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And Rooster Teeth programs all the console ports for the Bendy franchise.

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And they had such a great relationship with David Eddings, they cast him as Joey Drew for the entire series.

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They're like, why don't you just hang out with us?

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We're friends now.

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Yeah.

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That's cool.

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And for a ton of the audio logs that are made by one time appearance characters, they had streamers such as Jacksepticeye.

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Oh, good for him.

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And who I actually found out through this has the same last name as me.

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Really?

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Yep.

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Fun.

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Five Nights at Freddy's legend, Docco, and Super Horror Bro Mike, along with a few others do the voices of those audio logs.

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I do watch a lot of Super Horror Bro.

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Bending the Dark Revival released on November 15th, 2022 on PC and then on consoles, March 1st, 2023.

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Were these released episodically like the first one was?

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They were not.

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These were released as just one full game.

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Easy.

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Love that.

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It is broken up into chapters, but the chapters don't really lead up to anything like, you know, say Dead Space or something.

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Gotcha.

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The fact that since we've covered Dead Space having a trick to the chapter title naming conventions, we have to out loud say it so people don't think about that.

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I gotta be real.

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I didn't look into it.

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I don't think it does.

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Okay.

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It secretly is like Bendy lives or something.

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Yeah.

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It holds a 72% on Metacritic from reviewers.

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That's solid.

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And 77% from fans.

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And honestly, I think that's a pretty fair score overall.

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Okay, that's playable though.

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Yeah, the game definitely tells a more direct and straightforward story this time around.

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And it even goes so far as to drive hard lines in the sand about certain theories.

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Oh, I kind of love when creators are reactionary to be like, fuck that, that's absolutely ridiculous.

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That's not what I intended.

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And are like, this is not lore.

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Shut up.

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Yeah, TheMeatly has said that while he loves fan theories, he does not allow them to dictate his story.

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Good for him.

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He's like, no, no, this is what I'm doing.

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If anything, he uses them to see where he needs to provide more context.

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It's kind of the school of Scott Coffin, right?

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A little bit, yeah.

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Or sometimes he finds out what people think and theorize just to make sure he doesn't do any of it.

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He says that the story of Bendy and the Dark Revival is an intentional mixture of shattered expectations and engaging fan service.

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I mean, I think that also drove the AMA, so sure, man.

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Let's do this.

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But it's still a first-person melee game.

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Oh, that's not the best combat structure.

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Yeah, the combat is just as bad, if not worse than the first game.

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Oh no.

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But hey, at least this time around we can run.

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Okay, that's an improvement.

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You know, sometimes you don't realize you need it until you have it.

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Like, you couldn't jump or go prone in The Last of Us part one, but you could in two, and you're like, how could I live without this?

00:16:26.177 --> 00:16:26.697
You know?

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Same concept, but for running.

00:16:28.877 --> 00:16:31.737
I feel the same way about the Sonic the Hedgehog games, actually.

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What's the generational jump there?

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Well, in the first one, you don't have a spin dash.

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And in the second one, they introduced the spin dash.

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Spin dash is fucking great.

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And without the spin dash, Sonic is almost un-fucking-playable.

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And I feel like people that remember nostalgically, like the first Sonic the Hedgehog is great.

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It's not.

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It's very bad.

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It's two and three that are great.

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Oh no.

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But anyway, with that, get your bio shots ready goombas.

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All right, let's do this.

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Because this is Bendy and the Dark Revival.

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The game opens up on a house that would be familiar to anyone who completed Bendy and the Ink Machine.

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Oh no, I think I know what house we're in.

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Yes, it's the home of Lunatics CEO, Joey Drew.

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The last time we saw this house, Henry had suddenly woken up there after defeating the Bendy Ink Demon.

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Oh no.

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Joey Drew had a conversation with Henry and then sent him right back into the studio to start all over again.

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And Henry's like, all right, shall we?

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What was it you wanted to show me?

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This time, the house looks abandoned.

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Oh shit.

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Nature is starting to take over the home with vines growing on the walls and what little furniture is left is strewn around the different rooms of the house.

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Oh.

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We're on rails here, just going through the house while a woman's voice speaks.

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She talks about freedom and the illusions that come with it.

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Because when you take the time to really evaluate your own life, inevitably, the sense of your past will come back to devour you.

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Jesus, that's a dark way to open a game.

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While she says this, we can hear a pounding at a door, and it's revealed to be the door Henry stepped through at the end of the previous game that sent him back into the animation studio.

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The screen goes black, and we see June 18th, 1973.

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Oh, yeah, because the first game takes place in the 60s, right?

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Yeah, this puts it roughly 10 years after the events of the first game.

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We see a full-color world with a woman working hard at an animation desk.

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At it, she's working away, drawing a familiar little demon character, our pal, Bendy.

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Oh.

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Not the scary demon version, the cute Mickey Mouse-like version.

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The happy version.

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She finishes up the drawing she's working on and says, there, only 800 more frames to go.

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Oh, Jesus Christ, crunch culture is so real, y'all.

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Before getting started on the next drawing, though, she's gonna need some coffee.

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It's gonna be a long night.

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And you're given the prompt to stand.

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If you ignore this prompt, you say, coffee's great and all, but these frames aren't gonna finish themselves.

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And the game cuts to a black screen, and the credits roll.

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So in the same way a lot of the farcries have the fake out in the beginning where the game can just end peacefully.

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Bendy adapted that?

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That's great, fuck yeah.

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What's great is that these credits are exclusive to this ending, as the actual game's end has a different credit sequence.

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That's clever.

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I'm assuming maybe they only credit that one voiceover performer in that.

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No, they credit every single person involved.

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It just looks completely different from the way it looks in the final version.

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Oh, it's just the aesthetic version.

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Okay, fun.

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But yeah, hit the prompt button, and we take control of the woman.

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And we can see that she is an animator working on new Bendy cartoons, as she also has references for Boris the Wolf and Alice Angel.

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You can also see the picture Henry signed for Joey Drew with Bendy, Boris, and Alice holding hands, hanging on the wall in her office.

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Oh, I like that one.

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Our playable character's name is Audrey, and she works for a company called Archgate Pictures.

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Oh.

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We take our first bioshot of many to come, as we are given our first objective, utilizing the exact same sound effect Bioshock uses for their objectives.

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Also, the exact same font from Bioshock is used in the main menu.

00:20:31.357 --> 00:20:38.417
Oh no, so it just feels like Bioshock, but instead of that cool kind of sea green turquoise tone, it's all sepia?

00:20:38.477 --> 00:20:40.237
It's all black and sepia, yeah.

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This game was really shameless in its love once again.

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Our objective is to find the elevator that will take us to the kitchen for some coffee.

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It's apparent we're alone at work tonight, as the halls are devoid of people.

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The lights are flickering and there's a storm outside and everything.

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Oh shit.

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But you make it to the elevator perfectly fine, and you call the elevator to you.

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You go inside and hit the floor you want and the doors close.

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But just before they are fully closed, a man's hand dies between the closing doors.

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As a woman, truly a fucking nightmare.

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Yes, and an old bald man with one good eye and one white eye with scars running down his face, pushes the door open, saying your name and sounding like the G-Man from Half-Life, but with gasps and wheezes while he speaks like he's always out of breath.

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You know him, as he is Wilson, the janitor at Archgate Pictures.

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He apologizes for startling you.

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He just noticed you were working late and alone and figured you'd want company down to the kitchen.

00:21:46.317 --> 00:21:47.217
No, no, never.

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Uh-uh, fuck you.

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Well, besides, a pretty girl like you shouldn't go wandering around alone.

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How did it get worse?

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What the fuck?

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Audrey is an overall polite person and accepts Wilson's offered escort her down to the kitchen.

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Inside the elevator, Wilson coughs worse than Arthur Morgan ever did.

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A man suffering from tuberculosis.

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And you try to make small talk, ignoring the gallon of phlegm he just coughed up.

00:22:17.177 --> 00:22:19.577
I imagine she's like, man, allergies, huh?

00:22:19.597 --> 00:22:21.617
And he's just actually dying next to her.

00:22:21.737 --> 00:22:23.737
You literally start talking about the weather.

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Oh, classic small talk.

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And Wilson stops coughing just long enough to look you in the eyes and say, it's been gorgeous.

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I hate this man.

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I'm very glad he's physically ill.

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As he says this, the elevator slams to a halt and a red emergency light and alarm go off.

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Wilson never even blinks as his blank white eye stares you down in this box of nightmares.

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You are terrified and beg Wilson to reassure you that everything is okay.

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And he does.

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He says this has been happening a lot lately.

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But everything is fine.

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You just need to hit the door open button.

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He hits the button and the door is open to a dark hallway.

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Wilson says to come along, he'll protect you, as he goes to a circuit box and turns on the lights.

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When he does, the hallway lights up.

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And at the end of it, we get another bio shot.

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As the bust of the Lunatic CEO, Joey Drew, is on a plinth.

00:23:30.317 --> 00:23:31.297
Wow.

00:23:31.697 --> 00:23:33.417
And this bus isn't 30 feet tall.

00:23:33.437 --> 00:23:34.577
It's just a normal sized one.

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Not a whole ass sculpture.

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And it's flanked by two posters that read, Archgate Pictures presents, Joey Drew, the man and the demon.

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Oof.

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Just right off the bat, we're going to be very clear about this.

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Wilson says there are a couple more switches to throw on down the hall and to follow him.

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As we round a corner, we find a plaque.

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And the plaque reads, Joey Drew, 1901 to 1971.

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Oh, he recently passed.

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With a small bio on his life and work, and how, with a pencil and a dream, Joey Drew created a legacy that Archgate Pictures strives to continue.

00:24:17.837 --> 00:24:19.537
His ass never drew anything.

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This area serves as a kind of museum to Joey Drew Studios of old, as they bought up all of its assets along with its intellectual property.

00:24:31.037 --> 00:24:34.337
You go down another hallway where you see some empty pedestals.

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And at the end of the hallway, an old acquaintance, the ink machine.

00:24:41.717 --> 00:24:43.337
Which Audrey doesn't know what it is.

00:24:43.537 --> 00:24:46.077
Oh, it's just some relic that they have.

00:24:46.077 --> 00:24:49.857
Yeah, it's just a giant yellow box that kind of looks like an oily wood chipper.

00:24:51.417 --> 00:24:58.057
Wilson says that someone has been messing with the exhibits, as the pedestals are each supposed to have an item on them.

00:24:58.197 --> 00:24:59.097
Oh my god.

00:24:59.957 --> 00:25:00.397
Audrey.

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Sweet Audrey.

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Would you kindly help out an old man and find the missing items?

00:25:06.517 --> 00:25:07.697
He does not say that.

00:25:07.717 --> 00:25:08.197
No, he doesn't.

00:25:08.217 --> 00:25:09.137
I just threw that in for flair.

00:25:09.157 --> 00:25:10.817
Oh, I was like, fuck you.

00:25:11.037 --> 00:25:16.337
So if you are wondering why I'm freaking out, maybe you haven't played the first Bendy or listened to the episode.

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This is exactly how Bendy 1 starts.

00:25:18.657 --> 00:25:21.417
Yeah, there's these pedestals and you need to put some totems on them.

00:25:21.517 --> 00:25:27.457
Oh, that's so funny, though, that they reintroduced you to the exact same level, but in a completely different setting.

00:25:27.517 --> 00:25:27.857
Right.

00:25:27.877 --> 00:25:28.797
It's wonderful, isn't it?

00:25:28.997 --> 00:25:30.637
It's way creepier this time, though.

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And you do when you place the items on their pedestals.

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Wilson says he got all the circuit breakers fixed.

00:25:37.477 --> 00:25:43.397
Now, the only thing left to do is turn on the power to the elevator, which is nowhere near the elevator.

00:25:44.197 --> 00:25:44.877
Why would it be?

00:25:44.877 --> 00:25:48.457
And is all the way down here in this room with the oily wood chipper.

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You know, in case you forgot, you're in a horror game.

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Wilson tells you to throw the switch.

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And when you do, the lights go out entirely.

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Ah, you fucked it up.

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Plunging everything into darkness.

00:26:00.877 --> 00:26:02.777
You beef this shit so hard, Audrey.

00:26:03.077 --> 00:26:05.297
Suddenly, Wilson is inches from you.

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Saying, it's done.

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The ink machine roars to life and begins spewing dark, black ink all over the floor.

00:26:15.157 --> 00:26:18.557
The emergency lights kick on, you can start seeing everything in the room.

00:26:19.357 --> 00:26:23.937
Wilson shuts the door to the room you're in, saying that the ink is calling the two of you.

00:26:24.117 --> 00:26:25.337
Oh, fuck you, dude!

00:26:25.617 --> 00:26:27.257
And it's time to submit the ink.

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The ink levels rise and rise around the two of you, and he tells you that soon, you'll forget everything.

00:26:34.997 --> 00:26:40.957
Imagine if she took the job at Cartoon Network instead of us, and just got to live a nice life in Burbank.

00:26:40.977 --> 00:26:42.857
And Hanna Barbera somewhere else.

00:26:43.277 --> 00:26:45.057
Fuck, like, we know animators.

00:26:45.077 --> 00:26:48.797
There's an animator at her wedding who's doing characters.

00:26:48.817 --> 00:26:49.737
She was cool as shit.

00:26:49.757 --> 00:26:53.437
She told us all these crazy stories from back in the day, but that could have been her.

00:26:53.817 --> 00:26:54.277
Yeah.

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This could have been her, and I love her.

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But it's important that Audrey remembers these last words.

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Come find him, and he'll show you your purpose.

00:27:04.937 --> 00:27:09.697
He next says, it's time to go home, and now we die.

00:27:10.157 --> 00:27:11.617
What the fuck, man?

00:27:11.757 --> 00:27:16.037
As Wilson pulls you both under the now chest deep inky blackness.

00:27:16.317 --> 00:27:16.577
Ew.

00:27:17.557 --> 00:27:21.617
The music swells and bubbles can be heard as the title screen appears over the black.

00:27:22.197 --> 00:27:24.097
Bendy and the Dark Revival.

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You awaken in a sepia-toned world of paper and ink, covered in ink yourself, with one of your hands being fully black, while the other looks like it's wearing fingerless gloves.

00:27:37.137 --> 00:27:41.697
You cry as you look at your surroundings and self, asking, what's wrong with you?

00:27:42.117 --> 00:27:49.317
On the walls, you see posters saying, relax, Wilson knows your purpose, over a big caricature of Wilson.

00:27:49.957 --> 00:27:51.837
Nope, I hate this immediately.

00:27:52.657 --> 00:28:00.377
As you get your bearings and look around, you see a big white banner with sloppy black ink writing that says, welcome home.

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For the gamer, we're back in the ink world of Joey Drew Studios.

00:28:05.417 --> 00:28:08.177
So it's like a welcome home to the player and to Audrey.

00:28:08.337 --> 00:28:11.497
Yeah, for Audrey, she's in a brand new nightmare.

00:28:11.537 --> 00:28:14.697
Yeah, this is new for her, but we're like, ah, I know it.

00:28:15.537 --> 00:28:19.817
You make your way out of the room you're in, and eventually we hear a PA system announcement.

00:28:20.537 --> 00:28:23.857
It's from Wilson, to his followers slash subjects.

00:28:24.377 --> 00:28:24.997
Oh, no.

00:28:25.717 --> 00:28:36.237
He reminds them that he is their protector, as he is the one who defeated the Ink Demon once and for all, 211 days ago, when he ripped the Ink Demon in half.

00:28:36.597 --> 00:28:36.817
Ugh.

00:28:37.757 --> 00:28:43.077
He said that there's a new person in town, a lady, and to find her and bring her to him.

00:28:43.677 --> 00:28:49.597
You go through more hallways and you find notes and audio logs filling you in on some of the strangeness around here.

00:28:50.717 --> 00:28:54.577
Some are written or recorded by familiar names like Sammy Lawrence.

00:28:54.877 --> 00:28:55.697
The music guy.

00:28:56.037 --> 00:28:58.557
The music director of Joey Drew Studios, yeah.

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Some notes are written in a sloppy handwriting with really dark passages about death and shadows.

00:29:06.157 --> 00:29:08.397
It's all like cryptic nonsense kind of stuff.

00:29:09.177 --> 00:29:11.957
And down another hall, we see a poster for the Butcher Gang.

00:29:12.917 --> 00:29:17.657
And as we approach it, one of the members, Piper, falls through the ceiling in front of us.

00:29:17.837 --> 00:29:18.557
Oh, shit.

00:29:19.117 --> 00:29:21.457
But it's dead and tangled up in wires from above.

00:29:21.797 --> 00:29:24.597
Oh, recently dead or been dead for a while?

00:29:24.677 --> 00:29:25.437
Can't really tell.

00:29:25.857 --> 00:29:26.977
That doesn't make me feel better.

00:29:27.457 --> 00:29:34.797
Nearby, we find an audio log from a man named Nathan Arch, the owner of Archgate Studios.

00:29:35.457 --> 00:29:40.037
In it, he says that he just got word that Joey Drew is dead.

00:29:41.257 --> 00:29:47.297
He laments the death of such a brilliant man, and he wonders what will become of his beloved creations.

00:29:48.237 --> 00:29:51.977
So just a quick pause here to explain who Nathan Arch is.

00:29:52.757 --> 00:29:58.777
Because we get just a few logs from him over the course of the game, but he's an important person in the life of Joey Drew.

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Nathan Arch was a business tycoon, a full-blown titan of industry.

00:30:06.137 --> 00:30:17.937
He had great success in oil and steel, and the thing he learned in those industries was to trust the experts in their fields and just give them the tools they need to get the job done.

00:30:18.497 --> 00:30:27.437
So while on vacation, he received a message from Joey Drew, an old friend as Nathan Arch liked to surround himself with famous people.

00:30:28.357 --> 00:30:31.597
He's a star fucker and like kind of a leech.

00:30:31.617 --> 00:30:34.037
He leverages other people's talents for his own gain.

00:30:34.457 --> 00:30:38.417
A little bit, yeah, but he also just, he has an environment where they can succeed.

00:30:39.677 --> 00:30:46.477
This message was a difficult one to send as he was explaining that Joey Drew Studios was on the verge of bankruptcy.

00:30:47.457 --> 00:30:48.797
He has projects in the works.

00:30:49.477 --> 00:30:50.497
He just needs funding.

00:30:51.317 --> 00:30:58.797
Nathan knew, having learned from his success in other industries, that if he were to provide Joey Drew with the tools he needs, he'll succeed.

00:30:59.497 --> 00:31:05.477
This was Joey Drew we're talking about after all, someone Nathan Arch looked up to in many ways for his initial success with Bendy.

00:31:06.297 --> 00:31:13.437
However, one thing Nathan Arch learned in working with the creative for the first time was that there are different types.

00:31:14.417 --> 00:31:17.517
Those who can dream it, and those who can do it.

00:31:18.417 --> 00:31:22.137
Because as we learned in the first game, Henry actually created Bendy.

00:31:23.177 --> 00:31:25.157
Bertram Piedmont built the amusement park.

00:31:26.137 --> 00:31:27.957
Sammy Lawrence was the musical genius.

00:31:28.857 --> 00:31:30.837
Joey Drew was just the boss.

00:31:32.797 --> 00:31:38.537
Nathan Arch decided to go out and build his own studio, having learned from his mistakes in funding Joey Drew.

00:31:40.057 --> 00:31:47.057
He found real creatives and fostered the makers in the industry and found great success in a third industry now.

00:31:48.497 --> 00:31:53.697
When Joey Drew died, he wanted to honor his old friend by doing Bendy justice.

00:31:54.717 --> 00:31:58.497
So he bought the entire estate of Joey Drew, including the rights to his characters.

00:31:59.377 --> 00:32:05.337
He hired the most talented artists he could find, and revived the Bendy series of cartoons.

00:32:06.357 --> 00:32:09.337
With Audrey being one of those talented artists he hired.

00:32:10.377 --> 00:32:14.237
So that's Nathan Arch and how he fits in this whole situation.

00:32:14.557 --> 00:32:17.517
Do you think Mike Mood sees himself as the Nathan Arch?

00:32:18.797 --> 00:32:21.057
Who knows how he sees himself, honestly.

00:32:21.817 --> 00:32:23.337
Just a thought experiment, no worries.

00:32:23.357 --> 00:32:24.217
Yeah, exactly.

00:32:24.237 --> 00:32:27.657
I don't think he liked being portrayed as the bad guy in the first one, necessarily.

00:32:27.677 --> 00:32:30.597
So they tried to create Nathan Arch as kind of like a good rich person.

00:32:30.617 --> 00:32:34.857
Yeah, so this clearly won't go well.

00:32:34.877 --> 00:32:37.537
Yeah, just off the bat.

00:32:37.557 --> 00:32:42.297
But yeah, there's I'm seeing like the money things and like I can make things work.

00:32:42.317 --> 00:32:44.177
I just put the creative in the right direction.

00:32:44.197 --> 00:32:46.337
I'm letting the meatly draw whatever the fuck he wants.

00:32:46.397 --> 00:32:47.777
I cash the checks.

00:32:48.017 --> 00:32:48.937
Yeah, exactly.

00:32:49.717 --> 00:32:50.957
Well, now back to Audrey.

00:32:52.017 --> 00:32:55.377
You see a wall with some brick sticking out just enough for you to climb it.

00:32:56.177 --> 00:32:57.557
So you start climbing this wall.

00:32:57.857 --> 00:33:03.637
And just as you reach the top of the climb, Piper from the Butcher Gang jumpscares the fuck out of you.

00:33:03.657 --> 00:33:04.537
Motherfucker.

00:33:04.877 --> 00:33:07.817
Throwing you off and then he dive bombs you from above.

00:33:08.837 --> 00:33:11.917
You scrambled to your feet and you're given the prompt to run and hide.

00:33:12.837 --> 00:33:17.857
You manage to find a little miracle station nearby, which are those boxes that look like an outhouse from the first game.

00:33:17.877 --> 00:33:18.357
Oh yeah.

00:33:18.677 --> 00:33:21.517
Yeah, they're a safe space whenever you're being chased by a bad guy.

00:33:21.677 --> 00:33:24.897
So that same structure of gameplay is still valid.

00:33:25.037 --> 00:33:30.237
Yeah, you get inside it, the music calms down, indicating that everything is once again safe.

00:33:31.617 --> 00:33:32.997
Until it fucking isn't.

00:33:34.277 --> 00:33:41.677
Because Piper jump scares you again and starts clawing at you through the little window in the little miracle box.

00:33:41.937 --> 00:33:47.717
Fuck, that's actually very good to take what you assume is safe from the first game and be like, nah, fuck you.

00:33:47.817 --> 00:33:49.837
Yeah, this never happened in the first game.

00:33:49.857 --> 00:33:50.717
That's so good.

00:33:51.057 --> 00:33:57.257
As he gets his fingers within centimeters of your face, you hear a woman humming somewhere in the distance.

00:33:58.617 --> 00:34:00.797
Piper gets scared and runs off.

00:34:01.597 --> 00:34:03.417
You exit the box and find some food.

00:34:04.017 --> 00:34:06.217
The Bendy staple, bacon soup.

00:34:06.517 --> 00:34:07.337
In the can?

00:34:07.417 --> 00:34:07.777
Yeah.

00:34:07.777 --> 00:34:08.637
Oh, that's so good.

00:34:09.137 --> 00:34:12.077
As you eat it, a woman says, that's not a great idea.

00:34:12.797 --> 00:34:15.697
Sure, it'll heal you, but the aftertaste is awful.

00:34:16.417 --> 00:34:17.857
Bitch, I don't know where I am.

00:34:18.497 --> 00:34:19.177
Please help me.

00:34:19.457 --> 00:34:21.557
Yeah, you look over and see Alice Angel.

00:34:22.057 --> 00:34:22.297
Oh.

00:34:22.297 --> 00:34:23.897
The good Alice from the first game.

00:34:23.917 --> 00:34:24.577
That's what's up.

00:34:25.357 --> 00:34:28.417
She promises she's not here to hurt you and offers to help.

00:34:29.557 --> 00:34:33.857
She explains that you're lucky the ink machine let you be a person and not a searcher.

00:34:34.157 --> 00:34:36.137
Let you be a person?

00:34:36.197 --> 00:34:37.277
What the fuck?

00:34:37.977 --> 00:34:42.797
She also explains the butcher gang and that the safest place in the facility is the top floors.

00:34:43.657 --> 00:34:44.717
She knows it's confusing.

00:34:44.837 --> 00:34:45.997
She remembers her first day.

00:34:46.897 --> 00:34:48.357
But she says you'll catch on quickly.

00:34:49.137 --> 00:34:52.017
So start heading up and just keep going up.

00:34:53.537 --> 00:34:55.917
North and then north and then north.

00:34:56.437 --> 00:34:59.077
If you survive, you'll be fine up on the top floors.

00:35:00.357 --> 00:35:02.517
You ask her to accompany you and she says she can't.

00:35:03.257 --> 00:35:05.357
She has a wolf and he doesn't like strangers.

00:35:05.957 --> 00:35:08.137
She really said my dog doesn't like you.

00:35:08.157 --> 00:35:08.997
I'm not doing it.

00:35:09.017 --> 00:35:09.377
Yeah.

00:35:11.117 --> 00:35:14.397
Before she departs, she gives you one last piece of advice.

00:35:15.637 --> 00:35:17.197
Stay away from the Ink Demon.

00:35:17.857 --> 00:35:19.137
Do not let it catch you.

00:35:19.657 --> 00:35:22.657
He loves to smile and he'll kill anything that moves.

00:35:23.277 --> 00:35:23.497
Ah.

00:35:24.297 --> 00:35:29.357
You ask her name and she tells you it's Alice, but she really doesn't like that name.

00:35:29.837 --> 00:35:30.057
Oh.

00:35:30.777 --> 00:35:32.317
You introduce yourself as Audrey.

00:35:33.177 --> 00:35:36.477
Alice says, well, Audrey, welcome to the studio.

00:35:37.277 --> 00:35:41.637
As lights turn on and you look around to take in your surroundings properly for the first time.

00:35:42.977 --> 00:35:46.157
Alice vanishes as you look elsewhere and you're off on your own.

00:35:47.637 --> 00:35:53.257
So Audrey has quite a bit more pep in her step than our last protagonist, 60 year old Henry Stein.

00:35:54.097 --> 00:35:57.197
You know, because he was fucking 60 years old.

00:35:57.697 --> 00:35:57.957
Yeah.

00:35:57.977 --> 00:35:59.477
Her walk is his run.

00:35:59.577 --> 00:36:00.297
That's what's up.

00:36:00.637 --> 00:36:02.397
And her run is very quick.

00:36:02.457 --> 00:36:03.917
She's a spry young lady.

00:36:04.417 --> 00:36:04.637
Yeah.

00:36:04.657 --> 00:36:07.977
But she has a stamina limit, so you can't just sprint all the time.

00:36:08.017 --> 00:36:08.757
Oh, I get you.

00:36:08.837 --> 00:36:13.117
But it makes for good resource management, as there are very few resources in this game.

00:36:14.657 --> 00:36:18.397
You finally climb that wall you tried before, and at the top is a mirror.

00:36:19.357 --> 00:36:22.717
You can finally see your full self, and it's not pretty.

00:36:23.537 --> 00:36:30.137
Your eyes are just yellow glowing orbs with black ink actively pouring out of them.

00:36:30.417 --> 00:36:32.097
Ew, what the fuck?

00:36:33.097 --> 00:36:37.697
You look like a porcelain doll that you'd find on a beach near an oil spill.

00:36:38.277 --> 00:36:41.477
That's very specific, and I have not encountered this, but I get you.

00:36:41.597 --> 00:36:42.557
Yeah, you can picture it.

00:36:43.737 --> 00:36:46.697
You find a communication device and talk to Alice on it.

00:36:47.357 --> 00:36:51.597
It's basically a giant pipe, and you talk through it like a couple of tweens at a science museum.

00:36:53.097 --> 00:36:58.337
She tells you that there are dangers where you are, and to find a gent pipe to protect yourself.

00:36:59.577 --> 00:37:04.797
And you find one, but it's embedded in the body of a dead searcher behind an electric fence.

00:37:05.897 --> 00:37:14.657
You complete some tasks to get through to the dead searcher and manage to get the gent pipe, the only weapon you will have through the entire game.

00:37:15.817 --> 00:37:20.397
Now, I know in the first one, there's a handful of different melees you get, but they all serve the same function.

00:37:20.617 --> 00:37:24.637
With this one, they're like, fuck it, you get one thing, I'm not coding out another thing.

00:37:24.777 --> 00:37:30.157
Yeah, and they're going to tease you with just about every other type of weapon in existence through the rest of the game.

00:37:30.177 --> 00:37:31.377
And you're just not going to get it?

00:37:31.757 --> 00:37:32.037
Nope.

00:37:32.517 --> 00:37:33.677
That's fucking hysterical.

00:37:33.697 --> 00:37:34.317
Good for them.

00:37:35.037 --> 00:37:37.857
So the gem pipe is really two pipes connected by a cuff.

00:37:38.917 --> 00:37:46.697
And so it's like one straight pipe, then at the end is a cuff, and out of the side, another pipe that kind of has a curve to the end of it, sticking it out even further.

00:37:46.777 --> 00:37:48.377
I see like a candy cane shape.

00:37:48.457 --> 00:37:48.917
Yeah.

00:37:48.937 --> 00:37:49.437
Gotcha.

00:37:49.637 --> 00:37:55.817
You can upgrade it a bit here and there, but yeah, it's your only weapon as it's another first person melee game.

00:37:55.957 --> 00:37:56.197
Oh.

00:37:56.897 --> 00:37:59.637
But don't worry, there's actually a bit more variety this time.

00:38:00.777 --> 00:38:05.977
As you proceed through, you start to get a blurred vision and a voice comes into your mind.

00:38:06.297 --> 00:38:07.457
Oh, that's never good.

00:38:08.757 --> 00:38:12.737
It says that the ink has granted you a gift as a thank you for submitting.

00:38:13.997 --> 00:38:21.437
You see a legless searcher ahead, and it's facing the opposite direction with big ink letters above it saying, You don't have to kill me.

00:38:22.197 --> 00:38:25.597
As you approach it, the ink's gift reveals itself.

00:38:26.837 --> 00:38:33.157
On your left hand, the one covered completely in ink, a glowing yellow symbol appears on the back of your hand.

00:38:33.637 --> 00:38:34.277
Never good.

00:38:34.857 --> 00:38:42.317
This gives you the ability to banish searchers and other ink creatures, which you get to practice on the searcher in front of you.

00:38:43.037 --> 00:38:51.677
Essentially, you absorb their life force, releasing them from the studio entirely, but also fully killing them.

00:38:52.737 --> 00:38:55.537
Jesus Christ, can you describe what a searcher is?

00:38:56.057 --> 00:39:02.477
So a searcher is one of the bad guys from the first game, but it is a failed person who has gone through the ink machine.

00:39:02.497 --> 00:39:04.217
A failed person.

00:39:04.377 --> 00:39:06.637
Yeah, they don't have a personality.

00:39:06.657 --> 00:39:07.957
They have nothing to them.

00:39:07.977 --> 00:39:10.557
They are just basically a zombie.

00:39:10.957 --> 00:39:13.477
Ugh, it's giving NPC.

00:39:13.957 --> 00:39:15.417
But they're just a blob of ink.

00:39:16.097 --> 00:39:16.877
Yeah, they are.

00:39:16.897 --> 00:39:17.757
Cruising around.

00:39:17.757 --> 00:39:18.897
Oh, that's so scary.

00:39:18.997 --> 00:39:20.717
And a lot of times, they don't have legs.

00:39:21.457 --> 00:39:23.077
So they're just kind of mush?

00:39:23.397 --> 00:39:24.097
Yeah, kind of mush.

00:39:24.757 --> 00:39:24.977
Ugh.

00:39:26.277 --> 00:39:34.557
One of the things I really appreciated about level design in this game is that it's essentially one extraordinarily long hallway.

00:39:35.437 --> 00:39:36.537
Just straightforward.

00:39:36.617 --> 00:39:41.197
Yeah, sometimes you go up or down a shaft, but you're always moving forward.

00:39:41.357 --> 00:39:51.057
So when you get lost or feel in doubt, you really need to just keep going forward and the right direction will reveal itself to you, like through clever uses of lighting and level design.

00:39:52.717 --> 00:39:56.777
Through one of these hallways, you find a locked barred door.

00:39:57.717 --> 00:40:02.617
Inside, we can see what at first appears to be a child playing with a toy train.

00:40:02.817 --> 00:40:04.217
Nope, I don't trust that shit.

00:40:05.157 --> 00:40:07.737
In actuality, it's a little Bendy.

00:40:08.757 --> 00:40:11.157
A cute one, like the one actually from the cartoon.

00:40:12.137 --> 00:40:14.197
This isn't the ink demon from the first game.

00:40:14.337 --> 00:40:16.317
It's a cute, sweet little baby Bendy boy.

00:40:16.497 --> 00:40:21.457
It's the version of Bendy that Joey Drew tried to make the first time with the ink machine.

00:40:22.477 --> 00:40:30.697
And remember in the last game, when we had different versions of established characters, they all got like an adjective added to their name, like Brute Boris and Beast Bendy?

00:40:30.897 --> 00:40:31.517
Yeah.

00:40:32.117 --> 00:40:33.237
Well, this is just Bendy.

00:40:33.757 --> 00:40:35.197
Oh, perfect Bendy.

00:40:35.377 --> 00:40:39.257
Yeah, he is the version that represents the actual character.

00:40:39.477 --> 00:40:40.217
Good.

00:40:41.317 --> 00:40:51.637
You are blown away because while you met Alice, she's a human character more or less, Bendy isn't, and this is your first time ever seeing a living cartoon.

00:40:51.797 --> 00:40:53.337
Yeah, reasonably.

00:40:53.417 --> 00:40:59.937
And wasn't the goal to have them just in the parks, in the Bendy amusement parks, like walking around and interacting with people?

00:40:59.957 --> 00:41:01.377
Yeah, that was the idea entirely.

00:41:02.697 --> 00:41:12.117
So remember, in the cartoons, Bendy was a silent character, so this one can't speak either, and he just smiles his big, toothy grin.

00:41:12.957 --> 00:41:13.537
Poor guy.

00:41:14.137 --> 00:41:16.917
You reach out saying, it's okay, you're his friend.

00:41:17.617 --> 00:41:21.217
And he takes your hand, locking his fingers with your inky black hand.

00:41:22.117 --> 00:41:23.797
And he smiles a big smile.

00:41:24.477 --> 00:41:28.977
And your newfound power activates and starts to banish Bendy.

00:41:29.237 --> 00:41:33.157
It shocks the both of you, and you let go as you both look at your own hand.

00:41:33.517 --> 00:41:34.037
Yeah.

00:41:34.357 --> 00:41:39.737
Thankfully, by letting go, you didn't actually banish Bendy, but it scared the shit out of him.

00:41:40.037 --> 00:41:40.797
Reasonably.

00:41:41.037 --> 00:41:44.657
And he looks at you with inky tears streaming down his face.

00:41:45.137 --> 00:41:46.737
Wait, that's so sad.

00:41:46.897 --> 00:41:48.377
And he takes off running away.

00:41:48.397 --> 00:41:50.317
Oh, he scared him off.

00:41:50.617 --> 00:41:51.177
Yeah.

00:41:52.137 --> 00:41:56.257
You lose him immediately and just sort of continue on your path topside.

00:41:56.577 --> 00:41:58.517
You're like, well, traumatize that guy.

00:41:58.957 --> 00:41:59.537
Moving on.

00:41:59.597 --> 00:41:59.957
Oops.

00:42:01.177 --> 00:42:05.777
While going down a hall, the lights shut out and we hear a voice fill our ears.

00:42:06.937 --> 00:42:09.117
It's a deep, demonic voice.

00:42:10.177 --> 00:42:15.117
And it tells you that the ink has spoken to it and told it all of your secrets.

00:42:15.757 --> 00:42:15.997
Ah.

00:42:16.817 --> 00:42:19.657
It wants to know your name so that it may devour you.

00:42:20.137 --> 00:42:21.297
Fuck you.

00:42:22.157 --> 00:42:25.397
You continue on with the demon voice taunting you along the way.

00:42:26.017 --> 00:42:28.137
You get to a narrow hallway with a door at the end.

00:42:28.977 --> 00:42:31.917
The door is old and metal and the door handle is jammed.

00:42:32.977 --> 00:42:42.197
You glance down the hallway and at the end, you see the silhouette of a seven foot giant monster taking up the entire hall.

00:42:42.397 --> 00:42:43.357
Oh, that can't be good.

00:42:43.897 --> 00:42:49.157
You panic and keep pulling at the door handle as the ink demon makes its way toward you.

00:42:49.257 --> 00:42:50.337
This is bad Bendy.

00:42:51.077 --> 00:42:53.317
This is big bad ink demon Bendy.

00:42:53.777 --> 00:42:54.037
Ah.

00:42:54.577 --> 00:43:03.337
You manage to open it just in time to slip through and slam the ink demon's fingers in the door, causing it to pull back and then you slam the metal door shut.

00:43:04.837 --> 00:43:10.517
Now we're faced with the first reference this game will make to a franchise other than Bioshock.

00:43:11.977 --> 00:43:15.097
Because this game turns into Five Nights at Freddy's from here out.

00:43:15.117 --> 00:43:19.477
Oh, goodness.

00:43:19.617 --> 00:43:24.877
But don't worry, we'll still get a Bioshock out of it because it's also stealing from Bioshock 2.

00:43:24.897 --> 00:43:28.037
So what you're just saying is this is very derivative.

00:43:28.057 --> 00:43:28.717
A little bit.

00:43:28.837 --> 00:43:34.377
So here's how Bendy becomes both Freddy Fazbear and the Big Sister.

00:43:35.617 --> 00:43:40.997
As you play the game, every once in a while, you'll get a warning that the Ink Demon is coming.

00:43:41.137 --> 00:43:44.677
Is it an auditory warning in the same way it is in Bioshock 2?

00:43:44.697 --> 00:43:47.657
There's an auditory warning and the screen starts to go dark.

00:43:48.077 --> 00:43:48.777
Oh, okay.

00:43:49.317 --> 00:43:53.917
You have 13 seconds to find somewhere to hide before he comes to get you.

00:43:53.997 --> 00:43:56.137
Is it 13 because that's the spooky number?

00:43:56.157 --> 00:43:56.697
Probably, yeah.

00:43:58.057 --> 00:44:03.477
And this can happen literally anywhere on the map, including during a fight with other creatures.

00:44:04.037 --> 00:44:05.337
Oh, shit.

00:44:05.437 --> 00:44:07.157
Wait, that sounds like a fucking nightmare.

00:44:07.697 --> 00:44:08.237
Truly.

00:44:09.617 --> 00:44:12.817
You say that in trauma, like, yes, it was fucking terrible.

00:44:13.217 --> 00:44:16.657
Fortunately, this game has many more places to hide than the first.

00:44:16.797 --> 00:44:21.937
Okay, so they at least plan for it structurally in the map, but it still fucking sucks.

00:44:21.937 --> 00:44:26.737
Yeah, but if you're not paying attention, 13 seconds is no time at all.

00:44:27.417 --> 00:44:35.937
And if you don't find a hiding spot, the Ink Demon will jump scare the shit out of you and kill you in a horrific fashion.

00:44:36.057 --> 00:44:40.217
Now, you played this recently, like, very, very close to when we were recording this.

00:44:40.237 --> 00:44:44.177
And I remember you took a break for a couple days, and I was like, why not pop back in Bendy?

00:44:44.197 --> 00:44:45.997
And you went, bitch, it's scary.

00:44:46.017 --> 00:44:47.937
It's so fucking scary.

00:44:49.397 --> 00:44:50.497
There is no escaping it.

00:44:50.837 --> 00:44:57.917
And if you try to cheat it by backing into a corner or something, it just waits for you to move, and then he shows up and fucks you over.

00:44:58.037 --> 00:44:59.257
Oh, that sucks.

00:44:59.937 --> 00:45:05.597
And you die, and need to start back at the last autosave, which are painfully few and far between.

00:45:05.617 --> 00:45:06.997
Oh, that really sucks.

00:45:08.437 --> 00:45:12.677
Now, searchers and other creatures can't fully kill you the way the ink demon can.

00:45:13.657 --> 00:45:22.497
If they kill you, you resurrect at these ink vents scattered around the map that look like the portholes the Little Sisters use in Bioshock.

00:45:22.517 --> 00:45:23.177
Oh, shit.

00:45:23.857 --> 00:45:26.997
So just a circle in the wall several feet up in the wall.

00:45:27.157 --> 00:45:31.397
Yeah, and they act like the Vita Chambers again in Bioshock.

00:45:32.857 --> 00:45:36.717
I'm sorry, it's not my fault the game, like, loves Bioshock so damn much.

00:45:36.737 --> 00:45:38.657
And it's not like you picked up Bioshock recently.

00:45:38.677 --> 00:45:40.697
It's been a couple months since you picked one up.

00:45:40.757 --> 00:45:41.277
Yeah.

00:45:41.377 --> 00:45:42.777
It's not like it's fresh in your mind.

00:45:42.797 --> 00:45:45.197
You're just like, this is clearly where this comes from.

00:45:45.217 --> 00:45:48.077
We all love Bioshock, but come on, Mr.

00:45:48.097 --> 00:45:48.557
Meatly.

00:45:50.057 --> 00:45:54.617
You eventually find a room with an artist's desk and some sketches of the Butcher Gang around.

00:45:55.457 --> 00:45:58.997
You find an audio log, and it's from a woman named Jane Todd.

00:45:59.257 --> 00:46:00.437
Oh, I don't think we know her.

00:46:00.497 --> 00:46:01.157
We don't.

00:46:02.157 --> 00:46:14.037
She says that she was tired of the three members of the Butcher Gang and decided to try out a fourth member, Carly, the first girl member of the gang to go along with Charlie, Barley, and Edgar.

00:46:14.277 --> 00:46:16.377
They're killing my childhood.

00:46:17.177 --> 00:46:22.057
She says the other animators all make fun of her for it, but she knows Mr.

00:46:22.077 --> 00:46:26.397
Drew will like it, and the log ends with her saying she's going to go talk to him.

00:46:27.217 --> 00:46:30.657
In searching around the room, we see a big wooden crate.

00:46:31.777 --> 00:46:34.257
When we open it, we see Carly.

00:46:35.097 --> 00:46:35.757
Oh, God.

00:46:35.917 --> 00:46:39.277
She's a full-sized, horrifying baby monster.

00:46:39.597 --> 00:46:41.657
Horrifying baby monster.

00:46:41.977 --> 00:46:44.957
And she jumps to life, scaring the shit out of you.

00:46:45.117 --> 00:46:48.377
Is this a necessary action, or can you sidestep this?

00:46:48.477 --> 00:46:51.557
You can sidestep this by never opening the crate.

00:46:51.617 --> 00:46:52.117
Okay.

00:46:52.257 --> 00:46:55.197
But the crate is basically a giant do-not-push button.

00:46:56.077 --> 00:46:57.097
Oh, so we have to do it.

00:46:57.117 --> 00:46:57.437
I get you.

00:46:57.457 --> 00:46:58.617
So you have to push it, yeah.

00:46:58.637 --> 00:46:58.897
Yeah.

00:46:59.437 --> 00:47:00.397
They got us there.

00:47:00.457 --> 00:47:07.377
And we get another FNAF reference basically, because this bitch is just going to jump scare you for no reason for the rest of the game.

00:47:07.677 --> 00:47:10.457
Oh, so you've just unlocked a scare.

00:47:10.617 --> 00:47:13.697
Yeah, a jump scare that's just going to fuck with you constantly.

00:47:13.817 --> 00:47:20.117
I hope they at least give you an achievement or something like that in exchange for your emotional pain, you know?

00:47:20.137 --> 00:47:21.137
Trauma, yeah, right?

00:47:21.157 --> 00:47:24.337
Yeah, and maybe that's the name of the trophy is emotional trauma.

00:47:24.417 --> 00:47:26.257
Yeah, you can't kill her that I know of.

00:47:26.477 --> 00:47:29.397
So it's literally just a pain in the ass for the rest of the game.

00:47:29.457 --> 00:47:31.757
Yeah, she just runs at you screaming.

00:47:32.137 --> 00:47:33.477
Honestly, that's kind of funny now.

00:47:33.477 --> 00:47:34.357
And then vanishes.

00:47:34.577 --> 00:47:36.517
I'm back on the team of this being hysterical.

00:47:37.917 --> 00:47:40.937
Yeah, she can hit you if you're not careful, but she's mostly easy to avoid.

00:47:41.757 --> 00:47:45.437
However, her jump scares are not, and they're coming whether you like it or not.

00:47:47.277 --> 00:48:05.537
You make it to a room with a pit, and on the other side, you see a lost one, which is basically a searcher who can talk, and he's wearing pants, so he's more like an NPC, and he's laughing a silly little laugh, and he takes off running down a hallway and then vanishes before your eyes.

00:48:07.217 --> 00:48:15.417
He buzzes solve your way across the pit and eventually find this lost one at a dead end stuck in a pipe, feet first, so he's looking up at you.

00:48:16.317 --> 00:48:18.357
It's not like getting stuck in the dryer.

00:48:18.517 --> 00:48:18.877
Right.

00:48:19.797 --> 00:48:21.137
He's not Winnie the Pooh-ing it that way.

00:48:21.197 --> 00:48:21.717
Gotcha.

00:48:22.197 --> 00:48:28.477
His name is Porter, and he says that he's stuck, but that this is the way out, which makes you stuck too.

00:48:30.997 --> 00:48:34.777
You agree to help him get unstuck if he helps you find your way out.

00:48:35.637 --> 00:48:42.437
The thing that's keeping Porter stuck is just a bunch of ink surrounding him, so you use your banished power to make some of that ink disappear.

00:48:43.297 --> 00:48:47.077
And it frees up the pipe, and Porter falls through it woo-hooing the whole way down.

00:48:47.177 --> 00:48:47.897
Fine.

00:48:48.617 --> 00:48:54.377
At the bottom, he tells you that the name Audrey doesn't suit you, and he's going to call you Bobby instead.

00:48:54.777 --> 00:48:55.857
That's so rude.

00:48:57.037 --> 00:48:57.797
What the fuck?

00:48:58.437 --> 00:49:04.997
He then asks you to give him your left hand, the ink one, and he gives you the power he used earlier when he disappeared in front of you.

00:49:05.897 --> 00:49:09.977
It's called flow, and it allows you to teleport a short distance.

00:49:10.777 --> 00:49:12.637
So it's more like a blink effect than anything.

00:49:12.917 --> 00:49:13.777
This is kind of sick.

00:49:13.797 --> 00:49:19.477
You're at least getting these interesting ways of manipulating your environment that you didn't get in the first one.

00:49:19.577 --> 00:49:21.577
Yeah, it's nothing like a plasmid at all.

00:49:22.497 --> 00:49:23.637
Fuck.

00:49:24.237 --> 00:49:28.597
He blinks himself down a hallway and says, goodbye Bobby, try not to die out there.

00:49:29.377 --> 00:49:31.377
And he giggles himself off and away.

00:49:33.017 --> 00:49:36.837
You go further into the studio, killing searchers and lost ones along the way.

00:49:37.657 --> 00:49:41.937
And in one hallway, you see the ink demon eating a searcher.

00:49:43.557 --> 00:49:45.157
And it looks up and sees you.

00:49:45.517 --> 00:49:51.177
And you run through a hallway until you reach a hole in the wall that has ink letters above it reading flow.

00:49:51.797 --> 00:49:56.177
And you use your new power to teleport through the hole just beyond the ink demon's reach.

00:49:56.817 --> 00:49:57.217
Good.

00:49:57.457 --> 00:50:01.657
I mean, also very heavy handed just to say what power to use when.

00:50:02.797 --> 00:50:03.337
But good.

00:50:04.057 --> 00:50:07.317
It roars at you from behind the hole and stomps away in anger.

00:50:08.657 --> 00:50:15.037
It taunts you in your mind later telling you that you will succumb to him, and he will make you one with the ink.

00:50:15.317 --> 00:50:16.677
I hate everything about this.

00:50:16.737 --> 00:50:18.177
Just like all the others.

00:50:18.717 --> 00:50:18.977
Ugh.

00:50:19.957 --> 00:50:23.297
Meanwhile, Wilson is once again making announcements.

00:50:24.377 --> 00:50:28.677
This time saying that the rumors that the ink demon has returned are false.

00:50:29.757 --> 00:50:32.397
Remember, he ripped that fucker in half.

00:50:33.537 --> 00:50:41.277
The ink demon everyone keeps hearing about is actually that new girl, which is why it's important that she be brought to him ASAP.

00:50:42.557 --> 00:50:49.037
You make your way to an elevator, and while inside it, it shuts off and a new voice comes over the PA system.

00:50:49.377 --> 00:50:51.977
We need to do something about these local radio stations.

00:50:54.317 --> 00:50:55.537
Everybody's just taking them over.

00:50:55.557 --> 00:50:57.857
Yeah, it's a public access network.

00:50:57.877 --> 00:50:59.177
Everyone thinks they're a star.

00:51:00.137 --> 00:51:08.817
It's a broken and mechanical voice, saying there is an unauthorized presence in the elevator, and it activates remote ejection.

00:51:09.037 --> 00:51:09.817
Oh, shit.

00:51:09.977 --> 00:51:13.557
And the floor beneath you vanishes, and you fall into a pit below.

00:51:13.577 --> 00:51:20.877
You land on a stone ground in a sewer, and little black spider-like creatures swarm you.

00:51:20.897 --> 00:51:23.377
I don't like that at all.

00:51:23.677 --> 00:51:27.037
They're basically ink versions of the facehugger from Half-Life.

00:51:27.677 --> 00:51:28.397
Like Lamar.

00:51:28.717 --> 00:51:31.377
They die with a single whack, but their mama doesn't.

00:51:31.757 --> 00:51:32.357
Oh, God.

00:51:33.017 --> 00:51:38.317
She's a gigantic black spider-like creature with a huge ink demon mouth.

00:51:38.797 --> 00:51:40.057
This is your nightmare.

00:51:40.137 --> 00:51:46.497
Oh, fully my nightmare, because it's terrifying and can full kill you the way the ink demon can.

00:51:47.697 --> 00:51:51.077
But you defeat it with your trusty pipe, and get to move on.

00:51:52.437 --> 00:51:57.557
You find another communication pipe, and tell Alice you are scared and don't know where you are.

00:51:58.557 --> 00:52:00.977
Alice says to stay put, and she'll come get you.

00:52:01.917 --> 00:52:02.997
So you continue walking.

00:52:04.017 --> 00:52:04.817
Stay put.

00:52:04.897 --> 00:52:05.477
Got you.

00:52:05.537 --> 00:52:07.017
I'm gonna wander this way, though.

00:52:09.457 --> 00:52:14.517
Well, a door opens, and down the hall, you see little Bendy, the good one.

00:52:15.077 --> 00:52:16.457
The one that's terrified of you.

00:52:16.597 --> 00:52:19.957
Yeah, he's about as scared of you as you are of the Ink Demon.

00:52:20.957 --> 00:52:22.317
And he takes off running.

00:52:23.457 --> 00:52:29.017
You chase Bendy through a series of tight corners and come out into a big, open area.

00:52:29.937 --> 00:52:34.857
And a middle-aged man with a pencil mustache is standing on a scaffold above you.

00:52:36.137 --> 00:52:40.097
He says there's something special in all of us, especially you, Audrey.

00:52:41.297 --> 00:52:48.957
He turns on a light, and you freak out, because this man is none other than Joey Drew himself.

00:52:49.097 --> 00:52:49.777
Who's dead?

00:52:49.957 --> 00:52:51.417
He died a couple years ago.

00:52:51.437 --> 00:52:53.937
He got eaten by the studio.

00:52:54.237 --> 00:52:57.737
Well, he's not the super old one that we saw at the end of Ink Machine.

00:52:59.077 --> 00:52:59.897
Oh, no.

00:53:00.237 --> 00:53:01.317
He froze himself.

00:53:01.777 --> 00:53:04.937
Yeah, he's a younger, much more spry version.

00:53:04.997 --> 00:53:06.037
He's a force ghost.

00:53:06.477 --> 00:53:07.217
Oh, I hate this.

00:53:07.317 --> 00:53:09.817
He says to climb the ladder up to the scaffolding.

00:53:10.717 --> 00:53:12.157
There's something he wants to show you.

00:53:12.297 --> 00:53:14.517
No, this has never gone well for anyone.

00:53:15.397 --> 00:53:19.677
You join up with him and ask just what the hell is going on around here anyway?

00:53:19.857 --> 00:53:20.877
What is this place?

00:53:22.077 --> 00:53:30.357
He explains that with just a pencil and a dream and a little help from the Gent Corporation, this place came into being.

00:53:31.657 --> 00:53:38.737
He calls it The Cycle, a never-ending loop universe that exists outside the real world.

00:53:39.217 --> 00:53:39.397
Oh.

00:53:40.317 --> 00:53:41.477
Oh, shit.

00:53:41.697 --> 00:53:44.917
It also exists outside space and time.

00:53:46.737 --> 00:53:51.897
And it's a place he still can't decide if it was built out of revenge or regret.

00:53:52.817 --> 00:53:53.577
Oh, lord.

00:53:53.597 --> 00:53:56.457
It's the dot in the eye of Jeremy Bearme.

00:53:58.537 --> 00:54:02.957
Oh, no, but this loop is how he got Henry in here and shit.

00:54:03.177 --> 00:54:03.697
Yeah.

00:54:04.137 --> 00:54:04.937
Oh, no.

00:54:05.417 --> 00:54:16.477
For years and years, every round of The Cycle, ran the same, but a little while ago, someone on the outside started messing with the inside.

00:54:17.477 --> 00:54:22.897
Creatures that Joey Drew Studios never created started coming up out of the ink.

00:54:23.857 --> 00:54:24.637
Oh, weird.

00:54:25.157 --> 00:54:32.997
The worst of which are creatures called Keepers, who have taken over the sewers entirely, which is where you find yourself.

00:54:34.657 --> 00:54:40.457
He tells you that you have a purpose in this world, even if neither he nor you knows what that purpose is.

00:54:41.337 --> 00:54:42.297
Everyone has one.

00:54:42.857 --> 00:54:44.077
You just need to find yours.

00:54:44.917 --> 00:54:55.877
But if you want to break the cycle and help him get rid of these new evil creatures, you'll need to go to the stronghold first, which is the gent building downtown.

00:54:56.297 --> 00:54:59.597
You ask him why he can't change things if he's the creator.

00:54:59.757 --> 00:55:00.157
Yeah.

00:55:01.237 --> 00:55:07.497
He folds his arms over his chest and says, Because I'm not the man, I'm just the memory.

00:55:08.377 --> 00:55:10.597
And he fades away through a door behind him.

00:55:10.597 --> 00:55:12.077
He was a force ghost.

00:55:13.397 --> 00:55:14.037
Hell yeah.

00:55:14.497 --> 00:55:19.477
When you open the door, the tombstone of Joey Drew is all you see on the other side.

00:55:19.497 --> 00:55:20.917
This is his mausoleum.

00:55:21.037 --> 00:55:21.637
Oh, no.

00:55:21.917 --> 00:55:25.037
He is a literal Deus Ex Machina.

00:55:25.117 --> 00:55:26.297
God damn it.

00:55:26.317 --> 00:55:27.437
The ghost in the ink machine.

00:55:28.477 --> 00:55:30.997
You chase after little Bendy down a couple more hallways.

00:55:31.877 --> 00:55:49.097
When you come upon another Bioshot moment, you enter a room with a gigantic window, and outside, you see a sprawling city with the words, a city built on broken dreams, written on the window in ink.

00:55:49.677 --> 00:55:52.597
You're like, how fucking big is this place?

00:55:53.137 --> 00:55:59.677
As you look out the window, you glance to your side to see Bendy next to you, also looking out the window.

00:56:01.057 --> 00:56:07.137
You apologize to him for earlier, saying you didn't mean to hurt him, and that you don't think he wants to hurt you either.

00:56:08.417 --> 00:56:10.817
You ask if he wants to team up with you to escape together.

00:56:11.857 --> 00:56:13.577
He agrees with a smile and a nod.

00:56:14.717 --> 00:56:19.797
And you ask him where the gent building is, but he becomes scared and shakes his head no.

00:56:21.037 --> 00:56:26.417
He promised to keep him safe and not let anything bad happen to him, and he agrees to lead you to the gent building.

00:56:27.757 --> 00:56:33.077
The two of you make your way to a city street it's locked up and you need an ID card to get in.

00:56:34.417 --> 00:56:41.697
You and Bendy search the streets looking for it when you find a note from an employee of gent saying he left his ID card in his apartment.

00:56:42.757 --> 00:56:44.437
So the two of you set off for the apartment.

00:56:45.137 --> 00:56:50.897
The only way in is by using your flow ability, which Bendy doesn't have, so you have to go in alone.

00:56:51.277 --> 00:56:53.657
Oh, you can't go in, unlock the door for him?

00:56:53.697 --> 00:56:54.497
No, it's blocked.

00:56:54.717 --> 00:56:55.377
Oh, that sucks.

00:56:56.157 --> 00:57:00.217
Once inside, you hear a familiar voice say, it took you long enough.

00:57:01.777 --> 00:57:04.637
It's Joey Drew, and he's in the apartment with you.

00:57:04.897 --> 00:57:07.577
Is it old Joey Drew or is it force ghost Joey Drew?

00:57:07.577 --> 00:57:08.917
It's force ghost Joey Drew.

00:57:10.557 --> 00:57:13.837
You ask how he got there, and he says, well, I have my ways.

00:57:14.497 --> 00:57:20.977
He says that while it took you a while to get here, you at least have your father's can do, never quit attitude.

00:57:22.257 --> 00:57:24.717
And you're all, oh, sure, you knew my dad.

00:57:25.717 --> 00:57:30.637
I didn't even know my dad, or my mom, or anyone else in my family.

00:57:30.657 --> 00:57:31.677
I'm a fucking orphan.

00:57:31.697 --> 00:57:33.557
She's an orphan on top of this?

00:57:33.677 --> 00:57:35.817
Oh, honey, you were cursed.

00:57:35.837 --> 00:57:37.557
I am sorry, girl.

00:57:37.997 --> 00:57:39.817
And Joey says that he's surprised.

00:57:40.257 --> 00:57:42.037
You've chosen to forget the past.

00:57:42.657 --> 00:57:48.917
He takes your hand and says, you might not be ready for this, but there's something I want to show you.

00:57:49.617 --> 00:57:52.117
I hate when he shows people shit.

00:57:52.457 --> 00:57:53.537
I love that they keep using it.

00:57:53.557 --> 00:57:54.257
It's so good.

00:57:55.177 --> 00:58:01.697
He puts his hand to your temple, and the screen fades to black as you say, what are you doing?

00:58:02.417 --> 00:58:04.857
We next hear a different, familiar voice.

00:58:05.797 --> 00:58:08.237
The voice of a man named Henry Stein.

00:58:09.337 --> 00:58:10.637
Oh, our Henry?

00:58:11.117 --> 00:58:14.237
Saying, all right, Joey, I'm here.

00:58:18.017 --> 00:58:18.997
Oh, your Henry.

00:58:19.017 --> 00:58:23.097
We awaken in the same spot Henry began his journey.

00:58:23.717 --> 00:58:26.337
10 years ago in Joey Drew Studios.

00:58:26.897 --> 00:58:29.357
So you're just in the opening of the first Bendy game?

00:58:29.457 --> 00:58:29.877
Yep.

00:58:30.317 --> 00:58:30.997
Fuck!

00:58:31.957 --> 00:58:37.797
You go in further, and if you explore, it's the whole first chapter of the first game's layout.

00:58:37.837 --> 00:58:38.877
Oh, seriously?

00:58:38.897 --> 00:58:39.357
Yeah.

00:58:39.637 --> 00:58:40.997
That's so good.

00:58:41.677 --> 00:58:46.197
But Joey says to come over next to him as he's standing near an old school movie projector.

00:58:47.117 --> 00:58:56.037
You take a seat next to the projector and look over at Joey, who's standing framed in a way that keeps Henry's old desk where he first drew Bendy in view the whole time.

00:58:56.357 --> 00:58:57.337
Oh, that's good.

00:58:58.217 --> 00:59:01.417
Joey turns on the projector and begins his story.

00:59:03.077 --> 00:59:08.317
He says it starts with a bitter, angry old man named Joey Drew.

00:59:09.177 --> 00:59:10.017
He admits it.

00:59:10.057 --> 00:59:10.477
Okay.

00:59:10.757 --> 00:59:13.417
The real Joey Drew, the one out there in the real world.

00:59:14.477 --> 00:59:18.337
He was a pissy old fuck who blamed everyone around him for his problems.

00:59:19.217 --> 00:59:24.437
Especially his former business partner, Henry Stein, for walking out on him.

00:59:25.717 --> 00:59:40.497
In his anger, Joey bought a machine from the Gent Corporation, intending to use it to create another world, one that he could control, and he could use it to torture his own version of Henry forever.

00:59:41.897 --> 00:59:43.297
Oh my God.

00:59:43.317 --> 00:59:46.097
Why would the Gent Corporation offer something like that?

00:59:46.577 --> 00:59:47.497
What the fuck?

00:59:47.517 --> 00:59:48.997
Why is that a machine at all?

00:59:49.017 --> 00:59:54.177
Yeah, I mean, you see this weird shit on Tammu occasionally, but like, holy fuck.

00:59:54.817 --> 00:59:55.437
And he did.

00:59:55.997 --> 01:00:00.817
He tortured Henry over and over again inside this world.

01:00:01.317 --> 01:00:05.997
And every time Henry thought he'd won, Joey would start it all over again.

01:00:06.017 --> 01:00:07.777
Oh God.

01:00:07.797 --> 01:00:15.977
I appreciate that we can have this meta moment of them admitting that the first game is purely to torture Henry.

01:00:16.157 --> 01:00:17.977
Yeah, and it's not even the real Henry.

01:00:18.137 --> 01:00:25.217
Yeah, it's a version of him that's trapped in this world, almost like that Black Mirror episode where you have kind of your second in the game.

01:00:25.237 --> 01:00:26.197
Yeah.

01:00:27.217 --> 01:00:28.237
Oh, goodness.

01:00:28.517 --> 01:00:29.377
I forget the name of it.

01:00:29.397 --> 01:00:31.717
It's like the USS Galaxy or something.

01:00:32.237 --> 01:00:35.817
There's a video game, but he could trap people's souls in the video game and shit.

01:00:35.937 --> 01:00:36.457
Bully.

01:00:36.657 --> 01:00:37.277
Fuck.

01:00:38.457 --> 01:00:41.017
Until one day, a miracle occurred.

01:00:41.857 --> 01:00:45.097
A woman named Allison Pendle came into his life.

01:00:45.437 --> 01:00:52.117
Now, we know Allison Pendle as being the woman who took over the voice acting role for Alice Angel in the cartoon series.

01:00:53.497 --> 01:00:57.337
She was kind to Joey, no matter how mean he was to anyone else.

01:00:58.637 --> 01:01:01.237
She always told him that he had a warmer heart than he realized.

01:01:02.337 --> 01:01:06.117
And through her kindness and friendship, Joey softened over time.

01:01:06.217 --> 01:01:09.257
She actually was like, I can fix him and then fix him.

01:01:09.437 --> 01:01:09.957
Yeah.

01:01:10.417 --> 01:01:12.777
That's some dangerous fiction we're playing with.

01:01:13.457 --> 01:01:16.317
He began to feel bad for what he was doing to Henry.

01:01:17.117 --> 01:01:21.097
So he made a version of Allison and put her into the ink world with Henry.

01:01:21.957 --> 01:01:22.197
Oh.

01:01:22.397 --> 01:01:24.957
So he could have an Allison of his own to help him out.

01:01:24.977 --> 01:01:27.097
That's why we have Allison Angel in the game?

01:01:27.197 --> 01:01:27.777
Yeah.

01:01:28.157 --> 01:01:28.377
Oh.

01:01:29.197 --> 01:01:36.617
Now, seeing he could create real people in a cartoon world, he wanted to do it the other way around.

01:01:37.997 --> 01:01:42.557
In the first game, we talked about Bendy Land and how he wanted to populate it with living cartoons.

01:01:42.817 --> 01:01:43.277
Yeah.

01:01:44.037 --> 01:01:47.037
Well, that was all just a cover for what he really wanted.

01:01:47.577 --> 01:01:47.777
Oh.

01:01:48.417 --> 01:01:54.217
Those creatures at Bendy Land were the mistakes, the attempts and the experiments.

01:01:55.897 --> 01:01:58.397
He wanted to create a real person from the ink.

01:01:59.437 --> 01:02:01.377
He wanted a daughter.

01:02:02.057 --> 01:02:02.737
Oh, no.

01:02:03.217 --> 01:02:10.257
And after many tests and failed attempts, he finally created one and named her Audrey.

01:02:10.557 --> 01:02:11.277
I hate this.

01:02:13.277 --> 01:02:16.277
So do you, because you're like, bullshit, fuck you.

01:02:16.457 --> 01:02:17.797
I'm not an ink creature.

01:02:18.157 --> 01:02:18.877
I'm a person.

01:02:19.277 --> 01:02:19.717
Yeah.

01:02:20.437 --> 01:02:24.477
And Joey says that being born in the darkness doesn't mean you belong to it.

01:02:24.497 --> 01:02:25.837
Is he fucking Bane?

01:02:25.857 --> 01:02:32.077
I knew you were going to say something about Bane and being born in the darkness.

01:02:32.757 --> 01:02:35.317
So triggered by the Nolan trilogy.

01:02:37.037 --> 01:02:43.497
Yeah, and you're sick of his shit and demand he take you back to where you were, the apartment outside the Gent Corporation.

01:02:44.777 --> 01:02:49.197
And with a sigh, he touches your temple again and takes you back.

01:02:51.397 --> 01:02:55.077
You can't find little Bendy anywhere, so you decide to just press forward.

01:02:56.197 --> 01:03:00.637
You get to the security gate to the Gent Corporation, and you come upon the main entrance.

01:03:01.897 --> 01:03:09.117
And there are bodies of tied up searchers hanging outside with big sign that reads, We are the keepers.

01:03:10.697 --> 01:03:16.777
As you approach the door, the ink demon drops down from above and advances on you.

01:03:18.177 --> 01:03:30.377
Suddenly, these giant electrical pylons just outside the Gent doors fire up, and they're full of colorful electricity that really jump out against the sepia-toned world.

01:03:30.397 --> 01:03:31.217
Oh, beautiful.

01:03:32.377 --> 01:03:35.557
And this causes the ink demon to freak out grabbing the sides of its head.

01:03:36.837 --> 01:03:48.437
The ink demon curls into the fetal position, and we watch as the ink demon fades away, and little Bendy is lying on the ground in its place, shaking.

01:03:50.417 --> 01:03:51.597
Oh, no!

01:03:52.417 --> 01:03:53.337
Oh, shit.

01:03:53.357 --> 01:03:53.897
That's cool.

01:03:54.737 --> 01:04:00.817
He stands up clearly in pain and hobbles off alone very sadly.

01:04:02.837 --> 01:04:06.357
You go inside Gent and get immediately locked in a small room.

01:04:07.617 --> 01:04:16.237
A TV turns on, and a glowing creature appears on the monitor, and it speaks in a disturbing voice that crackles and breaks as it talks.

01:04:16.557 --> 01:04:17.277
I hate that.

01:04:17.597 --> 01:04:19.677
Yeah, it sounds more robotic than human.

01:04:21.037 --> 01:04:26.057
He says he's one of the keepers, and his job is to keep the cycle safe.

01:04:27.297 --> 01:04:31.257
You are erratic and emotional, so you're dangerous.

01:04:33.097 --> 01:04:36.557
You ask who created him, and he says that Wilson did.

01:04:37.577 --> 01:04:41.977
You say that Wilson asked you to find him, so the keeper should take you to him.

01:04:42.457 --> 01:04:47.817
He says that's too reckless, and decides to fill the room with deadly neurotoxin instead.

01:04:47.817 --> 01:04:48.917
You're fucking with me.

01:04:49.497 --> 01:04:50.457
Yeah, he's gladdose now.

01:04:50.517 --> 01:04:51.917
Now he's thinking with portals.

01:04:52.677 --> 01:04:59.257
You manage to escape into the ventilation system, and we hear the keeper tell the others in the building to kill you on sight.

01:05:00.257 --> 01:05:03.217
Also, double the security on the cycle breakers.

01:05:03.737 --> 01:05:05.197
Make sure you can't get to them.

01:05:06.617 --> 01:05:07.717
And the keepers suck.

01:05:09.717 --> 01:05:14.037
They're kind of bad guys that cast a light, and as long as you stay out of the light, you'll be safe.

01:05:14.077 --> 01:05:15.197
Oh, that's kind of annoying.

01:05:15.377 --> 01:05:20.097
Yeah, they're like six and a half feet tall, and they move very slowly until they see you.

01:05:20.577 --> 01:05:20.897
Gross.

01:05:20.917 --> 01:05:29.637
And they're almost like a black ghost, but not transparent, with a glowing yellow face and long dreadlock-like attachments dragging along behind them.

01:05:29.657 --> 01:05:31.117
Ew, I hate everything about this.

01:05:31.377 --> 01:05:34.517
Yeah, it turns the whole section into a terrifying stealth game.

01:05:36.497 --> 01:05:44.157
You find a door labeled cycle breakers, but the door is broken, which I think is their way of doubling security.

01:05:45.297 --> 01:05:47.437
I'm just like, fuck it, no one can get in or out.

01:05:47.457 --> 01:05:48.677
Yeah, there's no guards here.

01:05:48.917 --> 01:05:49.957
Oh, that's funny.

01:05:50.777 --> 01:05:58.597
A lost one appears, sounding like moaning Myrtle from Harry Potter, saying that through there is where they keep the troublemakers.

01:05:59.657 --> 01:06:00.697
It's basically a prison.

01:06:01.537 --> 01:06:06.317
Nobody ever comes out, and if they do, they're never quite the same again.

01:06:06.337 --> 01:06:08.977
Oh shit, this is the trauma wall.

01:06:09.437 --> 01:06:11.677
Yeah, but if you want, she'll open the door for you.

01:06:12.377 --> 01:06:15.617
But if this all sounds good to you, we can proceed.

01:06:15.657 --> 01:06:19.237
Like, in what world are you like, that sounds great, let's do it.

01:06:19.497 --> 01:06:22.777
Well, they want to keep you out of there, so you feel a need to go in there.

01:06:23.017 --> 01:06:23.817
Oh, I hate that.

01:06:24.777 --> 01:06:29.997
Her name is Heidi, and part of her history is that she used to be kept in that prison.

01:06:30.857 --> 01:06:34.517
And she's one who got out and was never quite right again.

01:06:34.957 --> 01:06:35.837
Oh, honey.

01:06:36.397 --> 01:06:40.337
She's an adult, but she's stuck in an adolescent mindset.

01:06:41.657 --> 01:06:45.657
So before she will open the door, she wants to play her favorite game first.

01:06:46.697 --> 01:06:49.617
Can you guess what children's game Heidi likes best?

01:06:50.677 --> 01:06:52.057
Probably not hide and seek.

01:06:52.217 --> 01:06:53.677
Hide and seek, of course.

01:06:55.357 --> 01:06:57.937
After you find her, she opens the door up for you.

01:06:58.057 --> 01:06:59.977
It'd be funny if she was like, I want to seek.

01:07:01.117 --> 01:07:02.137
Right, she wants to find you.

01:07:02.357 --> 01:07:02.737
Yeah.

01:07:03.937 --> 01:07:12.037
Well, she also gives you the ability to use those little sister portholes as fast travel spots so you can go backward through the game to collect anything you missed.

01:07:12.097 --> 01:07:12.737
Oh, clever.

01:07:13.437 --> 01:07:21.277
You enter the Cycle Breakers prison, and it's a bunch of windows covered by a sci-fi door, the kind that slides straight up into the wall.

01:07:21.417 --> 01:07:23.917
I was going to ask what a sci-fi door is, now I fully see it.

01:07:23.937 --> 01:07:24.277
Got it.

01:07:25.957 --> 01:07:30.237
There's a few, and they each have a three-digit number written on the sill underneath them.

01:07:30.677 --> 01:07:36.317
These three-digit numbers correspond to the release dates of each chapter of the first Bendy game.

01:07:36.897 --> 01:07:37.937
Oh, I like that.

01:07:38.177 --> 01:07:38.717
Yeah.

01:07:39.357 --> 01:07:44.277
They have a lever next to each window, and when you pull the lever, the sci-fi door lifts up.

01:07:44.937 --> 01:07:49.477
In one of them, you see an ink person wearing overalls, playing a banjo.

01:07:49.517 --> 01:07:53.917
Their back is to you, and at his feet, you can see a discarded Bendy mask.

01:07:54.957 --> 01:07:56.537
This is Sammy Lawrence.

01:07:57.897 --> 01:07:59.297
Oh, the music composer.

01:07:59.897 --> 01:08:00.377
Yeah.

01:08:00.437 --> 01:08:01.157
Goodness, that's right.

01:08:01.177 --> 01:08:02.697
He was in overalls in the first game.

01:08:02.717 --> 01:08:09.657
And you can't interact with him outside this, as he just sits there playing a sad melody on his banjo.

01:08:09.757 --> 01:08:12.777
Is he still, like, very muscular?

01:08:13.037 --> 01:08:15.157
You just see him from behind, so you can't see his muscles.

01:08:15.657 --> 01:08:17.897
He's not, like, he don't got, like, a ripped back?

01:08:18.017 --> 01:08:18.777
Not that you can see.

01:08:18.797 --> 01:08:19.217
Okay.

01:08:19.877 --> 01:08:23.397
Another room belongs to Alice Angel, but it's empty.

01:08:24.117 --> 01:08:27.877
There's also a secret cell you have to access through event system.

01:08:28.937 --> 01:08:32.597
Where you can find the gigantic, discarded head...

01:08:33.037 --> 01:08:33.507
No...

01:08:33.507 --> 01:08:35.737
.
of Bertram Piedmont.

01:08:35.757 --> 01:08:38.837
One of my favorite characters in anything ever.

01:08:39.597 --> 01:08:40.617
Oh, shit.

01:08:40.637 --> 01:08:49.877
Bertram Piedmont is the crazy person who pitched Bendyland and then was so in love with his own creation, he became an amusement park ride?

01:08:49.897 --> 01:08:52.697
Yeah, and he's clearly still alive.

01:08:53.297 --> 01:08:55.377
No, it's like, is he twitching and shit?

01:08:55.397 --> 01:08:58.877
Well, his one working eye follows you around the room.

01:08:58.897 --> 01:09:00.037
That is terrifying.

01:09:00.057 --> 01:09:05.417
I love everything about this, because he turns into like an octopus-armed wuxi game.

01:09:05.897 --> 01:09:11.497
And it's the heads that look like the heads in Spirited Away that the Baba Yaga witch bitch has.

01:09:11.997 --> 01:09:13.337
Oh, that's so good.

01:09:13.637 --> 01:09:14.877
Yeah, but he can't hurt you.

01:09:14.897 --> 01:09:16.037
He's just an Easter egg.

01:09:16.617 --> 01:09:23.997
The last cell you can open has a man sitting on a stool, drawing on a piece of paper, again, with his back to you.

01:09:25.477 --> 01:09:29.197
You ask him for help, and he's like, you must be lost if you're asking me for help.

01:09:29.857 --> 01:09:30.117
Oh.

01:09:30.797 --> 01:09:34.437
You explain that you just want to understand more about everything going on here.

01:09:34.677 --> 01:09:37.297
The Keepers, the Cycle, Wilson, anything.

01:09:38.457 --> 01:09:40.077
He asks your name, which you give.

01:09:41.057 --> 01:09:42.457
And then you ask for his in return.

01:09:43.877 --> 01:09:46.257
He stands up and puts his book down and turns around.

01:09:46.677 --> 01:09:49.017
He so gets a heroic moment, and I love this.

01:09:49.177 --> 01:09:54.437
He's a middle-aged man in an old-fashioned suit with his sleeves rolled up and they're covered in ink.

01:09:54.977 --> 01:09:58.017
And he introduces himself as Henry.

01:10:00.937 --> 01:10:03.757
And this is the official face reveal of Henry Stein.

01:10:03.957 --> 01:10:05.557
We've never seen his face before?

01:10:05.617 --> 01:10:08.217
No, we never looked in a mirror in the first game.

01:10:09.437 --> 01:10:13.057
And he's once again being voiced by the Meatly himself.

01:10:13.897 --> 01:10:15.757
Oh, the Meatly's like, I am the artist.

01:10:16.477 --> 01:10:17.237
It is what it is.

01:10:17.797 --> 01:10:21.917
Henry Stein was the protagonist of the first game, and he's not in his fucking 60s.

01:10:22.537 --> 01:10:23.137
Wait, really?

01:10:23.157 --> 01:10:29.077
Yeah, because as we learned earlier, the Henry from the first game was just a creation of Joey Drew.

01:10:29.257 --> 01:10:30.517
That's right, it's not actually him.

01:10:30.537 --> 01:10:35.637
It's just like a bit of his soul stuck in this contraption that Gent sold him.

01:10:36.777 --> 01:10:40.477
Okay, so he wasn't a 60-year-old man lumbering through the studio.

01:10:40.497 --> 01:10:41.617
He was a younger man.

01:10:41.817 --> 01:10:43.177
But Joey remembered him.

01:10:43.257 --> 01:10:46.657
Yeah, we just assumed he was old because of linear time.

01:10:46.737 --> 01:10:49.157
Right, fuck us for that one, right?

01:10:49.177 --> 01:10:51.037
And he created the one that he remembered, like you said.

01:10:51.457 --> 01:10:55.197
Which means Henry Stein is just a slow and lumbering son of a bitch.

01:10:55.417 --> 01:10:57.977
He's just an animator with a desk job.

01:10:57.997 --> 01:11:00.337
He doesn't do a lot of cardio.

01:11:00.357 --> 01:11:01.617
He's an indoor cat.

01:11:01.637 --> 01:11:02.897
That's me, I get it.

01:11:02.957 --> 01:11:05.957
Yeah, his only excuse was his age, and we just took that away.

01:11:07.197 --> 01:11:13.417
Well, Henry explains that he was locked up by the keepers because he's what they call a cycle breaker.

01:11:14.137 --> 01:11:17.417
Oh, he can actually affect the timeline and shit, huh?

01:11:17.577 --> 01:11:21.417
Yeah, he knows how to reset the cycle and start the ink universe over again.

01:11:21.957 --> 01:11:22.177
Oh.

01:11:22.397 --> 01:11:25.817
Which would include erasing the keepers from existence.

01:11:26.197 --> 01:11:27.037
That's right.

01:11:27.917 --> 01:11:34.297
Everyone locked up here does, really, or at least have had a hand in making it so Henry could reset it in previous cycles.

01:11:34.617 --> 01:11:35.057
Got it.

01:11:35.077 --> 01:11:40.437
So they're like, nope, fuck you, we're on this timeline now, or this cycle, excuse me, to use the correct language.

01:11:40.777 --> 01:11:43.157
And if we keep Henry away, we can hang.

01:11:43.537 --> 01:11:45.737
So fuck this, he's in a box.

01:11:46.777 --> 01:11:52.397
As Wilson told us before, it's been 211 days since he allegedly defeated the Ink Demon.

01:11:53.097 --> 01:11:56.257
Which means the cycle hasn't reset in a very long time.

01:11:56.277 --> 01:11:56.637
Yeah.

01:11:57.077 --> 01:12:01.757
Leading to this far worse version of the Ink Universe than we saw even in the first game.

01:12:02.037 --> 01:12:05.897
It has to be reset, otherwise it doesn't, it like spins out of control.

01:12:05.937 --> 01:12:07.777
So this is spinning out of control.

01:12:08.477 --> 01:12:14.377
Yeah, it also explains away any inconsistencies in character development and story from the first game.

01:12:16.817 --> 01:12:23.077
Because these are supposed to all be characters that have been cycle looping for 10 more years since the first game.

01:12:23.417 --> 01:12:25.037
Wow, interesting.

01:12:25.177 --> 01:12:27.957
I can appreciate this context though for the first one.

01:12:28.117 --> 01:12:31.877
Yeah, and now they're all stuck in a shitty linear timeline.

01:12:32.537 --> 01:12:33.757
And everybody hates it.

01:12:34.317 --> 01:12:42.137
Henry explains that he discovered the way to reset long ago, and that the Ink Demon is the key to resetting it.

01:12:42.317 --> 01:12:51.737
The Ink Universe was birthed upon the Ink Demon's creation, making both the Universe and the Demon intrinsically linked to one another.

01:12:52.977 --> 01:12:58.277
He says that the way to reset is to show the Ink Demon a film reel titled The End.

01:12:58.597 --> 01:12:59.557
That's right.

01:13:00.417 --> 01:13:02.277
So it's the same rules as the first game.

01:13:03.277 --> 01:13:10.757
To save money, there's only one end card produced with the words The End, and they just tack that onto the ending of their cartoons.

01:13:10.977 --> 01:13:15.837
When you see a YouTuber that uses the exact same end card for every single one, you're like, I see what you did there.

01:13:15.857 --> 01:13:19.517
Yeah, I used end card to kind of make it make sense for modern audience, honestly.

01:13:19.537 --> 01:13:20.937
Oh, got you.

01:13:21.357 --> 01:13:26.037
Every other film reel containing a Bendy cartoon doesn't have an end card.

01:13:26.057 --> 01:13:29.997
Right, because then they just slap it on the end of it and post before it ships.

01:13:30.017 --> 01:13:38.917
Yeah, so in the Ink Demon's history of being in those cartoons, they just loop back and start over from the beginning.

01:13:39.157 --> 01:13:42.517
Oh, it's like me binging things while I work from home.

01:13:42.957 --> 01:13:44.057
This is me with Veep.

01:13:44.397 --> 01:13:44.777
Right.

01:13:46.697 --> 01:13:52.617
By showing the Ink Demon the end card film reel, it starts the cycle over again.

01:13:52.837 --> 01:13:56.237
Because it accepts this as the canonical end and it's like, it's over.

01:13:56.457 --> 01:14:00.917
Yeah, and it doesn't know what to do at the end of a cartoon other than start over.

01:14:01.057 --> 01:14:01.697
Yeah.

01:14:02.217 --> 01:14:05.417
He tells you where you can find it and wishes you luck on your journey.

01:14:06.137 --> 01:14:08.757
If you need anything else, you know where to find him.

01:14:08.897 --> 01:14:09.837
Henry's the shit.

01:14:09.857 --> 01:14:12.877
He's not athletic, but he is a very helpful kind man.

01:14:12.997 --> 01:14:14.497
Yeah, he's a wonderful character.

01:14:14.937 --> 01:14:16.417
Love him especially in this game.

01:14:16.537 --> 01:14:16.977
Yeah.

01:14:18.077 --> 01:14:20.757
As you leave, you find a room with contraband.

01:14:21.437 --> 01:14:25.717
And it's the viewer thing from the first game that let you see secret messages around the studio.

01:14:25.857 --> 01:14:26.877
Oh, that's great.

01:14:27.877 --> 01:14:31.977
As well as a record and an ax representing both Sammy and Alice Angel.

01:14:33.397 --> 01:14:42.757
And in a drawer underneath the contraband table is a rocket launcher that Alice Angel used in the April Fool's Day joke, Bendy Royale.

01:14:43.097 --> 01:14:44.997
Shut up.

01:14:45.277 --> 01:14:47.077
Bendy Royale is my favorite property.

01:14:47.097 --> 01:14:50.077
Of properties that don't exist, that is the best fucking one.

01:14:50.377 --> 01:14:56.597
Good for them being like, we get it, that was weird, but here's a nod if you're like me and you love that shit.

01:14:56.657 --> 01:14:57.297
Hell yeah.

01:14:57.657 --> 01:15:00.397
You can't take any of them with you though, and you continue on.

01:15:01.277 --> 01:15:09.257
You get to a sealed door, and when you pull the handle, an alarm goes off, and a keeper's voice comes over the PA, alerting of an intruder.

01:15:09.837 --> 01:15:17.377
A door in the floor opens up, and a keeper comes crawling out of it, casting its light beam around the room looking for you.

01:15:18.557 --> 01:15:20.617
You're trapped though, and when it sees you.

01:15:50.457 --> 01:15:56.217
You're the one who brought you here, and you've literally never done shit to him.

01:15:57.017 --> 01:15:59.117
It doesn't make sense why he did this to you.

01:15:59.637 --> 01:16:02.217
And he says that nothing here makes sense, dummy.

01:16:03.357 --> 01:16:05.957
We're in a pocket dimension, you dipshit.

01:16:06.377 --> 01:16:08.137
The walls are made of paper.

01:16:08.517 --> 01:16:14.417
There's ink creatures, and we're in a cartoon studio that went out of business 30 years ago.

01:16:15.797 --> 01:16:17.117
But the place has evolved now.

01:16:17.977 --> 01:16:21.857
The things we create in here can be made real out there.

01:16:22.257 --> 01:16:25.737
I don't appreciate that he took a very pedantic part of the argument.

01:16:27.177 --> 01:16:32.797
When she's reasonably like, fuck you, I always put my trash out for you and shit.

01:16:32.857 --> 01:16:37.917
I'd give you some cake at fucking holidays and shit and birthdays in the office.

01:16:37.937 --> 01:16:39.157
Why are you doing this to me?

01:16:39.177 --> 01:16:43.677
And he's like, well, if you'll notice, there's ink everywhere.

01:16:43.697 --> 01:16:47.837
She's like, yeah, she's like, that's not the fucking thing I was upset about.

01:16:48.697 --> 01:16:52.737
Well, he next pulls out a can and pours a glob of ink into his hand.

01:16:53.417 --> 01:16:58.497
The ink molds and transforms into a little six inch tall Bendy.

01:16:59.837 --> 01:17:03.417
The Bendy stands up and looks at you and waves his happy little wave.

01:17:04.117 --> 01:17:05.317
And you even wave back to him.

01:17:05.897 --> 01:17:10.497
Wilson asks, though, if these angels and demons down here are actually life.

01:17:11.657 --> 01:17:14.077
Or are they just stains?

01:17:15.237 --> 01:17:22.117
And he picks up the newborn Bendy and squeezes it until it explodes into liquid ink once more.

01:17:22.697 --> 01:17:27.017
This is why you gotta do background checks on every employee.

01:17:27.037 --> 01:17:27.797
Fuck this guy.

01:17:28.717 --> 01:17:33.257
You finally ask, after all his rambling, what he wants with you.

01:17:34.357 --> 01:17:38.197
And he says he brought you here to help him save his father.

01:17:38.497 --> 01:17:40.397
Fuck you and fuck your father.

01:17:40.837 --> 01:17:42.637
Wilson's in his seventies.

01:17:45.137 --> 01:17:46.517
It's time to let go, Wilson.

01:17:46.557 --> 01:17:47.237
Yeah, buddy.

01:17:47.417 --> 01:17:53.357
Like honestly, let's say you lived the perfect life, exact life every person could only hope to live.

01:17:53.757 --> 01:17:56.717
In that life, your parents still die.

01:17:57.137 --> 01:17:59.197
Wilson, your dad's probably in his nineties.

01:17:59.217 --> 01:18:00.417
Just fucking let it go.

01:18:00.777 --> 01:18:03.717
But as he says this, the tram comes to a stop.

01:18:05.317 --> 01:18:13.877
You follow him out, and suddenly you hear a voice in your head, the voice of the ink demon, and he says, He's lying, Audrey.

01:18:14.477 --> 01:18:15.997
I did not care for that.

01:18:16.017 --> 01:18:16.957
What the fuck?

01:18:17.357 --> 01:18:19.357
You don't realize this is all in your head.

01:18:20.057 --> 01:18:22.477
So you respond out loud, be quiet.

01:18:23.357 --> 01:18:25.277
And Wilson looks at you like, what did you just say?

01:18:26.357 --> 01:18:28.377
And you wave him off, and the two of you continue on.

01:18:28.397 --> 01:18:30.177
I told you to shut the fuck up, old man.

01:18:30.837 --> 01:18:38.457
You get to a security checkpoint, and a keeper instructs you to check your weapon before continuing forward, as weapons are prohibited.

01:18:38.517 --> 01:18:39.617
What is this, a saloon?

01:18:40.777 --> 01:18:47.497
You put it on a table, and just to tease you, there's a bunch of far superior weapons on the table, like an axe and a machine gun.

01:18:47.757 --> 01:18:48.957
A machine gun.

01:18:49.797 --> 01:18:55.277
You get in, and you see more of those electrical pylons that cause the Ink Demon to turn into friendly Bendy.

01:18:56.137 --> 01:19:00.157
And again, they have these purples and blues and greens with their lightning sparks.

01:19:00.377 --> 01:19:04.617
We got none of that in the first one, so aesthetically, that must just be very jarring.

01:19:04.697 --> 01:19:07.017
It is, but it's very pretty and very cool.

01:19:08.117 --> 01:19:17.417
Wilson explains that they nullify the Ink Demon's powers and were built by the Gent Corporation years ago because they also had an issue with the Ink Demon.

01:19:18.817 --> 01:19:23.437
You ascend some stairs and come upon a gigantic painting in a frame.

01:19:24.457 --> 01:19:32.137
It's depicting Wilson, holding a sword, light shining behind him with the Ink Demon cowering beneath him.

01:19:32.517 --> 01:19:37.357
It's like the Nippoholian painting of him on the horse with the sword there and shit like that.

01:19:37.377 --> 01:19:38.037
Yeah, perfectly.

01:19:38.177 --> 01:19:43.217
No, that motherfucker, that is the most lunatic ass shit you can do.

01:19:43.417 --> 01:19:44.877
He's not even a CEO.

01:19:44.897 --> 01:19:49.457
He's one of those self-made entrepreneurs that sells fucking skinny tea on Instagram.

01:19:49.477 --> 01:19:52.597
Like he's in an MLM and thinks he's winning and shit.

01:19:52.617 --> 01:19:55.297
Started a drop shipping business and thinks he's God.

01:19:55.917 --> 01:19:56.657
Yeah, fuck.

01:19:57.037 --> 01:20:02.797
And it's depicting his victory over the Ink Demon, a whopping 211 days ago.

01:20:02.817 --> 01:20:06.197
So he had that rush order.

01:20:06.217 --> 01:20:11.177
Because it takes a long time to paint.

01:20:11.197 --> 01:20:12.757
Like, what the fuck, man?

01:20:12.917 --> 01:20:15.597
I get that all you have is ink and time, but still.

01:20:16.477 --> 01:20:16.897
Shit.

01:20:17.077 --> 01:20:22.557
Well, you call him out because you know for a fact he didn't kill the Ink Demon, as it's been chasing you constantly.

01:20:22.657 --> 01:20:24.137
Yeah, she's like, I seen it recently.

01:20:25.177 --> 01:20:29.957
And he says, no, killing the Ink Demon has proven to be completely impossible.

01:20:30.497 --> 01:20:31.317
Liar.

01:20:31.557 --> 01:20:37.817
What they learned to do, though, was weaken him to a point they could contain him in a simpler form.

01:20:38.677 --> 01:20:39.737
Oh, shit.

01:20:39.897 --> 01:20:42.057
And you answer, Bendy.

01:20:42.657 --> 01:20:44.297
Bendy is still the Ink Demon.

01:20:44.317 --> 01:20:46.597
They've just watered him down to where he's cute.

01:20:47.077 --> 01:20:49.497
Yeah, he said it felt fitting, all things considered.

01:20:51.297 --> 01:20:55.657
But somehow, Palpatine, I mean, the Ink Demon, returned.

01:21:00.557 --> 01:21:03.577
Well, unlike Star Wars, we actually have a reason why.

01:21:03.937 --> 01:21:04.557
Oh, good.

01:21:04.557 --> 01:21:11.377
Instead of just like, what if we just said it happened and then just made that canon?

01:21:12.137 --> 01:21:13.817
Well, it's never explicitly stated.

01:21:14.337 --> 01:21:22.437
However, you never got chased by the Ink Demon until after you shocked little Bendy way back when we first met him.

01:21:23.817 --> 01:21:30.637
Hurting Bendy cracked whatever seal was containing the Ink Demon, allowing him to take control from time to time.

01:21:31.497 --> 01:21:38.977
Because the only other time in the game you weren't getting chased by the Ink Demon was when little Bendy was your sidekick for a while as well.

01:21:40.117 --> 01:21:42.017
And Wilson tells you to get some rest.

01:21:42.537 --> 01:21:45.257
You have a lot of work to do if you're going to help save his father.

01:21:46.077 --> 01:21:48.857
And he introduces you to his robot maid.

01:21:52.017 --> 01:21:54.057
Oh God, what's the one on the Jetsons?

01:21:54.077 --> 01:21:54.557
Rosie.

01:21:54.617 --> 01:21:55.077
Rosie?

01:21:55.097 --> 01:21:55.877
Is it a Rosie?

01:21:55.897 --> 01:21:56.877
No, this one's Bendy.

01:21:57.257 --> 01:21:58.537
Is it basically a Rosie?

01:21:58.557 --> 01:21:59.577
It's basically a Rosie, right?

01:21:59.597 --> 01:22:00.357
Hell yeah.

01:22:00.997 --> 01:22:05.997
As he departs, you ask him why he needed to go to so much trouble getting you down here.

01:22:06.357 --> 01:22:07.757
Why didn't he just ask for help?

01:22:07.817 --> 01:22:11.637
Why didn't you just lie to me in the office like a normal fucking coworker?

01:22:11.677 --> 01:22:12.837
You can lie anywhere.

01:22:12.857 --> 01:22:15.437
There's not a rule that you can't lie at work.

01:22:16.317 --> 01:22:19.477
And he responds, would you have believed me back then?

01:22:19.497 --> 01:22:22.177
No, I kind of still don't now.

01:22:22.377 --> 01:22:23.577
We're not friends.

01:22:24.277 --> 01:22:26.957
Well, he walks through a door and leaves you with Bendy.

01:22:27.137 --> 01:22:27.897
I hate him.

01:22:28.777 --> 01:22:36.637
She guides you to your room, and as she does, it becomes obvious that she's not actually a robot, but a person wearing a robot mask.

01:22:38.097 --> 01:22:38.477
What?

01:22:38.497 --> 01:22:40.557
That's some horrific shit you just said.

01:22:41.157 --> 01:22:41.817
Kind of, yeah.

01:22:41.957 --> 01:22:43.277
Yeah, what the fuck?

01:22:43.797 --> 01:22:46.657
You ask her if she's been here long, and she says no.

01:22:47.117 --> 01:22:48.697
She's told she's actually very new.

01:22:49.837 --> 01:22:55.757
She was made as a result of some experiment and didn't come out quite right.

01:22:56.837 --> 01:23:02.037
So Wilson employed her in his home, and she wears the mask to hide her mistake of a face.

01:23:02.157 --> 01:23:04.017
This is Guardians of the Galaxy 3.

01:23:04.957 --> 01:23:08.537
Over time, Wilson came to say that Bendy reminded him of his mother.

01:23:09.597 --> 01:23:14.617
She asks if a mother is a good thing where you come from, and you respond that you don't know.

01:23:15.257 --> 01:23:16.077
You never had one.

01:23:17.757 --> 01:23:27.697
So the version of you that never had a chance departs from your sight for the night, saying she left a recipe for a sleeping potion on your nightstand in case you need a little help falling asleep.

01:23:29.037 --> 01:23:31.117
We home make our own ambient here.

01:23:31.137 --> 01:23:35.077
So if you'd like some organic ambience, I got you, baby girl.

01:23:35.097 --> 01:23:36.177
Some Valerian root.

01:23:37.537 --> 01:23:40.897
You go on a series of fetch quests to collect the ingredients for the sleeping potion.

01:23:41.097 --> 01:23:42.717
Little melatonin.

01:23:43.557 --> 01:23:45.357
And the final ingredient is water.

01:23:46.297 --> 01:23:47.897
So you head into the bathroom to fill your cup.

01:23:49.017 --> 01:23:52.517
There's a huge mirror above the sink taking up the entire wall.

01:23:53.117 --> 01:23:55.297
So you see yourself in the bathroom around you.

01:23:56.497 --> 01:23:58.757
The instructions say to take three sips only.

01:23:59.337 --> 01:24:00.277
So you count them off.

01:24:00.997 --> 01:24:03.617
Each sip brings the cup up and over your eyes.

01:24:04.637 --> 01:24:16.337
And even though it's very obvious what they're about to do, it's still terrifying as you bring the cup down after the third sip and evil Alice from the first game is suddenly in the bathroom with you.

01:24:16.357 --> 01:24:18.697
Like she's fucking Bloody Mary.

01:24:18.777 --> 01:24:19.677
God damn it.

01:24:20.057 --> 01:24:23.097
We explain her full backstory in our episode on the first game.

01:24:23.877 --> 01:24:28.517
But briefly, the character of Alice Angel had two voice actresses.

01:24:29.357 --> 01:24:36.517
The first one got fired and in an attempt to save her job, volunteered to be turned into Alice Angel through the ink machine.

01:24:36.797 --> 01:24:37.657
So terrifying.

01:24:38.297 --> 01:24:44.517
Since the actress had a shitty soul, the Alice Angel she turned into was horribly disfigured.

01:24:45.037 --> 01:24:46.977
Kind of like Two-Face, the Phantom of the Opera.

01:24:47.117 --> 01:24:47.637
Gross.

01:24:48.257 --> 01:24:52.097
And the meatly says she is his favorite character to write.

01:24:53.637 --> 01:24:54.717
She's depraved.

01:24:54.717 --> 01:24:55.437
I love it.

01:24:55.497 --> 01:24:57.257
Yeah, she's the only one.

01:24:57.357 --> 01:24:59.437
You never know what she's going to do next.

01:25:00.537 --> 01:25:07.557
So the sleep potion works instantly, and you fall over unconscious as Evil Alice says, Night-night.

01:25:07.897 --> 01:25:08.737
Oh, bitch.

01:25:10.077 --> 01:25:20.197
You wake up in a chair, and as you look around and take in your surroundings, you see that you're sitting at the head of a banquet table, laid out with cakes and candles and shit.

01:25:21.697 --> 01:25:23.057
And there are guests at this party.

01:25:24.037 --> 01:25:28.297
They're all lost ones with burlap sacks over their heads, tied to their chair.

01:25:29.357 --> 01:25:31.677
Six in total lining the long sides of the table.

01:25:32.777 --> 01:25:35.197
At the opposite end is Evil Alice.

01:25:36.337 --> 01:25:42.717
She welcomes you to her party and says, it's not every day you get to bask in the glory of an angel.

01:25:43.777 --> 01:25:48.137
And when she says angel, her voice changes to that of a small child.

01:25:48.597 --> 01:25:48.917
Huh.

01:25:49.557 --> 01:25:52.097
And it sounds extremely similar to a little sister.

01:25:53.877 --> 01:25:55.597
I know it's been a while since our last Bioshot.

01:25:55.617 --> 01:25:55.917
Sorry.

01:25:57.617 --> 01:25:59.797
And her motives are still the same as the first game.

01:26:00.577 --> 01:26:06.817
She sees you as a means to making her beautiful, because she's never seen anyone quite like you before.

01:26:07.877 --> 01:26:12.357
So she wants to kill you and peel your face off and wear it as her own.

01:26:13.837 --> 01:26:19.117
And Evil Alice mostly talks like a grown woman, but from time to time, her little girl voice comes out.

01:26:19.917 --> 01:26:22.377
But it's almost like a split personality sometimes.

01:26:22.717 --> 01:26:23.357
Oh, weird.

01:26:23.597 --> 01:26:26.277
Because before she kills you, she wants to play a game.

01:26:26.937 --> 01:26:30.417
And the little girl voice says, a game sounds like a wonderful idea.

01:26:31.317 --> 01:26:34.697
She says that if you win the game, she'll let you go free.

01:26:35.857 --> 01:26:37.797
If you lose, you die.

01:26:37.817 --> 01:26:42.957
And when you look at the chair you're sitting in, you realize it's an electric chair.

01:26:43.317 --> 01:26:44.037
Oh, shit.

01:26:44.057 --> 01:26:47.477
Like with the thing on the head and the cuffs on the arms and shit?

01:26:47.537 --> 01:26:48.217
Yeah.

01:26:48.357 --> 01:26:51.297
While everyone else are sitting in regular chairs.

01:26:53.277 --> 01:26:57.917
But the puzzle, once completed correctly, will disconnect her power switch.

01:26:58.717 --> 01:27:01.217
And each lost one says a portion of the puzzle.

01:27:01.637 --> 01:27:08.357
And they're talking about four animals in the order they sit in a line, saying things like the fox sits next to the bird, but not the rabbit.

01:27:08.857 --> 01:27:10.257
Okay, so it's just a logic puzzle.

01:27:10.277 --> 01:27:12.677
We have to line up the order of operations of something.

01:27:12.857 --> 01:27:13.317
Yeah.

01:27:14.357 --> 01:27:18.057
You climb a ladder, and at the top is a series of animal pictures.

01:27:18.717 --> 01:27:22.697
And you have to put the animals in the correct order based on the clues you got from the lost ones.

01:27:22.837 --> 01:27:23.317
That's great.

01:27:23.337 --> 01:27:24.597
It's like an escape room puzzle.

01:27:25.437 --> 01:27:26.797
Yeah, very much like an escape room.

01:27:26.817 --> 01:27:27.217
Very good.

01:27:28.117 --> 01:27:33.437
And the final line up is rabbit, bear, bird, and fox.

01:27:34.717 --> 01:27:40.817
Or if you will, Bonnie, Freddy, Chica, and Foxy.

01:27:41.137 --> 01:27:42.397
Fuck all the way off.

01:27:43.677 --> 01:27:49.257
And yeah, they're in the exact order they appear in the poster plus Foxy in Five Nights at Freddy's.

01:27:49.417 --> 01:27:50.197
Oh, that's good.

01:27:50.217 --> 01:27:51.497
Do you think that's an intentional nod?

01:27:51.517 --> 01:27:53.317
Oh, it's very much an intentional nod, yeah.

01:27:53.317 --> 01:27:54.457
Like it has to be, right?

01:27:54.517 --> 01:27:55.177
Fully, fully.

01:27:55.337 --> 01:27:56.837
Like, this is admitted to be a nod.

01:27:56.997 --> 01:27:57.437
Oh, okay.

01:27:57.457 --> 01:27:58.477
They've copped to this.

01:27:59.417 --> 01:28:09.017
When you sit down in your seat after solving the puzzle, she throws the switch, and you watch electricity surge through all the lost ones surrounding the table.

01:28:09.017 --> 01:28:11.557
You kill all the people that helped you solve the puzzle?

01:28:11.717 --> 01:28:17.897
Yeah, solving the puzzle only saved you and actually rerouted the current to the others at the table.

01:28:18.357 --> 01:28:19.477
That's pretty fucked.

01:28:20.097 --> 01:28:23.397
You were your own trolley problem, and you didn't even know it.

01:28:25.257 --> 01:28:26.097
I'm the trolley.

01:28:26.117 --> 01:28:27.137
That's the problem.

01:28:27.797 --> 01:28:31.077
Evil Alice screams out, No, as the lights go out.

01:28:31.817 --> 01:28:35.217
When they come back on, the lost ones are all steaming and dead.

01:28:36.037 --> 01:28:36.617
Steaming!

01:28:36.957 --> 01:28:38.477
And Evil Alice is gone.

01:28:38.877 --> 01:28:44.757
You go through a door and take another Bioshock as you encounter something that happens a lot in both Bioshock and this game.

01:28:45.537 --> 01:28:52.297
When you enter a new area, you first come upon a wall, and that wall usually has an advertisement for whatever you're about to face.

01:28:52.497 --> 01:28:53.057
Ah, yes.

01:28:53.817 --> 01:28:57.037
And then you go around the wall to see the actual area for the first time.

01:28:57.577 --> 01:28:59.817
For example, in Bioshock, an ad for Dr.

01:28:59.837 --> 01:29:01.237
Steinman's plastic surgery.

01:29:01.697 --> 01:29:02.097
Right.

01:29:02.257 --> 01:29:08.257
Or here, an ad for an Alice Angel cartoon with big Alice Angel banners on either side.

01:29:09.497 --> 01:29:12.937
As you approach it, bullets rip through the poster from behind.

01:29:13.437 --> 01:29:14.857
Bullets, oh no.

01:29:15.017 --> 01:29:25.557
Leaving a hole through the wall because everything here is made of paper and ink, and a clear line of sight to evil Alice holding a machine gun on an elevated balcony shooting at you.

01:29:26.077 --> 01:29:26.777
Horrific.

01:29:28.057 --> 01:29:32.777
You humiliated her, and nobody humiliates an angel, so you must pay.

01:29:32.977 --> 01:29:34.437
But babe, there's no survivors.

01:29:34.457 --> 01:29:35.857
No one knows you're in pain.

01:29:36.277 --> 01:29:38.357
It should be fine, like they're all dead.

01:29:38.377 --> 01:29:40.097
Who's she embarrassed in front of now?

01:29:40.637 --> 01:29:41.317
Yeah, right?

01:29:41.477 --> 01:29:42.677
Nobody saw this but you.

01:29:42.777 --> 01:29:43.237
Yeah.

01:29:43.697 --> 01:29:45.537
Like, let's call it a draw at that point.

01:29:46.477 --> 01:29:51.877
You have to use your flow ability to run and hide and avoid her gunfire while also solving puzzles.

01:29:52.497 --> 01:29:58.417
All so you can work your way closer and closer to her and make it behind her where you're able to sneak up on her.

01:29:59.597 --> 01:30:01.577
You're given the prompt to banish her.

01:30:01.837 --> 01:30:03.257
Yeah, do that.

01:30:03.857 --> 01:30:08.937
And as you go to touch her, she catches you and points her gun right in your face.

01:30:10.157 --> 01:30:15.137
You smack the gun and throw both her and yourself off the balcony to the ground below.

01:30:15.397 --> 01:30:16.137
Oh, shit.

01:30:16.697 --> 01:30:21.817
You start getting up, but Evil Alice is already advancing on you with her gun again.

01:30:21.837 --> 01:30:22.817
This bitch.

01:30:24.017 --> 01:30:31.257
Evil Alice says, It's final curtain, baby, let's blow them away as she cocks her gun and points it at you.

01:30:31.717 --> 01:30:31.937
Ugh.

01:30:33.057 --> 01:30:38.017
Suddenly, a sword burst through her chest by some unseen force.

01:30:38.097 --> 01:30:38.917
A sword?

01:30:38.937 --> 01:30:40.157
Oh, that's fucking cool.

01:30:40.337 --> 01:30:46.437
And she falls over, revealing the Good Alice Angel, standing behind her with a big ass sword.

01:30:46.477 --> 01:30:47.657
Hell yeah, honey.

01:30:47.897 --> 01:30:51.997
I feel like we kind of meet Alice Angel in a similar way in the first one, too.

01:30:52.017 --> 01:30:53.497
Like, doesn't she save your ass?

01:30:54.037 --> 01:30:55.237
Yeah, we'll get to that.

01:30:55.817 --> 01:30:56.597
Oh, I love this.

01:30:56.857 --> 01:31:05.177
She catches Evil Alice, and Evil Alice looks up at Good Alice and says, You have my face and I'm beautiful.

01:31:07.057 --> 01:31:09.717
And Good Alice says, You always were.

01:31:09.737 --> 01:31:12.257
Oh, wait, that's so sweet.

01:31:12.537 --> 01:31:14.977
That's some healing between sisters right there.

01:31:15.157 --> 01:31:18.617
Yeah, Evil Alice takes her last breath and dies.

01:31:19.477 --> 01:31:24.957
Oh, but she gets to die happy, which I'm happy about for some reason, because she's like, oh, I'm pretty.

01:31:25.297 --> 01:31:25.717
Right?

01:31:25.777 --> 01:31:26.857
That's all I ever wanted.

01:31:26.857 --> 01:31:30.917
All she's ever wanted was to see herself beautiful, and she got it as her dying wish.

01:31:31.577 --> 01:31:32.637
Don't make me like her.

01:31:33.477 --> 01:31:36.677
And Good Alice stands up saying, why did that feel so familiar?

01:31:38.837 --> 01:31:41.097
I'm having deja vu, but it's probably nothing.

01:31:42.277 --> 01:31:45.897
You stand up and notice that Good Alice's wolf is also with her.

01:31:47.117 --> 01:31:52.077
He's in the form of Boris the Wolf, but Alice introduces him as Tom, her protector.

01:31:53.577 --> 01:31:56.677
And this Boris is the one with the steampunk style robot arm.

01:31:56.837 --> 01:31:58.397
Hell yeah, this is cool ass Boris.

01:31:59.197 --> 01:32:03.277
You tell Good Alice that you can understand why she doesn't like being called Alice.

01:32:04.797 --> 01:32:07.337
She's like, first of all, understood on that one.

01:32:07.537 --> 01:32:09.297
Yeah, considering the one lying at her feet.

01:32:10.457 --> 01:32:16.717
She says that the machine makes lots of us look alike, but the inside parts are always different.

01:32:17.697 --> 01:32:33.277
Audrey suggests Alice try on a new name and suggests the name Allison, after Allison Pendle, the woman who was hired to be the second voice of Alice Angel and the woman that inspired Joey Drew to be a better person.

01:32:34.277 --> 01:32:41.097
And she's also the reason this version exists at all, as Joey sent her into the Ink Universe to help Henry after years of torturing him.

01:32:42.957 --> 01:32:45.337
Allison asks you why you're in Wilson's hideout.

01:32:46.977 --> 01:32:51.497
And this reminds you that you need to get back to him in order to help him defeat the Ink Demon and save his dad.

01:32:51.977 --> 01:32:57.157
Which is on you for some fucking reason, because this man can't just manage his own emotions.

01:32:57.917 --> 01:33:00.257
Well, Allison goes, are you fucking crazy?

01:33:00.257 --> 01:33:01.657
Wilson's the bad guy.

01:33:02.197 --> 01:33:04.737
Was that not clear?

01:33:04.977 --> 01:33:08.337
And you ask her if she's ever actually met Wilson or spoken to him.

01:33:08.837 --> 01:33:13.277
And she says no, but I've seen what he's done to this place and that's enough for her.

01:33:13.457 --> 01:33:16.357
She's like, but like, vibe this man though, he's horrible.

01:33:17.037 --> 01:33:22.037
You tell Allison that he's helping you reset the cycle, so he can't be all that bad.

01:33:22.677 --> 01:33:27.917
Allison trusts you and says that if the two of you are going to take on the Ink Demon, then you're going to need some help.

01:33:28.857 --> 01:33:32.097
So she and Tom set off to gather some old friends to help out.

01:33:33.497 --> 01:33:36.417
As she does, she goes, oh, a machine gun, dibs.

01:33:37.737 --> 01:33:39.337
Just right out from under you.

01:33:39.357 --> 01:33:40.837
Just mocking you at this point.

01:33:40.857 --> 01:33:41.457
That's funny.

01:33:41.777 --> 01:33:44.117
I know I like that one.

01:33:44.737 --> 01:33:45.417
They can have it.

01:33:46.477 --> 01:33:50.717
You make it back to Betty, and she tells you that Wilson is waiting for you in the lab.

01:33:51.117 --> 01:34:07.337
You head to the lab, and if throughout your adventure, you collected all of a certain collectible and decided to take a seat on a very specific chair while heading to the lab, the screen cuts the black, and we see you from the POV of a security camera.

01:34:07.577 --> 01:34:08.357
Oh, shit.

01:34:08.517 --> 01:34:11.017
In full, normal color and flesh.

01:34:12.397 --> 01:34:13.317
In a straight jacket.

01:34:14.417 --> 01:34:15.357
In a padded room.

01:34:16.277 --> 01:34:16.917
Shut up.

01:34:16.977 --> 01:34:17.957
On a padded bed.

01:34:19.137 --> 01:34:22.177
Flopping around as the credits roll.

01:34:23.177 --> 01:34:24.617
What the fuck?

01:34:25.057 --> 01:34:30.497
Can you describe what collectible it is that triggers this horrific ass shit?

01:34:30.537 --> 01:34:31.057
It's a book.

01:34:31.177 --> 01:34:33.917
There's a book that's scattered throughout the entire facility.

01:34:34.477 --> 01:34:41.977
And if you collect all of the books, this weird Easter egg ending where Audrey is just a crazy person in an asylum occurs.

01:34:42.137 --> 01:34:43.357
Holy shit.

01:34:43.357 --> 01:34:44.357
I don't love that.

01:34:44.377 --> 01:34:50.417
Oh, it's super eerie because Audrey just kind of like flops around like a ragdoll all over the room.

01:34:50.597 --> 01:34:51.797
Oh, poor girl.

01:34:52.117 --> 01:34:53.757
But this is not the real ending either.

01:34:54.197 --> 01:34:56.597
How far are we into this game?

01:34:56.817 --> 01:34:58.617
We're about to hit the point of no return.

01:34:58.917 --> 01:35:04.277
Okay, so there's like one more like, you know, Act 3 has started.

01:35:04.297 --> 01:35:06.597
We're about to have our final big bad moment.

01:35:06.937 --> 01:35:13.177
So they're just like, we're going to deprive you of like gameplay, is more what I'm hearing.

01:35:13.197 --> 01:35:14.677
Like at the beginning, I get that.

01:35:14.697 --> 01:35:16.657
That's been a far cry trope for years.

01:35:16.677 --> 01:35:18.477
And you know, it's just kind of a funny thing you do.

01:35:18.497 --> 01:35:20.657
You're like, ah, you solved the mystery.

01:35:21.097 --> 01:35:22.457
You got it, logic.

01:35:22.657 --> 01:35:30.257
But no, this one's just like, what if we're just like, fuck it, we're going to shave 30, 45 minutes off your gameplay just for shits and giggles.

01:35:30.617 --> 01:35:34.477
So a completionist could realistically accidentally stumble into this.

01:35:34.697 --> 01:35:37.577
A completionist could finish the game without completing it.

01:35:38.857 --> 01:35:42.737
Ironically, I'm going back and forth on whether I hate it or not.

01:35:42.757 --> 01:35:44.557
I can't decide, so you just need to keep going.

01:35:45.437 --> 01:35:46.037
I can't.

01:35:46.677 --> 01:35:51.117
Well, we head to the lab like normal, and it's unlike anything we've seen in the game.

01:35:51.937 --> 01:35:52.837
There's color here.

01:35:53.357 --> 01:35:54.077
Oh, shit.

01:35:54.117 --> 01:35:54.877
A lot of it.

01:35:55.797 --> 01:35:59.117
But it's inconsistent and kind of not meaningfully placed.

01:35:59.857 --> 01:36:03.037
And it's just splashes of color and coloring outside the lines.

01:36:03.057 --> 01:36:05.797
I would say it looks like somebody who may be blind in the painting.

01:36:06.217 --> 01:36:07.037
Oh, weird.

01:36:08.557 --> 01:36:13.937
But it only persists through two hallways and then is just gone, putting us back in the Sepia world.

01:36:14.057 --> 01:36:14.397
Huh.

01:36:15.337 --> 01:36:20.757
You get to the lab itself, and you're in a room with a big observation window, looking in at Wilson.

01:36:21.677 --> 01:36:25.857
And he does give you the point of no return speech, signaling the final mission.

01:36:27.117 --> 01:36:34.737
And there were a couple side quests you could complete, including one where you feed a giant ink blob man, creature kind of thing called Big Steve.

01:36:37.237 --> 01:36:39.117
And you feed him a still beating heart.

01:36:39.357 --> 01:36:40.817
What the fuck?

01:36:40.817 --> 01:36:42.917
And he just kind of sits down and eats it like an apple.

01:36:43.697 --> 01:36:44.757
I hate everything about this.

01:36:44.757 --> 01:36:47.457
I'm glad we didn't do that one in this run through.

01:36:47.497 --> 01:36:48.217
What the fuck?

01:36:48.217 --> 01:36:50.017
Well, he's a friendly giant, actually.

01:36:50.037 --> 01:36:55.117
And once you feed him, you can get a bunch of cool treasures and a power up for your pipe if you do.

01:36:55.457 --> 01:36:58.257
Well, that's fucking cool, but I don't want to feed him a heart.

01:36:58.817 --> 01:37:07.557
He also shows up later, and if you didn't meet him by going off track and doing this side quest, you would see him later and go, who the fuck is this guy?

01:37:07.577 --> 01:37:10.977
There's a giant man who's being irrelevant right now.

01:37:11.877 --> 01:37:17.977
Well, anyway, once you're ready, you let Wilson know you're here to help, and he lets you into his lab.

01:37:19.337 --> 01:37:30.257
He says that since the Ink Demon can't be killed, we need to cast him out instead and replace him with a new deity, one that we control.

01:37:31.657 --> 01:37:34.997
And as he says this, a painted picture is revealed.

01:37:36.137 --> 01:37:44.917
It's in full color, and it's of a little sailor boy with a big smile and rosy cheeks, with his sidekick blue crab in a bow tie.

01:37:47.317 --> 01:37:52.417
Was this whole thing just so this motherfucker could pitch a cartoon to an artist?

01:37:53.597 --> 01:37:56.057
Yeah, that's actually exactly what this is.

01:37:56.077 --> 01:37:57.237
Are you fucking serious?

01:37:57.257 --> 01:37:59.097
I'm so upset right now.

01:37:59.277 --> 01:38:01.897
And his name is Shipahoy Dudley.

01:38:03.117 --> 01:38:04.757
I want to kick this man's ass.

01:38:05.317 --> 01:38:11.297
I know this is a grown man with a crazy eye or some shit, but I want to cause him physical fucking harm.

01:38:12.037 --> 01:38:16.277
Well, you look at this thing and you agree this will probably be better than the Ink Demon.

01:38:18.017 --> 01:38:20.277
But how can you make sure you control it?

01:38:20.877 --> 01:38:23.297
How do you avoid the same mistakes as Joey Drew?

01:38:24.137 --> 01:38:32.657
Wilson says that with the right character, the right science, and the right soul, it can't fail.

01:38:34.097 --> 01:38:42.017
As he says the right soul, a wall panel slides away, revealing a half dozen rotary saw blades spinning.

01:38:43.457 --> 01:38:47.297
He says that with your soul, his creation will live forever.

01:38:47.977 --> 01:38:50.957
You ask, what about his father going home, all that stuff?

01:38:52.217 --> 01:38:54.737
And he simply says, I lied.

01:38:55.017 --> 01:38:58.617
He's at least lying about having a family he needed to save.

01:38:58.637 --> 01:39:01.977
His dad is long beyond hope.

01:39:03.077 --> 01:39:04.097
Perhaps you've heard of him.

01:39:05.177 --> 01:39:05.957
Nathan Arch.

01:39:08.037 --> 01:39:08.897
Oh, there it is.

01:39:08.957 --> 01:39:11.077
The owner of Archgate Studios.

01:39:11.097 --> 01:39:11.937
Son of a bitch.

01:39:12.237 --> 01:39:13.477
He's such a creep.

01:39:13.497 --> 01:39:19.197
The only way he'd get a job is doing the jander shit at his daddy's company, because he's such a fucking lunatic.

01:39:19.597 --> 01:39:22.077
And he still manages to kidnap a bitch.

01:39:22.637 --> 01:39:39.677
Yeah, Nathan Arch, the business tycoon and billionaire who spent his whole life funding every creative person in his path, including the constant failure, Joey Drew, spending more time with Bendy and his creator than he ever did with his own son.

01:39:39.857 --> 01:39:40.717
Wow.

01:39:41.217 --> 01:39:43.277
It's still a commentary on Crunch Culture.

01:39:43.497 --> 01:39:43.817
Right.

01:39:44.157 --> 01:39:45.417
What the fuck though?

01:39:45.697 --> 01:39:51.057
Because people like Joey Drew are geniuses, and his son could never compare.

01:39:51.637 --> 01:39:53.957
Honestly, yeah, his son fucking sucks.

01:39:54.057 --> 01:39:54.757
I get that.

01:39:55.277 --> 01:40:12.877
In an audio log, we hear Wilson talk about being the son of the great Nathan Arch and how he would visit his dad at work, but nobody knew who he was, so he decided to pretend to be a janitor just to kinda fuck with everyone.

01:40:13.137 --> 01:40:15.237
Is he Andy Bernard on The Office?

01:40:18.917 --> 01:40:20.237
Seriously, right?

01:40:21.457 --> 01:40:27.377
But when the ink machine arrived, nobody knew what it was, and they just threw it in a museum.

01:40:28.397 --> 01:40:35.697
But he knew what it was and what it could do, and he's been using it to pause the cycle and to create new creatures.

01:40:36.137 --> 01:40:37.497
Oh, what a fucking creep.

01:40:38.477 --> 01:40:50.217
He also learned how to go in and come out of the ink machine, which is why he looks as old as he does and why he's as deformed and sick in his human form now.

01:40:51.137 --> 01:40:53.437
It's deteriorating him, all the...

01:40:54.557 --> 01:40:58.757
I can't even describe what it is, the time loop transfer space?

01:40:59.117 --> 01:41:01.097
Yeah, he's got to die every time he goes back in.

01:41:01.117 --> 01:41:02.037
Oh, shit.

01:41:02.337 --> 01:41:03.797
Yeah, he's not in his 70s.

01:41:03.817 --> 01:41:06.197
He's more in his late 40s or early 50s.

01:41:07.337 --> 01:41:09.477
He looks fucking terrible for his age.

01:41:09.877 --> 01:41:16.957
Yeah, this puts Nathan Arch no more than like 70 now, and still would be a very reasonable active businessman.

01:41:17.477 --> 01:41:25.177
And now he's going to use the ink machine to create Shippahoy Dudley and overthrow Bendy the Ink Demon.

01:41:25.597 --> 01:41:28.137
I love how fucking stupid the name is.

01:41:28.497 --> 01:41:35.997
And show his father once and for all that he is the real creative genius, not Joey Drew.

01:41:36.137 --> 01:41:37.217
Is this secession?

01:41:39.837 --> 01:41:44.177
I'm not caught up, but I think this is secession, but real bad.

01:41:44.957 --> 01:41:51.137
It also feels like the brother relationship between Captain America and Tony Stark, because they both knew his dad.

01:41:51.297 --> 01:42:01.737
Oh, yeah, one's clearly better and not the familial relation, so he's just a bitter, shitty Iron Man, but instead he's fucking Chippsahoy Dudley, and I fucking hate it.

01:42:02.797 --> 01:42:06.897
Well, once he rules this world, he'll go on to rule theirs as well.

01:42:07.277 --> 01:42:11.577
Does he see himself as Chippsahoy Dudley and, like, he has a crab sidekick?

01:42:11.817 --> 01:42:13.557
I think he does, yeah, he probably does.

01:42:13.957 --> 01:42:15.877
He just wants to have a crab sidekick.

01:42:16.757 --> 01:42:21.597
Well, he knows now that he can bring anything he wants with him when he leaves this world.

01:42:22.037 --> 01:42:22.597
Oh, no.

01:42:23.017 --> 01:42:32.497
You reach out to use your banished power on him, and he says that the pylons that prevent the ink demon from showing up also prevents your banished powers from working.

01:42:32.677 --> 01:42:33.577
That's convenient.

01:42:33.857 --> 01:42:36.837
You swing your pipe, and he catches your wrist.

01:42:38.097 --> 01:42:43.977
With both your arms in his hands, he starts dragging you towards the spinning saw blades.

01:42:45.517 --> 01:42:50.597
As he drags you, you struggle enough to get your wrist some swing power.

01:42:50.617 --> 01:42:51.197
Hell, yeah.

01:42:51.577 --> 01:42:55.717
And you bash Wilson in the face a few times with your pipe until he lets you go.

01:42:55.857 --> 01:42:58.777
Fuck, yeah, bust both his eyes all the way up in the skull.

01:42:58.797 --> 01:42:59.777
I hate this man.

01:43:00.557 --> 01:43:04.517
And you shove his ass into the spinning saw blade.

01:43:04.597 --> 01:43:05.197
Shit, yeah.

01:43:05.577 --> 01:43:09.057
And you watch his body get torn to literal shreds.

01:43:09.077 --> 01:43:10.097
Apt the fucking lutely.

01:43:10.117 --> 01:43:11.337
Down to ribbons, bitch.

01:43:11.357 --> 01:43:12.597
Fuck you and chips ahoy.

01:43:12.637 --> 01:43:14.857
And he is back to ink and paper.

01:43:15.237 --> 01:43:15.657
Good.

01:43:16.557 --> 01:43:18.897
The wall closes, and you head out.

01:43:19.297 --> 01:43:22.577
If you die in the ink matrix, do you die in real life?

01:43:24.497 --> 01:43:25.437
Only with the banishment.

01:43:25.897 --> 01:43:26.657
That's the only way.

01:43:26.677 --> 01:43:28.897
So it like removes you from the cycle entirely.

01:43:29.017 --> 01:43:29.377
Cool.

01:43:30.537 --> 01:43:36.717
You enter a big room that has a large pool of ink along the far wall, with a bunch of pipes feeding into it.

01:43:37.037 --> 01:43:39.777
There's a lever to move on to the next room, so you pull it.

01:43:40.517 --> 01:43:41.737
But it doesn't open the doors.

01:43:42.637 --> 01:43:49.297
It turns on the ink machine, located somewhere else, and feeds into the pool of ink in the room with you.

01:43:50.217 --> 01:44:01.217
A gigantic anchor on a chain comes flying out of the ink and out climbs a 20 foot tall shipahoy Dudley.

01:44:01.537 --> 01:44:02.097
No.

01:44:02.237 --> 01:44:04.597
With a spider lower half for a body.

01:44:04.817 --> 01:44:08.157
Oh no, cause he's a terrible person, so he made a terrible creature.

01:44:08.217 --> 01:44:08.877
Yeah.

01:44:09.917 --> 01:44:15.197
He's crackling with electricity, and he looks like a terrifying animatronic.

01:44:15.737 --> 01:44:20.837
And he also has an outy belly button in the form of Wilson's head.

01:44:22.277 --> 01:44:24.557
Ew, that's disgusting and horrible.

01:44:24.577 --> 01:44:25.877
Wait, is his crab friend there?

01:44:26.057 --> 01:44:26.397
No.

01:44:26.517 --> 01:44:29.577
God damn it, the coolest part of this didn't even come true.

01:44:29.597 --> 01:44:33.417
Actually thinking about it, it's probably that's what the lower body is, is the crab part of it.

01:44:33.517 --> 01:44:36.577
Oh, cause he's so fucked up, it's all fucked up.

01:44:36.597 --> 01:44:38.797
They combined together and he became both.

01:44:38.797 --> 01:44:40.457
So it's not a spider, he's on a crab.

01:44:40.477 --> 01:44:40.717
That's-

01:44:41.697 --> 01:44:43.797
That's a little charming, I'm not gonna lie.

01:44:44.177 --> 01:44:50.997
Like the way in the fly when he goes in with the fly, he goes out all fucked up is what happened to his dream.

01:44:51.197 --> 01:44:52.177
Yeah, entirely.

01:44:52.377 --> 01:44:53.497
Good, fuck you.

01:44:53.797 --> 01:44:56.857
And Wilson's head is obviously the weak spot of the Spider Dudley.

01:44:57.937 --> 01:45:01.117
I don't want to look at it, and I'm very upset that the game makes you.

01:45:01.817 --> 01:45:07.797
During the fight, you manage to disable the power supply that's keeping you from being able to use your banished powers.

01:45:08.917 --> 01:45:17.037
And once you do, you grab Wilson's head and watch him scream out as he vanishes and dies once and for all.

01:45:17.477 --> 01:45:18.077
Hell yeah.

01:45:18.257 --> 01:45:18.857
Fuck you.

01:45:19.617 --> 01:45:21.817
But Crab Dudley doesn't die.

01:45:22.837 --> 01:45:28.817
In fact, Crab Dudley is now free, and Crab Dudley is fucking pissed.

01:45:30.797 --> 01:45:33.677
This is very funny to me that the crab persevered.

01:45:34.157 --> 01:45:43.617
Well, Crab Dudley's first act as a free spirit is grabbing you and ripping your fucking legs off.

01:45:43.637 --> 01:45:44.657
Does he actually do it?

01:45:44.677 --> 01:45:46.217
He actually does it.

01:45:46.397 --> 01:45:47.097
Fuck off.

01:45:47.237 --> 01:45:48.817
And tosses you aside.

01:45:49.377 --> 01:45:55.377
And you look down and you can see your bones sticking out of the stumps where your legs used to be.

01:45:55.397 --> 01:45:58.137
I can't even watch that when it's in cartoons or anything.

01:45:58.157 --> 01:46:00.377
I think it's the grossest shit when the bones stick out.

01:46:00.937 --> 01:46:01.877
Fuck everything.

01:46:01.897 --> 01:46:06.657
That's honestly pretty hardcore animation gore for this.

01:46:06.677 --> 01:46:09.657
We haven't seen anything this gory yet, right?

01:46:09.897 --> 01:46:11.497
No, not at all.

01:46:11.517 --> 01:46:14.257
And it's ink, but it's still fucking horrifying.

01:46:14.277 --> 01:46:22.637
Yeah, and just contextually, that feels like a big horror jump to get into gore after you've been in Creepy Crawly and Jumpscare World.

01:46:22.657 --> 01:46:26.977
And you drag yourself away from the advancing monster.

01:46:28.397 --> 01:46:32.457
Now the pylons that you shut down didn't just give you back your banish power.

01:46:33.377 --> 01:46:37.457
It also means there's nothing stopping the Ink Demon from coming.

01:46:39.137 --> 01:46:48.937
So just as Crab Dudley is about to finish you off, the Ink Demon comes in like the T-Rex in Jurassic Park to save the fucking day.

01:46:48.957 --> 01:46:50.717
Honestly, hell yeah.

01:46:52.057 --> 01:47:08.377
Crab Dudley and the Ink Demon fight it out and with a horrifying crunch, the seven foot tall Ink Demon rips out the 20 foot tall Crab Dudley's throat with his teeth, killing him once and for all.

01:47:09.417 --> 01:47:11.237
That's a soft shell motherfucker.

01:47:11.357 --> 01:47:12.897
Die, die, die.

01:47:13.877 --> 01:47:19.377
The Ink Demon grabs Crab Dudley and drags him back into the ink pool from whence he came.

01:47:21.997 --> 01:47:23.497
This is horrifying.

01:47:23.837 --> 01:47:24.637
I love it.

01:47:24.897 --> 01:47:26.637
Oh, it's about to get so much better too.

01:47:26.657 --> 01:47:27.117
How?

01:47:27.377 --> 01:47:28.137
Oh, this is great.

01:47:28.857 --> 01:47:35.697
You pass out from a loss of ink and wake up a short while later, surrounded by your own ink and crying.

01:47:37.377 --> 01:47:41.317
The Ink Demon emerges from the pool once again and sees you.

01:47:42.637 --> 01:47:47.137
The Ink Demon advances, growling, and you just lay there crying.

01:47:48.617 --> 01:47:51.677
He says that it's time, Audrey, to accept your fate.

01:47:52.757 --> 01:47:58.477
Your road is broken, and your whole existence is a lie.

01:48:00.477 --> 01:48:02.097
You're not the Audrey that won.

01:48:03.097 --> 01:48:08.097
You're one of the failed experiments, a monster like him.

01:48:09.617 --> 01:48:14.517
It's time to join the Ink and become one with the Ink Demon, where you belong.

01:48:15.277 --> 01:48:17.937
With the Ink Demon, you will become special again.

01:48:18.197 --> 01:48:20.117
You will have meaning and purpose.

01:48:21.077 --> 01:48:28.297
And with no other options, you reach out your hand, and the Ink Demon eats your head.

01:48:29.257 --> 01:48:39.037
The screen goes black, and the Ink Demon says, We are now one, the daughter of Drew and the power of the Demon.

01:48:39.177 --> 01:48:40.197
What the fuck?

01:48:41.837 --> 01:48:47.537
Your eyes open, and you're looking down at your hands, and they are the hands of the Ink Demon.

01:48:47.857 --> 01:48:48.317
Oh no.

01:48:49.397 --> 01:48:54.117
You're struggling, and you can hear your own voice wondering what's happening.

01:48:55.497 --> 01:49:01.277
From over by the Pool of Ink, you hear Joey Drew say, There's always a choice.

01:49:02.777 --> 01:49:10.737
He calls out to you, saying he knows you're in there, somewhere, and that you have a choice, even now, on what to do next.

01:49:12.517 --> 01:49:13.857
You're not one of the failures.

01:49:14.437 --> 01:49:15.337
You are real.

01:49:16.337 --> 01:49:24.097
Joey Drew really did succeed in creating a daughter, and both he and the real Joey Drew truly love you.

01:49:24.117 --> 01:49:25.397
Hell yeah.

01:49:25.697 --> 01:49:26.137
Hell yeah.

01:49:26.157 --> 01:49:26.797
Fight this guy.

01:49:26.817 --> 01:49:28.677
Don't let him get in your head.

01:49:29.057 --> 01:49:30.117
You're a bad bitch.

01:49:30.297 --> 01:49:31.197
Can't kill her?

01:49:32.797 --> 01:49:39.137
The ink demon takes control of its own body and advances on Joey, saying the wretch is mine.

01:49:39.957 --> 01:49:46.377
Now that we're closer, we can see that Joey is holding a film reel, and he keeps saying that it's okay.

01:49:47.097 --> 01:49:48.657
He knows you'll do the right thing.

01:49:50.057 --> 01:49:55.677
And the ink demon grabs Joey Drew, saying that the failure of Joey Drew dies here.

01:49:56.477 --> 01:49:59.717
Joey says that a pencil in a dream just isn't enough anymore.

01:50:00.817 --> 01:50:01.757
You have to have heart.

01:50:02.897 --> 01:50:07.257
And he shows you that the film reel in his arm is the one that says, the end.

01:50:07.857 --> 01:50:08.377
Hell yeah.

01:50:09.877 --> 01:50:12.417
You can hear Joey's bones snap.

01:50:12.457 --> 01:50:13.097
Oh my god.

01:50:13.117 --> 01:50:13.657
One by one.

01:50:15.477 --> 01:50:18.217
As the ink demon strengthens its grip around him.

01:50:19.377 --> 01:50:23.557
And with a final loud snap, Joey Drew goes limp.

01:50:24.357 --> 01:50:26.817
And you scream out from inside the ink demon.

01:50:29.157 --> 01:50:31.277
Never thought you'd feel bad about Joey Drew dying.

01:50:31.797 --> 01:50:32.377
Okay, here.

01:50:32.417 --> 01:50:33.217
I don't still.

01:50:35.357 --> 01:50:43.417
I just, I'm surprised at the amount of gore they've injected into the third act of the second game where there has been none up until now.

01:50:43.477 --> 01:50:43.997
That's fair.

01:50:44.017 --> 01:50:45.117
That is jarring for me.

01:50:45.337 --> 01:50:48.217
I am rooting for Audrey, and I think this makes her sad.

01:50:48.477 --> 01:50:50.057
So I'm here for her.

01:50:50.077 --> 01:50:52.737
I don't give a fuck about Joey Drew.

01:50:52.757 --> 01:50:54.117
I'll make that very clear.

01:50:54.137 --> 01:50:56.537
I'm Team Bad Bitches only.

01:50:57.277 --> 01:51:04.317
Well, the demon tosses Joey's body into the pool of ink, and you take control again, catching your breath as you do.

01:51:05.017 --> 01:51:07.697
Looking down, you see the film reel on the ground.

01:51:08.437 --> 01:51:18.037
The ink demon asks, what are you doing as you pick up the reel, showing it to yourself, and by proxy him saying, you're finishing this.

01:51:18.717 --> 01:51:20.617
This is the end.

01:51:21.277 --> 01:51:27.337
And you take full control of the ink demon's body and smash through a nearby wall.

01:51:27.417 --> 01:51:30.357
Because it's all made of paper, so it's very easy.

01:51:30.957 --> 01:51:40.617
We next see a legless searcher crawling down a hallway when the ink demon smashes through a wall screaming and crushes the searcher into a Rorschach test.

01:51:42.217 --> 01:51:44.797
Now, you play as the ink demon himself.

01:51:45.957 --> 01:51:55.077
And you are the massive, gigantic beast Bendy, standing 15 feet tall and able to break through these walls with ease.

01:51:56.417 --> 01:52:00.057
And while you have the body, the demon still has the mouth.

01:52:01.137 --> 01:52:05.637
And he calls the faithful lost ones and searchers in the area to come take you down.

01:52:06.057 --> 01:52:06.997
Oh shit.

01:52:07.637 --> 01:52:16.417
But you tear ass through this place like an inky black Donkey Kong, just crushing the onslaught of ink people around you like they're nothing.

01:52:17.437 --> 01:52:27.777
You get to a room that has a bunch of much larger lost ones, and they're holding electric cattle prods that will clearly weaken you as they have that colorful electricity from before.

01:52:27.797 --> 01:52:28.437
Oh shit.

01:52:29.617 --> 01:52:41.657
The ink demon says, Your time has come, and then bullets start ripping through the lost ones, and Allison comes out a dark hallway and shoots everyone around you like a Tarantino movie.

01:52:42.057 --> 01:52:43.037
Get it, bitch.

01:52:44.117 --> 01:52:47.437
She says, she knows it's you in there, and she's here to help.

01:52:48.237 --> 01:52:51.097
And then she says, Tom, make us some trouble.

01:52:51.597 --> 01:52:52.497
Hell yeah.

01:52:53.037 --> 01:52:54.197
But we don't see Tom.

01:52:55.037 --> 01:53:00.097
We see Big Steve as he lifts a sci-fi door up and over his 12 foot head.

01:53:01.077 --> 01:53:03.357
But we see Tom riding on the back of him.

01:53:03.677 --> 01:53:08.117
Does this trigger whether or not you've done his side quest?

01:53:08.317 --> 01:53:14.557
Yeah, I think if you hadn't met Steve earlier, which is completely possible, this would still happen and it would be very weird to see.

01:53:16.757 --> 01:53:19.497
So he helps you battle through the next sections of the map.

01:53:19.737 --> 01:53:20.357
Hell yeah.

01:53:20.817 --> 01:53:22.057
But you get to another dead end.

01:53:22.897 --> 01:53:24.377
And Sammy Lawrence is there.

01:53:25.177 --> 01:53:28.437
And he's telling the Lost Ones to submit to their new ink lord.

01:53:29.637 --> 01:53:36.697
All of your friends along the way are there, including Heidi, helping you smash your way to the room with a projector so you can play the reel.

01:53:37.577 --> 01:53:38.237
That's what's up.

01:53:39.337 --> 01:53:40.777
But you get to another dead end.

01:53:41.297 --> 01:53:44.737
And the switch that will open the door is in a spot nobody can get to.

01:53:46.317 --> 01:53:47.717
And then you hear a voice ring out.

01:53:48.257 --> 01:53:49.157
Somebody need my help?

01:53:49.757 --> 01:53:52.237
And Alison shouts out, Henry, you came.

01:53:53.637 --> 01:53:55.837
And he says that some battles are worth fighting.

01:53:56.757 --> 01:53:58.077
Even for the millionth time.

01:53:58.897 --> 01:54:00.517
Oh, why do I love him?

01:54:00.737 --> 01:54:01.237
You're right.

01:54:01.257 --> 01:54:03.317
I feel more connected to him in this game.

01:54:03.317 --> 01:54:05.197
I'm like, hell yeah, Henry.

01:54:05.517 --> 01:54:14.877
Maybe just because he's actually able to break the cycle and impact change when the first one, the whole core is that he cannot impact change and he's stuck in this world.

01:54:14.897 --> 01:54:17.897
But man, Henry in two is fucking sick.

01:54:17.937 --> 01:54:18.857
Yeah, I love Henry.

01:54:19.617 --> 01:54:24.397
You get into the room, and you can see someone has written, The End on the wall ahead.

01:54:25.397 --> 01:54:28.917
There's a projector on a table, dead setter between the two words.

01:54:30.017 --> 01:54:32.797
And there's a cardboard cutout of Bendy nearby as well.

01:54:33.737 --> 01:54:33.977
Oh.

01:54:35.297 --> 01:54:40.037
You put the film reel into the projector and point the thing right into your own eyes.

01:54:41.377 --> 01:54:42.337
That's fucking great.

01:54:42.557 --> 01:54:50.737
And with the cutout of Bendy still smiling at you, the world around you fades to white as the cycle finally resets.

01:54:50.897 --> 01:54:51.597
Beautiful.

01:54:52.697 --> 01:54:57.437
You wake up in the same spot you did at the end of the last game in Joey Drew's home.

01:54:57.817 --> 01:55:00.277
You're a real person again with hands of skin.

01:55:01.617 --> 01:55:05.557
It's also the version of the home we saw at the start of the game, decrepit and falling apart.

01:55:05.597 --> 01:55:06.097
Oh, no.

01:55:06.117 --> 01:55:07.337
Yeah, there's vines and shit.

01:55:07.877 --> 01:55:14.637
You say that your father once told you that just because you're born in the darkness doesn't mean we belong to it.

01:55:15.317 --> 01:55:19.137
And you approach the door that Henry entered to restart the cycle in the first game.

01:55:19.797 --> 01:55:22.857
You open it, and you're back at the start of this game.

01:55:23.557 --> 01:55:23.757
Oh.

01:55:24.017 --> 01:55:24.817
In your office.

01:55:25.077 --> 01:55:26.457
Overworked, underpaid.

01:55:26.877 --> 01:55:32.717
Where you were working on Archgate's revival of the Bendy cartoon series that it recently bought from the estate of Joey Drew.

01:55:33.217 --> 01:55:37.077
But now you realize you are the daughter of Joey Drew.

01:55:37.997 --> 01:55:43.417
And that it's right that this landed on you, because now you can control what happens in it.

01:55:44.677 --> 01:55:48.077
You've seen that the cycle can go on without resetting.

01:55:49.237 --> 01:55:54.557
Now it's time to make sure it's a good world for people, instead of a nightmare.

01:55:55.317 --> 01:55:57.777
But for you, you're the first of your kind.

01:55:58.357 --> 01:56:03.157
And as you say this, you bend your finger backwards like it's made of a rubber hose.

01:56:05.717 --> 01:56:08.377
Born of ink, but living in flesh.

01:56:09.677 --> 01:56:13.337
Joey's creations escaping into the real world.

01:56:14.997 --> 01:56:19.857
And with that, you look to your right, to find Bendy here with you.

01:56:20.437 --> 01:56:21.137
Real Bendy?

01:56:21.297 --> 01:56:26.997
In the real world, a living cartoon character, smiling and excited.

01:56:28.857 --> 01:56:29.677
So what's next?

01:56:30.877 --> 01:56:31.777
Who can really say?

01:56:33.037 --> 01:56:36.437
Cut to black, created by TheMeatly.

01:56:39.697 --> 01:56:41.377
Holy shit.

01:56:41.817 --> 01:56:46.017
I do like this a lot better than the first one in terms of story, in terms of characters.

01:56:46.297 --> 01:56:50.417
I like the protagonist of the first game better as a side character in this one.

01:56:50.437 --> 01:56:53.697
That's incredible writing just going one to two, you know what I mean?

01:56:53.717 --> 01:56:54.877
That's a good point, yeah.

01:56:54.897 --> 01:56:55.957
That's fucking great.

01:56:56.277 --> 01:56:57.597
And these credits are gorgeous.

01:56:57.617 --> 01:57:02.157
They keep the sepia tone, but use a completely different, but also beautiful art style.

01:57:03.077 --> 01:57:08.477
And it ends with a picture of Joey Drew drawing with a young girl.

01:57:08.837 --> 01:57:14.137
And there's also a short end credit scene where we see the ink machine, and it's in the back of a moving van.

01:57:15.077 --> 01:57:22.797
The door to the van slams shut, and we see the words, Gent Corporation on the outside, and the truck drives off.

01:57:23.417 --> 01:57:24.037
You know why?

01:57:24.097 --> 01:57:26.717
They had a recall on that model.

01:57:26.737 --> 01:57:28.677
They were people creating pocket dimensions.

01:57:29.397 --> 01:57:30.777
Holy shit.

01:57:30.877 --> 01:57:34.257
And that was Bendy and the Dark Revival.

01:57:34.737 --> 01:57:36.877
I really enjoyed that more than the first one.

01:57:36.897 --> 01:57:37.697
I'm not going to lie.

01:57:37.717 --> 01:57:49.257
I know it is the product of corporate torture, which is ironically a theme of the Joey Drew Studios world, both in game and in our world.

01:57:49.657 --> 01:57:54.717
But man, if that's not a better story and more compelling in so many ways.

01:57:54.857 --> 01:57:55.957
I agree entirely.

01:57:55.977 --> 01:57:58.217
I thought the story was much better in this one.

01:57:58.237 --> 01:58:00.297
They just took out all the interpretation, really.

01:58:00.557 --> 01:58:03.077
Yeah, they're like, no, no, I'm going to spell it the fuck out for you.

01:58:03.137 --> 01:58:06.317
And as a person who does this podcast, I appreciate that.

01:58:07.257 --> 01:58:09.297
It actually works better for what we do.

01:58:09.817 --> 01:58:11.257
Man, I love Audrey.

01:58:11.257 --> 01:58:12.437
I think she's cool as shit.

01:58:12.437 --> 01:58:15.757
I feel bad that she got kidnapped, but I'm glad she figured out her parentage.

01:58:15.997 --> 01:58:33.497
Because honestly, if you don't know who your family is, I mean, it's a little bit early, but eventually she would do an ancestor.com thing, and they'd be like, you're 50% ink, 25% Irish, 3% Mongolian, and go down the line.

01:58:33.737 --> 01:58:37.297
And this poor girl would have to be like, I'm part Sharpie.

01:58:37.297 --> 01:58:40.737
I don't know what the fuck that means.

01:58:40.737 --> 01:58:45.797
And she can't prove her parentage as well because of what I just described.

01:58:45.817 --> 01:58:56.177
So she's like, I know I'm Joey Drew's daughter, but being an orphan and probably not having the paperwork to back up that she is the product of Joey Drew, because there's no fucking birth certificate.

01:58:56.217 --> 01:58:58.197
She never had a birth certificate.

01:58:58.217 --> 01:58:59.337
How the fuck does she have a driver's license?

01:58:59.357 --> 01:59:00.477
She might not have a driver's license.

01:59:00.577 --> 01:59:01.917
You don't need a driver's license to be an adult.

01:59:01.937 --> 01:59:03.637
Anyway, oh, I'm in a bad place.

01:59:03.897 --> 01:59:04.717
Please start talking.

01:59:05.197 --> 01:59:08.277
Yeah, that was such a fascinating ride, wasn't it?

01:59:08.397 --> 01:59:11.197
I'm so glad that you're still spinning out off of her, all of that.

01:59:11.217 --> 01:59:12.837
Like we're saying, it's all definitive answers.

01:59:12.857 --> 01:59:14.097
You're like, but what about this?

01:59:14.317 --> 01:59:22.497
I am going full Pepe Silverwall in my head about how Audrey has been able to enroll in school without a birth certificate.

01:59:22.977 --> 01:59:24.757
Well, there is another Bendy game on the way.

01:59:24.837 --> 01:59:25.537
There is?

01:59:25.557 --> 01:59:29.697
Yeah, they've announced another Bendy game that will be coming out I'm not sure when or anything like that.

01:59:29.717 --> 01:59:31.797
This game only just came out this year, so it's going to be a while.

01:59:31.897 --> 01:59:39.177
Did they describe that title as like a third entry or is it perhaps a smaller thing like that Boris Top Down game you mentioned?

01:59:39.197 --> 01:59:42.697
It's got the name Bendy in it, so it's probably going to be a third in the Bendy franchise.

01:59:42.857 --> 01:59:43.937
Okay, interesting.

01:59:43.957 --> 01:59:45.157
Because like, where do you go from here?

01:59:45.777 --> 01:59:46.357
No idea.

01:59:46.377 --> 01:59:49.717
I mean, the Gent Corporation has it now, so we'll see what happens when they take over.

01:59:50.457 --> 01:59:58.237
Lunatic CEOs from wall to wall, including the Delulu CEO of nothing, just some asshole.

01:59:58.497 --> 02:00:02.877
And it's great because in the first game, Wally Franks, who's a janitor, sweetest man on earth.

02:00:02.937 --> 02:00:04.817
And this one, janitor, pure hell.

02:00:05.397 --> 02:00:09.057
An actual nightmare who is the worst person on earth.

02:00:09.077 --> 02:00:10.157
Not even a real janitor.

02:00:10.177 --> 02:00:11.597
He had to fake being a janitor.

02:00:11.617 --> 02:00:15.537
Yeah, like when Angie Bernard was like, I'm drunk and I'm a janitor.

02:00:15.617 --> 02:00:17.017
I'm the branch manager now.

02:00:17.037 --> 02:00:18.097
And you're like, this is horrible.

02:00:18.757 --> 02:00:21.977
He took that to heart and said, that's a fantastic fucking idea.

02:00:22.337 --> 02:00:23.397
Yeah, he did, didn't he?

02:00:23.697 --> 02:00:25.457
Oh, that was a great ride.

02:00:25.817 --> 02:00:26.877
Thank you so much.

02:00:26.917 --> 02:00:31.757
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Yes, for the next nine upcoming weeks, we have new episodes dropping.

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I have a trilogy of a PlayStation 1 classic coming up next week.

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Yeah.

02:00:41.577 --> 02:00:49.917
And I'm very excited for you all to hear about it, because I spent potentially years, if we're going to count the years I was playing this in terms of working on it.

02:00:49.937 --> 02:00:51.637
So I'm very excited to nerd out about it.

02:00:51.657 --> 02:00:54.097
But holy shit, this one was really fun.

02:00:54.157 --> 02:00:55.237
I really appreciate it.

02:00:55.317 --> 02:01:02.917
And if you like horror, we do have a couple horror episodes coming up this season, because I got to pick what games I played, and I'm a weirdo.

02:01:03.517 --> 02:01:06.697
Yeah, apparently this season, I'm doing a whole bunch of games about gods.

02:01:07.117 --> 02:01:07.537
Are you?

02:01:07.717 --> 02:01:10.657
Oh, I am, and worship, and all sorts of fun stuff, so.

02:01:11.977 --> 02:01:16.057
Genuinely scanning, because my brain blanked, and I was like, what is Tom doing this season?

02:01:16.057 --> 02:01:17.657
I should know, I'm in the show.

02:01:17.997 --> 02:01:19.497
But anyway, thank you all so much.

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And other than that, I think that's everything we've got for you.

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Thank you so much Goombas for going on this ride with us.

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Oh, this was so much fun.

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Never trust anyone who wants to get in an elevator with you last minute.

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I don't care what your gender identity is.

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Carry pepper spray and tasers.

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It's not just for little girls, it's for everyone.

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Let's on gatekeep safety.

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If someone's being creepy, check them.

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Stay safe, everybody.

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And this is Tom and Andrea reminding you.

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Don't skip the cutscenes.

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Can you not fucking do that?