Thanks so much for watching everyone. A lot of you have been asking about songs playing in the background so I thought I would just throw a track list up for you all. Some songs or segments repeat but this everything that you'll hear. ALSO: I made an error in the video. You CANNOT save the little girl. God rest her soul. 00:00 - Hunter's Dream Theme - Bloodborne 00:33 - Bloodborne 8-Bit Remix : ”Ludwig the Holy Blade” by DJ Minty 02:05 - Omen - Bloodborne 03:26 - G.F. Handel - Suite No.7 in G minor - Passacaille 05:18 - Moonlit Melody - Bloodborne 07:50 - Gilneas Zone - WoW Cataclysm 09:50 - Demented Nightmare by Darren Curtis 12:00 - Gregorian Chant by Kevin McLeod 15:04 - Ornstein & Smough 8 Bit by platinumdynamite 20:04 - Alexey Lvov - Вечери Твоея тайныя (Of Thy Mystical Supper) 22:45 - Dark Neoclassical Violin by Marc v/d Meulen 25:23 - Chant of the Misanthrope 29:25 - The Motherlode - World of Warcraft 35:10 - Cloverfield Lane - Michelle
Sorry if it seems rude or anything..... Will you review any of the souls games? I would like to hear your opinion about sekiro, especially. Great video btw.
Great video. I truly consider Bloodborne the greatest masterpiece ever made. Miyazaki gave us something really special. I also this this games score stands tall above any game out there. Thanks for including Moonlit Melody in the video that is my favorite track ever made in a game. I probably sound like a dumbass blabbing on in this comment section but this game for me completely changed how I look at all games. It is an art and I hope Elden Ring is gonna be able to match it.
You're a really cool dude, great review man. I'll subscribe and like, be good homie Ps I agree about being wary of a bloodborne 2. It's a masterpiece, they should just leave it at that
@@mithex8414 I'm sure Elden Ring is going to be nuts. It's gonna be my first time catching a From Story game at launch, I might just have to tell my work I got covid in late February
Personally I'd take 26 trick weapons every time over 221 weapons that all feel so similar. Every trick weapon is unique and takes time to fully adapt to its moveset, to dance with it killing enemies. But Like, after you see the first longsword in DS3, well, you've seen all of them almost.
absolutely. I probably only used 5-10% of the entire weapons available across all 3 Souls games but I hunted down (pun intended) and used every one in Bloodborne.
I agree. As much as I love all of the Souls games, most of the weapons in DS1-3 are just kind of...there. Every single weapon in Bloodborne is unique and special.
I feel bad for everyone who didn't play it around release. The lovecraftian stuff was absolutely NOT obvious from the trailer, marketing, box art and first few hours of the game. Everyone expected werewolves and vampires in a classic gothic setting. But as you played you got the feeling that *something* was off until you get the big reveal. Didn't take long until this was common knowledge even among people who never played it so now "lovecraftian" is tied to this games mythos but that was originally NOT the case.
When I got killed by a snatcher and went to the Hypogean Gaol for the first time, the music was probably the scariest thing in the game. Taken to an unknown place, not knowing if you can get out (before finding the lamp), and just having ominous choir music in the background was absolutely terrifying. I haven't had a feeling like that ever, not even in Dark Souls.
same, it's honestly this kind of feelings the thing that makes bloodborne so special the ambience in other soulsborne games is nowhere as good as bloodborne's
I feel so bad for Rom. it was basically separating these eldritch perversions from humanity, sorta protecting them from knowing the truth and losing hope (i mean it was a pretty hopeless situation anyways). and we killed it :( Rip Rom
The problem is that Rom wasn’t really fixing anything. She was a band-aid solution that didn’t address the root of the problem, just kept all the eldritch hidden from plain view. The Amygdalas and the Paleblood Moon were there all along, but nobody could see them. Killing Rom was necessary to enter and end the Nightmare of Mensis, putting Mergo to rest and allowing the sun to rise over Yharnam once again.
Glad to see Bloodborne is still winning diehard converts. It was my first Fromsoft game, so despite my immense frustration at learning the fromsoft difficulty formula, I completely fell in love with the world of the game and it's definitely one of my most favorite games of all time.
That's a neat thing if you end up playing many souls games. Bloodborne was your first. "Immense frustration". It was my 4th. I won some bosses on my first go. I commented to my friend several times that I thought the game might be too easy. But I recognize that it's my 4th souls game. It's a different experience at that point.
For me Elden Ring is my unique experience despite playing every souls game except Sekiro (still want to play it though) bloodborne was also my first fromsoft game and my god my friends must've hated me durring my first playthrough because i was a whining, complaining, bratty 14yo that constantly said "the game should be easier! Add more checkpoints!" Because i was use to much easier games until then. Now that i have well over 1000 hours of experience under my belt in both PvE and PvP in Ds3 BB and a bit of DS1 and even less of DS2 i was ready for elden ring and my god... I'm the type of gamer that likes to just stand there and look at something for a while and i can say i spent a good 10 minutes looking around the first step in awe of how beautiful it was, it brought back that feeling i got as a kid when i played a new game on my birthday, no other fromsoft game has came close to making me feel that way upon first playing it. Even now i still just look around and soak in the feeling of each area in elden ring despite beating the game once (not enough in my opinion) and having 200 hours in it i STILL just sit down and look at the BEEG tree and the gianw structures dotted acroe the map. Elden Ring already has a special place in my heart just for those things alone.
An unfortunate incident in early 2015 ended with me being shot in the stomach and this game came out during my recovery. This game took a lot of my stress away as my body went through cold sweats and muscle spasms. Since then, I have put 18 more playthroughs into the game, but that first 40 hours will always be special to me.
I was sick af recovering from chemo during my first gameplay and had a similar effect. That Gehrman phrase “just go out and kill a few beasts, it’s for your own good” is no fucking lie.
One of the top moments for me in this game is when you finally reach the upper cathedral ward and you hear the eerie music playing and find the creepy gesture.. changing everything to lovecraftian was completely insane
For some reason, I expected the upper ward to be full of weak, mundane enemies. Easily beaten by my leveled hunter. Needless to say I got hit hard. Mentally and in game
upper cathedral ward was a huge achievement for me (it was my first souls game and i was 14 lol) i heard one of my friends saying that a boss named "Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos" was the hardest boss in the game and that she was in the upper cathedral ward. i had already been in hunter workshop and really wanted to know what was behind that door at the top (my friend told me what was behind it btw) but i didn`t know how to open it (also got handheld by my friend on where to get the key) but when i did it was by far the coolest looking area i saw. so memorable.
All sound effects are really well made in this game but my personal favourite is when you reach "hypogean gail" that music just creeps me out everytime
My most favorite game of all time. It literally pulled me out a deep depression in 2015 and I never looked back. This game is near and dear to my heart. I joke with my friends that if Bloodborne was a woman I would have introduced her to my parents and gotten married by now.
Whats funny is bloodborne legit made me depressed (just the atmosphere)lmao. It's a wonderful game but when im in the dumps it takes a shit on me. I found ds3 relaxing in comparison and demons souls a good time as well.
I have a similar story to yours, except it happened twice and later on(2020 and end of 2021). I don’t know why but Bloodborne always seems to calm me and distract me from otherwise unbearable problems. If to you Bloodborne would be your wife, to me it would be my psychologist and psychiatrist put together and on steroids lol
Bloodborne was the first souls game I ever played and it got me into the franchise. And well if bloodborne was a woman for me, I already have 4 great great grandkids and we’d be elderly and in rocking chairs on out porch with a few dogs on a farm and we’d be cremated and let burn together in a bonfire with each other. It’s amazing. And it’s the one reason that I’m a gamer. It’s one of the first games I ever played too. Good butt smacking Christ is it fun. We are all born of the blood
The fact that years later, I can still encounter my fellow hunters on a leisurely stroll through the woods, is to me proof to me that this game is truly a marvel
Just started another play through and was pleasantly surprised by tons of notes and I was even able to help on one boss for someone which was crazy as I figured there would be no cooperative
This is the most badass way of parrying I've seen in a game. Like just watching a frighteningly fast monster charging at you and you just bang a well timed shot that stops the monster dead in its tracks as you proceed to viscerally rip out the flesh of the enemy with your bear hand. AWESOME
Each trick weapon has enough depth to last an entire playthrough on it's own. It's the epitome of quality over quantity! Bloodborne was the first souls game I really loved and easily the best souls game
man, not to seem like a dick, but bb fanboys convince themselves of their biased "quality" over quantity argument. u do realize ds has more quality and variety in the differences between weapon types than all of bbs weapons right? half the fast weapons of bb feel the same, same with the heavy weapon. transformation attacks are worthless unless with saw cleaver( try best pellet R1+L1) and one side of the transformation is objectively better than the other trans state in every weapon. in truth theres barely any more quality in bb considering its combat is less strategic and far more spammy than literally every other game in the franchise. r1 is still the most viable and most used attack, just like all the other games, so this extra "quality" in weapons isnt even used or even incentivized. in short, ill take the 5% less quality but 500% more variety thats in ds3 everytime, not to mention the far better and more strategic combat.
I found Bloodborne shortly after I went through a divorce in the middle of 2020 and the height of COVID-19. I was in the lowest place I’ve ever been and absolutely hating life. Somehow this incredibly difficult and punishing game was exactly what I needed. Once you figure out how to play it’s so rewarding. I got out of the rage quit stage and started to piece together the story then… everything clicked. Wow. Like you said it shouldn’t exist but it does. Like somebody saw inside my head and made a game specially for me, but at the same time somehow specifically for so many other people as well. Wonderful game and incredible achievement.
One of the greatest lore-implications in Bloodboorne (and all of gaming) to me is the existence of the different chalices. You don't only have the Pthumeru chalices, but also the Loran and Isz chalices. This implies that the tragedy of Yarnham has happened to multiple societies before and adds to the cosmic horror that by uncovering the eldritch truth society eventually falls. It happened with the Pthumerians, it happened in Loran, in Isz and now in Yarnham.
The pattern has repeated itself more times than you can fathom Civilazations rise, evolve, advance and in the end, at the Apex of their glory they are extinguished
I can tell this channel is gonna go far. Your ability to dissect and articulate games and delve into characters to near freudian levels is an indicator that we're early to the rise of a prominent UA-camr. Good luck brother
I too share the sentiment that wants Bloodborne to be this complete expierience. I understand the want for a sequel, but this game feels so complete already i almost don't want to tarnish it by accident. I want it and I dont. The most id ever really go for (which would be a reach) is if they put out a final content DLC on some massive rerelease or remaster. Thats the way it deserves to be completed. Archibald's Manor 2033.
I’m in the “no sequel” camp. Plus, lore wise, imo from soft does best with new IP. If they HAD to make a sequel I’d like to see something set back in the time of the first hunters.
That being said I would LOVE another polished soulsborne experience thats as streamlined and focused as Bloodborne. Especially with those solid Risk/Reward mechanics. While still retaining the RPG elements of course, I feel like Sekiro dipped too far into the "Character Action" genre for my tastes. I think the Six stats of Bloodborne are sheer PERFECTION.
@@sasaki999pro Can understand your feelings on Sekiro but I feel like it was a necessary step to do something different after multiple titles in the same vein. I feel like the steps they took to branch out there have had a direct impact on Elden Ring. Besides that Isshin is daddy.
With its unique aesthetic, world building and gameplay that are near what I call a perfect game, I think Bloodborne deserves a sequel, but not a progressive sequel following what happened after the first game nor a prequel. Instead of that, like an anthology, a second game in a total different place, but in the same world, with other cities affected by the scourge, other great ones and other nightmares dimensions... Similar to VaatiVidya's Bloodborne II concept contest. I want FromSoft to take as much time as they need, to expand this Gothic-Noir-Lovecraftian masterpiece we love.
Funny, Bloodborne is the real Dark Souls 2. I'm still just blown away by how amazing this game is. I loooove Dark Souls 1, loving Elden Ring of course, but Bloodborne has just stuck with me for so much longer than other games in the series have. It really caught me off guard.
This is my first souls-like game. Started playing it non-stop since last month and now on NG+. This game shredded me to pieces, but I was not about to give up, and it has now become one of my fave game of all time. A timeless masterpiece.
Wish i was the same durring my first playthrough. I was more a kin to a bratty child complaining every 5 seconds to my friends in the Psn party about where to go and how unfair it was. At that time (i was 14) it was the hardest game i ever played and still probably is difficult for me to play but I've matured a lot since then and don't have any gripes with it other then LADY MARIA BEING ABSOLUTE CU- sorry about that got carried away lol.
From Software inspired me to be a writer and this game particularly had an impact on me. I'm currently working on my first series and I'm hoping I can capture a little bit of that From Software soul.
Me too! As a fellow writer I bid you well. If collaboration between authors was generally not sneered at with derision I’d even like to work with someone exactly like you. Imagine a team of people working on a story together the way movies, games, etc. have. Especially like minded people. It would be so cool IMO if done right.
Bloodborne will forever stand the test of time it's one of the greatest games I've ever played in my life no matter how long it's been I always find the game calling me back again time after time a true masterpiece will forever hold a special place in my heart
This is probably my favorite out of the soulsborne games. The boss fights, the art style, the music, the darkness, the influence, the enemies, the hidden treasures- this game is a complete masterpiece.
14:00 actually, they don’t make it to the cathedral ward, the pig eats the younger daughter no matter what, and upon hearing the news, the older daughter kills herself
I really loved the way you explain and I'm a huge Bloodborne fan. I have one request if you can make a video on it, till now all the Souls UA-cam creators have done amazing job in exploring the lore and how masterpiece this game is but I want to see the details Devs put into design the largest area in souls( Central Yharnam). Please make a video on exploring the Yharnam Infrastructure, the Score, object design, level explanation, lighting, Victorian architecture inspiration and so on. Hope this request will take into consideration as this is one area where FromSoftware hardwork is mostly ignored. Remember, London Natural History Museum put Bloodborne artwork in display to showcase the Victorian Architecture so thats how deep the design and inspiration are put into this game. Thank you.
Fantastic work, this. Bloodborne is hands down my favourite game of all time. While I am positive Elden Ring will continue the Soulsborne tendency to impress me, Bloodborne will always have a special place in my heart. I even consider it the main influence behind my novel series. Keep up the great work, good UA-camr. May you keep your worth in the online world.
In my opinion bloodborne is the spiritual successor to nightmare creatures I remember that game on the PlayStation this is what nightmare creatures 3 should have been too bad that game was canceled in the early 2000s. Bloodborne is one of the best games on the PS4 in my opinion a thinking man's game where the story is very cryptic. This one idiot I trade the explain the story of blood-borne to said if it's not written in front of me that it's not worth my time I told him he's making a big mistake bloodborne is a fantastic game where you have to discern the story yourself and I love the HP Lovecraft influence that bloodborne has
I just finished my first play through, already started NG+ in a heartbeat. I had some experience with Dark Souls, but nothing could have prepared me for how good Bloodborne was.
I picked up Bloodborne maybe 5-6 years ago but quickly shelved it since I couldn't for the life of me clear the first boss. All the recent Elden Ring talk prompted me to start making another go of it a couple of weeks ago with some 3rd-party guidance on the combat mechanics. Going into it with a better understanding of visceral attacks and weapon transformation made such a huge difference, it's still brutal but the difficulty feels a lot more fair now and it scales really well to your progress so it's always doable but uncomfortable. Like in the witches coven you face a couple of those brick ogres just to remind you of how much progress you've made since the start when you thought they were terrifying to deal with - and then the game tells you that's not worth shit by immediately throwing a new type of ogre at you that's nowhere near as forgiving. The way the whole world links back on itself is legitimately incredible too. I can't see myself playing it tens of times over like some people have (cosmic horror just doesn't interest me that much) but I wish the "tutorial" was a little less obtuse because figuring those elements out was really what was holding me back on 'getting it' years earlier. Thanks for attending my TED Talk.
I started playing Bloodborne a few weeks ago and it's been amazing. I've had fun, I'm engrossed in the lore and story, and I really kinda suck at the game. I work a full-time job, I have a wife and kids, I own a side business, I'm involved in my church, and I simply don't have the time to invest in playing a game that I did 10 years ago. I don't game a lot and I chose one of the hardest games to get back in on and I have loved my failures. I like it doesn't hold my hand. I like that it let's me fail on my own so I can learn on my own so I can succeed on my own. It's very rewarding. Thanks Ghost for making this video and giving me the itch to play it. I'm in your debt brother.
I've been playing this a lot lately! I've always been a PC gamer and have Dark Souls trilogy and Sekiro on that, and got a PS5 in December. This has been my most played playstation game so far, loving it!
I love bloodborne despite never having a chance to play it. It is my favorite souls game. Everything from the gameplay to lore to the gothic setting to the progression of the night to the eldritch and cosmic horror this game is fantastic. Also, I love how there is no good ending to the game, as iis rather subjective and comes down to what character wants out of the world. If you just want to do your contract and be cured of your disease, which is your character's motivation then submit to Gerhman at the end and that is all. Want to become a Great One? Then go through the collect the umbilical cords and defeat the secret boss at the end and then you get your wish though if you failed to due this the ending where you take Gerhman's place instead could be argued as the actual bad ending (though if it was what your character /player wanted then it is your good ending). This is definitely From Software's best game to date though that might change depending on how good Armored Core 6 is. Which speaking of and if anyone is reading this, I highly recommend them as they play similar to souls.
And on sequels, I think Sekiro needs one because the ending set one up, but don't think Bloodborne needs one. It just needs the 60 fps patch and PC port.
Bloodborne is the only souls I haven't played. I'm still waiting for the rumoured PC port, but I'm now afraid that after Elden Ring, Bloodborne will not impress me as much...
@@LuismaLorca I feel even after elden ring that bloodborne will impress, while it still is a souls game it has a vastly different atmosphere and story to it. And much more aggressive combat than dark souls.
@@joaooooooooooo_ After playing 100 hours of Elden Ring, and not being even halfway through the game, I'm finding that difficult to believe. I believe that you like it better, though, cause that's subjective. Dark Souls 1 is still my personal favourite, but Elden Ring is objectively their best game I've played. I don't think that opinion will change when/if I have the chance of playing Bloodborne. Certainly, both users and critics and overall success of Elden Ring place it above Bloodborne or anything else. And I seriously doubt Bloodborne is better than sekiro gameplay-wise either. But yeah, I totally believe that Bloodborne may still be your personal favourite, as Dark Souls 1 is still mine.
You're totally right about everyone having different experiences with bosses. I can only use one hand but Vicar Amelia gave me more trouble than Rom. I beat Rom first try. Bizarre
@@SciontheDark they're amazing and work for a lot of people but I just learned how to hold the regular controllers a certain way for driving games, fighting games, fps etc. They all require a different grip
This was my first, and still favorite so far, Soulsborne game. I love the faster movement, the more aggressive fights, the rally mechanic, and most of all, the trick weapons. There may only be 20 or so, but they all feel so different and awesome. I love how they all have their own move sets, with cool transformations and animations. The idea is just so cool, I wish more games would use it. I especially love weapons like the Rakuyo, Burial Blade, Threaded Cane, and Simon's Bowblade, simply for the uniqueness of their transformations and the difference between each of their modes. The Threaded Cane going from essentially being a short sword to a bladed whip is fantastic, even if it takes longer to swing as a whip. The Rakuyo is less crazy than the others I've mentioned, but it's still cool how you pull a dagger out of the hilt and gain a sick spin slash.
Bloodborne is absolutely an amazing game it has a lot of mysterious even if you got platinum trophy you still has a lot to discover it’s like a loop you can’t stop playing and you can’t beat it.
Darksouls 2 was my first souls game and i didnt really enjoy, even after i learned the controls i just couldnt get into it. I followed the development of bloodborne up until the release. I got it day1, and like DS2 i had to learn it and tried to play it like DS (i was fuckin up) and was irritated by the gun, then i did a visceral by accident and spent waay too long figuring out what i did. Then started picking up lore.....i was addicted. I revisited late last year and played for months. And restarted again today. Literally one of the best games ive ever played
This legitimately has over the years cemented itself as my favourite game. Maybe ever. I go back and replay it with a new build once a year. Have 100% it and gotten insane chalice weapons and gems on most runs. I fucking love this game.
playing bloodborne first time is once in a life time experience. it is true that you cannot stop looking at it even if you have not beat the game. i believe there are few, like me, out there who just do not want to finish the game just to prolong the wonderful first time playthrough experience. i have been with this game for past couple of years and yet i am only half way through (killed rom). the dread is all around in this wonderful world. i don't feel bad to say this game has spoiled my taste for other games, in a good way. these days, all i can enjoy is just hunting.
lucky you, my first experience with Bloodborne was me being carried and handheld by my friends while i whined and complained about how hard the game was. there were no good moments for me during my first playthrough but after my 8th i started to appreciate the game more until i could finally say i like the game.
I never played other fromsoftware titles. To me this array of weapons is diverse enough. And now you tell me other game had 200+?! That’s so fucking a lot!
This was a video I didn't know I needed. I personally loved/raged at almost every second of the game, and every aspect of the story and what not. I hadn't seen your content before and I hope more people find this video and subscribe. Thank you fo the amazing content. I think I have to go play Bloodborne again I have only played it once
In 2015 when I got my PS4 the first game I got with my PS4 was bloodborne. I didn't have a lot of money in 2015 nor did I have any internet so I had to play the entire game by myself which meant if I wanted to get past a certain boss I actually had to grind and get stronger in order to get past the boss not summoning people in. in September of 2015 I braved The Chalice Dungeons and got the platinum trophy it was my first Platinum trophy bloodborne has become a game I love with a passion I'm still waiting for a PS5 version
This is the first FromSoft game i ever played & its been history since. I absolutely adore the aesthetic of this game & how challenging it was. Playing Sekiro right now & its also another great game.
What really grew on me, as I played Bloodborne, was that the "inhabitants" of Yharnam really thought of me, the player, as the monster. I had this feeling that I was the one intruding upon their home, and they thought of ME as the beast, for coming in there and slaughtering their entire town - and that they were just defending their home.. I don't know if that's the case at all, and I may have worded that somewhat awkwardly, but that feeling added another really unsettling dimension to this stellar game.
The deeper I got in this game the more I knew it was a special experience that wouldn’t be rivaled, its too unique, its an unmatched experience. I definitely place it in my top games of all time, along with Bayonetta, KH2, and now Elden Ring
After I've finished elden ring 3 times now and done a bunch of pvp and challenge builds... yes it might be one of my favorite games of all times but... Bloodborne is still something in it's own league.
I do love this game, and it’s easily one of my favorite games of all time, but I really wasn’t the biggest fan of the Cosmic horror aspect of Bloodborne. I loved the Gothic vibe that the game was selling me and I originally bought the game simply because of that reason, it’s also why Cainhurst is one of my favorite areas in the game (looks wise at least). The massive change after defeating Rom kinda threw me off, since I was expecting a game about slaying beasts and monsters, not fighting Old Lovecraftian Gods. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing either, I just really wish that was the main aspect of the game all the way through, since normal players wouldn’t even start to realize what the main plot is about until AFTER beating Rom. As much as I love this game, I really wish they would’ve stayed with the “Gothic Dracula” aspect of the game. Either way, the game is amazing and has almost no flaws, but IMO the Lovecraftian aspects of the game kinda ruined the plot for me, but again that’s just my opinion ofc.
I bought my PS4 + Bloodborne one week before the quarantines started. I didn't it play it ar first but many months later after a bad break-up, can't put into words how much Bloodborne helped me go through that time. To this day it's still my favorite game and the only one I keep playing over and over without ever getting bored
Bloodborne is so good that after I played it, I had to platinum it over and over. That caused me to go on and platinum DS1, 2, 3 and sekiro. Hopefully if once the PS5 is available to us plebs I can also get my hands on demon souls. Bloodborne will forever be close to my heart for opening me up to From Software games and the great experiences I’ve had with the rest of them since Bloodborne. Great video btw.
awesome overview. im 39, own a company, have a 6 year old son, lots of responsibilities etc.; but this game is one that have sacrificed COUNTLESS hours of sleep to enjoy. it's one of the best gaming experiences of my entire life. cant wait for elden ring.
Definitely agree with 38:17 and onward. I enjoyed Elden Ring a lot, but a little disappointed that it was basically just Dark Souls set in a modern triple A open world. Would probably rather see fromsoft make more focused experiments that shake up the souls formula in the future, like they did with Bloodborne and Sekiro.
I just love seeing new content for this game that I love so so much! I haven't seen more than the first 13 sec of the video but I can tell I'm in for a treat. thank you all so much for this, I will cherish every second of it though tomorrow morning with my coffee and breakfast❤️❤️
The thing about the low weapon count in bloodborne is that, yes, there might be only one or two greatswords, but those greatswords have the best moveset of any greatsword in any Fromsoft game. The Burial Blade is hilarious in how superior it is to any scythe the Dark Souls games or even Elden Ring have ever offered. Bloodborne doesn't need more than a few of each weapon type, because it does those few weapons better than the hundreds of weapons the other games offered us.
Ludwig`s holy blade is the only weapon worth using in the base game, NOTHING ELSE. i will have to say that the DS equivalent to the Burial Blade is Frede`s Great Scythe, that dual Scythe movest is just MMMM! so good
@@thememeilator2633 friede's great scythe has a good weapon art, but the base moveset is the same boring scythe moveset that all dark souls games have, and the weapon art does lower damage than the base moveset too. Burial Blade has a moveset unlike any other in other souls games, and good damage to go with it. As for Ludwig's being the only weapon worth using, I'd introduce you to Hunter's Axe and Saw Cleaver, both very popular and 100% viable in any part of the game. Edit: I'd even go so far as to say the Same Cleaver has the perfect balance of good moveset, good base damage, and decent scaling, making it possibly the most well-rounded weapon. Some may argue the Saw Spear is better because of thrust damage though.
@@impartialthrone2097 now i didn`t say they weren`t viable. i have used every weapon in the game besides the rosmarinus because i never found out how to get it but i am familiar with every weapon in the whole game and i still say if you don`t got the dlc then you should not bother with any weapon other then Ludwig`s holy blade until you are more experienced
@@thememeilator2633 it's definitely good, I just find other weapons more enjoyable I guess. Bloodborne feels like a prime opportunity to use something less conventional than a sword, but that's personal preference I suppose.
@@impartialthrone2097 actually... nevermind, i don`t know why i am even saying these things. i love BB a lot but i can`t play it anymore. i`m just ranting about my first playthrough being not the best, the majority of the weapons are good and viable, i just wanna talk about the game more.
This game is my favorite game of all time. I have more than 1000 hours played on this game, and have many characters (one of them max level). I just want to say that your video is excellent. It's true we don't deserve Bloodborne, and we also don't deserve your amazingly detailed review. Thank you for doing this game a great justice through this review. You made me want to go play now!
I just started playing Bloodborne and oh boy its was sooo exciting and challenging. This game is totally different from games like Horizon Forbidden West and God of War Ragnarok where Bloodborne dont hold your hand all the way until the end. U have to discover everything on your own and to my surprise i really like it. And i started playing this game after i played Elden Ring.
Bloodborne will probably forever live as my favourite FromSoft game. I tried DS1 and played hiding behind my shield poking things with a spear and I found it a chore and just not that fun so I dropped it. I was passive and the game was slow and kinda boring. Then I got my PS4 with Bloodborne as my first game. And I fell in love with it. My DS1 experience was all reactive, sit behind shield until it's safe poke them with stick, rinse and repeat. Bloodborne forced me to be more interactive and proactive. I stayed cautious at first but soon it became 'find my opening, rush in and attack as much as I could, retreat to recover stamina and/or health, rush in again' and it was even better if I got hit because now instead of running away and killing the tempo of the encounter I was rushing in and increasing the tempo. I was trading blows with my enemy almost daring them to kill me before I killed them. And then I went back to DS1 and in memory of my beloved kirkhammer and that exploding hammer whose name I forgot I decided to pick the biggest weapons I could find and flatten DS1 enemies like pancakes. And I bloody loved it. DS2 and DS3 went much the same way. The only time I 'used' a shield was for the passive stamina recovery boost. It just stayed on my back almost completely unused for its primary purpose. Unlike my first go at the game, now I was deciding the tempo of my fights (to an extent obviously, I wasn't going gung go against every boss). Once again I was daring the enemies to kill me before I killed them. If I took a hit, I could heal later, better finish them off first. Which, just as an aside, almost always preferable to heal when there isn't something actively swinging at you unless you're one hit from death. Hbomberguy does a great video on Bloodborne and the one thing I think he's objectively correct about is that Bloodborne teaches you how to have the most fun with the Souls series. Minus Sekiro, which is a big part of why I hate that game despite me also thinking it's a masterpiece.
Oddly enough this game saved me. I’ve never had any form of entertainment/media represent the internal struggles I went through. And in this one I’m able to conquer them and defeat them. Made me realize I could do that in my life as well.
I am stuck in an endless cycle of playing the game, taking a break, coming back months later to start over and ultimately repeat. Never completing the entire game but putting hundreds of hours into it.
Let me just say this I first played Bloodborne about 4 years ago, even now I still regularly search for new Bloodborne content. That game absolutely blown my mind I personally thinks its the greatest game ever made and I been gaming since SNES days. Everything about Bloodborne is perfection.
this was the game that changed 'games' for me. i hadnt ever played a souls game before getting this. i actually had quit it at first. the wolf on the first bridge in Yharnam. i just couldnt figure out to beat him. tried for a hour or two and gave up. went back to minecraft or some other bullshit. but out of boredom popped it back in. and let me tell you. the feeling it gave me when i FINALLY beat that big fucking wolf thing on the bridge? i jumped out my chair. that moment no other game can replicate for me. that feeling of FINALLY beating something that IS beatable. you just need to figure out how. atm im loving Elden Ring the same way but differently. From Software IMO is the top shelf of all shelves. *edit You did an INCREDIBLE job on this. first time here on channel and im leaving a sub of urs. dude u had one HELLUVA put togther here
It was all the small things that came together to make this game amazing. Especially that first fight with father G… stepping through the fog, hearing that weird, hushed murmur when you start a boss fight… the… rush… One of the best PS4 games ever.
This was excellent man. Your passion bubbles through the screen and reinvigorates my desire to revisit this world. I’ve all but lost all interest in gaming, so this was a Herculean effort on your behalf. 🤘🏻
I think Bloodborne was like a 92.5% or 93% score for me personally, up there easily as one of my top ten games ever and pretty damn close to being in the pantheon of genuine works of art and masterpieces within the medium....UNTIL the DLC came out. The Old Hunters legitimately elevated the game to me so magnificently, it raised it above and beyond basically anything I've ever played barring perhaps Dark Souls 1 and the initial MGS trilogy (especially 2). I'd say my score shot up to around 96% over the years, essentially tied first with a couple of other games as my favorite video game of all time, period. All the reasons you go through in this video obviously encapsulate the reasons why it's such a special work, how the narrative, lore, delectable atmosphere, and weighty themes and concepts all come together to formulate such a rich, interwoven experience that has such beauty in its abstraction and ambiguity, yet refinement and detail in its worldbuilding, descriptive storytelling and visual and environmental nuance. And that's not even mentioning the characterization and history, and even the poetry and subtlety of a lot of the minimalist yet substantive writing! Bloodborne is just so uniquely brilliant in what it does, and how it takes Lovecraftian themes and mixes them in with the Soulsian concepts Miyazaki and From had already been evolving, and fused them together to reach greater heights. I think The Old Hunters ties so much together while still leaving a great deal open to that wonderful interpretive storytelling, and on a mechanical level it just took everything a step further with some of the most stunning bosses, areas, tone and level design From have ever done. Even the music is beautiful and eclectic, a great mix of many brilliant composers, capturing the world so wonderfully. It's just aesthetically so much better than it had any right to be, and even the more overt flaws and aspects I find a bit ambivalent, like the Chalice Dungeons, are still pretty damn great compared to so many other games over the last seven years since BB released (and before, obviously). Hell, I think the weapon criticism in your video actually isn't much of an issue at all, considering Dark Souls had weapon TYPES (like longswords or curved swords) while each Bloodborne weapon basically encompasses an entire type of weapon itself because of its complexity and the transformation gameplay in combat. Sure, I'd love more of them, but I think narrowing them down to really make each one more diverse and amazing to utilize was the right choice at the end of the day! I could write on the lore of the game for days, and I probably have over the years actually, I feel like I've basically written theses on the damn subject! There's just something about the story and its telling that is so immersive, so incredibly profound. Evolution, insight, incomprehensible knowledge and the pursuit of it at all costs, violence and its consequence, the nature of mankind and the relationship to the Great Ones and their own desires for progeny, the reconsideration of the Lovecraftian dynamic and what it really means, etc.. There's just SO MANY philosophical ideas and thematic points that the game's lore does such an impactful job of presenting, and making truly thought provoking. All this without beating any player over the head with any of it, so that if that's not your cup of tea, no problem, you can just enjoy the exquisite gameplay and world instead! But yeah, exceptional lore and plotlines as well, linking to the main "quest" and the NPCs as you mention in the video! It just all comes together so well, doing so much with so little. There's just so much about Bloodborne that still captivates me to this day, much like the blood moon did to the denizens of Yharnam. It's a haunting, tragic, and darkly beautiful game and story, a world that I actually agree doesn't even need a sequel, because there's a completeness about it (especially after the DLC) that makes me want its lore and memory to remain unsullied, something Dark Souls 1 didn't entirely get with the existence of 2 and 3 (amazing games in their own right for me, but perhaps lacking the allure and touch of the original, which BB also has). I could just keep rambling, but yeah, Bloodborne is a work of fucking art, we really did not deserve it and I'd be over the moon if Elden Ring could somehow surprise me with its quality anywhere near as much as Bloodborne did back in 2015! Here's hoping, and well done with a great review dude!
Ive never been a PS player. I went from xbox to pc. This game single handedly makes me want to buy a PS4 and play it. Only this game. The 400+ dollars to get a new ps4 and this game would be more then worth it for me to experience this...... I need to experience this game
This review is great! One of my favorite games ever made that I return to every few years to do a new playthrough. It helped me through a really dark time after a breakup in 2015 and I love it for that. It’s a masterpiece and the best game in the Souls (it is a From Souls game in my eyes) to me. I pray for a 60 fps patch or remaster on PS5 someday
Between Elden Ring and Bloodborne is the award of best games ever made…. I have to play Sekiro yet to see what spot deserves but it’s being receiving a lot of great reviews.
For me it's a tough battle between Sekiro and Bloodborne. Like this video points out, the lore and worldbuilding of BB is unmatched, but to me Sekiro has the most satisfying combat of any game ever. It's gorgeous, surprizing, and has better storytelling (ie. less cryptic) than any of the other FromSoft games. It probably has THE BEST bosses overall too. It's very different from the other "souls", but I highly recommend it.
@@JavierArochoVega sekiro feels so flipping good to get gud in. I've never played demon souls but I have all the others. Bloodborne is great but you kinda miss the impact of going from shields to no shields by skipping dark souls. BB will make you a better dark souls player, but the older games will probably feel clunky in comparison.
@@doggodoggo3000 Definitely Bloodborne is a bit though in some parts and the fast phase combat against a few strong enemies running all over u hitting like a truck is challenging!!! But that make you rethink strategies and weapons!!! I’ll try the Dark Souls, but if doesn’t challenge me and is so much slow, I skip directly to Sekiro!!!
Update: I’ve played Sekiro and oh my goodness!!! Definitely a masterpiece and the best combat ever!!! It’s so addictive!!! I’ve defeated 12 times consecutively!!!! It has no match in action!!!! I have beater Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls 1 and what a games too!!! I’m starting Dark Souls 2 now and it looks to be great too!!!
I won't say I want a sequel to Bloodborne, the story is great as it is, but I definitely want a return of fast-paced rally-centered battle. In Sekiro Miyazaki took away the rally but instead made a posture recovery, but give it to the enemies too. I am kinda bummed that the Elden Ring ditches all this and turns back to shield-based DS style. I hope the next Miyazaki's IP will reintroduce the rally.
Well, convincing people to invest in bloodborne just got a lot easier, I'll just send this video, what a fantastic effort! If thats not enough, I mean, the comments here emanate love, admiration and positivity... curious how this collective mentality stems from a game which is full of suffering
It's my favourite game. I started on release and it's pretty much the only thing I still play. It's astounding just how much is missable to the average player. Hats off to the creators for trusting consumers. Anyone wanna share their favourite missable area, mechanic, story line etc?
@@DirectionerHarry12 for you maybe, central Yarnham for me is like old London Jack the Ripper, Cainhurst Castle is very Bram Stoker…think you’re right with the Shadow / Berserk stuff tho. I’m not familiar with the others. Great how people can draw so much from the world tho, tis sublime world building!!
This was a well thought out and honest interpretation of one of the masterpieces in gaming. I really don't want a sequel so that people will come back from time to time to pay their respects to this achievement.
Bro that thing about firm software and how they don’t tell u shit is so true I spent 3 hours trying to beat that first wolf cuz I didn’t know how to equip the hunter axe I did finally beat it with my fists and THEN, figured out how to equip a weapon It was so fucking annoying, I wanted to quit, but I think it helped me to better understand all the other mechanics of the game
At least with the combat part you described all of their titles. Thinking back on DS3, I did not struggle with bosses that were hyped as hard and I was completely destroyed by others for days on end. And the build that you have plays a major role in that but also your skill. To my shame I never mastered Parry, not in Dark Souls, not in Elden Ring now. I finish their games without Parrying while mainly having melee builds that could also incorporate shields. And that made some bosses be extra hard for me but that only meant I had to adapt in a different way and master rolling and restraint when attacking to take them down, valuable lessons which helped me further into the games.
I didn't own a PS4 when this game came out, but you bet I bought it anyways and spent two days beating it at my friend's house. I avoided as much information on the game as possible; all I really knew was that it has switch weapons and warewolves, I did not expect the game to also have lovecraftian elements as well, which kind of took me to a weird headspace while playing. Somehow I beat the game with only a couple dozen deaths, must of been the adrenaline... That game took me to a weird place and I loved every second of it. Glad I eventually got myself a PS4 to expirence the content I missed out on, as well as the DLC. Yes, I was also one of those people who thought of baseless theories on how the game was going to turn out, but who can blame me? The enitre series is built on intrigue. I hope Fromsoft someday creates a PC port of this game.
I am glad I played Code Vein and got my dodging mindset changed before I tried BB. All of my Dark Souls playing friends got their faces smashed in by Father Gascoigne when they tried the game, but the gatekeeper didn't keep me from enjoying the game. BB is a strange mishmash of rpg and horror with segments that are genuinely terrifying. Amazing review man.
I think Bloodborne is on a whole other level than Dark Souls. This is my first Souls game (yes, I’m I got in the whole Souls craze late), but I also played Dark Souls 3 and Sekiro after finishing the game. This is the only Souls game I completely fell in love with, it’s was absolutely flawless among other things (*cough* *cough* Fishing Hamlet sharks *cough* *cough*), but after finishing the game, I never thought that DS3 and Sekiro was even close to being better than Bloodborne and I still think that today.
@@Aaron-g9b I did. It doesn’t feel great after playing BB because it’s a lot slower. It’s not bad, but most of the bosses are meh. The areas are great tho
@@ishanramen5254 yeah, after playing bloodborne and then going back to souls, they all seem so clunky and slow. BB is so much smoother. There’s a reason BB has a game of the year addition. Just saying
@@thatBusa Yeah, that’s exactly what I think. I played DS Remastered and I couldn’t get past Capra Demon because of the difficulty but also because I was dodging faster than I should’ve. Bloodborne is a lot quicker and has a more aggressive pace that playing any DS game, expect DS3, is extremely difficult for the required pace that game is set at.
Thanks so much for watching everyone. A lot of you have been asking about songs playing in the background so I thought I would just throw a track list up for you all. Some songs or segments repeat but this everything that you'll hear. ALSO: I made an error in the video. You CANNOT save the little girl. God rest her soul.
00:00 - Hunter's Dream Theme - Bloodborne
00:33 - Bloodborne 8-Bit Remix : ”Ludwig the Holy Blade” by DJ Minty
02:05 - Omen - Bloodborne
03:26 - G.F. Handel - Suite No.7 in G minor - Passacaille
05:18 - Moonlit Melody - Bloodborne
07:50 - Gilneas Zone - WoW Cataclysm
09:50 - Demented Nightmare by Darren Curtis
12:00 - Gregorian Chant by Kevin McLeod
15:04 - Ornstein & Smough 8 Bit by platinumdynamite
20:04 - Alexey Lvov - Вечери Твоея тайныя (Of Thy Mystical Supper)
22:45 - Dark Neoclassical Violin by Marc v/d Meulen
25:23 - Chant of the Misanthrope
29:25 - The Motherlode - World of Warcraft
35:10 - Cloverfield Lane - Michelle
Sorry if it seems rude or anything..... Will you review any of the souls games? I would like to hear your opinion about sekiro, especially. Great video btw.
Great video. I truly consider Bloodborne the greatest masterpiece ever made. Miyazaki gave us something really special. I also this this games score stands tall above any game out there. Thanks for including Moonlit Melody in the video that is my favorite track ever made in a game. I probably sound like a dumbass blabbing on in this comment section but this game for me completely changed how I look at all games. It is an art and I hope Elden Ring is gonna be able to match it.
It's just so unreal to me that this game has been out for 7 years and we still get constant video essays on its brilliance.
You're a really cool dude, great review man. I'll subscribe and like, be good homie
Ps I agree about being wary of a bloodborne 2. It's a masterpiece, they should just leave it at that
@@mithex8414 I'm sure Elden Ring is going to be nuts. It's gonna be my first time catching a From Story game at launch, I might just have to tell my work I got covid in late February
Personally I'd take 26 trick weapons every time over 221 weapons that all feel so similar. Every trick weapon is unique and takes time to fully adapt to its moveset, to dance with it killing enemies. But Like, after you see the first longsword in DS3, well, you've seen all of them almost.
Yas
absolutely. I probably only used 5-10% of the entire weapons available across all 3 Souls games but I hunted down (pun intended) and used every one in Bloodborne.
this 💯
I agree. As much as I love all of the Souls games, most of the weapons in DS1-3 are just kind of...there. Every single weapon in Bloodborne is unique and special.
Yes, I also want that saber some of the townsfolk carry
I feel bad for everyone who didn't play it around release. The lovecraftian stuff was absolutely NOT obvious from the trailer, marketing, box art and first few hours of the game. Everyone expected werewolves and vampires in a classic gothic setting.
But as you played you got the feeling that *something* was off until you get the big reveal.
Didn't take long until this was common knowledge even among people who never played it so now "lovecraftian" is tied to this games mythos but that was originally NOT the case.
Feel bad? It's just a game relax
@@55thstreet66 games are literally designed to evoke feelings.
@@knight_lautrec_of_carim NoNo reread that. You said it's sad. That comment had nothing to do with a game evoking feelings. Lol
@@55thstreet66 Why shouldn't I feel bad for people missing a great experience?
@@knight_lautrec_of_carim I'm not about to explain why it's weird to say it's sad someone hasn't played a fictional game lmao.
When I got killed by a snatcher and went to the Hypogean Gaol for the first time, the music was probably the scariest thing in the game. Taken to an unknown place, not knowing if you can get out (before finding the lamp), and just having ominous choir music in the background was absolutely terrifying. I haven't had a feeling like that ever, not even in Dark Souls.
Bro same !
Still hate going to Hypogean Gaol since the music is mad creepy 😂😂😂😂
same, it's honestly this kind of feelings the thing that makes bloodborne so special
the ambience in other soulsborne games is nowhere as good as bloodborne's
First time in there, I never found the lamp! I didn't think there was one!
Bro.. This happened to me at night when I was playing it.. Only game to legitimately creep me out
I feel so bad for Rom. it was basically separating these eldritch perversions from humanity, sorta protecting them from knowing the truth and losing hope (i mean it was a pretty hopeless situation anyways). and we killed it :( Rip Rom
Rom is the reason they were able to get away with hiding the ritual.. Rom is not good..
And Rom is one of the weakest bosses I've met so killing him makes me feel sad. But the truth shouldn't be hidden
fuck rom it was annoying to fight so idc for its lore
@cherkaouia5541 when it has the potential to break someone's mind I think an exception is ok
The problem is that Rom wasn’t really fixing anything. She was a band-aid solution that didn’t address the root of the problem, just kept all the eldritch hidden from plain view. The Amygdalas and the Paleblood Moon were there all along, but nobody could see them. Killing Rom was necessary to enter and end the Nightmare of Mensis, putting Mergo to rest and allowing the sun to rise over Yharnam once again.
Glad to see Bloodborne is still winning diehard converts. It was my first Fromsoft game, so despite my immense frustration at learning the fromsoft difficulty formula, I completely fell in love with the world of the game and it's definitely one of my most favorite games of all time.
That's a neat thing if you end up playing many souls games.
Bloodborne was your first. "Immense frustration".
It was my 4th. I won some bosses on my first go. I commented to my friend several times that I thought the game might be too easy. But I recognize that it's my 4th souls game. It's a different experience at that point.
For me Elden Ring is my unique experience despite playing every souls game except Sekiro (still want to play it though) bloodborne was also my first fromsoft game and my god my friends must've hated me durring my first playthrough because i was a whining, complaining, bratty 14yo that constantly said "the game should be easier! Add more checkpoints!" Because i was use to much easier games until then.
Now that i have well over 1000 hours of experience under my belt in both PvE and PvP in Ds3 BB and a bit of DS1 and even less of DS2 i was ready for elden ring and my god... I'm the type of gamer that likes to just stand there and look at something for a while and i can say i spent a good 10 minutes looking around the first step in awe of how beautiful it was, it brought back that feeling i got as a kid when i played a new game on my birthday, no other fromsoft game has came close to making me feel that way upon first playing it. Even now i still just look around and soak in the feeling of each area in elden ring despite beating the game once (not enough in my opinion) and having 200 hours in it i STILL just sit down and look at the BEEG tree and the gianw structures dotted acroe the map. Elden Ring already has a special place in my heart just for those things alone.
@Niko i think ppl who's first souls game is Bloodborne r de luckiest .. like me .. de experience we went through cannot b described
I played Elden Ring at my friend's house but now Bloodborne is my first very own Souls game
An unfortunate incident in early 2015 ended with me being shot in the stomach and this game came out during my recovery.
This game took a lot of my stress away as my body went through cold sweats and muscle spasms.
Since then, I have put 18 more playthroughs into the game, but that first 40 hours will always be special to me.
It’s ironic how the most stressful game I’ve played took away stress lol, glad you made a full recovery
@@christiansticklen1612 Thank you.
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I was sick af recovering from chemo during my first gameplay and had a similar effect. That Gehrman phrase “just go out and kill a few beasts, it’s for your own good” is no fucking lie.
Hopefully you'll think again before trying to rob a liquor store
One of the top moments for me in this game is when you finally reach the upper cathedral ward and you hear the eerie music playing and find the creepy gesture.. changing everything to lovecraftian was completely insane
Damn, I couldn't stand the upper cathedral ward music. No other area of the game makes me as nervous.
@@ibrahime927 right I feel like my hunter could just be snatched up by some eldritch horror at any moment lol
For some reason, I expected the upper ward to be full of weak, mundane enemies. Easily beaten by my leveled hunter. Needless to say I got hit hard. Mentally and in game
upper cathedral ward was a huge achievement for me (it was my first souls game and i was 14 lol) i heard one of my friends saying that a boss named "Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos" was the hardest boss in the game and that she was in the upper cathedral ward. i had already been in hunter workshop and really wanted to know what was behind that door at the top (my friend told me what was behind it btw) but i didn`t know how to open it (also got handheld by my friend on where to get the key) but when i did it was by far the coolest looking area i saw. so memorable.
All sound effects are really well made in this game but my personal favourite is when you reach "hypogean gail" that music just creeps me out everytime
My most favorite game of all time. It literally pulled me out a deep depression in 2015 and I never looked back. This game is near and dear to my heart. I joke with my friends that if Bloodborne was a woman I would have introduced her to my parents and gotten married by now.
Bloodborne is no mere game, Bloodborne is life.
Whats funny is bloodborne legit made me depressed (just the atmosphere)lmao. It's a wonderful game but when im in the dumps it takes a shit on me. I found ds3 relaxing in comparison and demons souls a good time as well.
I have a similar story to yours, except it happened twice and later on(2020 and end of 2021). I don’t know why but Bloodborne always seems to calm me and distract me from otherwise unbearable problems. If to you Bloodborne would be your wife, to me it would be my psychologist and psychiatrist put together and on steroids lol
I agree
Bloodborne was the first souls game I ever played and it got me into the franchise. And well if bloodborne was a woman for me, I already have 4 great great grandkids and we’d be elderly and in rocking chairs on out porch with a few dogs on a farm and we’d be cremated and let burn together in a bonfire with each other. It’s amazing. And it’s the one reason that I’m a gamer. It’s one of the first games I ever played too. Good butt smacking Christ is it fun. We are all born of the blood
The fact that years later, I can still encounter my fellow hunters on a leisurely stroll through the woods, is to me proof to me that this game is truly a marvel
da Hunt Never Ends!
Just started another play through and was pleasantly surprised by tons of notes and I was even able to help on one boss for someone which was crazy as I figured there would be no cooperative
This is the most badass way of parrying I've seen in a game. Like just watching a frighteningly fast monster charging at you and you just bang a well timed shot that stops the monster dead in its tracks as you proceed to viscerally rip out the flesh of the enemy with your bear hand. AWESOME
Each trick weapon has enough depth to last an entire playthrough on it's own. It's the epitome of quality over quantity! Bloodborne was the first souls game I really loved and easily the best souls game
Agreed. I liked the previous souls game but Bloodborne made me TRULY fall in love with the genre. The setting, lore and fast paced action are superb.
Not a Souls game lol
@@ambidex5383 it literally is tho
man, not to seem like a dick, but bb fanboys convince themselves of their biased "quality" over quantity argument. u do realize ds has more quality and variety in the differences between weapon types than all of bbs weapons right? half the fast weapons of bb feel the same, same with the heavy weapon. transformation attacks are worthless unless with saw cleaver( try best pellet R1+L1) and one side of the transformation is objectively better than the other trans state in every weapon. in truth theres barely any more quality in bb considering its combat is less strategic and far more spammy than literally every other game in the franchise. r1 is still the most viable and most used attack, just like all the other games, so this extra "quality" in weapons isnt even used or even incentivized.
in short, ill take the 5% less quality but 500% more variety thats in ds3 everytime, not to mention the far better and more strategic combat.
@@ambidex5383 its literally a copy paste of dark souls with Lovecraft themes and faster gameplay. sekiro is the only non souls games between them.
I found Bloodborne shortly after I went through a divorce in the middle of 2020 and the height of COVID-19. I was in the lowest place I’ve ever been and absolutely hating life. Somehow this incredibly difficult and punishing game was exactly what I needed. Once you figure out how to play it’s so rewarding. I got out of the rage quit stage and started to piece together the story then… everything clicked. Wow. Like you said it shouldn’t exist but it does. Like somebody saw inside my head and made a game specially for me, but at the same time somehow specifically for so many other people as well. Wonderful game and incredible achievement.
thanks for sharing buddy. from soft games have come at just the right time for so many people. thanks for watching!
It is astonishing how many of us have such a similar experience with this game
Man, I went through something very very similar in 2021 and Bloodborne was an amazing coping mechanism for me.
She didn’t deserve you bro, you’ll find a woman better than her in every single way bc you’re a catch.
lol I'm still in the rage quit stage. Rage quit a while back and never looked back. I just went back to Dark Souls and then Elden Ring.
One of the greatest lore-implications in Bloodboorne (and all of gaming) to me is the existence of the different chalices. You don't only have the Pthumeru chalices, but also the Loran and Isz chalices. This implies that the tragedy of Yarnham has happened to multiple societies before and adds to the cosmic horror that by uncovering the eldritch truth society eventually falls. It happened with the Pthumerians, it happened in Loran, in Isz and now in Yarnham.
Hey... whoa... you just filled in a piece of the puzzle for me. Thanks for the insight boost!
The pattern has repeated itself more times than you can fathom
Civilazations rise, evolve, advance and in the end, at the Apex of their glory they are extinguished
akshually, Isz is the home of the Great Ones so its not a fallen society so yea- ☝️🤓
One of the best games ever made, the parrying mechanic in this game is pure genius.
Bloodborne came at a very hard time in my life, the game made me realise that my void could never be filled, but that the void itself had value.
Thats deeeeeep.
@@zelestial1681 Im still processing what I read
@@zelestial1681its cringe
The Winter Lantern...the only Soulsborne enemy that filled me with actual dread every-time I heard that dreadful singing.
La la la laaaa
THE enemy, that no matter how good you get, will always scare you.
Imagine if they didn't let you know that they were around...
Did you do chalices? Remember the naked rolling guy?
@@intreal lmao
I can tell this channel is gonna go far. Your ability to dissect and articulate games and delve into characters to near freudian levels is an indicator that we're early to the rise of a prominent UA-camr. Good luck brother
i really hope it goes far. he puts alot of effort into his videos.
I'm very tired as I don't sleep well usually, though worse today. But my dumbass read your name as "Specter Snatcher." Not even sure why.
took the words right out of my mouth
I too share the sentiment that wants Bloodborne to be this complete expierience. I understand the want for a sequel, but this game feels so complete already i almost don't want to tarnish it by accident. I want it and I dont. The most id ever really go for (which would be a reach) is if they put out a final content DLC on some massive rerelease or remaster. Thats the way it deserves to be completed. Archibald's Manor 2033.
I’m in the “no sequel” camp. Plus, lore wise, imo from soft does best with new IP. If they HAD to make a sequel I’d like to see something set back in the time of the first hunters.
That being said I would LOVE another polished soulsborne experience thats as streamlined and focused as Bloodborne. Especially with those solid Risk/Reward mechanics. While still retaining the RPG elements of course, I feel like Sekiro dipped too far into the "Character Action" genre for my tastes. I think the Six stats of Bloodborne are sheer PERFECTION.
Yh for sure no sequel gang
@@sasaki999pro Can understand your feelings on Sekiro but I feel like it was a necessary step to do something different after multiple titles in the same vein. I feel like the steps they took to branch out there have had a direct impact on Elden Ring. Besides that Isshin is daddy.
With its unique aesthetic, world building and gameplay that are near what I call a perfect game, I think Bloodborne deserves a sequel, but not a progressive sequel following what happened after the first game nor a prequel.
Instead of that, like an anthology, a second game in a total different place, but in the same world, with other cities affected by the scourge, other great ones and other nightmares dimensions... Similar to VaatiVidya's Bloodborne II concept contest.
I want FromSoft to take as much time as they need, to expand this Gothic-Noir-Lovecraftian masterpiece we love.
Funny, Bloodborne is the real Dark Souls 2. I'm still just blown away by how amazing this game is. I loooove Dark Souls 1, loving Elden Ring of course, but Bloodborne has just stuck with me for so much longer than other games in the series have. It really caught me off guard.
Well said DS2 ITS A PCS OF SHIT
This is my first souls-like game. Started playing it non-stop since last month and now on NG+. This game shredded me to pieces, but I was not about to give up, and it has now become one of my fave game of all time. A timeless masterpiece.
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Wish i was the same durring my first playthrough. I was more a kin to a bratty child complaining every 5 seconds to my friends in the Psn party about where to go and how unfair it was.
At that time (i was 14) it was the hardest game i ever played and still probably is difficult for me to play but I've matured a lot since then and don't have any gripes with it other then LADY MARIA BEING ABSOLUTE CU- sorry about that got carried away lol.
From Software inspired me to be a writer and this game particularly had an impact on me. I'm currently working on my first series and I'm hoping I can capture a little bit of that From Software soul.
Me too dude ! Bloodborne to be exact , i didn't liked dark souls so much , but loved BB and DeS . Those are the best Lovecraftian games ever
Me too! As a fellow writer I bid you well. If collaboration between authors was generally not sneered at with derision I’d even like to work with someone exactly like you. Imagine a team of people working on a story together the way movies, games, etc. have. Especially like minded people. It would be so cool IMO if done right.
Bloodborne will forever stand the test of time it's one of the greatest games I've ever played in my life no matter how long it's been I always find the game calling me back again time after time a true masterpiece will forever hold a special place in my heart
This is probably my favorite out of the soulsborne games. The boss fights, the art style, the music, the darkness, the influence, the enemies, the hidden treasures- this game is a complete masterpiece.
14:00 actually, they don’t make it to the cathedral ward, the pig eats the younger daughter no matter what, and upon hearing the news, the older daughter kills herself
I really loved the way you explain and I'm a huge Bloodborne fan. I have one request if you can make a video on it, till now all the Souls UA-cam creators have done amazing job in exploring the lore and how masterpiece this game is but I want to see the details Devs put into design the largest area in souls( Central Yharnam).
Please make a video on exploring the Yharnam Infrastructure, the Score, object design, level explanation, lighting, Victorian architecture inspiration and so on.
Hope this request will take into consideration as this is one area where FromSoftware hardwork is mostly ignored.
Remember, London Natural History Museum put Bloodborne artwork in display to showcase the Victorian Architecture so thats how deep the design and inspiration are put into this game.
Thank you.
I just love how we fans want to geek out about this game we all love so much! Speaks of the game's quality.
Good idea
Check out Redgrave!
I 2nd this
Fantastic work, this.
Bloodborne is hands down my favourite game of all time. While I am positive Elden Ring will continue the Soulsborne tendency to impress me, Bloodborne will always have a special place in my heart. I even consider it the main influence behind my novel series.
Keep up the great work, good UA-camr. May you keep your worth in the online world.
In my opinion bloodborne is the spiritual successor to nightmare creatures I remember that game on the PlayStation this is what nightmare creatures 3 should have been too bad that game was canceled in the early 2000s. Bloodborne is one of the best games on the PS4 in my opinion a thinking man's game where the story is very cryptic. This one idiot I trade the explain the story of blood-borne to said if it's not written in front of me that it's not worth my time I told him he's making a big mistake bloodborne is a fantastic game where you have to discern the story yourself and I love the HP Lovecraft influence that bloodborne has
@@redseagaming7832 YEAH NIGHTMARE CREATURES IS AWSOME i have always wanted to play it.
I just finished my first play through, already started NG+ in a heartbeat. I had some experience with Dark Souls, but nothing could have prepared me for how good Bloodborne was.
I would prefer two transforming greatsword over 38 greatswords that only have two fighting styles between them all
I picked up Bloodborne maybe 5-6 years ago but quickly shelved it since I couldn't for the life of me clear the first boss. All the recent Elden Ring talk prompted me to start making another go of it a couple of weeks ago with some 3rd-party guidance on the combat mechanics. Going into it with a better understanding of visceral attacks and weapon transformation made such a huge difference, it's still brutal but the difficulty feels a lot more fair now and it scales really well to your progress so it's always doable but uncomfortable. Like in the witches coven you face a couple of those brick ogres just to remind you of how much progress you've made since the start when you thought they were terrifying to deal with - and then the game tells you that's not worth shit by immediately throwing a new type of ogre at you that's nowhere near as forgiving. The way the whole world links back on itself is legitimately incredible too. I can't see myself playing it tens of times over like some people have (cosmic horror just doesn't interest me that much) but I wish the "tutorial" was a little less obtuse because figuring those elements out was really what was holding me back on 'getting it' years earlier.
Thanks for attending my TED Talk.
I started playing Bloodborne a few weeks ago and it's been amazing. I've had fun, I'm engrossed in the lore and story, and I really kinda suck at the game. I work a full-time job, I have a wife and kids, I own a side business, I'm involved in my church, and I simply don't have the time to invest in playing a game that I did 10 years ago. I don't game a lot and I chose one of the hardest games to get back in on and I have loved my failures. I like it doesn't hold my hand. I like that it let's me fail on my own so I can learn on my own so I can succeed on my own. It's very rewarding.
Thanks Ghost for making this video and giving me the itch to play it. I'm in your debt brother.
I've been playing this a lot lately! I've always been a PC gamer and have Dark Souls trilogy and Sekiro on that, and got a PS5 in December. This has been my most played playstation game so far, loving it!
Love your passion for the game, it is deserving of it !! I would like to say cause I can't help myself, Vicar is pronounced Vih-car, not vai-car
This game combines 3 of my favorite genres. Grimdark fantasy, gothic fiction and cosmic horror.
Same!!
What about a get-a-job-horror?
@@martinwilches6583 Nothing is scarier than working retail lol.
I love bloodborne despite never having a chance to play it. It is my favorite souls game. Everything from the gameplay to lore to the gothic setting to the progression of the night to the eldritch and cosmic horror this game is fantastic. Also, I love how there is no good ending to the game, as iis rather subjective and comes down to what character wants out of the world. If you just want to do your contract and be cured of your disease, which is your character's motivation then submit to Gerhman at the end and that is all. Want to become a Great One? Then go through the collect the umbilical cords and defeat the secret boss at the end and then you get your wish though if you failed to due this the ending where you take Gerhman's place instead could be argued as the actual bad ending (though if it was what your character /player wanted then it is your good ending). This is definitely From Software's best game to date though that might change depending on how good Armored Core 6 is. Which speaking of and if anyone is reading this, I highly recommend them as they play similar to souls.
STILL my all time favorite game. The mix of combat, story, ATMOSPHERE...I just adore everything about it. Never gets old.
And on sequels, I think Sekiro needs one because the ending set one up, but don't think Bloodborne needs one. It just needs the 60 fps patch and PC port.
Bloodborne is the only souls I haven't played. I'm still waiting for the rumoured PC port, but I'm now afraid that after Elden Ring, Bloodborne will not impress me as much...
@@LuismaLorca I feel even after elden ring that bloodborne will impress, while it still is a souls game it has a vastly different atmosphere and story to it. And much more aggressive combat than dark souls.
@@LuismaLorca Bloodborne is better
@@joaooooooooooo_ After playing 100 hours of Elden Ring, and not being even halfway through the game, I'm finding that difficult to believe. I believe that you like it better, though, cause that's subjective. Dark Souls 1 is still my personal favourite, but Elden Ring is objectively their best game I've played. I don't think that opinion will change when/if I have the chance of playing Bloodborne. Certainly, both users and critics and overall success of Elden Ring place it above Bloodborne or anything else. And I seriously doubt Bloodborne is better than sekiro gameplay-wise either. But yeah, I totally believe that Bloodborne may still be your personal favourite, as Dark Souls 1 is still mine.
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The chalice dungeons was literally what made me fall even more psychotically in love with bloodborne, than I already was💯💜s.
You're totally right about everyone having different experiences with bosses. I can only use one hand but Vicar Amelia gave me more trouble than Rom. I beat Rom first try. Bizarre
Different game but I beat Ornstein and Smough first try then got farmed by Sif
I've personally always wondered about 1-handed game control designs and controllers
@@SciontheDark they're amazing and work for a lot of people but I just learned how to hold the regular controllers a certain way for driving games, fighting games, fps etc. They all require a different grip
So you're telling me you've beaten Bloodborne with 1 fuckin hand and i couldnt even get past the first moon phase
This was my first, and still favorite so far, Soulsborne game. I love the faster movement, the more aggressive fights, the rally mechanic, and most of all, the trick weapons. There may only be 20 or so, but they all feel so different and awesome. I love how they all have their own move sets, with cool transformations and animations. The idea is just so cool, I wish more games would use it. I especially love weapons like the Rakuyo, Burial Blade, Threaded Cane, and Simon's Bowblade, simply for the uniqueness of their transformations and the difference between each of their modes. The Threaded Cane going from essentially being a short sword to a bladed whip is fantastic, even if it takes longer to swing as a whip. The Rakuyo is less crazy than the others I've mentioned, but it's still cool how you pull a dagger out of the hilt and gain a sick spin slash.
Bloodborne is absolutely an amazing game it has a lot of mysterious even if you got platinum trophy you still has a lot to discover it’s like a loop you can’t stop playing and you can’t beat it.
Darksouls 2 was my first souls game and i didnt really enjoy, even after i learned the controls i just couldnt get into it. I followed the development of bloodborne up until the release. I got it day1, and like DS2 i had to learn it and tried to play it like DS (i was fuckin up) and was irritated by the gun, then i did a visceral by accident and spent waay too long figuring out what i did. Then started picking up lore.....i was addicted. I revisited late last year and played for months. And restarted again today. Literally one of the best games ive ever played
This legitimately has over the years cemented itself as my favourite game. Maybe ever. I go back and replay it with a new build once a year. Have 100% it and gotten insane chalice weapons and gems on most runs. I fucking love this game.
playing bloodborne first time is once in a life time experience. it is true that you cannot stop looking at it even if you have not beat the game. i believe there are few, like me, out there who just do not want to finish the game just to prolong the wonderful first time playthrough experience. i have been with this game for past couple of years and yet i am only half way through (killed rom). the dread is all around in this wonderful world. i don't feel bad to say this game has spoiled my taste for other games, in a good way. these days, all i can enjoy is just hunting.
lucky you, my first experience with Bloodborne was me being carried and handheld by my friends while i whined and complained about how hard the game was. there were no good moments for me during my first playthrough but after my 8th i started to appreciate the game more until i could finally say i like the game.
I never played other fromsoftware titles. To me this array of weapons is diverse enough. And now you tell me other game had 200+?! That’s so fucking a lot!
This was a video I didn't know I needed. I personally loved/raged at almost every second of the game, and every aspect of the story and what not. I hadn't seen your content before and I hope more people find this video and subscribe. Thank you fo the amazing content. I think I have to go play Bloodborne again I have only played it once
Incredibly well narrated and edited , keep up the quality, you will for sure get far!
In 2015 when I got my PS4 the first game I got with my PS4 was bloodborne. I didn't have a lot of money in 2015 nor did I have any internet so I had to play the entire game by myself which meant if I wanted to get past a certain boss I actually had to grind and get stronger in order to get past the boss not summoning people in. in September of 2015 I braved The Chalice Dungeons and got the platinum trophy it was my first Platinum trophy bloodborne has become a game I love with a passion I'm still waiting for a PS5 version
This is the first FromSoft game i ever played & its been history since. I absolutely adore the aesthetic of this game & how challenging it was. Playing Sekiro right now & its also another great game.
What really grew on me, as I played Bloodborne, was that the "inhabitants" of Yharnam really thought of me, the player, as the monster. I had this feeling that I was the one intruding upon their home, and they thought of ME as the beast, for coming in there and slaughtering their entire town - and that they were just defending their home.. I don't know if that's the case at all, and I may have worded that somewhat awkwardly, but that feeling added another really unsettling dimension to this stellar game.
The biggest flaw with bloodborne is it’s way to short
The deeper I got in this game the more I knew it was a special experience that wouldn’t be rivaled, its too unique, its an unmatched experience. I definitely place it in my top games of all time, along with Bayonetta, KH2, and now Elden Ring
After I've finished elden ring 3 times now and done a bunch of pvp and challenge builds... yes it might be one of my favorite games of all times but... Bloodborne is still something in it's own league.
Agreed. Elden ring is brilliant but Bloodborne is my favourite have of all time.
All time favorite, I’d pay everything for a sequel.
I think it’s the next FS project
I do love this game, and it’s easily one of my favorite games of all time, but I really wasn’t the biggest fan of the Cosmic horror aspect of Bloodborne. I loved the Gothic vibe that the game was selling me and I originally bought the game simply because of that reason, it’s also why Cainhurst is one of my favorite areas in the game (looks wise at least). The massive change after defeating Rom kinda threw me off, since I was expecting a game about slaying beasts and monsters, not fighting Old Lovecraftian Gods. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing either, I just really wish that was the main aspect of the game all the way through, since normal players wouldn’t even start to realize what the main plot is about until AFTER beating Rom. As much as I love this game, I really wish they would’ve stayed with the “Gothic Dracula” aspect of the game.
Either way, the game is amazing and has almost no flaws, but IMO the Lovecraftian aspects of the game kinda ruined the plot for me, but again that’s just my opinion ofc.
I bought my PS4 + Bloodborne one week before the quarantines started. I didn't it play it ar first but many months later after a bad break-up, can't put into words how much Bloodborne helped me go through that time. To this day it's still my favorite game and the only one I keep playing over and over without ever getting bored
Bloodborne is so good that after I played it, I had to platinum it over and over. That caused me to go on and platinum DS1, 2, 3 and sekiro. Hopefully if once the PS5 is available to us plebs I can also get my hands on demon souls. Bloodborne will forever be close to my heart for opening me up to From Software games and the great experiences I’ve had with the rest of them since Bloodborne. Great video btw.
awesome overview. im 39, own a company, have a 6 year old son, lots of responsibilities etc.; but this game is one that have sacrificed COUNTLESS hours of sleep to enjoy. it's one of the best gaming experiences of my entire life. cant wait for elden ring.
Definitely agree with 38:17 and onward. I enjoyed Elden Ring a lot, but a little disappointed that it was basically just Dark Souls set in a modern triple A open world.
Would probably rather see fromsoft make more focused experiments that shake up the souls formula in the future, like they did with Bloodborne and Sekiro.
0:23 which animation is in the bottom right corner?
I swear I've seen that style before, it's on the tip of my tongue
I guess the first animation that plays, looks like a different one plays after a moment
I just love seeing new content for this game that I love so so much! I haven't seen more than the first 13 sec of the video but I can tell I'm in for a treat. thank you all so much for this, I will cherish every second of it though tomorrow morning with my coffee and breakfast❤️❤️
The thing about the low weapon count in bloodborne is that, yes, there might be only one or two greatswords, but those greatswords have the best moveset of any greatsword in any Fromsoft game. The Burial Blade is hilarious in how superior it is to any scythe the Dark Souls games or even Elden Ring have ever offered. Bloodborne doesn't need more than a few of each weapon type, because it does those few weapons better than the hundreds of weapons the other games offered us.
Ludwig`s holy blade is the only weapon worth using in the base game, NOTHING ELSE. i will have to say that the DS equivalent to the Burial Blade is Frede`s Great Scythe, that dual Scythe movest is just MMMM! so good
@@thememeilator2633 friede's great scythe has a good weapon art, but the base moveset is the same boring scythe moveset that all dark souls games have, and the weapon art does lower damage than the base moveset too. Burial Blade has a moveset unlike any other in other souls games, and good damage to go with it. As for Ludwig's being the only weapon worth using, I'd introduce you to Hunter's Axe and Saw Cleaver, both very popular and 100% viable in any part of the game.
Edit: I'd even go so far as to say the Same Cleaver has the perfect balance of good moveset, good base damage, and decent scaling, making it possibly the most well-rounded weapon. Some may argue the Saw Spear is better because of thrust damage though.
@@impartialthrone2097 now i didn`t say they weren`t viable. i have used every weapon in the game besides the rosmarinus because i never found out how to get it but i am familiar with every weapon in the whole game and i still say if you don`t got the dlc then you should not bother with any weapon other then Ludwig`s holy blade until you are more experienced
@@thememeilator2633 it's definitely good, I just find other weapons more enjoyable I guess. Bloodborne feels like a prime opportunity to use something less conventional than a sword, but that's personal preference I suppose.
@@impartialthrone2097 actually... nevermind, i don`t know why i am even saying these things. i love BB a lot but i can`t play it anymore. i`m just ranting about my first playthrough being not the best, the majority of the weapons are good and viable, i just wanna talk about the game more.
This game is my favorite game of all time. I have more than 1000 hours played on this game, and have many characters (one of them max level). I just want to say that your video is excellent. It's true we don't deserve Bloodborne, and we also don't deserve your amazingly detailed review. Thank you for doing this game a great justice through this review. You made me want to go play now!
I just started playing Bloodborne and oh boy its was sooo exciting and challenging. This game is totally different from games like Horizon Forbidden West and God of War Ragnarok where Bloodborne dont hold your hand all the way until the end. U have to discover everything on your own and to my surprise i really like it. And i started playing this game after i played Elden Ring.
Bloodborne will probably forever live as my favourite FromSoft game. I tried DS1 and played hiding behind my shield poking things with a spear and I found it a chore and just not that fun so I dropped it. I was passive and the game was slow and kinda boring.
Then I got my PS4 with Bloodborne as my first game. And I fell in love with it. My DS1 experience was all reactive, sit behind shield until it's safe poke them with stick, rinse and repeat. Bloodborne forced me to be more interactive and proactive. I stayed cautious at first but soon it became 'find my opening, rush in and attack as much as I could, retreat to recover stamina and/or health, rush in again' and it was even better if I got hit because now instead of running away and killing the tempo of the encounter I was rushing in and increasing the tempo. I was trading blows with my enemy almost daring them to kill me before I killed them.
And then I went back to DS1 and in memory of my beloved kirkhammer and that exploding hammer whose name I forgot I decided to pick the biggest weapons I could find and flatten DS1 enemies like pancakes. And I bloody loved it. DS2 and DS3 went much the same way. The only time I 'used' a shield was for the passive stamina recovery boost. It just stayed on my back almost completely unused for its primary purpose. Unlike my first go at the game, now I was deciding the tempo of my fights (to an extent obviously, I wasn't going gung go against every boss). Once again I was daring the enemies to kill me before I killed them. If I took a hit, I could heal later, better finish them off first. Which, just as an aside, almost always preferable to heal when there isn't something actively swinging at you unless you're one hit from death.
Hbomberguy does a great video on Bloodborne and the one thing I think he's objectively correct about is that Bloodborne teaches you how to have the most fun with the Souls series. Minus Sekiro, which is a big part of why I hate that game despite me also thinking it's a masterpiece.
Oddly enough this game saved me. I’ve never had any form of entertainment/media represent the internal struggles I went through. And in this one I’m able to conquer them and defeat them. Made me realize I could do that in my life as well.
I am stuck in an endless cycle of playing the game, taking a break, coming back months later to start over and ultimately repeat. Never completing the entire game but putting hundreds of hours into it.
Let me just say this I first played Bloodborne about 4 years ago, even now I still regularly search for new Bloodborne content. That game absolutely blown my mind I personally thinks its the greatest game ever made and I been gaming since SNES days. Everything about Bloodborne is perfection.
this was the game that changed 'games' for me. i hadnt ever played a souls game before getting this. i actually had quit it at first. the wolf on the first bridge in Yharnam. i just couldnt figure out to beat him. tried for a hour or two and gave up. went back to minecraft or some other bullshit. but out of boredom popped it back in. and let me tell you. the feeling it gave me when i FINALLY beat that big fucking wolf thing on the bridge? i jumped out my chair. that moment no other game can replicate for me. that feeling of FINALLY beating something that IS beatable. you just need to figure out how. atm im loving Elden Ring the same way but differently. From Software IMO is the top shelf of all shelves.
*edit You did an INCREDIBLE job on this. first time here on channel and im leaving a sub of urs. dude u had one HELLUVA put togther here
It was all the small things that came together to make this game amazing. Especially that first fight with father G… stepping through the fog, hearing that weird, hushed murmur when you start a boss fight… the… rush…
One of the best PS4 games ever.
the fact that people still play this game after so long is satisfying for me, may i will join in the near future
I can't imagine an ambition in my life I would enjoy achieving more than I would enjoy seeing Bloodborne come to PC.
This was excellent man. Your passion bubbles through the screen and reinvigorates my desire to revisit this world. I’ve all but lost all interest in gaming, so this was a Herculean effort on your behalf. 🤘🏻
game on buddy. yharnam beckons you home. appreciate the kind words
I think Bloodborne was like a 92.5% or 93% score for me personally, up there easily as one of my top ten games ever and pretty damn close to being in the pantheon of genuine works of art and masterpieces within the medium....UNTIL the DLC came out. The Old Hunters legitimately elevated the game to me so magnificently, it raised it above and beyond basically anything I've ever played barring perhaps Dark Souls 1 and the initial MGS trilogy (especially 2). I'd say my score shot up to around 96% over the years, essentially tied first with a couple of other games as my favorite video game of all time, period. All the reasons you go through in this video obviously encapsulate the reasons why it's such a special work, how the narrative, lore, delectable atmosphere, and weighty themes and concepts all come together to formulate such a rich, interwoven experience that has such beauty in its abstraction and ambiguity, yet refinement and detail in its worldbuilding, descriptive storytelling and visual and environmental nuance. And that's not even mentioning the characterization and history, and even the poetry and subtlety of a lot of the minimalist yet substantive writing!
Bloodborne is just so uniquely brilliant in what it does, and how it takes Lovecraftian themes and mixes them in with the Soulsian concepts Miyazaki and From had already been evolving, and fused them together to reach greater heights. I think The Old Hunters ties so much together while still leaving a great deal open to that wonderful interpretive storytelling, and on a mechanical level it just took everything a step further with some of the most stunning bosses, areas, tone and level design From have ever done. Even the music is beautiful and eclectic, a great mix of many brilliant composers, capturing the world so wonderfully. It's just aesthetically so much better than it had any right to be, and even the more overt flaws and aspects I find a bit ambivalent, like the Chalice Dungeons, are still pretty damn great compared to so many other games over the last seven years since BB released (and before, obviously). Hell, I think the weapon criticism in your video actually isn't much of an issue at all, considering Dark Souls had weapon TYPES (like longswords or curved swords) while each Bloodborne weapon basically encompasses an entire type of weapon itself because of its complexity and the transformation gameplay in combat. Sure, I'd love more of them, but I think narrowing them down to really make each one more diverse and amazing to utilize was the right choice at the end of the day!
I could write on the lore of the game for days, and I probably have over the years actually, I feel like I've basically written theses on the damn subject! There's just something about the story and its telling that is so immersive, so incredibly profound. Evolution, insight, incomprehensible knowledge and the pursuit of it at all costs, violence and its consequence, the nature of mankind and the relationship to the Great Ones and their own desires for progeny, the reconsideration of the Lovecraftian dynamic and what it really means, etc.. There's just SO MANY philosophical ideas and thematic points that the game's lore does such an impactful job of presenting, and making truly thought provoking. All this without beating any player over the head with any of it, so that if that's not your cup of tea, no problem, you can just enjoy the exquisite gameplay and world instead! But yeah, exceptional lore and plotlines as well, linking to the main "quest" and the NPCs as you mention in the video! It just all comes together so well, doing so much with so little.
There's just so much about Bloodborne that still captivates me to this day, much like the blood moon did to the denizens of Yharnam. It's a haunting, tragic, and darkly beautiful game and story, a world that I actually agree doesn't even need a sequel, because there's a completeness about it (especially after the DLC) that makes me want its lore and memory to remain unsullied, something Dark Souls 1 didn't entirely get with the existence of 2 and 3 (amazing games in their own right for me, but perhaps lacking the allure and touch of the original, which BB also has). I could just keep rambling, but yeah, Bloodborne is a work of fucking art, we really did not deserve it and I'd be over the moon if Elden Ring could somehow surprise me with its quality anywhere near as much as Bloodborne did back in 2015! Here's hoping, and well done with a great review dude!
Ive never been a PS player. I went from xbox to pc. This game single handedly makes me want to buy a PS4 and play it. Only this game. The 400+ dollars to get a new ps4 and this game would be more then worth it for me to experience this...... I need to experience this game
Wow! Dude, I'm speechless, this was such a great video.
I've always enjoyed your reviews, but you really knocked it out of the park with this one!
Thanks so much man! Loving your daggerfall series and hope they keep coming. Much love
yo love your content bro, very cozy
@@stonecoat_art Thanks :)
This review is great! One of my favorite games ever made that I return to every few years to do a new playthrough. It helped me through a really dark time after a breakup in 2015 and I love it for that. It’s a masterpiece and the best game in the Souls (it is a From Souls game in my eyes) to me. I pray for a 60 fps patch or remaster on PS5 someday
Between Elden Ring and Bloodborne is the award of best games ever made…. I have to play Sekiro yet to see what spot deserves but it’s being receiving a lot of great reviews.
For me it's a tough battle between Sekiro and Bloodborne. Like this video points out, the lore and worldbuilding of BB is unmatched, but to me Sekiro has the most satisfying combat of any game ever. It's gorgeous, surprizing, and has better storytelling (ie. less cryptic) than any of the other FromSoft games. It probably has THE BEST bosses overall too. It's very different from the other "souls", but I highly recommend it.
@@thisisfyne I’m in love with Bloodborne!!! I will play the Darksouls and Demon Souls before get to Sekiro after beating Bloodborne!!!
@@JavierArochoVega sekiro feels so flipping good to get gud in. I've never played demon souls but I have all the others. Bloodborne is great but you kinda miss the impact of going from shields to no shields by skipping dark souls. BB will make you a better dark souls player, but the older games will probably feel clunky in comparison.
@@doggodoggo3000 Definitely Bloodborne is a bit though in some parts and the fast phase combat against a few strong enemies running all over u hitting like a truck is challenging!!! But that make you rethink strategies and weapons!!! I’ll try the Dark Souls, but if doesn’t challenge me and is so much slow, I skip directly to Sekiro!!!
Update: I’ve played Sekiro and oh my goodness!!! Definitely a masterpiece and the best combat ever!!! It’s so addictive!!! I’ve defeated 12 times consecutively!!!! It has no match in action!!!!
I have beater Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls 1 and what a games too!!!
I’m starting Dark Souls 2 now and it looks to be great too!!!
I won't say I want a sequel to Bloodborne, the story is great as it is, but I definitely want a return of fast-paced rally-centered battle. In Sekiro Miyazaki took away the rally but instead made a posture recovery, but give it to the enemies too. I am kinda bummed that the Elden Ring ditches all this and turns back to shield-based DS style. I hope the next Miyazaki's IP will reintroduce the rally.
Bloodborne was not only the first Souls game I ever played, it was my introduction to video games. It remains my favorite game of all time
Well, convincing people to invest in bloodborne just got a lot easier, I'll just send this video, what a fantastic effort! If thats not enough, I mean, the comments here emanate love, admiration and positivity... curious how this collective mentality stems from a game which is full of suffering
It's my favourite game. I started on release and it's pretty much the only thing I still play. It's astounding just how much is missable to the average player. Hats off to the creators for trusting consumers. Anyone wanna share their favourite missable area, mechanic, story line etc?
thematically and artistically speaking, Bloodborne is like a mash-up of Jack the Ripper, Dracula and Cthulu....just think about that for a minute...
close but, bloodborne is more a mashup of The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Brotherhood of The Wolf, Berserk, and a dash of Underworld.
@@DirectionerHarry12 for you maybe, central Yarnham for me is like old London Jack the Ripper, Cainhurst Castle is very Bram Stoker…think you’re right with the Shadow / Berserk stuff tho. I’m not familiar with the others. Great how people can draw so much from the world tho, tis sublime world building!!
Gascoigne's OST is how i describe being chased by Jack the Ripper in the dark alleyway of Victorian England would sounds
Definitely took some ideas from darkwatch, why I say this because of the mini bosses in that game was in dark souls franchise
love that idea and imagery!!@@omukade4431
This was a well thought out and honest interpretation of one of the masterpieces in gaming. I really don't want a sequel so that people will come back from time to time to pay their respects to this achievement.
You're in the know, right?
It’s funny regarding your complaint of wanting to combine weapons with each other.. because that’s exactly what Lies of P does
Bro that thing about firm software and how they don’t tell u shit is so true
I spent 3 hours trying to beat that first wolf cuz I didn’t know how to equip the hunter axe
I did finally beat it with my fists and THEN, figured out how to equip a weapon
It was so fucking annoying, I wanted to quit, but I think it helped me to better understand all the other mechanics of the game
Currently playing the DLC for the first time and it just continues to be a beautiful game
I'm jealous I want to play
@@jei3970 do it!!! you will not regret it!
@@JaimeeMarieP no Playstation sadly):
I just finished this game and it's already one of my favorite games I have ever played.
Platinum it and do the dlc on ng+ it’s even more fun a second time
@@ronthorn3 I'm fighting maria now and it's amazing
I'm on my first playthrough, just killed the Wet Nurse, and the doll told me to meet German at the great tree...
Absolute amazing game. Been playing it since release and I don’t think I’ll ever get sick of it
hey whats the music at 4:00
6:06 what is this music called?
Bloodborne is and forever will be my personal favorite game of all time
Bloodborne is definitely one of the games ever made.
It is definitely one of the games made
An unassailable fact
Incontrovertible opinion
Ah yes, it most definetely was made.
Best review of BB I v seen so far. You really nailed the joy this incredible game can give.
7:48 Very good use of Gilneas's theme from WoW.
At least with the combat part you described all of their titles. Thinking back on DS3, I did not struggle with bosses that were hyped as hard and I was completely destroyed by others for days on end.
And the build that you have plays a major role in that but also your skill. To my shame I never mastered Parry, not in Dark Souls, not in Elden Ring now. I finish their games without Parrying while mainly having melee builds that could also incorporate shields.
And that made some bosses be extra hard for me but that only meant I had to adapt in a different way and master rolling and restraint when attacking to take them down, valuable lessons which helped me further into the games.
the amount of love fans give to this absolutely depressing game is a sight for sore eyes. a masterpiece
Incredible to think that the PS4 is worth its price because of only ONE game.
I didn't own a PS4 when this game came out, but you bet I bought it anyways and spent two days beating it at my friend's house. I avoided as much information on the game as possible; all I really knew was that it has switch weapons and warewolves, I did not expect the game to also have lovecraftian elements as well, which kind of took me to a weird headspace while playing. Somehow I beat the game with only a couple dozen deaths, must of been the adrenaline... That game took me to a weird place and I loved every second of it. Glad I eventually got myself a PS4 to expirence the content I missed out on, as well as the DLC.
Yes, I was also one of those people who thought of baseless theories on how the game was going to turn out, but who can blame me? The enitre series is built on intrigue.
I hope Fromsoft someday creates a PC port of this game.
I am glad I played Code Vein and got my dodging mindset changed before I tried BB. All of my Dark Souls playing friends got their faces smashed in by Father Gascoigne when they tried the game, but the gatekeeper didn't keep me from enjoying the game. BB is a strange mishmash of rpg and horror with segments that are genuinely terrifying. Amazing review man.
I think Bloodborne is on a whole other level than Dark Souls. This is my first Souls game (yes, I’m I got in the whole Souls craze late), but I also played Dark Souls 3 and Sekiro after finishing the game. This is the only Souls game I completely fell in love with, it’s was absolutely flawless among other things (*cough* *cough* Fishing Hamlet sharks *cough* *cough*), but after finishing the game, I never thought that DS3 and Sekiro was even close to being better than Bloodborne and I still think that today.
Yeah F those sharks
Play Dark souls 1
@@Aaron-g9b I did. It doesn’t feel great after playing BB because it’s a lot slower. It’s not bad, but most of the bosses are meh. The areas are great tho
@@ishanramen5254 yeah, after playing bloodborne and then going back to souls, they all seem so clunky and slow. BB is so much smoother. There’s a reason BB has a game of the year addition. Just saying
@@thatBusa Yeah, that’s exactly what I think. I played DS Remastered and I couldn’t get past Capra Demon because of the difficulty but also because I was dodging faster than I should’ve. Bloodborne is a lot quicker and has a more aggressive pace that playing any DS game, expect DS3, is extremely difficult for the required pace that game is set at.