The main protagonist, Henry Stickmin, attempts to break into a bank, built in the middle of a desert. He stands next to a wall and wonders how to break inside.
Legacy Version
The intro shows a large bank in the middle of the desert. It zooms into the left wall where Henry is standing. The game begins. The legacy version is the first version of breaking the bank.
Gameplay
The game consists of only one screen to choose your path. It consists of:
Henry grabs a shovel from his pocket and holds it up. Henry cocks the shovel like a gun and digs a tunnel underground. He falls down onto a train track, and he gets up, only to get hit by an oncoming train.
Henry uses a wrecking ball to break the bank wall, but the ball misses, coming back around, while Henry gasps after it come back, and destroying the vehicle.
Henry ties himself in a yellow money sack and waits by the road. Policemen Ted McAdams and Winston Davis pass by in the armored truck and stop when they see him. They throw him in the back and drive to the bank. Henry is thrown in the vault and it is locked. When he stands up, he is caught by a security laser and sets off the alarm. The game ends with his arrest.
This final choice counts as the definitive ending, since after Henry's arrest the credits begin to roll. During the credits, a compilation of all the failures and their aftermath is shown, like a construction worker, Unnamed BtB Construction Worker, being surprised by the damage done by the wrecking ball. The credits end with a screenshot of Henry being put in West Mesa Penitentiary by police officer Dave Panpa.
Remastered Version
The intro shows a large bank in the middle of the desert. It zooms into the left wall where Henry is standing. He is thinking of how to break inside of the vault. The game begins.
Henry is looking at the bank.
Gameplay
The game consists of only one screen to choose your path. It consists of:
Henry digs down and hits something. He gets a lighter to look at what he hit, and finds that he's hit some gas main, and blows up due to the lit flame, killing Henry. (Fail Message: Never dig straight down.)
Henry puts a load of explosives near the wall. But when he tries to put a stick of dynamite on another explosive, a bomb rolls off and activates the detonator causing him and the bank to blow up. (Fail Message: Handle with care.)
Henry attempts to use the teleporter to teleport into the bank, but ends up stuck in the middle of a wall. (Fail Message: It's emergent technology. I'm sure it will get better!)
Henry drives a wrecking ball to the side of the bank. When he is about to use it, the guard (Chad Hansen) whistles and shrugs angrily at him. He then has Henry drive the wrecking ball back. (Fail Message: There's no construction scheduled for today.)
Henry ties himself up in a yellow money sack and waits by the road. Policemen/truck drivers Ted McAdams and Winston Davis pass by in the van and stop when they see him. After a short exchange where Ted wonders how they lost one and Winston decides they should take it just to be safe, they throw him in the back and drive to the bank where guards Chad Hansen and Philly Colin are talking and wondering about why there's a bank in the middle of the desert. Henry is thrown in the vault and it is locked. When he stands up, he is caught by a security laser and sets off the alarm. The game ends with his arrest.
Breaking the Bank Remastered - All Choices, Fails & Endings
Breaking the Bank - All Choices
Gallery
The Bank in the remastered version.
Henry's bio
The Main Menu of The Game in the Collection
Winston's bio
Breaking the Bank HD
The Truck (Legacy)
Henry hiding in a disguising bag (Legacy)
The Laser (Remake)
The Bank's Lasers
Henry uses the Laser Drill (Legacy)
The Wrecking Ball (Legacy)
Henry using the Teleporter (Legacy)
Henry inspects the explosives
Henry uses the shovel (Legacy)
A photo in the opening of Infiltrating the Airship showing that this game took place on the 28th of August, 2008 1:52 PM
The Main Menu on Stickpage.com
A Transparent Logo of the game.
All options in the remastered version of the game.
End scene of the original version.
A video in the Lawyered Up route of Escaping the Prison showing that this game took place on the 28th of August, 2008 1:52 PM
Trivia
In the original version, characters are drawn in a more simple manner than in later games, lacking any shoes or fingers. PuffballsUnited remake redesigned the characters to the current design.
In the original version, when you failed you would simply be prompted to choose something different. In the Remastered version there is a proper fail screen with a message like the other games in the series.
Instead of aftermath images at the end of the game, this game shows a black screen opting players to return to the menu, to go to the next episode, and every other option on the GUI.
The Tunnel fail is changed. In the old version Henry would be killed by a train, while in the remastered version he is killed by a gas explosion.
The Wrecking Ball fail is also changed. In the old version Henry would hit himself with the ball, but in the remastered, he doesn't even get to operate the crane, as Chad Hansen stops him from doing anything.
The Explosives fail is also changed. In the old version Henry detonates TNT and takes cover behind a brick wall, but it doesn't go off. He gets confused and goes to see what's wrong with explosives. When he gets close, the explosion occurs and blows him up, but in the remastered, Henry is busy placing the explosives next to the wall off the bank, a bomb rolls off the pile and falls onto the detonator, triggering the explosions, blowing up Henry and killing him.
This 3 options Where changed, Because He think they were not funny, because they were Unpredictible.
The remaster removes Dave Panpa and the Construction Worker who appeared in the removed end credits, and named the previously unnamed bank guard characters.
Puffballsunited States that he didn't want this first game having Credits due to being so short (All other path's Credits are also short).
The fanfare from the Shovel option was originally from the Zelda games. However, in this version it has been changed due to copyright reasons. This sound also comes out in hidden ending, "Biggol Sword" from Infiltrating the Airship.
This game and Escaping the Prison are the only games in The Henry Stickmin series where, no matter which ending has been selected, Henry does not end up killing anyone. (This is because Breaking the Bank has only one ending).
This is the only game in Henry Stickmin series that has one ending, since other options are all fails.
This game and Stealing the Diamond are the only two Henry Stickmin games (not counting Completing the Mission and its various endings) where Henry is not the first character seen. In this case, the first characters that can be seen are Chad Hansen and Philly Colin, although you can hardly see them.
This is the only game in The Henry Stickmin series that does not have a soundtrack. The only piece of music unique to the game is the theme that plays in the remastered version's episode selection menu.
Breaking the Bank is the only Game in the series to not feature the Shoop da Whoop.
References
The Legend of Zelda
Henry holds the Shovel in a similar manner to how Link does with items, and in the legacy version, the song "Get Item" from Wind Waker is used, though this was changed to an original but similar track composed by Puffballs for the remastered version to avoid copyright.
Minecraft
The Shovel's fail message, "Never dig straight down", is a reference to the fanmade #1 rule for the game.
The Simpsons
In the legacy version, Henry hits himself with the Wrecking Ball, which references a gag from the Simpsons Movie. This is why Puffballs changed the fail in the remastered version, presumably to avoid copyright.
Notes
↑During the explosion, a black car will sound. Clicking on it will lead to "*chirp chirp*" medal.
