Bloodborne’s dark tone and brutal difficulty are readily apparent in the spiritual Souls sequel’s opening hours. The brooding action-RPG is packed with the same barrier to entry, environmental storytelling, and bosses that seem to be ripped straight from the deepest depths of your nightmares that fans of the Souls series loved throughout the past console generation. But for all of the great things that Bloodborne shares with the iconic trilogy, it’s the ways it differed that really impressed me throughout my time with the first two hours of the PlayStation 4 exclusive.
As you can see from the opening 18 minutes, Bloodborne throws you right into the deep end, and immediately assaults with a barrage of narrative questions. Who am I? What is this plague that’s sweeping the dark, Victorian town of Yharnam? Why am I electing to get a blood transfusion in a nightmarishly-grim doctor’s office, and am I aware of the awful consequences of my actions?
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