... WTH.
So for months I've seen those weird Bendy and the Ink Machine toys in Wal-Mart and I've wondered what the heck that's about. Yesterday I finally remembered to try looking it up after seeing them advertised in an FYE email. I thought it was some cartoon paying homage to the 1920s cartoons or something. Instead I find out it's a horror survival game with this former animator coming back to his old studio after his friend sends him a message. He finds an ink machine gone haywire and turning everybody at the animation studio into cartoon monsters that he has to fight. And the creepy Bendy character, who is apparently the studio's mascot, is a cartoon devil/demon. Wow. Yeah, I doubt that would have flown in the real 1920s.
Well, at least their wolf character is generally a good guy? He looks like a Goofy knock-off, though, which is kind of eerie. Bendy looks like a cross between Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat.
Honestly, I was never crazy about 1920s cartoon character designs, and this isn't helping. I thought Five Nights at Freddy's was disturbing, but what I've learned about the plot of this thing's chapters disturbs me way more. People being turned into dark versions of the cartoon characters they drew? Eeek! That makes me picture 1920s cartoon characters in the real world coming to life and coming after people. In the game, there's another character who absorbs the cartoon characters' powers and kills them to try to become a stronger version of herself. Disturbing as it is, and worse if she was a real person corrupted by the ink machine.
I guess the game does its job of creeping people out. It sure is me. Although I can't deny that I ponder on the idea of a YGO fic with a similar premise, maybe Yami Marik deciding to send everyone into a life-size version of the game (or a game similar, but clearly based on it, like I did with my send-up of Five Nights at Freddy's called Five Hours at Frankie's). I used to write some horror fics, and I'm trying again now with my Bad End Night-inspired one. I'll have to think about this. It seems like a lot of my YGO fics involve someone sending the crew into life-size games of different kinds, though. Maybe people are getting tired of it. I like it, though, and those are the kinds of plots I'm getting ideas for. Seems like each game is pretty different, at least.
Another idea would be doing the Bendy send-up with Ginger and Lou. It's always fun to visit them, and that's just the kind of problem they might run into in my verse.
Well, at least their wolf character is generally a good guy? He looks like a Goofy knock-off, though, which is kind of eerie. Bendy looks like a cross between Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat.
Honestly, I was never crazy about 1920s cartoon character designs, and this isn't helping. I thought Five Nights at Freddy's was disturbing, but what I've learned about the plot of this thing's chapters disturbs me way more. People being turned into dark versions of the cartoon characters they drew? Eeek! That makes me picture 1920s cartoon characters in the real world coming to life and coming after people. In the game, there's another character who absorbs the cartoon characters' powers and kills them to try to become a stronger version of herself. Disturbing as it is, and worse if she was a real person corrupted by the ink machine.
I guess the game does its job of creeping people out. It sure is me. Although I can't deny that I ponder on the idea of a YGO fic with a similar premise, maybe Yami Marik deciding to send everyone into a life-size version of the game (or a game similar, but clearly based on it, like I did with my send-up of Five Nights at Freddy's called Five Hours at Frankie's). I used to write some horror fics, and I'm trying again now with my Bad End Night-inspired one. I'll have to think about this. It seems like a lot of my YGO fics involve someone sending the crew into life-size games of different kinds, though. Maybe people are getting tired of it. I like it, though, and those are the kinds of plots I'm getting ideas for. Seems like each game is pretty different, at least.
Another idea would be doing the Bendy send-up with Ginger and Lou. It's always fun to visit them, and that's just the kind of problem they might run into in my verse.